Liberals embrace Bush

[Irving]

Huh, what do you know. It's not even close to April 1st either.

http://hillbuzz.org/2009/11/10/thank...dy-laura-bush/

We know absolutely no one in Bush family circles and have never met former President George W. Bush or his wife Laura.
If you have been reading us for any length of time, you know that we used to make fun of “Dubya” nearly every day…parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our Democrat circles, where Bush is still, to this day, lampooned as a chimp, a bumbling idiot, and a poor, clumsy public speaker.
Oh, how we RAILED against Bush in 2000…and how we RAILED against the surge in support Bush received post-9/11 when he went to Ground Zero and stood there with his bullhorn in the ruins on that hideous day.
We were convinced that ANYONE who was president would have done what Bush did, and would have set that right tone of leadership in the wake of that disaster. President Gore, President Perot, President Nader, you name it. ANYONE, we assumed, would have filled that role perfectly.
Well, we told you before how much the current president, Dr. Utopia, made us realize just how wrong we were about Bush. We shudder to think what Dr. Utopia would have done post-9/11. He would have not gone there with a bullhorn and struck that right tone. More likely than not, he would have been his usual fey, apologetic self and waxed professorially about how evil America is and how justified Muslims are for attacking us, with a sidebar on how good the attacks were because they would humble us.
Honestly, we don’t think President Gore would have been much better that day. The world needed George W. Bush, his bullhorn, and his indominable spirit that day…and we will forever be grateful to this man for that.
As we will always be grateful for what George and Laura Bush did this week, with no media attention, when they very quietly went to Ft. Hood and met personally with the families of the victims of this terrorist attack.
FOR HOURS.
The Bushes went and met privately with these families for HOURS, hugging them, holding them, comforting them.
If there are any of you out there with any connection at all to the Bushes, we implore you to give them our thanks…you tell them that a bunch of gay Hillary guys in Boystown, Chicago were wrong about the Bushes…and are deeply, deeply sorry for any jokes we told about them in the past, any bad thoughts we had about these good, good people.
You may be as surprised by this as we are ourselves, but from this day forward George W. and Laura Bush are now on the same list for us as the Clintons, Geraldine Ferraro, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, and the other political figures we keep in our hearts and never allow anyone to badmouth.
Criticize their policies academically and intelligently and discuss the Bush presidency in historical and political terms…but you mess with the Bushes personally and, from this day forward, you’ll answer to us.
We hope someday to be able to thank George W. and Laura in person for all they’ve done, and continue to do. They didn’t have to head to Ft. Hood. That was not their responsibility.
The Obamas should have done that.
But didn’t.
Wouldn’t.
Thank goodness George W. is still on his watch, with wonderful Laura at his side.
We are blessed as a nation to have these two out there…just as we are blessed to have the Clintons on the job, traveling the world doing the good they do.
And we are blessed to have Dick Cheney, wherever he is, keeping tabs on all that’s going on and speaking out when the current administration does anything too reckless and dangerous.
Cheney’s someone else we villainized and maligned in the past who we were also wrong about. There has never been a Vice President, including Gore, Biden, or Mondale, who was more supportive of gay rights than “Darth Cheney”. There has never been a Vice President more spot-on right about the dangers facing this country from Islamic terrorism.
We live in strange, strange times indeed.
We are now officially committed fans of George W. and Laura Bush. We are fans of Dick Cheney. Our gratitude for them makes us newly protective of them, and the continued role they play in this country.
After the primary battle of 2008, we never thought we’d go back to Texas for anything, but sometime in 2010 we want to find some event in Dallas the Bushes will be at so at least one of us can go up to them, tell them we are deeply sorry for ever thinking ill of them, and thank them from the bottom of our hearts for their service to America.
We’re sure they will just stare at us and wonder why these gay Chicagoans are crying, but we don’t think we can get through a meeting with them without being emotional.
What they did at Ft. Hood for those families humbles us. Every day, the Bushes are most likely doing something just like it behind the scenes.
We hope if any of you encounter them you will let them know this is deeply appreciated beyond partisan lines.
We will never look at the Bushes, the Bush presidencies, or their legacies the same again…and someday when his presidential library is built, we will be so proud to visit there and tell anyone will listen about November 10th, 2009, the day we finally appreciated former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura.
Thank you for your service, Mr. President. We’re sorry we didn’t appreciate you while you were in office, but we thank Heaven we’ve wised up and can see the good you are out there doing, under the radar, today.

[sniper7]

They say it takes 30 years to truly rate a presidency.

I think Bush will come off a whole lot better at that time looking back. He did some excellent things in office, he made some poor decisions as all presidents do and some excellent choices which few presidents do.

In the end, they are good people.

[Hoosier]

Everytime someone talks about Cheney I think about this smart guy, and wonder where he went http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I

"How many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? And our judgement was 'Not Very Many', and I think we got it right"

Also, how long until Kurdistan makes a play for independence?

[mightymouse]

Excellent story. I really enjoyed that.

[theGinsue]

That was a good read. I was unaware that the Bushes had gone to Ft. Hood and took the time to be with the families of the victims of that cowardly attack. Good on them!

[Zundfolge]

I think Bush will come off a whole lot better at that time looking back.

Ironically I believe that about the time everyone starts to look at GW in a more positive light, Republicans will look back on him with disgust.

[theGinsue]

GW was no Reagan, but then again, who (besides Ron himself) is/was?

[GreenScoutII]

GW was no Reagan, but then again, who (besides Ron himself) is/was?

I admire Reagan so much I named one of my daughters after him. No, I didn't name her Ronald, smart asses...

[jerrymrc]

I admire Reagan so much I named one of my daughters after him. No, I didn't name her Ronald, smart asses...

If you were in the military back then you saw what he did for us. My pay went up 26% in a year. Carter tried to claim the 11.7% was his but that coupled with the 14.3% approved by Reagan was the start.

We had 1 ambulance that worked as the other 3 were so rusted out they would not support the 02 tanks anymore. In 81 my commanders car was a 73 dodge dart that you could see the road through the door because of the rust. This was in SHAPE Belgium. I was there from 01/81-08/84. Buy the time I left we had new equipment in the Hospital and 4 new ambulances.

[sniper7]

If you were in the military back then you saw what he did for us. My pay went up 26% in a year. Carter tried to claim the 11.7% was his but that coupled with the 14.3% approved by Reagan was the start.

We had 1 ambulance that worked as the other 3 were so rusted out they would not support the 02 tanks anymore. In 81 my commanders car was a 73 dodge dart that you could see the road through the door because of the rust. This was in SHAPE Belgium. I was there from 01/81-08/84. Buy the time I left we had new equipment in the Hospital and 4 new ambulances.

pretty cool!