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Our “Cowboy” President Rides Into The Sunset
January 16th, 2009
The Anchoress posted a wonderful tribute to President Bush and has followed up with many, many links worthwhile following.
Here at ~J’s~ we had considered a review of the President’s two terms but with all that has been written, (very well I might add) it would seem repetitive.
We thought we might take a bit of a different approach and begin by asking if former First Lady Barbara Bush ever gave thought to the lyrics of this song when George W. was born:
“And them that don’t know him won’t like him
And them that do sometimes won’t know how to take him.He ain’t wrong, he’s just different
But his pride won’t let him do things to make you think he’s right.”
Now it’s certain Mrs. Bush had no idea that her son would one day become President of the United States.
If she had she might have discouraged him from first becoming the Governor of the Lone Star State in hopes to spare him the “cowboy” image with which he was branded.
Rush Limbaugh once wrote this:
It used to tick me off when the Muslim detractors in the Middle East, or the socialist detractors in Europe, Hollywood and others called our President a cowboy, but the more I think about it, the more glad I am that he is.
If cowboy means that we have slept safely in our beds the last seven years due to steadfastness in the face of fury then George Bush was every bit a cowboy.
If “cowboy” defines a man who occasionally wore his heart on his sleeve when dealing with those in times of trauma and trouble then President Bush should wear the title as a badge of honor.
Look at some of the other definitions Rush lays out in his piece:
1. They were never looking for trouble.
2. But when trouble came, they faced it with courage.
3. They were always on the side of right.
4. They defended good people against bad people.
5. They had high morals.
6. They had good manners.
7. They were honest.
8. They spoke their minds and they spoke the truth, regardless of what people thought or “political correctness,” which no one had ever heard of back then.
Each and every one defines this good man who has served his country with honor for the past eight years.
President Bush will be missed, not by everyone, but by those who have stood by him through thick and thin.
Those who accepted his mistakes as ones of a mortal (and while we might have disagreed we understood there is no perfection) and those who believe him when he relays he always did what he felt was right for this country.
President Bush will relinquish the big chair on Tuesday and head home to his beloved Texas.
May he and Mrs. Bush live the balance of their years in peace and surrounded by those they love most.
Just one little word of advice..please, never, ever give up the hat!
~J~ adds: Thank you for this wonderful tribute to a fine man who was hated for no real reason. He did his best and his best wasn’t good enough for some. History will be kind to him.
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I’m Going to be Very Busy Tuesday
January 16th, 2009
On Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, I am going to be a very busy person.
I will be playing with and being entertained by my four and a half month old puppy for one thing.
Around noon I’m planning to rearrange my sock and underwear drawer, and that will take a couple of hours after that.
I plan to take a nap in the afternoon and will have to catch up on my TiVo after that. That evening I have some must-watch Animal Planet shows to see.
For the next four and possibly eight years I’m going to be so busy that I am going to have to stop watching hard news programs unless it has something to do with news of tax cheats who head the Treasury Dept., shyster lawyers who head the Justice Dept. or professional victims who head the State Department.
In addition, I will watch when I see the new president be as humble and gracious to his predecessor as his predecessor has been to him.
I will, of course, take the time to watch Congress kick out Charlie Rangle for failing to pay his taxes while I try to figure out who can actually bring the charges from the Treasury Department.
The rest of the time I will be thinking of those poor Gitmo prisoners who will be living the country club lifestyle in a federal prison near you, and if they break out, I will make sure the extenuating circumstances of their deprived childhood make them immediately eligible for sainthood. That’s after they blow up a few big cities, of course.
I will read the papers and marvel at how our groveling to foreign governments that wouldn’t exist in their current state if not for the US bailing them out in a couple of big wars, so we can once again be popular in the world.
And if Obama’s real birth certificate is ever released or his college documents released, I will be happy to review them.
Yes, it’s going to be busy for me beginning at a little before noon on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, the date I officially go into mourning for my country and pray for success for the new guy on the block so our country survives.
Who knows? The compliant media may even convince me he’s a great guy and never did a bad thing in his life or tried to hide anything that might be harmful to his political ambitions. We know it will all be true because it will come from those bastions of political independence like the NYT, LAT, Boston Globe, Chicago papers, AP, NBC and it’s babies, CBS, ABC and the Disney Channel.
I mean, if you can’t trust the Disney Channel to tell the unvarnished truth, whom can you trust?
I will have to watch to see what kind of gory decorating will be done in the Oval Office, since the incoming First Lady seems to want to be Scarlett O’Hara and dress herself in her drapes. The carpet should be interesting.
If I don’t answer emails as fast as I do now, it will be because I’m so busy with that sock and underwear drawer. I have to keep it neat.
