Missiles and stilettos.

MUSIC: Right Round by FloRida feat. Keisha (faster version!)

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:36:00 +0000

Gosh, loveeees it as much as the other version!

VIDEO: Different Presidents, A Different Corps

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:13:00 +0000

Watch how the Marines greet President GWB (Anbar, 2007), then Dear Leader Obama!

Socialist-in-Chief back to old tricks: Blame Bush!

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:52:00 +0000

Obama's New Tack: Blaming Bush
President Points to 'Inherited' Economy

By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 14, 2009M

In his inaugural address, President Obama proclaimed "an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics."

It hasn't taken long for the recriminations to return -- or for the Obama administration to begin talking about the unwelcome "inheritance" of its predecessor.

Over the past month, Obama has reminded the public at every turn that he is facing problems "inherited" from the Bush administration, using increasingly bracing language to describe the challenges his administration is up against. The "deepening economic crisis" that the president described six days after taking office became "a big mess" in remarks this month to graduating police cadets in Columbus, Ohio.

"By any measure," he said during a March 4 event calling for government-contracting reform, "my administration has inherited a fiscal disaster."

Obama's more frequent and acid reminders that former president George W. Bush left behind a trillion-dollar budget deficit, a 14-month recession and a broken financial system have come at the same time Republicans have ramped up criticism that the current president's policies are compounding the nation's economic problems.

Obama had initially been content to leave partisan defense strategy to his proxies, but as the fiscal picture has continued to darken, he has appeared more willing to risk his image as a politician who is above petty partisanship to personally remind the public of Bush's legacy.

His approval ratings remain strong -- above 60 percent, according to the most recent Gallup poll -- but have dropped from their highs almost entirely because of falling support among Republicans since he took office.

Upon entering the White House in 2001, Bush pinned the lackluster economy on his predecessor, using the "Clinton recession" to successfully argue in favor of tax cuts that won some Democratic support. But for Obama, who built his candidacy on a promise to rise above Washington's divisive partisan traditions -- winning over many independent voters and moderate Republicans in the process -- blaming his predecessor holds special risks.

He will need support beyond his Democratic base as he begins lobbying for his $3.6 trillion budget, which proposes sweeping changes in health care, the energy sector and the public education system. The president did not receive a single House Republican vote for his stimulus plan, prompting some in his administration to view his bipartisan outreach efforts as having little hope of success.

And Republicans have seemed only more emboldened in their rhetoric. Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), for example, recently called the borrowing needed to fund the president's economic recovery plans "generational theft."

"What the administration is involved in now is the politics of attribution," said Lawrence R. Jacobs, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota. "Each week that goes by with falling job numbers and Republican criticism of the administration's flaws means falling approval ratings. What's the antidote? That the guilty party is George Bush."

"The trick," Jacobs said, "is how do you shift blame to George Bush and retain any credibility on the idea that you are looking past partisan warfare? This looks like a doubling down on a very partisan approach."

(Source)

REVIEW: Olay Ultra Moisture Moisturizing Bar with Shea Butter

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:19:00 +0000

I seriously love Olay. They have affordable products that actually work! If you're not in the mood to splurge on expensive bath products, you should try Olay! I usually stock-up on Body Shop and Philosophy products, because they're the best brands for my skin so far, but for the past two weeks or so I've been using Olay's Ultra Moisture Moisturizing Bar with Shea Butter. I'm not really into bars of soap- last time I tried a cheap bar of Johnson's it left my skin soooo dry -but Olay is pretty awesome! My skin doesn't dry up or anything, and it actually feels moisturized... but not so moisturized that I no longer need my bottle of cocoa butter lotion! Still, it's a good, affordable product. There's also a bodywash version but I haven't tried it yet!

P.S.
OMG, you know what's a really good song?? Right Round by Flo Rida! It's been stuck in my head for days! I seriously love the beat, you should take a listen!

p.p.s.
From THE greatest Vice-President EVER, Dick Cheney: Don't blame Bush team for economic woes.

And he is SO right. From the article: President Barack Obama constantly talks about the enormous economic troubles that he inherited when he took office in January. Cheney agrees that Obama did indeed came into power amid very difficult economic circumstances.

But Cheney says he doesn't think the Bush administration can be blamed for creating the economic woes. Cheney says it's a global financial problem. He says the idea that fault can assigned to the previous administration is "interesting rhetoric" but he doesn't think people care about that.

You heard it from the VEEP! Now stop blamin' GWB!!

