Posted on 08/19/2002 6:05:36 AM PDT by daisyscarlett
Well, sorry can't stay. Will check out other webpages later and be back here later on I hope.
(finally remembering to use the logo from Billie.thanks again, Billie...)
Look again, Amy. That is YOU there with Billie. Now, why would you think that was me? I AM as innocent as I look, don'tcha know. You can ask anyone......(except Louie, who knows what he would tell you?). ;-) LOL!
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I asked Josh what he was up to, adding that of course it was a stupid question. His response made me glad I had asked it, however. He said that he had been with the President all month, and liked being in Crawford, "because the President has time relax, and to step back and look at the big picture." This underscores the idiocy of the media's carping at Bush's Crawford retreat. The media is more aware than the rest of us of the mind-numbing schedules that even ordinary politicians, let alone presidents, must follow. In the interests of all of us the press should be clamoring for the commander-in-chief to take more respites than he does.
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He liked being in Crawford, he said, because he could take a walk and not have people looking at him. He said he never forgot for a moment that the office of the presidency was greater than the man who held it. That he was always conscious that he had the office in trust, and of the privilege it was for him to serve.
It was a short down home speech and he broke its flow frequently for off-the-cuff jokes, which the crowd roundly enjoyed. But its combination of levity, warmth and moral seriousness showed why his popularity has stayed so high so many months after 9/11 -- higher than any president's in history including Roosevelt's after Pearl Harbor. The more Americans get to know this man, the deeper and broader his support will become.
I have been through the presidential photo line on several occasions and know how brief the face-to-face moment can be. Especially since I was with my wife and would be placed beside the First Lady, while she would stand next to him. As I approached him and he flashed a smile of recognition, I had the pending decision over Iraq on my mind, and wanted to say something to him which would reflect how I and others felt about his courage and vision. I was not about to offer him any policy advice. It would be presumptuous and foolish of me to shoot a sound-bite in his direction on such matters.
Those of us who have been privileged to observe George Bush up close -- even as briefly as I have on a few occasions in the past -- know that he is a serious and intelligent man. He is also a man with a moral core who will weigh his decisions carefully, and will digest first the military and intelligence material necessary to make them. You can never doubt the gravity of this man when it comes to the responsibilities of his office. In the end, one's sense of him is that he will make his decision according to what he believes is right, which is the real source of most Americans' confidence in his leadership.
So what I said to him was this: "Your heart is where America is. Trust it and you'll be right." Which he knows anyway, and which is why we have trusted him with our fates.
Why thank you r4. But the "hard" part was putting it together and that was last week. Once it is posted and running, then that is the "fun" part, getting to "talk" to everyone and share thoughts and graphics....
And, of course, deserving a rest and needing a rest are two different things...hee hee...
Say, how about some tea.....
U.S. President George W. Bush answers questions from the press while first lady, Laura, listens after attending a volunteer barbecue lunch at the Crawford Community Center in Crawford, Texas, August 16, 2002. The president said that if a scheduled baseball strike were to happen later this month a lot of fans are going to be furious, 'and I'm one of them. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
Yeah, went to the beach!
I did. I went to the beach. :-)
Uh-oh! Someone took our picture. Hope it wasn't jkphoto. LOL
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