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silent_jonny: AWESOME photos of an awesome President and First Lady!
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MUST READ . . .

BUSH COURTS COLUMNISTS, HILL
By: Mike Allen

Republican communications directors on Capitol Hill typically hear from the White House by conference call, so they were happy to be going downtown on Monday for one of their occasional conclaves in the splendor of the Roosevelt Room.

White House counselor Ed Gillespie, who joined the administration in June after a career that included serving as a top aide to the then-GOP House majority, was asking his guests for ideas about improving the back-and-forth between the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue when the door opened and a familiar voice said, “Hey!”

It was President Bush. The Hill aides, a bit flustered, all immediately stood up.

[EXCELLENT information written by a snarky leftist; just ignore the latter!]
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/5029.html
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AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO SUPPORT OUR PRESIDENT AND HIS COURAGEOUS TROOPS:

Giant September Push to Rally Support for Troops in Iraq!

Supporters of Operation Iraqi Freedom will conduct a nationwide caravan along with more than 2-dozen rallies calling for continued support of U.S. troops based in Iraq in the days leading up to General David Petraeus September 15th report to Congress.

From September 3, 2007 through September 15, 2007 the nation’s largest grassroots, pro-troop organization, Move America Forward will lead thousands of supporters in a cross-country effort called the “FIGHT FOR VICTORY TOUR
http://www.moveamericaforward.org/
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BUSH DONATES WWII REVOLVER TO CENTER
By Joann Loviglio

PHILADELPHIA - Former President George H.W. Bush got his World War II service revolver back Wednesday, 60 years after giving it to a Navy lieutenant aboard the submarine that rescued him when his plane was shot down over the Pacific Ocean.

Bush donated the revolver to the National Constitution Center the same day the son of late Lt. J.G. Albert Brostrom returned the .38-caliber Smith & Wesson and its leather shoulder holster to him.

Brostrom was the sonar man on the USS Finback, which rescued Bush, a Navy pilot, after he was shot down by Japanese anti-aircraft fire on Sept. 2, 1944. Brostrom brought the future president to the infirmary and later shared his bunk with him.

“It was a little grubby in there, but that’s how it was done in those days,” Bush said. He gave Brostrom the revolver in gratitude.

Ron Brostrom, 59, of Chester Springs, Pa., said his father never spoke to his family about the war, except for the kindness and sense of humor of the combat pilot who gave him the revolver.

“We only knew it was a 20-year-old lieutenant,” Ron Brostrom said.

The family did not realize who the pilot was until 1980 when Bush — then a vice-presidential candidate — announced he was looking for crew members from the submarine.

“Dad was kind of like, ‘The kid did OK,’” Brostrom said with a laugh.

Bush presented the gun to Constitution Center president and CEO Joseph Torsella for permanent display in the museum.

Bush is chairman of the center’s board of trustees. The Constitution Center, a nonprofit organization founded in 2003, contains more than 100 exhibits dedicated to increasing public understanding of the Constitution.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070718/ap_on_re_us/bush_revolver_1
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POLLING UPDATE . . .

ZOGBY/REUTERS
[Yes, this is an anti-American pollster teaming up with an anti-American ‘news’ orgagization to produce ‘unbiased’ polling results . . . OK, now that you’ve stopped laughing, the results of this particular poll will make you start laughing all over again!]

14% excellent/good rating for Congress
34% excellent/good rating for President Bush
[. . . actually, the President earned a 40-something JA rating. Why? Half of those who rated the President ‘fair’ would actually ‘approve’ of his job performance in a standard approve/disapprove poll . . . Regardless, in a DEMOCRAT dominated poll, the President still outperformed Congress by 20 points!]
http://zogby.com/Soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=15308
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THE BUSH DOCTRINE LIVES
The president isn’t selling out Israel or relaxing his call for Palestinian democracy.
BY MICHAEL B. OREN
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT

JERUSALEM—Newspapers in Israel yesterday were full of stories about President Bush’s call on Monday for the creation of a Palestinian state and an international peace conference. While Israeli officials were quoted expressing satisfaction with the fact that “there were no changes in Bush’s policies,” commentators questioned whether the Saudis would participate in such a gathering and whether Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, with his single-digit approval ratings, could uproot Israeli settlers from the West Bank.

But all the focus on the conference misses the point. Mr. Bush has not backtracked an inch from his revolutionary Middle East policy. Never before has any American president placed the onus of demonstrating a commitment to peace so emphatically on Palestinian shoulders. Though Mr. Bush insisted that Israel refrain from further settlement expansion and remove unauthorized outposts, the bulk of his demands were directed at the Palestinians.

You can read the entire commentary here:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010347