VIDEO: Katy Perry's THINKING OF YOU

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:32:00 +0000

Aww I love Katy Perry's "Thinking of You." The music video is so awesomeee, it has a World War II theme. Loves it.

VIDEO: Barack Obama Spoof!

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:17:00 +0000

I haven't blogged in ages but yeah, a lot has happened. George W. Bush is no longer president, McCain lost, Obama is now the president, and Rihanna got beaten up by Chris Brown. Ugh, don't you just miss W and Laura! =(

Anyway here's a funny video: Barack Obama singing and dancing to the tune of Beyonce's Single Ladies! lol!

Howard Stern quizzes Obama supporters (And they fail miserably.)

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:10:00 +0000

This is so sad.So in this clip, Howard Stern uses some of McCain's policies and passes them off as Obama's. He then asks O's supporters if they agree with it, and if they support him based on these policies. They were all like, yeah. Pffft.

VIDEO: Britney's "Womanizer"

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:13:00 +0000

OMGGGGG, I love Britney! Her new video is finally out! It's five thousand times sluttier than Toxic, and the choreography is just about messed-up, but the track sounds sinfully delicious. Loves it.

Watch the video here!

Obama and ACORN

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:27:00 +0000

"OBAMA CAUGHT SAYING ACORN AND FRIENDS WILL SHAPE HIS PRESIDENTIAL AGENDA"

VIDEO:Nation of Islam Leader Farrakhan Proclaiming Obama as ‘Messiah’

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:48:00 +0000

From Breitbart:

"You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking."

Europe blames America for everything.

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:29:00 +0000

All these European morons keep yapping about how the US is about to lose its Superpower status. Are they so miserable in their own countries that they can't help but root for the tragic fall of an ally? Might as well pull all the troops out of Europe and let them handle their own security. How's about we stop sending aid to Africa and Asia? While we're at it, let's stop sharing intelligence information with them as well.
Ungrateful bastards. (I'm really mad!)
The US is never going to fall because the people are strong and free. That may all change, of course, when Hussein Obama gets elected. He'll probably ship off all dissenters to Kenya and have them locked-up there!

Boring!

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:15:00 +0000

Okay, the debate was boring. Same stuff all over again, except John McCain finally started giving some details about his economic plan. I actually think he did better in the first half of debate, which was all about the economy and other domestic issues. He didn't do half as well on foreign policy. He could've defended the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, instead he let Obama give it to him. As for Hussein, he didn't even answer some of the questions concerning the economy: instead he just rattled on about something else. But yeah, who cares? He still won, right? Pffft.

From PatDallard: Palin stands up to icky-looking hippie!

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:57:00 +0000

Watch the video here!

VIDEO: GOP fights back.

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:44:00 +0000

Dumb Democrats.

OMGGGG, this is the most gripping GOP ad ever! We need MORE of this! This ad should be played on every single channel on television!

VIDEO: John McCain slams Hussein & Democrats

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:27:00 +0000

Finally! Keep it comin', John McCain!

Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac & Barack Obama.

E-mail this to everyone, folks!
McCain's totally back ya'll! I actually like him better when he's not trying to sound dramatic and sentimental. He seems more authentic and presidential this way. Just give us some good ol' straight talk, John! And you'll totally rock the debate! <3333

VIDEO: "Womanizer" by Brit-Brit

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:38:00 +0000

Okay the new Britney Spears song is totally addictive. I know Britney Spears is dumb and all, but I love her to death anyway.

I'm so bored with celebrities bashing Sarah Palin, even if she sort of deserves it. Let's face it, the Katie Couric interview was horrible.I know that she was under a tremendous amount of pressure, but it was just... horrible. I'm glad to see her bounce back though; I'd trust her with a nuke over Obama.I hope John McCain does well in the townhall debate- I shiver in my Prada boots just thinking of a Hussein presidency.

Bush Admin to the rescueeeee!

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:56:00 +0000

Of course, you'll hear nothing about the hard work the President is doing with his team to work things out in Wall Street. Just morons from Politico questioning his commitment to the great ol' USA. While Harry Reid and co. were getting ready to leave all matters to Paulson and Bernanke because nobody knows what to do about the crisis in Wall Street, President GWB's administration was assembling a plan to calm the financial crisis. And if it works, and things go fantastically well, they'll leave GWB's name out of it out of spite and hate! Sooo unfair. Well if GWB won't defend himself, then- uh, I will!

Anyway, here's an old article from the NYT about President Bush recommending "the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago."

"Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.

"These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis," said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. "The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing."

No folks, he wasn't sleepin'. And both McCain and Hussein got beat by the Pres. =p

Funny! Barack Obama's hacked e-mail account!

