Posted on 12/26/2014 11:06:45 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Every year, in the week between Christmas and New Year’s, I think about George W. Bush.
It was in that week each year for the eight years I covered him as a reporter that he gave me a spectacular gift — and he knew it.
I started covering the newly elected president in 2000, when I was in my 30s. Back then, as a reporter for The Washington Times, we went everywhere the president went. If he went to Charlotte, North Carolina, to give a 30-minute speech on an airport tarmac, we went. Up at 4 a.m., an hourlong commute to Andrews Air Force Base, in place on the ground hours before POTUS landed, and there for hours and hours after he left — sometimes right through the evening news so network reporters could file live from the site.
We also went with the president to Texas every summer — often for a month — and every winter, too, over the holidays.
But here’s the thing: In December, we never left Washington, D.C., until the day after Christmas. Never. Mr. Bush and his wife, Laura, would always depart the White House a few days before the holiday and hunker down at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. After a few years, I asked a low-level White House staffer why.
I still remember what she said: “So all of us can be with our families on Christmas.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
This current guy Obamai doesn’t work. It could care less about common people too as an elitist.
It’s a great story but the buggy Washington Times site kept crashing my browser!
O’ is still Scrooge!
Where in there did you get that either I or the author was asking you to support Jeb Bush?
I didn’t get that from you or the article, it was just a word to those reading the comments.
I never knew “Christmastime” was a word. lol
...Learn something new every day. (just sucks that I probably forget 3 things per day)
I was going to post the same thing 2DVet. Ya beat me--but good.
King Barack O’Bozo has a long way to go to work himself up to Scrooge level.
Right now he is about a useful as the pimple on Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer’s left butt cheek.
.....well, most of us like “the Bushes” as people and likely most of us would love to sit down and have a beer with “W” or the “old man”. I know I would.
But, sorry, the cynic in me can’t help but wonder whether or not this “reporter” is, in truth, longing for another “Bush” in the White House...............if so, then most all conservatives would not feel so warm and fuzzy about his report on how good a guy W was...............which we all know already...........he was...............just not a very conservative oriented president.
George’s family taught him to serve
Obama’s family taught him to take
Agree about the site. Too many pop ups!
Bush has a lot of class. Obama is a selfish pig, among his many other flaws and failings.
Plus, as a recovering alcoholic, he came back from worse, along with the humility some find along their walk away.
George Dubya Bush wasn't the greatest president, but he is a pretty decent human being.
I would call Obama the “great turkey” at the end of the book.
Obama is most certainly NOT Scrooge.
Scrooge mended his ways, Obama will never do so.
I guess there were a couple of good things about GWB, but I understand Alito may have also turned liberal, not sure of that yet.
The American people look in the mirror and must also see a selfish pig then.
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