Bush: At Least With Me, America Had A Prayer

Bush didn't frame it quite that way. He's shown more class than both Clinton and Carter in that regard. Both of them had been critical of Bush at times during his tenure in office. The former president simply pointed out that he used prayer to get him through difficult times.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Former President George W. Bush says he turned to his faith during tough times in his eight years in office.

He told more than 1,100 people at a banquet Saturday night for Fort Worth Christian School that he didn't see how he could be president without prayer.

The former president also says he doesn't plan on staying in the public eye. He says he won't be "out there opining" or criticizing his successor.

Bush also says he's writing a book about his decisions in office so "you can draw your own conclusions."

As an aside, I actually feel half human this morning. A 24 - 48 hour bug of some kind made even the thought of thinking and typing undesirable for a spell, hence the light blogging. I'm going to keep it light today, too, and look to ease back in tomorrow. Sorry if I've neglected email.

Comments

[KingShamus]

It's funny. By mid-2008, I was pretty annoyed at Bush. In light of what his cheeseball lefty successor has done, Dubya looks better and better by the day.

Strange how politics works sometimes.

[A Stephens]

C'mon Riehl, suit up and show up,
j/k, feel better dude -I stop here every day multiple times.

[Sissy Willis]

Welcome back! You are so right about class. Bushes have it, recent "progressive" occupants of Oval Office don't.

[time to rise up]

Feel better, Riehl.

I can't think of the last Democrat president who had class. Carter? Whaddat? Clinton? Not even the most expensive cigar conferred class on him. Obama? With him it's all race, class, and gender but class of the important kind? Huh?

Feel better, man.

[mark l.]

multiple choice question:

"But what a burden would be lifted! We would no longer have to worry that our grandchildren would one day look back on us as a criminal generation that had selfishly and blithely ignored clear warnings that their fate was in our hands."

without naming the quoted, is this a reference to:

a)insurmountable debt, occurring over the next 10-30 years.
b)failure to provide universal health insurance for every american.
c)the 'devastation of global warming' which will occur in a 100 years.

we went from brokaw's 'greatest generation', to the most 'entitled generation'. I have to laugh at dems who fail to understand that the single largest demographic group which is deserting the libs, the entitled generation, is by far the largest beneficiary of our national ponzi scheme.

the above quote is obviously al gore lamenting his sins of carbon production. any chance we get an apology from a member of the 'entitled generation', soon(100 years?) to be remembered as the "criminal generation", for bankrupting us?

[richard mcenroe]

The problem for Obama is, praying to a mirror doesn't work...

[Comanche Voter]

Harry Truman was a Democrat who had the right kind of class. JFK--he had style--and a couple of bimbos each day. Course there's a certain bit of panache involved in having Marilyn Monroe--then passing her off to your kid brother. Panache, yes, Class? No.

[mark l.]

uh-oh...

nydailynews doctored a photo of matt damon, to make it look like suffers from down's syndrome.

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/02/28/2010-02-28_green_zone_star_matt_damon_is_disappointed_in_president_barack_obama_passes_on_b.html

[Aye Chihuahua]

Dan,

I was wondering if you had run off to the Caribbean with Helen Thomas or something.

Get well, Dude....and get your azz back in the trenches.

[time to rise up]

NYDN didn't have to doctor that pix of Matt Damon. To say that h looks like a Down's Syndrome kid is an offense to DSK's. More accurately, Damon looks retarded.

[templar knight]

I know this is off topic, but since mark referred to that POS Matt Damon, why in the world can't Hollywierd make one, just one, yes one, movie that would show our soldiers in a good light? Is there not one decent producer in Hollywood?

[Anon]

Well, they did make Black Hawk Down a few years ago:)

[time to rise up]

They did make Tears of the Sun, too. That was the closest they've ever coming to showing that Muslims kill other people just because they don't believe as do Muslims. Other than that, Hollywood sucks. Even Inglorious Basterds was a bit of an insult to the troops, too—movie says they're all crazy undisciplined killers. I love war movies, but have given up watching them. Nothing that dishonors the troops is worth watching.

[mark l.]

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1008160,00.html

they were going to make a big budget movie, centered on the taking of fallujah in nov 04, but that was 2004...

the working title was: The Last Crusade, which got the libs all excited. When they found out it was going to actually follow the book, the personal assistants of the uberlibs advised their overlords that it might 'glorify' the battle.

[mark l.]

bhd is one of the great movies of all time.

one of the unwritten lessons of somalia was that when you are fighting to a statemate, and you back off, the opposition will tkae everything you once held.

[mark l.]

in the biggest of ironies, bhd is considered a cult classic among aq.

copters going down and us soldiers dying?
it is the closest thing they have to a documentary about 'their' fight.

[Anon]

I recently rewatched BHD and I was kind of struck by the similarities to Iraq and that it looks like we didn't learn too much in Somalia that was applied to Iraq...

we go in assuming we're going to be heros, but lo and behold the opposition is wider, stronger and more deeply entrenched than we thought,

after a couple of mishaps w/civilian casualties large swaths of the population turn against us,

instead of using overwhelming force we try to finesse things which reduces our massive technological and training advantage in urban situations, and that gets troops killed