Bush Hosts Living Presidents and the PEOTUS at White House…

Obama’s victory definitely has historic ramifications. It is good to see a bi-racial man in the White House, maybe in the next 50 or so years, there’ll be a black wo(man) in there too…

Hey, how about a new pair of Kenneth Cole Shoes?

Shameless plug, I like Kenneth Cole shoes, and I believe most of the dress shoes I have are from him, so maybe I am a bit biased.

Either way, I thought this was an Interesting ad, it’s origins are unfortunately unknown. I wonder if it goes viral, and if it does, how quickly. As of the time of this posting, it had had 3,558 views…

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“I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging,”- George Bush on his new portrait

George Bush and his crazy sense of humor… From AP

Bush’s portrait, along with one of first lady Laura Bush, will be displayed with all the other official presidential portraits at the gallery.

Bush wanted painter Robert Anderson, a Yale classmate of the president’s, to give him a more informal look for his likeness at the National Portrait Gallery. Anderson painted the portrait to engage viewers with the president in a “personal and conversational manner,” according to an event program.

“I needed to find a person who would do the painting that would be a good and forgiving friend,” Bush said of Anderson. “It actually looks like me, which is a good sign. You did a fabulous job.”

Bush and G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, pulled a blue cloth off the portrait. The relaxed image of Bush, with his hands gently folded and a vase of flowers behind him, will stay at the Portrait Gallery, which holds the nation’s only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House.

“That means this exhibit now has an interesting symmetry. It starts with George W. — and ends with George W.,” Bush joked.

This was the first time the gallery presented the official likenesses of a sitting president and first lady. Bush has about a month left in office.

Laura Bush’s portrait was painted by Aleksander Titovets, a native Russian painter who now lives in El Paso, Texas. The first lady, a former librarian and literacy advocate, is holding a book in her hands. The background is a favorite spot in the private quarters of the White House, with a window behind her showing the neighboring Old Executive Office Building.

“I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging,” Bush said to about 500 people at the event, including Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

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Iraqi Ambassador Blasts Shoe Throwing Idiot and his Code Pink Supporters…

I’m glad the ambassador repeated the point we made about how lucky the shoe thrower is that he threw shoes at George Bush and not Saddam Hussein…

It is amazing that folks like those at Code Pink would actually see nothing wrong with it, but then again, idiocy is a universal trait…

Ambassador Samir Sumaida’ie (thanks to Gateway Pundit)

Mr. Muntader al-Zaidi is very lucky that it was Mr. Bush and Mr. Maliki and not Saddam Hussein. Because, had it been Mr. Saddam Hussein he’d be (inaudible). Number 2, in our country, I know that people have told you that showing shoes at someone is an insult. But, it is a bigger insult to the host; in our culture anyone who insults a guest is insulting the host. So in our culture we believe that what Mr al-Zeidi did was reprehensible.

The video:

The anti-American Marxist front group Code Pink ambushed Iraq Ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaida’ie, during a presentation in Washington on Tuesday.
They demanded that shoe-chucker and Sadrist Muntader al-Zaidi be released after his assault on President Bush.
The Code Pink blog described the showdown:

In D.C. this morning, the Iraq Ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaida’ie, paused during a presentation to address a handful of women from CODEPINK who were holding signs in the audience reading “Free al-Zaidi” and “al-Zaidi speaks for me.” The signs were to show their support for the Iraqi journalist who was taken into police custody after throwing his shoes at President Bush during a Baghdad press conference on Sunday.

The Ambassador directly acknowledged the women’s presence in the audience. He called al-Zaidi’s act disgraceful and said the journalist was lucky that he didn’t try something like this under Saddam Hussein.

End Gateway Pundit

I think it is shameful that Americans are supporting a man who disrespected out country so blatantly, but then again, what do I know…
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Aha… Bush Shoe Thrower Has Ribs and Arm Broken in Custody…

I guess the more things change, the more things stay the same… He is fortunate that all he has is broken bones, had he tried that against a Middle-Eastern leader and not George Bush, right now his family would be making funeral arrangements… Times Online:

Muntazer al-Zaidi rose to fame on Sunday when he threw his shoes at President George Bush during a Baghdad press conference, missing narrowly, in apparent protest at the actions of US troops over the past few years.

His brother, Durgham al-Zaidi, said he was told that Mr al-Zaidi is held by Iraqi forces in the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in central Baghdad, where the US embassy and most government offices are housed.

“He has got a broken arm and ribs, and cuts to his eye and arm,” he said. “He is being held by forces under the command of Muwafaq al-Rubaie [Iraq’s national security adviser].” Television pictures from the press conference show Mr al-Zaidi being carried away by prime ministerial guards but no sign of excess violence.

