Thanks . . . it still gives me goosebumps to read that. It’s eerily premonitional (is that a word? If not I just make it up, LOL!), isn’t it??
I am sad today because for the first time I really realize that what this president does will affect my children . . . and it worries me greatly. GW wasn’t perfect, by any means, but he was willing to make the very difficult calls (many we probably don’t, and never will, know about) to keep our country safe. I don’t have that confidence now.
But on to bigger and better things . . . I heard Laura signed a book contract and did someone say GW mentioned writing a book in his speech today? I look forward to both and will splurge on purchasing them in hardback as soon as they come out. Does anyone know when that might be?
It was indeed. I call it prophetic.
Not to be disrespectful to you in any way, but a lot of people have been saying things like, "GW wasn't perfect, but..." Thing is, no mortal human being is perfect, yet phrasing such as that seems to imply that many people expected perfection from him. Or, if not that, then it's kind of a way of reflecting that one should be embarrassed to praise President Bush.
Our Dubya did the very best he possibly could with an impossibly complex and inordinately difficult job. He was dealt a bad hand right from the start with Gore's piggish attempts to steal the election, having his transition cut in half, then Jeffords' disgraceful jump to tilt the senate to the Dims, then the Chinese shooting down our Navy plane, then the terror attacks and virtually simultaneous anthrax attacks.
I don't believe any president other than Lincoln has had a more turbulent first year.