Let Bush Be Himself (Brilliant satire)

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this must be a parody of Peggy Noonan, right?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/oped/chi-0408250099aug25,1,3042186.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed

Despite being labeled `The War President,' Bush is leading the nation with strength, and humanity

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Perhaps, in a time of unleashing the weapons of war on the enemy, it is inherently difficult to recognize the empathy of the man who walked with us through the "middle hour of our grief." So, we must be reacquainted with the "little things" of his leadership. Yes, even his "sensitive" side must be seen.

Karen Hughes, Bush's closest counselor, reminds of the times when on a campaign swing in 2000 presidential candidate Bush sent her home to Austin, Texas. One night her then-12-year-old son was playing in a baseball game that could decide the championship. Bush told her to go, but Hughes protested as she worried about fulfilling her professional responsibilities to him. But he insisted. This, too, is our president, not just the commander in chief executing his war plan.

Hughes, who initially traveled to Washington with Bush, returned to Texas to be with her husband and her son. This speaks admirably of her, but also volumes of her leader, who doesn't view himself larger than those he leads.

There are other little things ... like when Bush visited Lebanon, Ohio, earlier this year and interrupted his visit with the town's dignitaries to greet Ashley Faulkner, who lost her mom in the Sept. 11 attacks. Instinctively, he reached for the teenager, clutched her head, placed it on his chest ... and just held her.


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1. LOL...fool us once...fool us..uh....don't get fooled again...bush is not

a compassionate conservative, he can't even try that line again! Bush is devoid of compassion, he is full of hate and prejudice. The Great Divider cannot change his mind AGAIN and want to be called the Great Uniter and Not be a War President! What a cuckoo head!

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2. wow... I sure hope it's satire...

otherwise, it makes me want to :puke: