Thank You, President Bush…

Yesterday President Bush gave his final press conference.  I missed some of it but enjoyed what I saw.  It seemed that he finally was able to give some answers that he’s probably been wanting to give for years.

I like President Bush.  I have a confession to make though.  Just over eight years ago, when the country was choosing between him and Al Gore, I didn’t vote for him.  Those were my “unenlightened” years, my years of thinking of myself as a liberal.  Problem was, I didn’t agree with all the planks of the Democratic Party platform, but I mistakenly thought, as many do today, that the Democratic Party was for the “common man”,  and the Republican Party was that of the “country club rich and elite, big business, money-is-everything” faction.

I was not too happy when George W. Bush was declared the winner of the election, and my new president.  Less than one year later, though, he won me over in an instant.  On September 14, 2001, he climbed up on that pile of rubble at Ground Zero, took that bullhorn and said to the crowd of rescue workers, who were calling out that they couldn’t hear him, “I can hear you.  The rest of the world hears you.  And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”  In that moment, watching that on TV, I knew, as clearly as I knew my own name, that this was the reason he had been elected president.  I also knew without a doubt that I was very, very glad that he was my president.

I’d like to publicly thank President Bush for keeping this country safe from terrorist attacks for more than seven years now.  I’m not sure anyone else could have accomplished this.

Thank you Mr. President for your never-failing optimism in America, and what she means, to us and to the rest of the world.  Thank you for loving this country, and for serving her, and all of us, with the courage to do what is right even when it’s not popular.

Thank you for protecting me and my family.  It’s as simple as that.

I believe that history will be more honest in its assessment of his presidency than our left-leaning main-stream media has been.  At least, the history that I will tell will be.

God bless you, President Bush, and your gracious First Lady Laura.  I wish both of you good health, happiness,  and the satisfaction of a job well-done as you retire from political life.

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