A Day in the Life of President Bush (many photos): 12-20-07

www.yahoo.com/news www.whitehouse.gov/news ^ | 20th December 2007 | Snugs

[snugs]

Sorry to post and run but I have to do a couple of things before bed and tomorrow is going to be a big day, last day at work until the 2nd so will be busy there and then the evening the company Christmas bash.

See you all tomorrow hopefully with some Christmas pics.

[shield]

yes...it’s faster to put the ... in when you’re in a race. ;o) My computer is slow tonight [good excuse].

[DrDeb]

snugs: Thanks for posting the DOSE tonight — AWESOME job!
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MUST READ . . .

[Ignore the snarky (obligatory elist tripe) second paragraph and enjoy D’Souza’s commentary]
THE UNBELIEVABLE TENACITY OF GEORGE W BUSH
by Dinesh D’Souza

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Listening to the fatuous Al Gore claim his undeserved Nobel Prize and maunder on about how America is ruining the planet makes me realize how fortunate America is to have as its president George W. Bush.

Yes, Bush has his ample share of failings. He occasionally speaks at the fifth-grade level. He is too willing to surround himself with cronies and sycophants. An unsupple man, Bush sometimes reminds me of the toy soldier who walks into the wall and keeps going.

Bush’s weaknesses, however, are more than compensated for by his one great strength. This is a man with unbelievable tenacity. No American president in my lifetime, not even Reagan, had Bush’s guts. Perhaps one would have to go all the way back to Franklin or Teddy Roosevelt to find comparable determination. On the international stage, Bush’s stamina recalls that of Churchill. Consider: when Bush was elected in 2000 with the tiniest conceivable margin—a margin so slender it required Supreme Court intervention to place him in the Oval Office—I was sure that Bush’s proposed tax cuts were dead. But no: Bush pushed ahead and got most of what he proposed. And the subsequent health of the economy—low interest rates, low unemployment, steady growth—has undoubtedly been nourished by Bush’s tax cuts.

Then in 2006, after the midterm debacle, I thought that Bush’s Iraq policy was finished. And you could hear the pundits and the newly-elected Democratic congressmen and the pathological Bush-haters gleefully declaring, “Now he’s going to have to start pulling out of Iraq.” Instead Bush pressed for an increase of 20,000-25,000 troops. Incredibly, he got it. Congress shrieked and howled but went along. The American people were very doubtful, but Bush serenely told them to “wait and see.” Bush has seemingly singe-handedly pursued his vision for Iraq even when his allies both at home and abroad have dwindled or lost their nerve. And once again Bush’s policy seems to be working. Iraq is becoming more peaceful, and apparently there are Shia and Sunni leaders cooperating with the Americans. The Bush-haters are still with us, but the wind has gone out of the antiwar movement.

Bush has had a tough second term in office. But I think history will be kinder to him than the opinion polls, at least in the past couple of years, have been. When the country looks back at Iraq and sees a standing, even if fragile, democracy, Americans will see that when they became impatient, Bush forged ahead. When they were ready to give up, he was undeterred. And as a consequence the Middle East has its first Muslim democracy, and a pro-American democracy to boot. The lesson of Iraq may well be: Thank God we didn’t listen to those advocates of defeat on the left; if we had, it would have been Vietnam all over again.

The diplomat Clare Luce once wrote that history, which has no room for clutter, will remember every president by just one line. I’m not quite sure how Bill Clinton will be remembered: perhaps his only distinguishing mark will be the one that Paula Jones identified. As for Bush, he will go down in history as the president who refused to back down, and if staying the course in Iraq proves to be the right move, then Bush could be remembered as one of America’s great presidents.
http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/12/14/the-unbelievable-tenacity-of-george-w-bush/
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SOME INSIGHTS FROM KARL ROVE:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110011015
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MUST VIEW . . .