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:42:00 +0000

Click!

Teehee!!! And click here to check out Obama's and McCain's economic plans!

Mother to ask Congress to award son Medal of Honor

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:42:00 +0000

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - The mother of a Marine who witnesses say covered a grenade with his body to save comrades in Iraq plans to appeal to Congress to award her son the nation's highest military honor after learning it was denied by Defense Secretary Robert Gates because of questions about his final act.

Rosa Peralta said Thursday she made the decision after a Marine general told her that her son, Sgt. Rafael Peralta, would be awarded the Navy Cross rather than the Medal of Honor because the nomination was tainted by reports he was accidentally shot by a fellow Marine shortly before an insurgent lobbed the grenade.

"I'm going to see what can be done, because I'm not satisfied with what they want to do now," she said in Spanish.

President Bush singled out the Marine's actions in a 2005 Memorial Day speech, saying Peralta "understood that America faces dangerous enemies, and he knew the sacrifices required to defeat them."

"The president spoke of him. So how is this now possible that they do this," Rosa Peralta said.

She said she was considering rejecting the Navy Cross, the second-highest award for valor in combat that can be awarded to a Marine. Peralta will be the 24th recipient of the Navy Cross for actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I still don't know what I'm going to do," she said.

The question about whether to award Peralta the Medal of Honor centers on whether the mortally wounded Marine, who was shot in the head and upper body, could have intentionally reached for the grenade and covered it with his body.

"There was conflicting evidence in the case of Sgt. Peralta as to whether he could have performed his final acts given the nature of his injuries," said Capt. Beci Brenton, spokeswoman for Navy Secretary Donald Winter.

The initial recommendation that he receive the Medal of Honor went through reviews by the Marine Corps, U.S. Central Command, the Department of the Navy and ultimately up to Defense Secretary Gates, Brenton said.

After all the evidence was scrutinized, officials determined that it "did not meet the exact standard necessary to support the Medal of Honor," she said.

But Rosa Peralta said she was led to believe her son would get the Medal of Honor in a November 2007 telephone call from an undersecretary of the Navy, who she says told her the nomination was to be forwarded to the White House.

Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said there was a June 2007 Navy recommendation for the Medal of Honor, but it never went to the White House because Gates didn't approve it.

He said that because there was some contradictory evidence, Gates instead took the extra step of asking five other individuals to review the case — a former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, a Medal of Honor recipient, a civilian neurosurgeon who is retired from the military and two forensic pathologists who also are military retirees.

The five were given medical reports that had not been available in the initial review. They thoroughly reviewed the case again, including inspecting the evidence and re-enacting the event, Whitman said.

"Each independently recommended to the secretary that the evidence did not support the award of Medal of Honor," he said.

Gates made his decision this month.

A Medal of Honor nomination is typically made by the military, approved by the Department of Defense and conferred by the president. But a nomination can also be made through a special act of Congress and then bestowed by the president on behalf of Congress.

The Medal of Honor comes with about $1,000 a month special pension in addition to other military pensions.

Peralta was shot several times in the face and body during a house-to-house search in Fallujah on Nov. 15, 2004, during some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

According to witness accounts, Peralta lay mortally wounded on the floor of a house and grabbed a grenade lobbed by fleeing insurgents. His body absorbed the blast and he died immediately.

In a rare move, the Marine Corps Thursday released a redacted copy of the Medal of Honor nomination by Lt. Gen. Richard Natonski and an investigative report detailing the "friendly fire" shooting of the sergeant.

The report found sufficient evidence existed to believe that Peralta was probably shot by a fellow Marine and that a gunshot wound to the head and injuries to the head from a grenade caused his death.

The nomination, which relies on witness statements, forensics, bomb fragment analysis and an autopsy, concluded that although Peralta was shot in the head, he made "a conscious, heroic decision to cover the grenade and minimize the effects he knew it would have on the rest of his Marine team."

The nomination details Peralta's actions in the final minutes of his life, with several witnesses recounting how the Marine lay face down and used his arm to pull the grenade to him. It also says a forensic analysis of Peralta's clothing and flak jacket show the grenade was underneath him when it exploded.

Peralta, who was assigned to Hawaii's 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, moved to San Diego from Tijuana as a teenager. He was 25.

(AP)

Palin Interview with Hannity!

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:29:00 +0000

Part 1

Check out her hair! Loves it! This is better than Charlie Gibson's snotty-ass interview! McCain's Economic plan.

Declining.

