Blog Post about President and Laura Bush
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therightfangirlA friend sent me this blog entry and I thought I would share it here. I didn't see that it had been posted yet, but apologize if it had. Today of all days, it gives me hope for this country.
http://hillbuzz.org/2009/11/10/thank-you-former-president-george-w-bush-and-former-first-lady-laura-bush/#comment-80187
There are almost 200 comments and, I swear, they almost brought tears to my eyes.
We know absolutely no one in Bush family circles and have never met former President George W. Bush or his wife Laura.
If you have been reading us for any length of time, you know that we used to make fun of “Dubya” nearly every day…parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our Democrat circles, where Bush is still, to this day, lampooned as a chimp, a bumbling idiot, and a poor, clumsy public speaker.
Oh, how we RAILED against Bush in 2000…and how we RAILED against the surge in support Bush received post-9/11 when he went to Ground Zero and stood there with his bullhorn in the ruins on that hideous day.
We were convinced that ANYONE who was president would have done what Bush did, and would have set that right tone of leadership in the wake of that disaster. President Gore, President Perot, President Nader, you name it. ANYONE, we assumed, would have filled that role perfectly.
Well, we told you before how much the current president, Dr. Utopia, made us realize just how wrong we were about Bush. We shudder to think what Dr. Utopia would have done post-9/11. He would have not gone there with a bullhorn and struck that right tone. More likely than not, he would have been his usual fey, apologetic self and waxed professorially about how evil America is and how justified Muslims are for attacking us, with a sidebar on how good the attacks were because they would humble us.
Honestly, we don’t think President Gore would have been much better that day. The world needed George W. Bush, his bullhorn, and his indominable spirit that day…and we will forever be grateful to this man for that.
As we will always be grateful for what George and Laura Bush did this week, with no media attention, when they very quietly went to Ft. Hood and met personally with the families of the victims of this terrorist attack.
FOR HOURS.
The Bushes went and met privately with these families for HOURS, hugging them, holding them, comforting them.
If there are any of you out there with any connection at all to the Bushes, we implore you to give them our thanks…you tell them at a bunch of gay Hillary guys in Boystown, Chicago were wrong about the Bushes…and are deeply, deeply sorry for any jokes we told about them in the past, any bad thoughts we had about these good, good people.
You may be as surprised by this as we are ourselves, but from this day forward George W. and Laura Bush are now on the same list for us as the Clintons, Geraldine Ferraro, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, and the other political figures we keep in our hearts and never allow anyone to badmouth.
Criticize their policies academically and intelligently and discuss the Bush presidency in historical and political terms…but you mess with the Bushes personally and, from this day forward, and you’ll answer to us.
We hope someday to be able to thank George W. and Laura in person for all they’ve done, and continue to do. They didn’t have to head to Ft. Hood. That was not their responsibility.
The Obamas should have done that.
But didn’t.
Wouldn’t.
Thank goodness George W. is still on his watch, with wonderful Laura at his side.
We are blessed as a nation to have these two out there…just as we are blessed to have the Clintons on the job, traveling the world doing the good they do.
And we are blessed to have Dick Cheney, wherever he is, keeping tabs on all that’s going on and speaking out when the current administration does anything too reckless and dangerous.
Cheney’s someone else we villainized and maligned in the past who we were also wrong about. There has never been a Vice President, including Gore, Biden, or Mondale, who was more supportive of gay rights than “Darth Cheney”. There has never been a Vice President more spot-on right about the dangers facing this country from Islamic terrorism.
We live in strange, strange times indeed.
We are now officially committed fans of George W. and Laura Bush. We are fans of Dick Cheney. Our gratitude for them makes us newly protective of them, and the continued role they play in this country.
After the primary battle of 2008, we never thought we’d go back to Texas for anything, but sometime in 2010 we want to find some event in Dallas the Bushes will be at so at least one of us can go up to them, tell them we are deeply sorry for ever thinking ill of them, and thank them from the bottom of our hearts for their service to America.
We’re sure they will just stare at us and wonder why these gay Chicagoans are crying, but we don’t think we can get through a meeting with them without being emotional.
What they did at Ft. Hood for those families humbles us. Every day, the Bushes are most likely doing something just like it behind the scenes.
We hope if any of you encounter them you will let them know this is deeply appreciated beyond partisan lines.
We will never look at the Bushes, the Bush presidencies, or their legacies the same again…and someday when his presidential library is built, we will be so proud to visit there and tell anyone will listen about November 10th, 2009, the day we finally appreciated former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura.
