Rush’s Interview with President George W. Bush
Ah man! I didn’t get a chance to listen to the radio today at work, had meetings almost all day long. So I missed Limbaugh’s interview with the President. Haven’t gotten a chance to read it yet either but wanted to share the link.
Drudge has posted Laura Bush’s speach before she gave it. Here are some of my highlights.
Tonight, I want to try to answer the question that I believe many people would ask me if we sat down for a cup of coffee or ran into each other at the store: You know him better than anyone – you’ve seen things no one else has seen – why do you think we should reelect your husband as President.
Carmela is living proof of what she told me. She said: “If you’re determined and you want to work hard, you can do anything you want to. That’s the beautiful thing about America.”
AMEN!
This time of war has been a time of great hardship for our military families. The President and I want all our men and women in uniform and their wives and husbands, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters to know we appreciate their sacrifice. We know it will mean a more peaceful future for our children and grandchildren.
No American President ever wants to go to war. Abraham Lincoln didn’t want to go to war, but he knew saving the union required it. Franklin Roosevelt didn’t want to go to war – but he knew defeating tyranny demanded it. And my husband didn’t want to go to war, but he knew the safety and security of America and the world depended on it.
I remember some very quiet nights at the dinner table. George was weighing grim scenarios and ominous intelligence about potentially even more devastating attacks. I listened many nights as George talked with foreign leaders on the phone, or in our living room, or at our ranch in Crawford. I remember an intense weekend at Camp David.
George and Prime Minister Tony Blair were discussing the threat from Saddam Hussein.
And I remember sitting in the window of the White House, watching as my husband walked on the lawn below. I knew he was wrestling with these agonizing decisions that would have such profound consequence for so many lives and for the future of our world.
And I was there when my husband had to decide. Once again, as in our parents’ generation, America had to make the tough choices, the hard decisions, and lead the world toward greater security and freedom.
After years of being treated as virtual prisoners in their own homes by the Taliban, the women of Afghanistan are going back to work. After being denied an education, even the chance to learn to read, — the little girls in Afghanistan are now in school. Almost every eligible voter – over ten million Afghan citizens – have registered to vote in this fall’s presidential election. More than 40 percent of them women. And wasn’t it wonderful to watch the Olympics and see that beautiful Afghan sprinter race in long pants and a t-shirt, exercising her new freedom while respecting the traditions of her country.
Vaclav Havel — playwright, intellectual, freedom fighter, political prisoner, then President of the Czech Republic — said “Laura, you know, democracy is hard: it requires the participation of everybody.”
These last three years since September 11, have been difficult years in our country’s history, years that have demanded the hope, grief and perseverance that our soldier’s husband wrote about. We’ve learned some lessons we didn’t want to know – that our country is more vulnerable than we thought, that some people hate us because we stand for liberty, religious freedom and tolerance. But we have been heartened to discover that we are also braver than we thought, stronger and more generous.
And he’s a loving man, with a big heart. I’ve seen tears as he has hugged families who’ve lost loved ones. I’ve seen him return the salute of soldiers wounded in battle. And then, being George, he’s invites them to come visit us at the White House. And they’ve come, bringing an infectious spirit of uniquely American confidence that we are doing the right thing and that our future will be better because of our actions today.
These are times that require an especially strong and determined leader. And I’m proud that my husband is that kind of leader.
My comments are in the []’s
You can taste a difference in cheese made somewhere else [you mean you can't?]
You own at least one tie with a or piece of jewelry with a Green Bay Packer theme
You can find and pronounce : Eau Claire, Oconomowoc, Menomonee Falls, Waukesha, and La Crosse, Fond du Lac.
You can correctly spell Milwaukee. [Do you know what it means?]
You know what “bubbler” means. [Yeah, I didn't know that was a Wisconsin thing until I got looked at cross-eyed in Ohio]
At least one of your family members works / worked in a cheese factory. [CO-OWNED}
A holstein cow outside of Wisconsin makes you miss home.
