The greatest president in my lifetime finally got his portrait in the White House - but, unfortunately, it had to happen while those two scumbags, who have bad-mouthed him for the last six years, were staying there. Oh well. That didn't diminish his sense of humor - or his class - and, I have to admit, I welled-up a little as he spoke of his father's unconditional love for him, making him what he is:
A really decent guy.
I still won't be happy until George W. Bush's face is on Mount Rushmore, as the latest (not the last) in a long line of great men, preserving what's wonderful about this country and keeping it safe for more to come. We're in a nasty patch now, but once we come out of it, I'm pretty sure our nation will have seen the error of it's ways, and further reward the man who knew if he seriously "stands athwart history, yelling Stop," time would be still just long enough for him to get the job done - and he did.
Bin Laden is dead, Iran is confused and cornered, Syria is in an uproar, and Egypt just held free elections. This is ALL George's handiwork, and it is good. The lies that this economy's breakdown is his fault (when he and McCain warned us it was coming in 2003, 2005, and 2006) is just that - a lie - and the Democrats will have to eat that, too, when we're done with them. Damn them all - especially their pied pipers in the media. We've ALL deserved better.
But forget that ugly crap. For a another brief shining moment My Man was back in town and, as his singular example of our true American character was reawakened to be put on display, the jokes started flying, and smiles started spreading, even while he reminded those two charlatans who hosted the day that - from George W. to George W. - we didn't do too badly. Heck, even now, to a large extent, rather than trying to get George W. Bush's car out of a ditch, the Obama's are still coasting on the fumes he left behind. And I'm pretty sure THEY know it - even if the general public doesn't. I, for one, will never forget it:
Without a doubt, the Bush years to have been the most important era of my time on Earth.
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ReplyDeleteLife is unfair. You like George. You would have loved Ronnie. There isn't a mountain big enough for his image.
Ah, Georgie -- guy made me want to bash my head against a wall.
ReplyDeleteNot because he was a bad guy...but because he could be way too lenient with his attackers (both from without and within his own group -- let the truth finally prevail that there were those in the GOP that wished our President ill and worked to his disadvantage). Sometimes I think it would have been better if he had been a bit more the cynical, hard bitten sob.
PW
George had his faults and weaknesses (mostly listening to Rove on too many policy issues and not treating him as a technician who was there only to assist on elections). But I agree he was a very good president and deserves better.
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