Posted on 12/21/2005 3:50:09 PM PST by GretchenM
Hello
Everytime I see a picture of Pres. Bush with the troops, it always reminds me of that picture of Hillary shaking hands with one soldier, and the soldier had the fingers of his left hand crossed. There is no one else around in that picture. You couldn't find a photo of the Pres. meeting informally with the troops with only one soldier with him - there's always a crowd of troops around him, trying to shake his hand and touch him and with huge smiles, and I think that's wonderful. Prayers for Pres. Bush, our First Lady, their family, and our courageous military.
Maybe he was concerned about having a bedpan or two "accidentally" dropped on him. ;-)
I'll be away for a while.
Love the way the President is holding the soldiers hand
Why is it the Vice President always seems to have twice as many papers as anyone else.
Sorry to hear about your son prayers he will be OK to visit you for Christmas.
MUST VIEW:
At 10:21 PM EDT, C-Span will re-broadcast the President's comments at the Bethesda Navy Medical Center:
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp
MUST READS:
PRESIDENT'S SPEECH BOOSTS CONFIDENCE IN WAR ON TERROR
Rasmussen Poll
In a survey conducted following the President's Sunday night speech, 50% of Americans believe the U.S. and its allies are winning the War on Terror. That's up from 44% immediately before the speech. It is also the highest level of optimism measured in 2005.
Forty-two percent (42%) now expect things to get better in Iraq over the next six months. That's up from 37% before the speech.
http://rasmussenreports.com/
The aforementioned RASMUSSEN POLL also notes that the President's JA rating has risen to 47% 'adults' (50% 'likely voters'), consistent with the new ABCNews/WashPost and Hotline polls:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/bush_ja.html
PRESIDENT HAD LEGAL AUTHORITY TO OK TAPS
By John Schmidt (Clinton administration)
Published December 21, 2005
[Most 'blog' pundits are citing this article as the definitive statement on the surveillance topic!!!]
President Bush's post- Sept. 11, 2001, authorization to the National Security Agency to carry out electronic surveillance into private phone calls and e-mails is consistent with court decisions and with the positions of the Justice Department under prior presidents.
The president authorized the NSA program in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America. An identifiable group, Al Qaeda, was responsible and believed to be planning future attacks in the United States. Electronic surveillance of communications to or from those who might plausibly be members of or in contact with Al Qaeda was probably the only means of obtaining information about what its members were planning next. No one except the president and the few officials with access to the NSA program can know how valuable such surveillance has been in protecting the nation.
You can read the entire article at
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0512210142dec21,0,3553632.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed
BRING IT ON
December 21st, 2005
Just so we’re clear:
The leadership of the Democratic Party believes that when a sitting President of the United States commits perjury, openly admits to suborning perjury and obstructs justice, this does not rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. And any suggestion otherwise is the practice of the politics of personal destruction.
The leadership of the Democratic Party further believes that air strikes ordered by a sitting President to attempt to deflect attention away from those crimes does not rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors, no matter how many innocent civilians those air strikes might kill.
On the other hand, a sitting President of the United States in wartime, who receives legal advice from government attorneys and consults with key members of the House and Senate to establish surveillance action against known agents of a group that weeks earlier had annihilated over 3,000 innocents on American soil, has committed an impeachable offense on its face and without question, and that this impeachable offense should be followed with a Senate conviction on the matter.
In the face of this bizarre world that the Democratic Party would like to construct, it is worthwhile asking whether this Republic would exist today if the sort of loyal opposition that currently sits in judgment on Capitol Hill had squatted there during the Civil War
You can read the entire commentary at
http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5091
Hubby, kids, and I are opening our gifts tonight before heading north to spend Christmas Eve/Christmas with family and friends.
I may check back later tonight . . .
Damn, it's sad to see those maimed soldiers. May G-d sustain them all through their lives.
Seems crazy if he is a Christian chaplin do not understand.
Neither do I he seems to be hehaving like a Chaplin should
I'm just jumping in here, but let me say, Gretchen, that I loved that silhouette pic of the president. You can just feel the weight of the world on his shoulders, and his resoluteness in the face of that.
Happy Christmas to you is your daughter fully recovered from the car accident?
Hi snugs, you were in caluvdubya and my thoughts yesterday
as we had lunch at Shakespeare's Pub with typical Brit food
We enjoyed the outside seating as it was in the 70s
We later went through the Brit store with all the various foods and items.
Good evening everyone. Gretchen, thanks for today's Dose.
I just love the photos of the VP heading to the Senate chamber. I keep hearing the "Darth Vader" theme in my head...
Indeed it is... and Mrs. Bush looks like she's close to tears, watching him. What a photo!
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