You can taste the difference between apples grown up north and the ones that you can buy in the south.
When talking about the Green Bay Packers you refer to them as "we".
When the weather hits 0 degrees you decide that maybe it's time to get out a jacket instead of a sweatshirt. [Actually 0 degrees is feels warmer than 5 above, it's weird]
The family gets together every week for fish fry at the local pub.
You know what a brat is, and they’re at every outdoor event that your family has ever had. [And you know how to make them, even though you burn the crap out of everything else on a grill]
You know how to make a very good sled out of normal household items. [especially shovels]
Your love you outdoor pool because of how it doubles as an ice skating area during the winter.
You can tell the difference between the smell of cow manure and pig manure. [and horse]
You have watched Fargo and not noticed an accent.
You drive around with the air conditioning on until it hits 30 degrees, because it just was so darn hot outside.
The local paper needs 6 pages to cover the Packers… in July!
Your best shirt has a big letter G on it.
You’ve said “Of course they’ll win. They’re God’s team.” [Amen!]
You think it’s nice enough to swim when the temperature hits 50. [If the ice is off the lake you can swim]
You family owns a “winter car” while the “good one” sits in the garage from Nov-Apr.
Your put ketchup on a charcoal grilled NY strip steak.
You live in a house that has no front steps, yet the door is one yard above the ground.
You think everyone from south of Madison has an accent.
You can identify a Michigan accent.
Down South to you means Chicago.
Traveling coast to coast means going from Superior to Milwaukee.
You can make sense out of the words “upnort” and “Trivers”.
You have to go to Florida to get a tan in August.
You consider Madison exotic.
You can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, New London & Poland all in one afternoon.
You can recognize someone from Illinois from their driving.
You buy cat litter every winter, but you don’t own a cat.
At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant or cannery.
You know what to do with a Blatz.
You don’t have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Bucky the Badger hangs on your Christmas tree even if you didn’t go to University of Wisconsin Madison.
You’re a member of the Polar Bear Club and proud of it.
You can use the word “ya der hey” easily in a sentence
You hear someone use the words “uff-dah” and you don’t immediately break into uncontrollable laughter.
Your whole family wears green and gold to church on Sunday.
Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce.
You know how to polka
You own a cheesehead [and wear it at work]
You have cow paraphernalia around your house, including your pajama pants
You know what a FIB is and can spot them a mile away.
You think of the major four food groups as cheese, beer, brats and Jell-O salad with marshmallows. [and the three seasonings are salt, pepper, and ketchup]
FFA was the most popular club in high school
You have eaten a cow pie at the State Fair.
There was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning [it was me, 4:30am everyday]
Country Kitchen is the place to meet after the party
You have ever seen or played in a “broom ball” game. [every year]
You have ever partied at Summerfest, Festa Italiana, German Fest, Irish Fest, Oktoberfest, or all of the above.
You or someone you know was a “Dairy Princess” at a county fair. [dated a few]
You can’t be friends with a Vikings fan
Your idea of diversity is having black, white, and brown cows.
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Wisconsin. [you mean you didn't!?]
Thanks to Chels for the link. I remember way too many of the things on her list…
In 1975 (the year you were born)
What Happened the Year You Were Born?
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The following is a copy of today’s Weekly Team Leader email that I received from Ed Gillespie, RNC Chairman.
We are only days away from the opening proceedings of what will be one of the most important political conventions in our country’s history.
We are going to honor the courage of our nation, the compassion of our people and the promise of our future.
We will provide stark contrast in this election, while John Kerry continues to try and have it both ways.
Shadow groups formed for the expressed purpose of defeating President Bush and electing John Kerry have spent $63 million attacking the president, while John Kerry remained silent. But when anti-Kerry groups began to run ads against him, he thunders in righteous indignation.
John Kerry can’t have it both ways.
