Posted on 07/01/2010 6:06:58 PM PDT by Kaslin
The month of July 2005 was another busy month for President Bush as you can see in the photos.
I have chosen President Bush’s Independence Day message from July 1st 2005 as quote of the month
Thanks, patty! He looks great ... and illustrating he does keep his word ....
George W. Bush Won’t Campaign For GOP Candidates
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Former President George W. Bush is not going to hit the campaign trail on behalf of Republican candidates before the midterm elections this fall.
“He’s not interested,” National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions told reporters today, according to Politico. Sessions said the former president has maintained from the day he left office that he would not get involved with Congressional races or do fundraisers for GOP candidates.
Rest here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011135-503544.html
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Happy Birthday, President George W. Bush
by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
July 6, 2010
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It looks like President George W. Bush may have a pretty good birthday today. After all, this time last year the liberal media was terming him as “the worst president in American history.”
But a lot has changed since then.
History has proven that the challenges he faced during his presidency were much more daunting that anyone realized. In fact, shortly after the 2008 presidential election, Gallup ranked Bush’s popularity at only 27 percent and Obama’s at 70 percent.
Most of the country thought Obama would prove Bush totally incompetent, but since then a lot has happened, and Obama’s popularity, according to Gallup, has dropped 24 points to only 46 percent.
One of his lead generals has publicly criticized his handling of the war in Afghanistan and even former Bush senior adviser Karl Rove has equated the current administration’s handling of the BP disaster to of the BP disaster to what happened with Katrina. Some people have even suggested Obama’s handling of the BP disaster is much worse than the way the Bush administration handled Katrina.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that Obama is the worst president in American history instead. In fact, I’m not even saying he’s a bad president because this column isn’t about him. What it means is that the challenges George W. Bush faced during his presidency were a lot more challenging than anyone ever realized.
Aside from the polls, statistics, and historical analysis there is a lot to say about President Bush. Although there will always be people who dislike him, even some of his detractors admit that he is genuine a person with a heart of gold.
In 2008 when he was asked how he wanted to be remembered, he said, “I’d like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people achieve peace . . . I would like to be a person remembered as a person who first and foremost did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process.”
Bush was a president who cared deeply about freedom and human dignity for people. He was a man who experienced his own hardships with failure and addiction and empathized with others who endured their own personal pain.
He was the kind of man who could forgive, and because of his faith and humility he knew he was far from perfect. He knew that no man can ever be perfect.
Somewhere along the line we seemed to think a president could be perfect – and that he should be.
Perhaps with the hardships President Obama has faced, we now know that’s just not possible.
Everyone makes mistakes, especially when they have a hard job, and being president of the United States and the leader of the free world is the toughest job there is.
Happy Birthday, President Bush. We are grateful for everything you did to protect America and the free world, and we will never forget how you lifted our spirits in the darkest times in the wake of 9/11.
Thank you for being our president and standing by us.
http://biggovernment.com/jsshapiro/2010/07/06/141650/
MEGA DITTOES!!!
People are finally GETTING it! OUR president did GOOD for
this country...Zero has nearly driven it into the ground
in less than 2 years!
November’s coming!
I don’t think it’s that he’s not interested in what is going
on around him...he has just moved on and is being the dignified
X-President that we knew he would be. He has other projects
and doesn’t want to stick his nose in like Clintoon has never
ceased to do!
Most excellent news! I hope Obama CONTINUES to blame Pres. Bush. Doing so will make him look even more stupid to those Independent voters, and by affiliation, reflect negatively on all Democrat candidates this November.
Absolutely ... ! He made the choice of decency,
which just radiates from him.
Exactly! He and Laura have class!
Excellent find, patty! Thank you!
Thanks for the info, DrDeb! BHO can say whatever he wants to, but the truth will prevail.
Sweet, STARWISE. GWB is such a man of honor and decency.
President Bush 41 and Mrs. Bush gave a group of kids a big thrill
Great picture! Gampy looks less than thrilled at being there. LOL!
Awww .. they’re such decent, good hearted, normal
folks. God love them and give them many more years
together. I can’t imagine either one without the
other.
Thank you sooo much for finding this!!!
Great pic! Thank you very much!
By the way, here’s a complete article on George W. and Laura Bush’s trip to the Adirondack mountains I first mentioned about on Monday (please see post 357)
By Jessica Collier and Chris Knight, Enterprise Staff writers
SARANAC LAKE - Former President George W. Bush and Former First Lady Laura Bush were in Adirondacks over the weekend for a little rest and relaxation.
