I had hoped someone with gifts I do not have could have used this song to make a video for Bush, but that didn’t happen. Still, it’s a good song to leave with:
Like the pine trees lining the winding road
I’ve got a name
like the singing bird and the croaking toad
I’ve got a name
And I carry it with me like my daddy did
but I’m living the dream that he kept hid
Moving me down the highway
rolling me down the highway
moving ahead so life won’t pass me by
Like the North wind whistling down the sky
I’ve got a song
like the whip-poor-will and the babies crying
I’ve got a song
And I carry it with me and I sing it proud
if it gets me nowhere, I’ll go there proud
And I’m gonna go there free
Like the fool I am and I’ll always be
I’ve got a dream
They can change their minds but they can’t change me
I’ve got a dream
I know I could share it if you want me to
if your going my way I’ll go with you
Moving me down the highway
rolling me down the highway
moving ahead so life won’t pass me by
If you missed Christopher Hitchens explaining why he has no regrets that Bush won in 2000 and 2004, read it here.
Peres: If only you’d been around to do to Hitler what you did to Saddam!
William McGurn: Bush’s real sin was winning in Iraq. Actually, I think his real sin was in not being everything they said he was. They projected the devil himself onto Bush, and a lot of stupid people bought into it because people believe what they want to believe, but deep down they know it’s all lies, and – as Martin Luther King said – “lies do not stand forever.”
What your hate will reduce you to. When you act like this, you only emphasize Bush’s graciousness and your utter lack of class. And you have to wonder…after 8 years of the most vicious, often dishonest pushback from the press and the left, the president leaves in serenity, and you’re acting out. So…who really won?
He took a shoe for his country, and for your safety and security.
Jacoby: Bush will bounce back like Truman.
NRO: Farewell Symposium
Last Word: Ed Morrissey
One last bit of irony remembered.
Thanks, sir.
The Essential President Bush
Its time for Bush to come on home to Texas where we won’t treat him like dirt.
Like all of us Bush is a flawed human being. He did some things well. At other times he made mistakes. Sometimes things didn’t work out the way he hoped. Whatever the case, he put up with an astonishing level of vitriol, hate and flat out lies over the last 8 years, and I wonder how a man can hold up to that so well for so long.
All the while he never forgot his duty to protect us and to maintain the dignity of the presidency.
I remember right before the Iraq war started, shortly after 9/11, I watched a film of him playing catch with Barney in the snow on the White House lawn. He looked so alone, as if he carried ten bags of cement on his back. I got on my knees and prayed for him.
Come on home padnah. Remember that some of us love you and pray for you. You’ve done your time, put your feet up for a while. Let someone else suffer the slings and arrows.
Thanks, sir, indeed. I knew you would have a wonderful post today. Thank you, Anchoress (typed with tears in my eyes).
A good honest man who loved his country more than his image. .. If only it were that simple. Bush spoke too meekly and turned his cheek too many times. In so doing he weakened the nation’s cause and its resolv. Had he turned and administered a General Patton slap across people’s mugs, called his tormentors far and wide Cowards, Liars, Parasites, Traitors, Scum, Excrement we might not be inaugurating a disaster today.
Bush did the best he could, and for that God Speed and God Bless, Mr President.
I am going to miss this President. I didn’t have the sense to say that about Reagan when Bush 41 was sworn in, but I have said it many times since.
President Bush 43 strikes me as a man who has actually taken Christ in and allowed Him to live in his humble life. Having been warned that the world would hate him because the
world hated Christ, Bush was neither suprised, nor daunted when it happened. He simply used it as an opportunity to live his faith and speak Truth.
I hope that I can be that way someday.
God bless you, Mr. and Mrs. Bush, for you have endured. May you have good health, warm sun, and just enough rain to grow.
My heros have always been cowboys.
I have been feeling so low this past three days I feel as though I would have to reach up to scratch a snake’s belly.
Just a few minutes ago I went to the Fox News site. The headline said Obama was at a prayer service.
I figured I could stand a prayer service and could use it about now.
Instead, what I saw on my computer screen was the Bidens walking into what I still thought was a church and then the Obamas driving up in their limo, and I saw the familiar columns.
I then saw President and Mrs. Bush step out of those glass doors of the White House and greet the Obamas, and that’s when I lost it.
I cannot watch this peaceful transition of power today. I
just cannot do it.
Oh, to be in Crawford when they get home so I could wave the
flag and welcome them home.
Godspeed, Mr. President and Mrs. Bush. I love you both
and appreciate you more than you will ever know.
What Mr. Bush was and is can mean nothing to the adolescents of the press and politics.
He was a man, take him for all in all…. And it will be a long time before any of us look on his like again.
Soon I’ll be able to say, “All my ex’s (Presidents)live in
Texas.” What a great state!
President Bush 43 strikes me as a man who has actually taken Christ in and allowed Him to live in his humble life. Having been warned that the world would hate him because the
world hated Christ, Bush was neither suprised, nor daunted when it happened. He simply used it as an opportunity to live his faith and speak Truth.
This is the key to understanding George W.
And just suppose how the elite MSM would have reacted if his first official act as president was to mangle the oath of office?
My apologies. Having just heard it again, it appears that it was CJ Roberts who mangled the oath, and Obama merely followed him there. But still, don’t these guys take a minute or two to get together to practice?
I found this link through Hotair. Please visit it and thank George W. Bush!
http://www.mission1accomplished.com/
May God bless this man.
May God bless our new president.
May God bless the USA.