I mean, seriously…

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Troops in Iraq give George Bush a rousing Sendoff…

Good to know that some folks still respect the outgoing President of the United States, and appreciate his good work in bringing stability to a region that so desperately needed it…

Fun fact, only two countries in the Middle East have democracy- Israel and Iraq. Guess whose vision brought democracy to Iraq?

Good Job, Dubya! You shall be missed as POTUS…

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George Bush- “Auto industry bailout is not imminent…”

Thankfully, it seems Dubya has finally figured out that bailing out the Auto industry is like taking a large sum of money and throwing it in a bottomless pit.

The essesnce of the free enterprise system is that profitable companies survive and excel, less profitable ones fail and go out of business.

Detroit has chosen to be the latter and not the former, so best of luck to them. Fact is, their best and brightest would easily land on their feet, the excess baggage would probably go look for a handout elsewhere…

Reuters:

President George W. Bush said on Monday an announcement on a auto industry rescue was not imminent, leaving the industry’s fate clouded in uncertainty for a little longer.

“We’re not quite ready to announce that yet,” Bush told reporters on Air Force One during a flight from Baghdad on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan.

He had been asked when he might make an anticipated announcement about tapping a $700 billion financial industry bailout fund to aid General Motors Corp, Ford Motor Co and Chrysler LLC.

Asked whether he was leaning toward using financial bailout funds, Bush said: “I signaled that that’s a possibility.”

Bush said a decision would not take long. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said earlier that she had no timetable for a decision.

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Iraqi Journalist Hoping To Become Keith Olbermann’s Co-Host Throws Shoes at George Bush…

I guess it’s not only in the US media that loonies exist, seems the Middle Eastern press has a fair share of them too, such as this journalist who decided that throwing his shoes at George Bush were a perfectly acceptable expression of journalistic impartiality.

The good news is that when he is released from Jail, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann shall offer him a  Co-host position or at the very least a spot as the host of the Show’s Middle Eastern desk…

The reporter who lost his mind is Muntazer al-Zaidi of Al-Baghdadia. As the US President was giving a talk in Nuri al-Maliki’s private office, a journalist sitting in the third row jumped up, shouting: “It is the farewell kiss, you dog,” and threw his shoes one after the other towards Bush.

I think Muntazer is an idiot. If bush is a dog, what would he have called Saddam Hussein? In fact, if he had merely stood up to condemn Saddam, he would hav ebeen taken outside and summarily executed. How ungrateful people are, and how soon they forget.

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Sigh! George Bush “Redistributes” an Additional $24,000 From Every American As A Parting Gift…

Not sure why he has chosen for this to be his legacy, but then again, many things George Bush has done make no sense. From Bloomberg:

The U.S. government is prepared to lend more than $7.4 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers, or half the value of everything produced in the nation last year, to rescue the financial system since the credit markets seized up 15 months ago…The money that’s been pledged is equivalent to $24,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. It’s nine times what the U.S. has spent so far on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Congressional Budget Office figures. It could pay off more than half the country’s mortgages.

Is this really necessary? Even more importantly, how can a Republican president who represents a party that champions lower taxes, less spending, and smaller government be responsible for this sort of insanity? Somewhere in California, Ronald Reagan is rolling over in his tomb.

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George Bush Says His Farewells…

I must confess, I supported Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. I thought George Bush was an idiot who did not know the first thing about well, pretty much anything. I held on to my perceptions till September 11th, 2001. On that day, Al-Queda struck the twin towers, which were a few blocks away from my office in Manhattan.

As I saw the towers fall, like other New Yorkers, I was in a state of shock, and initially panic too. However, when George Bush came on air to personally reassure a frightened nation that he shall keep us safe moving forward, I sensed that he was sincere, and promised to give him a chance to succeed or fail on his own merits.

My main concern was that this nation would remain safe, and remain safe, as I seriously doubted we could survive another 9/11. Thankfully, George Bush delivered on his promise, and 7 years have gone by without another major incident on US Soil. Our enemies might not have liked George, but they not only respected him, but feared him as well.

Anyway, he is currently in the process of saying his farewells to his staff and their families, a nice and thoughtful gesture by all accounts.

Excerpts from CNN:

WASHINGTON (CNN) – During a midday appointment at the White House, it is a surprise to see a young boy in a blazer and tie, walking in the West Wing corridor just steps from the Oval Office and anxiously clutching a shiny new baseball.

It is a sign of the times – and a sign of the president’s respect for those who keep the government working.

In his final weeks in office, President Bush just about every day he is in Washington is blocking out an hour of time to take farewell photographs with Executive Branch staffers and their families.

Aides say Mr. Bush wanted a chance to say thank you to those who work in the administration – as well as a chance to thank their spouses and children for putting up with the long hours. Not to mention sign a few baseballs.

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