The couple spent several days at Camp Topridge on the Upper St. Regis Lake, according to Harlan Crow, the Texas real estate mogul who owns the camp. He described it as a “private visit.”
“President and Mrs. Bush, along with other friends, did visit my wife and family and me for a few days at Camp Topridge over the course of the past few days,” Crow told the Enterprise from the Dallas, Texas office of his Crow Holdings on Tuesday. “Our families are longtime friends, and we were just glad to be able to welcome him to the Adirondacks.”
Kendra Ormerod, a naturalist with The Wild Center who was leading a bird walk Saturday morning on Bloomingdale Bog Trail, was one of several locals who spotted the former president out and about on his visit.
Ormerod said that when she and her group of about nine met up at the south end of the trail, north of Saranac Lake off state Route 86, there were a number of large, black sport-utility vehicles parked there. Security personnel told them they may meet a few bikers coming along the path, “so were thinking, ‘Hm, somebody famous is coming,’” Ormerod said.
“George W. was the first one, and he said, ‘Good morning,’ and smiled at us,” Ormerod said.
Ormerod said she didn’t have a question about who it was.
“He’s very recognizable, and he was the first one, so we didn’t have am obstructed view of him,” Ormerod said. “it was very clear that it was him.”
Once they recognized Bush, Ormerod said they looked through the rest of the men, who were all about Bush’s age or younger, for other people in the group who they might recognize, but there were none.
The bikers rode by, then must have done a U-turn at the end of the trail, Ormerod said, because they came back after a bit. As he rode by again, Bush gave one man who joins the walks regularly, Vinnie Rinella, a high five.
“People were very excited,” Ormerod said.
She said Bush was wearing a spandex bicycling suit and looked like he was working up a sweat.
“They were all biking seriously, so they were obviously doing a workout,” Ormerod said. “It was nice to see him being physically active. I was pleased he wasn’t surrounded by security detail.”
She also said appreciated seeing the former president enjoying a trail she enjoys herself.
Ormerod leads the trail biweekly, and she usually starts from the north end of the 6.5-mile trail in Bloomingdale, so she said it was lucky she decided to change it up this past weekend so the group could spot different species of birds.
Everyone in the group was excited to see the former president because he is so famous, even some of them may not agree with his politics.
“We all did a good job of staying neutral,” Ormerod said.
Crow said Bush went mountain biking more than once during his stay in the Adirondacks.
“President Bush is an avid mountain biker, and he did mountain bike a couple of times,” he said. “Other than that, we just relaxed, read, went boating, and one day we went canoeing.”
Crow declined to provide any more information on the Bush family’s visit, other than saying they enjoyed their time here.
“They were amazed by the beauty of the wonderful place you live,” he said.
Bush spokesman David Sherzer confirmed that Bush was in the Adirondacks but would not comment on the trip, other than to note that this was Bush’s first time in the North Country
since his visit here during his presidency. He celebrated Earth Day in Wilmington in 2002.
The U.S. Secret Service was in the area in advance of the Bush family’s visit.
Adirondack Medical Center spokesman Joe Riccio said a pair of Secret Service agents visited the Saranac Lake Hospital last week.
“They were here last week to review the facilities and check for security,” he said.
State police and state Department of Environmental Conservation staff reportedly provided security and assistance to the Secret Service during the Bush family’s visit.
Under legislation passed in 1997, the Secret Service is authorized to provide protection to a former president and his or her spouse for 10 years after leaving office. Previously, the Secret Service provided protection to a former president and his or her spouse for their lifetime.
The Bush family’s visit to the Aidrondacks comes almost a year after Bush’s vice-president , Dick Cheney, made a brief visit to the area. Cheney traveled to Camp Topridge in September 2009 for a retreat held by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank.
http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/514643.html?nav=5008
On a previous visit to the Adirondacks, President George W. Bush helps with a Student Conservation Association trail-work project at Whiteface Mountain in Wilmington on Earth Day, April 22, 2002. Gov. George Pataki hammers at right. (Enterprise file photo)
Great article, patty! I love it that the people were so respectful of him.
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I need to write you a little note on FB...just been running a lot the last couple days. :)
Amen, STARWISE.
I think the camera just caught him at the wrong second, don’t you think? I looked to see if there was another photo that showed him smiling...but there wasn’t.
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