President Job: For George W. Bush, the Prince Hal analogy will no longer do.

American Prowler ^ | Wednesday, February 5, 2003 | By Paul Beston

[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, February 5, 2003

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[Pokey78]

BTTT.

Good morning King!

[JohnHuang2]

Mornin', backatya, friend =^)

[okie01]

Job? A bit overdrawn, in my opinion.

[ffusco]

"I shall hereafter…be more myself," he tells the king. And so he is.

Inspiring message, thanks.

[hocndoc]

I try to remember to pray for the President to get a good night's sleep. (if he does, it's bound to be good news for the rest of the world, too.)

[McGavin999]

God has surely tested our president, and I'm sure he has passed those tests. I've always hated the story of Job, it brakes my heart to see a man who loves God so much being tested.

[Kip Lange]

Yeah, yeah, it's overdrawn and melodramatic, but let us have our occasional *pro-Bush* saccharine. It's so much more nutrasweet (and much less harmful) than the liberal media hit squad pieces being flung around of late. :-P

[Kip Lange]

It is important to remember that while Bush may indeed bear a heavy cross, the crosses that our young men & women in uniform (my *friends*, G-ddammit!) will have to bear in the upcoming days, months, and years make his look much lighter.

Didn't mean to make that sound so harsh. You know what I mean. This is something we *must* do, but that being said, I'd rather be in Bush's shoes when the war starts than in fatigues outside Baghdad.

[rwfromkansas]

He may not be on the front lines, but he will ultimately be responsible for whether our guys die or mostly come back alive. I do not think this is a load he takes lightly.

I really hope that your friends do not get hurt in such a battle....peace be with you in this troubled time.

[Finny]

I try to remember to pray for the President to get a good night's sleep. (if he does, it's bound to be good news for the rest of the world, too.)

Excellent thought, hocndoc! It's important to be specific in prayer.

For a long time, I remembered to pray daily for blessings of safety and good judgement for all astronauts in space and all the crews on the ground who supported them ... then I began to forget them on my long list ... now they'll be in my prayers again. Pray for the folks in the Space Station, and for all the earth-bound folks who help keep them there.

[baseballmom]

I was thinking thoughts like these over the weekend and today, watching our President. He's had a lot to bear - and I don't think we know the half of it.

May God bless and protect our President, our troops and our country.

[baseballmom]

PS. This deserves one of your mega pings. :-)

[JohnHuang2]

This deserves one of your mega pings. :-)

Coming up..;^)

[JohnHuang2]

[woofie]

Very moving

[lainde]

bttt

[WSGilcrest]

[patriciaruth]

What many people don't realize is that George W. Bush became acquainted early with sudden loss and grief. His parents didn't tell him that his younger sister, Robin, had leukemia and was going to die.

They just showed up one day at school and told him she was dead. He had nightmares for a long time afterward, and was his mother's bulwark against the depression she fell into.

The clown act, the determination to find joy and happiness inspite of life's sudden, indescribably painful tragedies, began as an attempt to cheer up his mother.

When a fellow student from Africa at Yale lost his mother, it was George who went around with a sympathy card for everyone to sign for him.

It was why he identified with the nerds who were left out of the stickball games at Philips Academy where he went to highschool. He organized on his own the stickball teams so everyone who wanted to play was included on a roster for a team, and he cheered them on. He understood pain.

These were the stories about his youth that made me realize he could be a great man if destiny called.