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To Malia and Sasha From Jenna and Barbara
January 23rd, 2009
Very little could provide more of a rewarding, heartbreaking, confusing, educating or enlightening childhood than being that of a President of the United States.
Jenna and Barbara Bush offer a little advice to Malia and Sasha Obama in this very heartwarming (and if you are like me, tear producing) video:
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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.
A Few Words From Barbara Bush
January 26th, 2008
I have great admiration for the former First Lady.
Mrs. Bush has always handled herself with grace and it was always obvious that family was extremely important to her.
It seems as though little has changed in reading the exchanges in this interview:
On the difference between being wife of President George H.W. Bush and mother of President George W. Bush: “It hurts much more if your son’s president. My husband … he’s in agony half the time.”
“You hear people say things that are untrue and unfair. It really hurts. George W. doesn’t watch the press. He’ll call us … (and say) ‘I hear the TV, turn it off.’”
It is rare we hear much from the former First Family as I believe that they recognize that their small imprint on the history of this country is just that.
They have the capacity to move on and enjoy their lives knowing they gave all they could to the service of this nation.
The balance of this interview offers Mrs. Bush’s thoughts on foreign leaders, her relationship with her husband and a bit on her days in the White House.
HT:Lucianne
