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.

Honestly, we don’t think President Gore would have been much better
that day. The world needed George W. Bush, his bullhorn, and his
indominable spirit that day…and we will ...

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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.

Honestly, we don’t think President Gore would have been much better
that day. 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.

FOR HOURS.

The Bushes went and met privately with these families for HOURS, hugging them, holding them, comforting them.

If there are any of you out there with any connection at all to the
Bushes, we implore you to give them our thanks…you tell them at a bunch
of gay Hillary guys in Boystown, Chicago were wrong about the
Bushes…and are deeply, deeply sorry for any jokes we told about them in
the past, any bad thoughts we had about these good, good people.

You may be as surprised by this as we are ourselves, but from this
day forward George W. and Laura Bush are now on the same list for us as
the Clintons, Geraldine Ferraro, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, and the other
polit...

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The Bushes went and met privately with these families for HOURS, hugging them, holding them, comforting them.

If there are any of you out there with any connection at all to the
Bushes, we implore you to give them our thanks…you tell them at a bunch
of gay Hillary guys in Boystown, Chicago were wrong about the
Bushes…and are deeply, deeply sorry for any jokes we told about them in
the past, any bad thoughts we had about these good, good people.

You may be as surprised by this as we are ourselves, but from this
day forward George W. and Laura Bush are now on the same list for us as
the Clintons, Geraldine Ferraro, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, and the other
political figures we keep in our hearts and never allow anyone to
badmouth.

Criticize their policies academically and intelligently and discuss
the Bush presidency in historical and political terms…but you mess with
the Bushes personally and, from this day forward, and you’ll answer to
us.

We hope someday to be able to thank George W. and Laura in person
for all they’ve done, and continue to do. They didn’t have to head to
Ft. Hood. That was not their responsibility.

The Obamas should have done that.

But didn’t.

The Obamas should have done that.

But didn’t.

Wouldn’t.

Thank goodness George W. is still on his watch, with wonderful Laura at his side.

We are blessed as a nation to have these two out there…just as we
are blessed to have the Clintons on the job, traveling the world doing
the good they do.

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 Presid...

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The Obamas should have done that.

But didn’t.

Wouldn’t.

Thank goodness George W. is still on his watch, with wonderful Laura at his side.

We are blessed as a nation to have these two out there…just as we
are blessed to have the Clintons on the job, traveling the world doing
the good they do.

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,
including Gore, Biden, or Mondale, who was more supportive of gay
rights than “Darth Cheney”. 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.

After the primary battle of 2008, we never thought we’d go back to
Texas for anything, but sometime in 2010 we want to find some event in
Dallas the Bushes will be at so at least one of us can go up to them,
tell them we are deeply sorry for ever thinking ill of them, and thank
them from the bottom of our hearts for their service to America.

We’re sure they will just stare at us and wonder why these gay
Chicagoans are crying, but we don’t think we can get through a meeting
with them without being emotional.

What they did at Ft. Hood for those families humbles us. Every day,
the Bushes are most likely doing something just like it behind the
scenes.

We hope if any of you encounter them you will let them know this is deeply appreciated be

Antara, I appreciate your post admitting how wrong you were in your feelings toward President and Mrs. Bush and VP Cheney. GW didn't always speak just the right words but he could at least speak from his notes or from his heart without his teleprompters. He might have spoken with a little accent but spoke in pride for America, honoring the people who served either in the military, service personnel, or volunteers who gave time and money for those in need... I wanted to share the experience of my brother in law who served in the National Guard with George Bush. He recounts that while all the buddies in his group would be sitting around playing cards or watching HeeHaw, George W would be off ...

Antara, I appreciate your post admitting how wrong you were in your feelings toward President and Mrs. Bush and VP Cheney. GW didn't always speak just the right words but he could at least speak from his notes or from his heart without his teleprompters. He might have spoken with a little accent but spoke in pride for America, honoring the people who served either in the military, service personnel, or volunteers who gave time and money for those in need... I wanted to share the experience of my brother in law who served in the National Guard with George Bush. He recounts that while all the buddies in his group would be sitting around playing cards or watching HeeHaw, George W would be off on his cot reading. I was convinced before knowing this that President Bush was much smarter than people gave credit. I am glad you have come to realize what a true American he is and how he was THE man for the time. Now let's find another one better than what we now have on our hands.