Thank you for your service, Mr. President. We’re sorry we didn’t appreciate you while you were in office, but we thank Heaven we’ve wised up and can see the good you are out there doing, under the radar, today.
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http://hillbuzz.org/2009/11/10/thank-you-former-president-george-w-bush-and-former-first-lady-laura-bush/#comment-80187
There are almost 200 comments and, I swear, they almost brought tears to my eyes.
We know absolutely no one in Bush family circles and have never met former President George W. Bush or his wife Laura.
If you have been reading us for any length of time, you know that we used to make fun of “Dubya” nearly every day…parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our Democrat circles, where Bush is still, to this day, lampooned as a chimp, a bumbling idiot, and a poor, clumsy public speaker.
Oh, how we RAILED against Bush in 2000…and how we RAILED against the surge in support Bush received post-9/11 when he went to Ground Zero and stood there with his bullhorn in the ruins on that hideous day.
We were convinced that ANYONE who was president would have done what Bush did, and would have set that right tone of leadership in the wake of that disaster. President Gore, President Perot, President Nader, you name it. ANYONE, we assumed, would have filled that role perfectly.
Well, we told you before how much the current president, Dr. Utopia, made us realize just how wrong we were about Bush. We shudder to think what Dr. Utopia would have done post-9/11. He would have not gone there with a bullhorn and struck that right tone. More likely than not, he would have been his usual fey, apologetic self and waxed professorially about how evil America is and how justified Muslims are for attacking us, with a sidebar on how good the attacks were because they would humble us.
Honestly, we don’t think President Gore would have been much better that day. The world needed George W. Bush, his bullhorn, and his indominable spirit that day…and we will forever be grateful to this man for that.
As we will always be grateful for what George and Laura Bush did this week, with no media attention, when they very quietly went to Ft. Hood and met personally with the families of the victims of this terrorist attack.
FOR HOURS.
The Bushes went and met privately with these families for HOURS, hugging them, holding them, comforting them.
If there are any of you out there with any connection at all to the Bushes, we implore you to give them our thanks…you tell them at a bunch of gay Hillary guys in Boystown, Chicago were wrong about the Bushes…and are deeply, deeply sorry for any jokes we told about them in the past, any bad thoughts we had about these good, good people.
You may be as surprised by this as we are ourselves, but from this day forward George W. and Laura Bush are now on the same list for us as the Clintons, Geraldine Ferraro, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, and the other political figures we keep in our hearts and never allow anyone to badmouth.
Criticize their policies academically and intelligently and discuss the Bush presidency in historical and political terms…but you mess with the Bushes personally and, from this day forward, and you’ll answer to us.
We hope someday to be able to thank George W. and Laura in person for all they’ve done, and continue to do. They didn’t have to head to Ft. Hood. That was not their responsibility.
The Obamas should have done that.
But didn’t.
Wouldn’t.
Thank goodness George W. is still on his watch, with wonderful Laura at his side.
We are blessed as a nation to have these two out there…just as we are blessed to have the Clintons on the job, traveling the world doing the good they do.
And we are blessed to have Dick Cheney, wherever he is, keeping tabs on all that’s going on and speaking out when the current administration does anything too reckless and dangerous.
Cheney’s someone else we villainized and maligned in the past who we were also wrong about. There has never been a Vice President, including Gore, Biden, or Mondale, who was more supportive of gay rights than “Darth Cheney”. There has never been a Vice President more spot-on right about the dangers facing this country from Islamic terrorism.
We live in strange, strange times indeed.
We are now officially committed fans of George W. and Laura Bush. We are fans of Dick Cheney. Our gratitude for them makes us newly protective of them, and the continued role they play in this country.
After the primary battle of 2008, we never thought we’d go back to Texas for anything, but sometime in 2010 we want to find some event in Dallas the Bushes will be at so at least one of us can go up to them, tell them we are deeply sorry for ever thinking ill of them, and thank them from the bottom of our hearts for their service to America.
We’re sure they will just stare at us and wonder why these gay Chicagoans are crying, but we don’t think we can get through a meeting with them without being emotional.
What they did at Ft. Hood for those families humbles us. Every day, the Bushes are most likely doing something just like it behind the scenes.
We hope if any of you encounter them you will let them know this is deeply appreciated beyond partisan lines.
We will never look at the Bushes, the Bush presidencies, or their legacies the same again…and someday when his presidential library is built, we will be so proud to visit there and tell anyone will listen about November 10th, 2009, the day we finally appreciated former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura.
