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#646866 - 01/30/07 07:48 PM he doesn't speak for everyone...but on this day, he came close
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbeJXzkYM4

powerful...
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#646867 - 01/30/07 08:33 PM Re: he doesn't speak for everyone...but on this day, he came close
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Wow. First time I saw that. Wow!

Makes me feel the emotions all over again.

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#646868 - 01/31/07 04:59 AM Re: he doesn't speak for everyone...but on this day, he came close
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Very powerful.

"why I grieve, but why I don't dispair"

That same feeling must have been felt by many people in the USA. It was clear to us that those who felt that way had countless reasons to do so. So many people taking the high road.
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#646869 - 01/31/07 08:26 AM Re: he doesn't speak for everyone...but on this day, he came close
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"Subliminumable is not a punch line anymore, one day it will become that again...And Lord willing, it will become that again, because it means that we have ridden out the storm"




In the days following 9-11 I was driving my truck and listening to the President speak to an assembly of CIA people at Langely. It was a damned good speech. Before 9-11 I just regared him as the moron in the Whitehouse.(still sore about the election)

After 9-11 he stopped being a moron and started being the American President.

So I'm listening to him speak and he said, "the people who did this have misunderestimated this country,(slight pause because he knew he said somthing wrong, but he pressed on in keeping with the moment and added a hearty) "and they've misunderestimated this president"!

Any other time I would have been delighted to make fun of or just laugh at him... But not today.

As those CIA people cheered, I shouted into my windshield, "YOU'RE GODDAMNED RIGHT THOSE BASTARDS HAVE MISUNDERESTIMATED THIS COUNTRY!"

At that moment, in those days, he was our boy.. Screw the election, screw that tax cut, screw all that partisan horseshit, and he can make up words if he likes. He's the damned president.

I remember thinking, "Godspeed W... You the man".

Hard to imagine now... ..


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#646870 - 01/31/07 07:00 PM Re: he doesn't speak for everyone...but on this day, he came close
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 Quote:
Originally posted by Hong Kong Phooey:
"Subliminumable is not a punch line anymore, one day it will become that again...And Lord willing, it will become that again, because it means that we have ridden out the storm"


In the days following 9-11 I was driving my truck and listening to the President speak to an assembly of CIA people at Langely. It was a damned good speech. Before 9-11 I just regared him as the moron in the Whitehouse.(still sore about the election)

After 9-11 he stopped being a moron and started being the American President.

So I'm listening to him speak and he said, "the people who did this have misunderestimated this country,(slight pause because he knew he said somthing wrong, but he pressed on in keeping with the moment and added a hearty) "and they've misunderestimated this president"!

Any other time I would have been delighted to make fun of or just laugh at him... But not today.

As those CIA people cheered, I shouted into my windshield, "YOU'RE GODDAMNED RIGHT THOSE BASTARDS HAVE MISUNDERESTIMATED THIS COUNTRY!"

At that moment, in those days, he was our boy.. Screw the election, screw that tax cut, screw all that partisan horseshit, and he can make up words if he likes. He's the damned president.

I remember thinking, "Godspeed W... You the man".

Hard to imagine now... ..


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Just goes to show you how fickle the American Public is with shortsited memories! :rolleyes:
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#646871 - 01/31/07 09:12 PM Re: he doesn't speak for everyone...but on this day, he came close
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Just goes to show you how fickle the American Public is with shortsited memories!




Yeah Carl.. It's the damnedest thing... One day I liked him, then, out of the clear blue sky, for absolutely no reason at all, I just decided, eh, fuck him... Go figure... Silly ain't it?

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#646872 - 01/31/07 09:24 PM Re: he doesn't speak for everyone...but on this day, he came close
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Yeah, for one glorious but brief moment! I guess even an idiot can get it right at least once... :banghead:
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#646873 - 01/31/07 10:24 PM Re: he doesn't speak for everyone...but on this day, he came close
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I don’t know what the G.W. Bush legacy is going to be, and I have no desire to speculate; however, I do know that this president had a golden opportunity to unify this nation, but he squandered it. He had the opportunity to “win the hearts and minds of the Iraqis,” but he squandered that too.

What I have come to realize since 2001 is that Bush is by nature a polarizing and divisive character. He is truly a man who reveres himself as entitled and above the law. .His smirk and his general rapport with anyone who questions him bare testimony to this fact.

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#646874 - 01/31/07 11:20 PM Re: he doesn't speak for everyone...but on this day, he came close
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I met him at in Austin when he was governor of Texas. He had a stare that would burn right through you and a firm grip, while looking me right in the eye. He didn't mis-speak. He said, "Hi Travis, glad to know you." Not glad to meet you, glad to know you. His eyes on TV do not display the personal charisma he possesses.

I'm not saying for or against, just an aside from when I was at a Texas National Resource Conservation Committee conference and they let us loose in the Capitol. I was talking to one of the state reps who had his door open, he walked out with me and down the hall was coming GW, flanked by two scary looking dudes. I asked if I could meet him and he said sure.

It was very cool, I think this was in spring of '98 or 99? My memory fades with age...

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