This is what President Bush said to an Italian journalist:
I thought it was a really good statement, powerful moment when a major political party nominates an African-American man to be their standard bearer. And it's good for our democracy that that happened. And we also had a major contender being a woman. Obviously Hillary Clinton was a major contender. So I think it's a good sign for American democracy.
President Bush has taken many a hit during his presidency. His ratings are almost as low as the United States Congress.
He is often criticized for his ineptness in speech such as portrayed every weekday evening on the David Letterman Show.
Jay Leno loves to quip on some ineptness of President Bush, usually questioning his ability to think.
Well, perhaps you have read some of my unkind remarks.
Every once in a while, the President will say something that surprises me. It is nonpartisan and it is patriotic. I have to commend President Bush on the above statement.
We are in a time of great change in America. Our dollar has been left unattended. Its value has dropped like a 10-pound lead sinker. That is one of the main reasons that we are paying more for everything from apples to gasoline.
The American dollar is no longer worshiped worldwide.
Outsiders are investing in gold and more stable currencies.
Those owning our debt are nervous. They are using that resource to buy up American companies and real estate.
Because of our marketing agreements with other countries, we are at a great disadvantage. Our jobs have been shipped overseas. Frankly, our country is broke. Our economy is shakier than a Quaking Ash.
Young couples getting married are in jeopardy.
Debt has conquered thousands of families and continues to march. Some go to food banks and shelters and leave hungry and unclothed.
While all this is going on, Congress could care less. They continue to entitled themselves to our hard earned cash. They continually strip the President from his right to veto such pork barrel projects.
If a congressman want to put a museum in Sickum, Georgia, he does it. Not only that he makes sure his daughter-in-law receives a good salary as the museum director.
So we ARE in a recession which will most likely will become a depression.
President Bush has ordered rebates to taxpayers to help stimulate the economy. This action is exactly what our international critics say is wrong with America. We print too many greenbacks.
I read an article in the local rag that one clergyman has told his parishioners that they should give their rebates to his church so that his agenda can be pursued. Forget about using that money to feed the family, purchase gasoline, or pay off a debt.
Greed hurts!
I was born in the Great Depression. Somehow because of good neighbors and FDR we kept our home and never missed a meal.
Almost everyday, a hobo would come down from the railroad tracks passing all of our neighbors and knock on our back door. Our neighbors would say, "There goes another bum to the Joneses."
We first invited these hungry, deprived men into the house, but one day, a big black man became very obnoxious, scaring the hell out of we kids. Dad took him out of the house with the poker from the kitchen stove.
After that singular incident, we kept them outside. They were all good men as far as I could see, even the big black man that scared us. He obviously was suffering from mental illness.
Most all of those men of the rode wanted to work for their beans and bread.
Going into another depression does not terrorize me a much as our government being, in general, such an inept institution, and our continual intolerance for each other.
Have you noticed the political cartoons. Obama is usually shown as a stereotype black man from the past as shown in old movies.
Hillary Clinton is shown as a hag.
John McCain is shown as a on-his-last-leg old man.
Comedy is cruel. Cartoonist are cruel.
Sometimes we are cruel.
Because of prejudice against women and blacks, we sometimes don't listen to what is being said. Some of us will not vote for a presidential candidate who is black or female. That is the sad thing about America.
Despite our holier-than-thou attitudes, American still moves on.
We have overcome much of our past.
I saw Martin Luther King in a Philadelphia hotel long before he gave his "I have a dream" speech.
I thought: There is a man on the move.
Well, he did move us towards tolerance.
The point is that where some of us have been cruel, the President showed in intrinsic kindness.
I praise him for what he said.
It makes me want to climb up my flagpole to give a closer solute to the American Flag.
Flag Day is June 14.
Fly Old Glory!
The End
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