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Posted on 07/01/2007 1:11:17 PM PDT by Wolfstar
Hi mystery. Thanks. Yeah...wonder where I could get my hands on one of those caps. ;-)
VLADY don’t dare you to poison Dubya food and drink BE NICE or Barney would bite you
They are wonderful photos as you say so peaceful - man in tune with nature.
Thank you Wolfstar those pictures are wonderful!
I don't know. Hard to tell just from the two photos that Yahoo posted, because we can't see what happened before or after in the complete sequence. It was nice, though, that the President drove his boat up to the cutter to say hi and thanks.
You're welcome. Yep, the relationship Dubya has with his daughters heartwarming. Interesting, too, how the girls, now in their mid-20's, seem to split their "care" of their parents between them. Jenna went with their mom to Africa, and Barbara went with dad to Kennebunkport. Cool.
You're welcome. Hopefully we'll see some birthday pics this year too. I wonder if the Barney cap is one of his early presents.
Hi snugs. Yep...I wish I could buy one. :)
LOL! my thaks & 7 typos should be: Thanks and &.
LOL! Seven, you are such fun. Thank you for making me laugh. Don't forget little Beezie. She's a tough little lady and would do some biting of her own.
You're very welcome, Maria.
Yes. I wish I could put to sea and never come back. Sigh.
Yeah I forgot about Miss Bealzey remember if Vlady get any ideas Barney and Miss Bealerey be bit his ankles ROFL or better yet Barbara be hit Vlady over the head with her purse
Wolfstar:
THANK YOU for posting this special DOSE tonight . . . I just love photos of the President boating/fishing with his family . . . The photos of the President and Barbara are particularly poignant — you can measure the content of a man’s heart/character by watching the manner in which he interacts with his children and parents . . . our ‘W’ is a GOOD man!
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[Wolfstar: This article is so good it deserves to be posted twice!]
LAURA BUSH: PRESIDENT WILL LOOK BACK WITH ‘NO REGRETS’
By Mark Silva
Tribune national correspondent
Published July 1, 2007
. . . ‘Whatever happens happens’
First Lady Laura Bush returned Saturday from her third trip to Africa. She suggested that her husband — who will be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday and Monday in Kennebunkport — is likely to make another trip to Africa next year and said in an interview with the Tribune during her flight home that neither she nor her husband has any regrets about “the hand we were dealt” on 9/11.
“It’s a philosophy of no regrets,” Laura Bush said. “In one sense, [it] is that whatever happens happens, and you have to keep moving on and do the best you can with whatever it is. But it’s also a philosophy of moving forward ... a realistic view of life.”
The first lady was asked whether she and her husband ever wonder what his presidency would have been like had terrorists not struck the United States less than nine months into his first term.
“Neither George or I are the kind to look back and think, ‘Oh, what if? Why did this happen when I was president?’ “ she said. “I think it’s because he is a realist. ... And it’s just that this is what’s happened, this is the hand we were dealt, and you just have to move on and do the very best you can with that hand.”
You can read the entire article here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-laura_5s_silvajul01,1,6811619.story?track=rss
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BUSH FAMILY RETREAT PLAYS DUAL ROLE
By Seth Harkness
July 1, 2007
KENNEBUNKPORT — One early September day in 1991,
then-President George H.W. Bush sat alone on the terrace of his family home at Walker’s Point and finished a lunch of clam chowder and a glass of sherry before updating his diary.
Over several weeks, the blue fish had been biting and Bush had hooked many of them while trolling the rocky shoreline from his boat. He had sat out on the granite ledge with his wife, Barbara, and admired the pounding waves when a big storm blew through. He had enjoyed hours on the porch, watching his grandchildren play among the tide pools.
He also had been awakened by a call on midnight of Aug. 19. It was his national security adviser, informing him that hard-line members of the Soviet Union had staged a coup in Moscow.
They surrounded the Russian “White House” with tanks and
placed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest while he vacationed in Crimea. The move threatened to turn back the clock on the country’s steps toward democracy and rekindle the Cold War.
Over the next week, the nine-bedroom shingled home that has been in the Bush family for more than a century became a public stage as well as a private sanctuary. The beloved family home has long played this dual role and will do so again today when President George W. Bush meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The elder Bush dealt with the crisis by conducting telephone diplomacy from his bedroom, reassuring Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who remained inside the government building that the soldiers were threatening to storm.
For a short but tense period, Bush faced decisions about
whether the United States should intercede with military force. Ultimately, the coup collapsed and the president was able to get in a little more fishing before returning to Washington.
Despite these world events, his stay in Kennebunkport had been restorative, Bush wrote in his diary, parts of which are published . . .
You can read the entire article here:
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story_pf.php?id=118065&ac=PHnws
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TIRELESS TERRORISTS
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Homeland Security: The London bomb plot reminds us that terrorists never rest. Like gnats, they keep coming in the hopes we’ll tire of swatting them. They have to get lucky just once. We have to be lucky all the time.
You can read the entire commentary here:
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=268009831426783
Are you getting a commission, snugs? You should - I’ll bet more than a few dosers will have scottie caps now. :-)
Daisyscarlett and snugs, I read somewhere recently that William had invited Kate to the concert and that they were together again. The papparazzi (sp?) have done enough damage and should, but won't, leave William and Kate alone. (sigh)
I had not seen the article about the Bush family retreat. Very interesting. Lots of history made there. And in the Bush family for over 100 years. Thanks for posting it. (I wonder which of the Bush kids will “inherit” the compound, since W, the oldest, seemingly prefers the ranch.)
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Hang in there. I love President Bush as much as ever, and Laura is absolutely wonderful as first lady. Friday evening at a dinner with several friends, I got a surprised look or two when I said not a day has passed since his election in 2000 that I would not have voted for him again and thanked God that W was elected as our president rather than either of his opponents. He has accomplished great good for the country and the world, and I hope is is able to do more.
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