Thank you for your service, Mr. President. We’re sorry we didn’t appreciate you while you were in office, but we thank Heaven we’ve wised up and can see the good you are out there doing, under the radar, today.
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Date: 2009-11-12 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-11-12 02:11 am (UTC)I'm glad this helped open up the eyes of many others.
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Date: 2009-11-12 02:59 am (UTC)I'm hoping that history will give GWB the justice he deserves (if the liberals don't write ALL the history books).
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Date: 2009-11-12 03:51 am (UTC)Thank you for sharing that. I hope this isn't fake.
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Date: 2009-11-12 04:31 am (UTC)it is a nice thing but he is still a criminal for getting us into the wars which are against the constitution clearly AND i'll never forgive him for expanding the executive powers foisted on us expanded by Obama.
time for a reset in this country!
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Date: 2009-11-16 01:18 am (UTC)He did nothing criminal.
Warm Fuzzies!
Date: 2009-11-12 04:48 am (UTC)GWB didn't do everything perfectly, but he did a pretty good job with what he had to work with.
There is hope for the world ^_^
Re: Warm Fuzzies!
Date: 2009-11-12 05:44 am (UTC)This is exactly why.
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Date: 2009-11-12 05:31 am (UTC)As for the blog post, wow, miracles never cease.
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Date: 2009-11-12 05:44 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-11-12 06:52 am (UTC)And I actually did wear a poppy today, care of VFW Post 3788 here in San Diego. I wore a poppy and a black suit, black tie, and white shirt, in keeping with the LJ icon. A lot of people were actually surprised I did that even though I wasn't a veteran, that I was actually paying my respects this way.
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Date: 2009-11-12 07:08 am (UTC)I got told by a person here on a green card from the UK that I "just wanted a day off," and "the UK has more of a right to Veteran's Day than the US does."
Omg, she did NOT say that to me! (She did, but that was my reaction.) Needless to say, I flipped my shit on her. Having sent two brothers to Iraq (one of whom is my twin) more than once, having cousins fighting, my grandfather fought in WWII at Iwo Jima, and numerous other members of my family giving promising everything to this country? And SHE'S been here for 18 years on a green card without getting her CITIZENSHIP?!!
Excuse the hell outta me, but get the f*ck out of my country. I don't need to be told I don't have the "right" to something. Not when my grandfather spent years in the Pacific ensuring my right to whatever I want.
Within reason, but you get my drift.
God, people make me so mad!!
I got back to my office to cool off, and what did I see? Lo and behold, two poppies that I always keep to remember just what it is that I owe and what it is that I have, there on my bulletin board.
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Hats off to you, for being classy today.
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Date: 2009-11-12 07:19 am (UTC)What was her reaction when you told off that Brit? Such ingratitude -_-.
Take a look at my entry, feel free to comment
*hugs* :D
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Date: 2009-11-12 07:37 am (UTC)She walked off. She's purposefully invective. For example -- I'm applying to grad school to study American Diplomacy -- she had to rant about "American" diplomacy running amok in the world and how it shouldn't be called "American Diplomacy" because 'what was that? It should just be called 'diplomacy.'
Once, she told me she thought she should be allowed to vote here. She doesn't vote in England. You'd think after living here so long, says she, that she'd get to vote.
Not unless you go through naturalization, bitch. Oh, she makes me so mad. If England is so much better, go the hell home.
Here's an anecdote: She had some kind of weird thing on her foot. She got to see a specialist in 3 days. Her mother almost died because she couldn't get into a doctor for more than 6 months at home. Three days vs. six months. Hmmmm... I wonder which one I would pick.l Hmmm...
*headdesk*
*heads over to entry*
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Date: 2009-11-12 08:01 am (UTC)*hugs* Do you want to talk?
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Date: 2009-11-12 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-11-12 06:37 am (UTC)I didn't expect Obama to go to Texas. Thinking about it now, I would have been surprised to hear that the Bushes didn't go, because that's the kind of people I've always understood them to be.
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Date: 2009-11-12 06:36 pm (UTC)This. It never crossed my mind that Obama would go. And yet, even if he was still in the White House, Bush would have been there, for hours. Just as he was on 9/11. Just as he was in so many instances.
Truth is, I would have even expected Clinton to go. I would have expected news cameras to follow to show off his best intentions, but I would have expected him to go.
How sad that this president has so easily decreased my expectations of the office. Except, I've never believed he inhabited in the office in his head.
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Date: 2009-11-12 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
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