A GREAT MAN
As I watched a clip of the President of the United States (note to Barack Obama, George W. Bush is still POTUS), once again I was in tears. We are going to miss this man, so very much. Back in 2000, the Sunday following the final “count” when we knew that GWB had won, when I walked into church, Betty Mason was ushering that day. She was quite happy. So was I. She made the comment, “I truly think the Hand of God was in this. There is a reason this man has been elected.”
Less than a year later Betty Mason was proven to be correct.
His hair is turning white, due mostly due to genetics, and not the job. He’s slower due to a knee injury, and he looks tired. But – this man is still as feisty and defiant as ever. He needs to be. A lot an happen in six months. Barack Obama may be going around pledging disaster relief for the flooded mid-west, but he needs to remember that he’s not POTUS yet. He’s not even the official nominee yet, but already he’s moving the DNC base of campaign operations to Chicago (shades of Al Capone).
There have been a few mistakes, but over-all this great man has kept us safe. Liberals and non-GOP conservatives can complain all they want, but there hasn’t been another attack in this country. I’ll be honest, I don’t like the Patriot Act. As long as GWB is POTUS or a John McCain, I don’t have that many problems with it. If someone like Barack Obama gets in office, do we really want it? If a Barack Obama is POTUS, I want a set of checks and balances.
Maybe it all goes down to trust. I trust George W. Bush. I trust John McCain. I trust Barack Obama about as far as I trust my 6 pound toy poodle, and that’s not very far. I know the former two men are never going to betray this nation. I don’t exactly have much faith in a bunch of Chicago style Marxist thugs.
I did not intend to write a comparison of the three men. I was planning on writing about how I feel watching GWB take the mound in the final inning of his double-header – or take his last at bat. Like Ted Williams, he is going out with pure, unadulterated class, but then he’s always been a class act, even if he is a hot-dogging cowboy from Texas.
If you’re not from Texas or not familiar with Texans you don’t understand what that entails. Once again it is the exact opposite of the South Chicago Metrosexual. It’s about swagger, and very expensive boots. It’s the hat. It’s the tacky belt buckle that means a lot to the wearer. It’s the occasional cigar. It’s all about opening the door for a lady, tipping your cowboy hat, but only taking it off at very sacred moments. Those moments include the raising and lowering of the Texas flag, an occasional funeral, the National Anthem, and not much else. No, it isn’t disrespect, it’s about strength, courage, and character. It’s about that little pistol being packed in the pocket of the jeans (and GWB packs). It’s the strength of character that allows a man to say, “It all ends now” and then he proceeds to do what ever it takes to uphold law, order, truth, justice and the American Way.
There’s that Wyatt Earp Moment, when a person is standing on that railroad platform, watching a cowardly cur of an outlaw fires a shot through the open window of a waiting train. Your seriously wounded brother can do nothing but watch it sail through the open windows, right in front the face of he and his wife. (FYI, this is one of the discoveries I made in my Earp research). That same cur, Frank Stillwell had, a day earlier, helped to murder your brother in cold blood.
A Wyatt Earp, a George W. Bush stands up to the face of terror and fires point blank at it, and asks questions later. It is the action of a man, not some cowardly bowl of jello contemplating his legacy. Those are the actions of courage, of someone not thinking of themselves, but protecting others around them. It is also the action that lesser men of lesser honor and little courage or valor will second guess for a hundred years.
Liberal historians have not been kind to Wyatt Earp. They will not be kind to George W. Bush. They lack the capacity to understand that special kind of Wild West, All American valor that helped tame a rugged and dangerous land. It is a citizen general issuing the order, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes,” in order to save ammunition and lure the Redcoats into an open area. It is the patriot who, moments before being hung, says, “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” It is the courage of a young man who throws himself on a live weapon to save the lives of others.
Once upon a time American Presidents were more concerned with protecting the nature, rather than their legacy. George W. Bush is a throwback. He is more concerned with the protection of the nation, with keeping our nation great other than protecting himself and making himself great.
Are you as exhausted as I am? I’m not tired of George W. Bush. I am tired of the way he has been treated. We, as a nation, have been honored to be living during the one of the historic Presidencies in history. He has put his all into protecting this country. Too bad he can’t be treated like the hero and the great man he is.
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