by Neil Cavuto
As was the case with Ronald Reagan, there are characteristics that mark a great man and a President.
President and Mrs. George W. Bush are people of both style and grace. Unlike the couple who preceded them in The White House, they depart with magnanimity and Christian goodwill toward their successors. The world watches what we do and judges us by our small gestures a lot more than they do by our flamboyant deeds.
by Jack Lee
This is a historic day for America, not just because we elected the first black man to be President, but also because we have just placed more hope and trust than ever before on a person who has done so little to actually make such trust…rational. So, if there was ever a time for hope, it’s now! Let us all hope (and pray) that it works out. I can’t help but think it may take a miracle for President Obama to succeed, because past mistakes have taken a very heavy toll on this republic and the challenges ahead for us are enormous. It will require skillful, courageous and honest leadership and I sincerely hope he is up to it. I really and truly HOPE he is, for all of us and this nation…and may God help us (We’re going to need it).
From Tinman…
When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers need to find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be eliminated as well. Wall street, and the media normally congratulate the CEO for making this type of “tough decision”, and his board of directors gives him a big bonus.
Posted by Tina
**Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez apparently doesn’t appreciate Barack Obama’s classifying him as a supporter of the Colombian terror group, FARC, likening the president-elect’s odor to that of Chavez’s nemesis, President Bush. In an interview airing on Venezuelan television and reported by The Washington Post Monday, Chavez said Obama has ”the same stench” as Bush. *** In an interview that aired on Univision last week, Obama said his administration would try to improve relations with Chavez, but Venezuela has to stop aiding FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which is recognized as a terror group by the United States and loathed by Colombians who have been victims of assassinations and kidnappings for the past 45 years. Internal FARC documents captured by Colombian soldiers last year purportedly demonstrated the link between Chavez and the terror organization. FOX News**
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** It was thought they caught the disease through poor living conditions in their forest hideouts. ** But Dr Igor Khrupinov, of Georgia University, said: Al-Qaeda is known to experiment with biological weapons. And this group has direct communication with other cells around the world. ** Contagious diseases, like ebola and anthrax, occur in northern Africa. It makes sense that people are trying to use them against Western governments. ** Dr Khrupinov, once arms adviser to Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev, added: Instead of using bombs, people with infectious diseases could be walking through cities. ** Black Death HAS been researched as a biological weapon before. ** And al-Qaeda boss Osama bin Ladens fanatics were experimenting with anthrax in Afghanistan in 2001. ** Last year it was revealed 100 suspected terrorists tried to become students in Britain, giving them access to labs. ** In 2006 a plot to poison Londons water was unmasked. ** Ian Kearns, of the Institute for Public Policy Research, said: The biological weapons threat is not going away. Were not ready for it. ** (original post under the fold)
Posted by Tina
Bush pardons 2 former border guards, by Deb Reichmann – AP
** President George W. Bush has commuted the prison sentences of two former Border Patrol guards whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited debate about illegal immigration. *** Bush’s act of clemency on Monday for Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean was a victory for Democratic and Republican members of Congress and others who pleaded with the president to pardon the men or at least commute their sentences. *** Ramos and Compean are each serving sentences of more than 10 years for shooting an unarmed illegal immigrant as he was fleeing an abandoned marijuana load in 2005, then trying to cover it up. **
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by Jack Lee
Today is Martin Luther King Day and we are on the eve of the Barack Obama inauguration, and it is right that we should celebrate this day by recalling an important moment in the early civil rights days.
This is the story of Rosa Parks. She was a poor, tired, black seamstress that dared to take a seat in the front of a Montgomery, Alabama bus on December 1, 1955 and in so doing she became the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”.
Continue reading “THE ROSA PARKS STORY – A Profile In Courage” »
Posted by Tina
If you need a little reminder about the source of American greatness read the following article. Mr. Graham points out there are things that run much deeper than our sagging economy, troubling wars or even out ceremonies and traditions:
A great nation rises in the worst of times, by Michael Graham Boston Herald
** Captain Chesley Sullenberger III faced a scenario that would embarrass the writers of 24. A packed plane, both engines out, over Americas largest population center, with no place to land but a nearly frozen river. *** But his wife finds the national hero talk a little weird. He was just doing his job. *** That is such an American phrase. Its heard often from cops who kick in doors in our worst neighborhoods and Marines who patrol worse ones in Iraq. Americans who do exceptional things nearly every day, and dismiss it as mundane. *** If you believe the worst about Americans, youd expect Thursdays crash to create a mob of greedy, selfish jerks clawing away for the first shot at an exit. Instead, passengers reported that it took just a single cry of Women and children first! and total strangers facing possible drowning stepped aside to let mothers and their infants pass. **
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** WASHINGTON On Inauguration day, there’s one scene at the White House that won’t be playing out exactly as it has during past transitions: the traditional moving of the outgoing First Family’s belongings. Anita McBride, Chief of Staff to First Lady Laura Bush, tells CNN that the Bushes have moved almost all their things out of the White House ahead of schedule. – CNN **
Yes indeed…a gracious exit from start to finish. Much more than they were given.
