So many appropriate sayings are going through my head: “Hindsight’s always 20/20”, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone”, “Act in haste, repent in leisure”, and, of course, “Better late than never”. All of them so right on so many levels for this post, starting with – I should have done it three days ago, but here it is now…
Many of you who know me or who have been reading this blog for a while have heard me rave about HillBuzz; in fact several of you who frequently visit here come from the HillBuzz community. For those of you who know me, you probably aren’t that surprised that HIllBuzz is a favorite – after all – it’s political, it’s snarky, it’s insightful, it’s funny, it’s clever, it’s very well-written (chalk that one up to Catholic nuns! They not only cared about what you said, it damn well better have been grammatically correct, spelled right, punctuated properly, and most importantly, NEATLY written in – by God – blue or black fountain pen and not one of those “cheap, messy ballpoint implements”!), and the comments are interesting, thoughtful, and intelligent. Left-wing, vulgar, obots have given up and gone elsewhere to spew their vileness.
The authors of Hillbuzz are three gay guys who live in Chicago’s Boystown – lifelong democrats and die-hard Clinton supporters, who early-on saw what Obama and his cronies were about, and when Hillary lost the primaries became very active and hardworking “DemMcCrats for McCain/Palin”.
Even though the Boyz have been Sarah fans since last summer, they really hadn’t quite come around to appreciating former President Bush. No matter how despicable they found The One and his fashion-disaster wife, they never spent a whole lot of time and energy re-evaluating our previous president. Until Fort Hood.
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…
The world needed George W. Bush, his bullhorn, and his indominable spirit that day…and we will forever be grateful to this man for that.
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.
We are blessed as a nation to have these two out there… 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 more spot-on right about the dangers facing this country from Islamic terrorism…
We live in strange, strange times indeed.
We are now officially committed fans of George W. and Laura Bush. We are fans of Dick Cheney. Our gratitude for them makes us newly protective of them, and the continued role they play in this country…
You owe it to yourself to take the time to read the entire piece. It is relatively long, and as of right now has more than 1.025 comments – most of them poignant, thoughtful, and also worth reading. Get yourself a cup of coffee, a glass of wine, or whatever suits your fancy and settle in for an eye-opening, heart-warming experience.
Because it could be too late if we don’t “get it” pretty damn soon.
Excellent! I have never been a ‘Bush Basher’, and with the exception that I didn’t really support all his spending policies, I always thought he was a good President with some courage and class. In my humble opinion, Laura was every bit as gracious as Barbara was, two wonderful Bush women as First Ladies that will go down in history as real ladies in every sense of the word.
I miss Dubya for many, many reasons and for those you out there who thought he was less than acceptable, the times we are currently living in surely have to make you think that ol’ Dubya wasn’t as stupid as the press made him out to be.
Hillbuzz gets it obviously!
Being a Sarah fan myself I can’t wait to get my hands on her new book, settle in with a good cup of Starbucks and dig in. The woman has guts and graciousness, a nice combination in politics these days.
Keep up the good work on the post here, you always give us good food for thought……..and thanks too to Hillbuzz….always a good read!
Thanks for the HillBuzz background. Visited it. Agree with a lot. Still wonder though why Bill is out there lobbying for the admin. Limelight or something else? Geo and Laura again demonstrating they are a class act.