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:59:00 +0000

Hotair: CBS poll: Obama leads by five after trailing by two post-convention

That’s among registereds. Among likely voters, he … leads by the same margin, a bad result given that Maverick’s typically fared much better with that group. Maybe those young Obamites are tuning in and turning out after all?
Pfft, at this point, I don't care as much anymore. I've watched all the John McCain interviews I could and I've come to the conclusion that he's just not as genuine as he used to be. He and Sarah Palin say the same things over and over and over again- "we gotta fix this", "thanks but no thanks", "lipstick on a pig", etc. Same dang lines but with very little substance and specifics. Now I don't know if Karl Rove is part of his campaign- I doubt it -but they ought to consider hiring him now. The McCain campaign is just getting so blah. Now don't get me wrong, I want McCain and Palin to win because I hate Obama with a passion- but that's about it.

Go on the attack, McCain!

But with substance, please. Geez.

And about the AIG bailout, I don't care what anyone says, Bush did the right thing!!! =p

Kat Deluna butchers the National Anthem

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:18:00 +0000

Really? The horrible vocal gymnastics and hand gestures were necessary?

McCain, Palin, President Bush's Legacy.

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:05:00 +0000

Is it just me or was McCain a much better communicator when he was running in the primaries, doing small townhall meetings and such things? He even did well in the debate- he seemed more genuine. Now he's just speechifying and not doing a very good job at it. When he gave a speech about the economy at a rally yesterday, he was clearly reading off a piece of paper. Meh. At least he's not a crazy radical like Barry O., but dear God, even with the cooped-up Mrs. Palin on the ticket, I'm still gonna miss GWB and Cheney. I'm sorry folks, but I find them more genuine than the Mavericks. And I still think D. Cheney is the coolest veep ever. Even my new would've-been-idol Sarah Palin (please do more interviews!) can't come close to him.
Anyway I hope Mrs. Palin gets out there more, because she's being smeared left and right and can't seem to defend herself. She should do the rounds in talk shows, but I understand she's still not prepared. Sigh. Well, according to HotAir, her favorables are declining. And Shrillary Clinton freaked out of an anti-Iran rally because Sarah Palin will be there. lol! I bet Hussein O. had something to do with that. Crazy Barry.

George W. Bush’s True Legacy
By Mario Goveia

As the George Bush presidency comes to an end it may help to put on the record his many epic accomplishments which have been so distorted by his political adversaries. Throughout it all, President Bush and the Bush family have been unfailingly civil and courteous to their worst domestic adversaries, like the Kennedy family and the civil rights leadership, almost to a fault, while the Kennedy’s, the civil rights leaders and those on the left continue to try and demonize him with the most vicious calumnies and personal slurs any modern president has been labled with. Yet George Bush smiles, keeps his cool, and wins almost all his political battles.

...With the delay in deciding the election the Bush administration had to scramble to catch up because the economy had declined since the fourth quarter of 2000, which Bush approached by proposing cutting income tax rates and capital gains tax rates in his first budget, which was largely approved to begin October 1, 2001.

Well, we were attacked on 9/11/2001 before Bush and his administration had any time to get their hands around the rot in our defense and intelligence foundations from the feckless Clinton administration, which had, throughout the 90s refused to consider Al Qaeda as terrorists and considered them only as criminals who had all the due process protections in the US Constitution. The success of the attack sent the already slow US economy reeling.

...Not only had the Clinton administration puffed up their budget surpluses by cutting defense and intelligence spending to 3% of GDP, but they had raised the information-sharing “wall” between the CIA and the FBI and had banned US intelligence operatives from gathering intel from folks they considered “unsavory”, the very people who have access to unique sources even though their information has to always be thoroughly vetted.

To make matters worse, Bill Clinton had refused THREE attempts by Sudan to hand over Osama Bin Laden to the US as documented by the go-between, Pakistani businessman and journalist Mansoor Ijaz. Clinton claimed that he did not have any probable couse to hold Bin Laden, even though Al Qaeda had already claimed responsibility for several attacks on US interests including the World Trade Center in 1993, the coordinated bombings of hotels in Kenya and Tanzania, and the Khobar T
owers in Saudi Arabia.

Then, after Bin Laden left Sudan and went to Afghanistan, Clinton refused to give the CIA the approval to shoot when they had him in their sights THIRTEEN times because of concerns for collateral damage, and this has been documented by the CIA agent in charge of finding Bin Laden prior to 2003, Michael Scheuer.

