You can see the tears in his eyes.
Posted on 02/01/2003 9:37:18 AM PST by ewing
President Bush will address the nation from the Oval Office on the Columbia tragedy, after calling the Prime Minister of Israel to give his condolences.
There have already been mid level diplomatic exchanges of sorrow between the two nations.
1) It’s Bush’s fault.
2) The Palestinians are dancing in the streets – another Jew is dead, Americans are dead, another blow to the infidels.
3) It’s Bush’s fault, because of tax cuts.
4) If incompetence is found, it’s the fault of the Republican agenda for not supporting our public schools.
5) It’s Bush’s fault, because of tax cuts, and for not supporting our public schools.
6) It’s Bush’s fault. And, how dare we be so unseemly to even consider aggression against Iraq at this time of national mourning?
7) Funding for science and technology should be for progress, not for war. It’s Bush’s fault. It’s his fault because of matter of perspective. Because of values, about the direction of science and technology. That’s why the shuttle blew up. Because we value war.
8) But, maybe this is all for good. We have to ask ourselves, what did we do to cause this? Of course, there will be an independent investigation to find this out. The focus of the investigation will be two sides: the side saying it’s Bush’s fault, and the side which will be pigeon-holed into saying it isn’t Bush’s fault and they don’t beat their wives. After the report is filled, no one will read it.
9) The Black Muslims will say it was the great wheel in the sky that brings down fire on the blue-eyed devils who are the enemies of Islam. This is the same great wheel that was suppose to come down in 1968 in a field not far from Chicago, where thousands of blacks were bused from all over the North East came and awaited for the wheel which would pick them up, and on the way out to space would kill all the blue-eyed devils with the death ray. None of this will be reported, but somewhere in all of this the leader of this domestic terrorist group, Louie the accordion player, will be called a “statesman”. It’s all Bush’s fault, and Louie is a statesman.
10) The statesman Jimmy Carter revels that it’s all Bush’s fault.
11) The statesman Nelson Mandella will revel that it’s all Bush’s fault. That the greatest perpetrator of murder is America. That Bush can’t think straight. That’s it’s all Bush’s fault. He will be called a statesman for saying all of this, but you won’t hear any of Nelson’s direct quotes in the media. Except, he’s a statesman, and Bush is not. And now this has happened. And, it’s Bush’s fault.
12) The statesman Al Gore revels that it’s all Bush’s fault.
13) The Republican statesman McCain will revel that it’s “sort’a” Bush’s fault.
14) All statesman agree. It’s Bush’s fault.
15) There are no illegal aliens involved.
16) The Black Muslims may have some answers to our problems in America. This is only one revelation. Now is the time to dance in the streets with the Palestinians. And, to divest Israel. Because, it’s, well, Israel’s fault. And Bush’s.
Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one,
and calls them each by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them is missing.
That's what got to me.
Yes it was .. this is all so sad
You can see the tears in his eyes.
That, and when he said, "they didn't return home safely," (or something like that).
Me too. I'm agnostic, but for the sake of brave men and women like these astronauts, at times like this I hope I'm wrong. I don't know how else to put it.
I hear ya
And, I believe, he sounded a bit choked up at the end....?
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