PREPARING FOR DEFENSE CUTS IF THE DEMS WIN THE WHITE HOUSE
Thomas Lifson

The following photographs came in via email. I have tried to track down the creator(s) and get permission to post them, but have been unable. If the creators step forward, we’ll be glad to give them credit for their work. But these are just too funny to pass over. Our military forces are not only our best, they are also some of our funniest.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/12/preparing_for_defense_cuts_if.html

[shield]

Yes, lots of great pictures...Thanks for the dose. Boy, are there some great pictures to put President Bush’s thought captions in. LOL...

[radiohead]

Would that be a ‘hi’ to the toaster winner of the day? : )

[STARWISE]

Thanks, snugs ... I saw the press briefing this am.
He was very deft and good-humored, and he sure
gave the Congress whatfor for their supreme incompetence.
What a joke and embarrassment they are. God bless
W ... he’s always polite, in spite of the hate
and attack monkeys.

Here’s one attempt at a gotcha, but W knows the
ropes and the “ropers” too well to get sucked in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUZycsIQfi4

The video of the whole thing is here, over to the
right at “video.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071220-1.html

[Jewels1091]

Have we ever seen Condi in the same outfit twice??

[radiohead]

When you get to it, I’ll take a chrome toaster with Barney and Miss Beazley, if you please.

Have fun at your Christmas party.

[luvie]

THE UNBELIEVABLE TENACITY OF GEORGE W BUSH

The best sentence I have seen this year....and the truest!

Gives me hope that he will be there for America till the
last moment of his Presidency! God bless the man!

[luvie]

Our “Man of a Thousand Faces”.

Snugs you captured his very essense with these pictures!

Thanks for a great thread and a wonderful bunch of pictures!

[NordP]

Thanks for askin'.

James is doing very well. He's crackin' us up because he loves playing with a balloon each night. Just one. He chases it up and down the hallway, brushes his teeth, and then he's asleep in a heartbeat.

Kelly is doing very well.

Rocky is and always has been as healthy as a horse.

Rex just had an ear infection. We're still treating him. They are so cute, hubby and I just look at each other and say...can they GET any cuter????? We're blessed.

How are yours?

[NordP]

That woman has a GREAT closet. Excellent taste and I BET they’re color coded and separated as to short and long sleeved, too. Class act.

[Ann Archy]

DICK CHENEY ROCKS!!! he’s the SEXIEST MAN in GOVT!!!

[Ann Archy]

Clinton will be remebered for “I did NOT have Sex with that woman, ms Lewinsky’!!

[SnarlinCubBear]

That’s just wonderful. I love them to bits when they play. And sleep :)

I’m still amazed that you can keep up with four of them.

My little guys are all in doggie heaven now. I’m mighty lonesome.

[Earthdweller]

BTTT

[DollyCali]

thank you Eleanor for your work on the Dose.. I was in bed before you posted & have been busy here & there this morning... Need to leave for day in about an hour..

Love the pix w/military.. he surely seems in his element there.. and the podium shots.. love them.. our man of a thousand faces!

Hugs hon.. AND both packages were on my porch yesterday when I got home.. Thank you & will email you details maybe tongiht when I get home. Out of town company coming for funeral tomorrow & I am pretty overwhelmed.

[silent_jonny]

Thank you for the Dose, Snugs :) Many great and moving photos.

[silent_jonny]

Thank you for your post and Must Reads, Deb :)

THE UNBELIEVABLE TENACITY OF GEORGE W BUSH

[NordP]

What a dork I am...so sorry. See, this is why I will never run for office. I say stupid things.

I guess, I only have so much K in my brain/computer to store info, and obviously not the RAM to re-access facts mentioned before. Big hugs. Well, once we have breakfast, and our schedule permits...WAIT till you see these kidz....they will melt your heart. Sometimes we laugh that Rex will wiggle his butt completely off, he's so happy. Rocky and Rex even STAND together and look up at you---they seem to be seriously joined at the hip.