November 11, 2009 11:10 PM
Bush Ft. Hood visit an epiphany for two liberals
Tripp sent me this - it is utterly amazing. Read it and rejoice. And read the nearly 500 comments. There is hope!Thank you former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush
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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. . . .
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. . .
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. . .
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 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.
Read entire piece at HillBuzz
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Comments
That was wonderful and very unexpected! Thanks for sharing!!
Posted by: Jill | November 12, 2009 3:41 AM
Excellent, Barbara!
Posted by: Nancy | November 12, 2009 7:09 AM
That was a wonderful article. And I loved reading all of the comments afterward. Well, about the first 100, lol.
Posted by: April C. | November 12, 2009 9:40 AM
That is awesome! I hadn't even heard about the Former President's visits to Ft. Hood. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Brandy | November 12, 2009 10:04 AM
Thanks for posting this! I didn't make it through all the comments, but it was so refreshing to see Americans finding common values in spite of our differences.
Posted by: evergreen | November 12, 2009 1:10 PM
Thanks for this link, Barbara! How encouraging. I always appreciate honest dialogue with people of different perspectives who recognize that things are not always black and white and packaged in a neat ideological box. I think I'll be subscribing to these guys.
Posted by: Marian | November 12, 2009 7:38 PM
I'm addicted to that blog now....they are Anti-Obama and Pro-Hillary, so they are pretty down on all things O related. They actually campaigned for McCain in an effort to stop Obama from getting elected, so they are not your average liberals. So I'm not sure this is as much as an epiphany as an opportunity to praise Bush and make Obama look bad. But hey, I'll take it!
Posted by: Debra | November 13, 2009 10:35 AM