He can’t say that somebody in Swift Boat Veterans for Truth knowing somebody who knows Karl Rove is proof of illegal coordination–when his former campaign manager works for three of the 527s attacking the President; when an executive committee member of the Democratic National Committee heads The Media Fund; and when the chairman of the Democratic Convention also heads Moving America Forward, a pro-Kerry 527.
John Kerry can’t have it both ways.
John Kerry can’t say that Ben Ginsberg providing legal advice to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth while serving as outside counsel to the Bush-Cheney campaign is evidence of illegal coordination when Bob Bauer serves as legal counsel to both the Kerry campaign and America Coming Together, and Joe Sandler serves as General Counsel to the Democratic National Committee and to Moveon.org and Moving America Forward all at the same time.
Bob Bauer and Joe Sandler are not likely to resign any time soon, but I respect Ben for deciding to do so.
John Kerry can’t have it both ways.
We are a party of ideas and our President has led in providing solutions to the challenges we face.
The American people recognize the President’s commitment to getting results. In a Los Angeles Times poll released today, 52% of registered voters–not likely, but registered voters–approve of the job that President Bush is doing and has him now with a three-point lead over Senator Kerry as we go in to our convention.
The poll shows 15% of Democrats crossing party lines in support of President Bush. Senator Zell Miller will be giving voice to a lot of voters here Wednesday night.
In Boston, Senator Kerry missed an opportunity to outline his vision for the future choosing instead to look back. In New York, we won’t spend all our time looking backward. We will talk about the new challenges we face as a nation and new policies to address them.
And we will win in November.
Just after JOHN KERRY came back from Vietnam, he wrote the book THE NEW SOLDIER.
The book is out of print. John Kerry does not allow the publisher to reprint it.
To make a rational decision on November 2, you need to have all available facts.
You can now read John Kerry’s THE NEW SOLDIER online for FREE.
The site has a bunch of pdf’s that you can view. So feel free to educate yourself. The site may end up being a little slow and this may cause performance issues with blogger as this site was announced at the end of The Rush Limbaugh show today by the substitute host,
I hate money or at least I hate the fact that I have mismanaged it for so many years. But baby steps. I called CompUSA today and closed out our account as we will be paying it off within the next 30 days. I don’t want the possibility of being tempted to put more on it. The cool thing was the lady that I spoke with was really nice, I explained that I am trying to get away from using credit/credit cards and she said she really needed to do that too. So I referred her to Dave Ramsey. She was very happy to get the referral!
The next thing I did was call USBank and inquire to get the interest rate lowered. No such luck, yet. We need to wait until November because we need to go 6 months with on time payments (typically not a problem) and not going over the credit limit. SO in an effort to keep it from going over the limit………….. snip ….. snip …… snip. There it is unusable.
The other cool thing about the bank account is now on their online banking site you can see pictures of the checks that have cleared your account. How cool is that!
Looking for a great album? I highly recommend checking out jamiecullum.com. I listened to the Twentysomething album while getting ready and on the way into work and it is awesome! I forgot how much I like good jazz. This guy rocks!
Zoe brought a bug back from TN. Had it in a large plastic jar with a cracked lid. Today she took it outside to “play” with it and discovered it was dead. Two days in a jar will do that to a bug. We had a graveside service in the flower bed by the back door. Daddy dug the hole, Zoe laid the bug to rest, said a few kind words, covered it up and laid some flowers {read – weeds). She is now crying and sobbing about it.
Maybe it’s because I grew up on a farm and the life/death cycle was a regular occurrence. The whole circle of life thing. I did cry when I lost a favorite kitten/cat, got run over by my cousin. And I cried when I found out my dog of 10+ years was put down, I was more mad that it was hidden from me for a few weeks, she was pretty sick. But I can not understand this over a bug. Maybe I just have a hard cold heart, I donno. Anyway, I need to run. Zoe has requested the presence of the family while she goes out and sings for her lost friend. I guess that is what a funeral is, not for the deceased, but for those that remain.
Update: Oh it’s name was Tiger.