Fortunately the massive tax rate cuts that Bush had pushed through between 2002 and 2003, with help from the Republicans who controlled both houses of Congress turned the economy around and caused tax revenues to skyrocket. We had seven years of moderate growth with low inflation until the current slowdown as part of a seven year business cycle. While the economy is in the doldrums, we are not even in a recession yet based on traditional criteria.

...Little noticed among the sturm and drang of politics and the ongoing media bias is that Bush’s education reforms have turned the US public school system around and minority school kids are experiencing historically high grades and passing rates, in spite of the powerful teachers unions which resist any attempts at quality control in education.

Bush-supported programs to encourage poor people to own their own homes has caused the highest level of minority home ownership in history.

Bush-supported vocational initiatives are retraining workers laid off from declining and obsolete industries preparing them for growing industries of the future, like energy.

Bush implemented a $15 BILLION 10-year-plan to help in the worldwide fight against HIV/AIDS, in mostly poor and tropical countries. Recently he added $48 BILLION on top of that and included TB and malaria to the plan. Yet he continues to be excoriated by African leaders like Nelson Mandela, who worship Bill Clinton who did NOTHING for Africa when he was president - other than apologize for long past atrocities like slavery to correct the effects of which the US has spent BILLIONS in reparations in the form of welfare programs and other taxpayer-funded assistance administered by a small army of “community organizers”.

America has earned some respect among previously hostile Indonesians in the aftermath of the deadly tsunamis of a few years ago when Americans were first on the scene with tangible assistance. Covered up by most in the heavily anti-Bush media was that it was Bush who ordered an aircraft carrier on its way to the war in Iraq diverted to help the devastated Indonesians.

Because of Bush, 50 million Muslims who were previously oppressed and brutalized by Muslim tyrants are well on their way to freedom and democracy, peace and prosperity in Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq now has a budget surplus and is paying for most of it’s own expenses, un-reported by most of the anti-Bush media.

If the Taliban in Afghanistan and a small number of Shia and Sunni extremists in Iraq had not decided to kill innocent civilians and each other in order to thwart the people’s expressed desire for democracy, the war would have been over long ago, and reconstruction well on its way as we saw in Italy, Germany and Japan after World War II.

Because of Bush’s brilliant foreign policy strategies, Libya and N. Korea have given up their hostility and nuclear weapons plans and rejoined the community of nations, without a shot being fired. Only a rampant Iran remains to be dealt with, and a Russia that is quickly regressing to its totalitarian past. Once again, while the Europeans have the most to lose, somehow the world somehow takes it for granted that it is the US that is responsible for dealing with such global threats. Then when we confront the threats, their drumbeat of criticism begins, almost in unison. Oh, well, that’s why it is so important for the US to continue to be a superpower and the only global bulwark against tyranny.

...Because of Bush’s increased domestic intelligence and internal defense programs Al Qaeda has been unable to attack the US mainland since 9/11/2001 in spite of Bin Laden’s regular threats to do so. No one in 2001-2002 expected Al Qaeda to be unable to attack the US mainland again. History will give the credit to George Bush without whose stubborn cowboy resolve in the face of withering opposition from the Democrats and the entire left wing worldwide, none of this would have been possible.

Read the whole article here.

***
This is one of the reasons why I hate some conservatives as much as liberals. Republicans rarely stood up for him when he was being trashed by the media, and some even went so far as to join the good ol' bashing. The GOP Convention was a miserable one because they refused to honor the man who sacrificed so much for the good of America. I guess it really is all up to history.

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:14:00 +0000

I'm still a proud Bushie, so I gotta say the GOP Convention was a wee bit disappointing! They owe him a grand party before the President leaves office, after throwing him under the bus like that and all! He has kept the terrorists at bay, after all! Anyway, I'm excited about Sarah Palin but GWB still rules.

From AnnCoulter.Com:
Morose that there hasn't been another terrorist attack on American soil for seven long years, liberals were ecstatic when Hurricane Gustav was headed toward New Orleans during the Republican National Convention last week. The networks gave the hurricane plenty of breaking-news coverage -- but unfortunately it was Hurricane Katrina from 2005 they were covering.

On Keith Olbermann's Aug. 29 show on MSNBC, Michael Moore said the possibility of a Category 3 hurricane hitting the United States "is proof that there is a God in heaven." Olbermann responded: "A supremely good point."

Actually, Olbermann said that a few minutes later to some other idiotic point Moore had made, but that's how Moore would have edited the interview for one of his "documentaries," so I will, too. I would only add that Michael Moore's morbid obesity is proof that there is a Buddha.

Hurricane Gustav came and went without a hitch. What a difference a Republican governor makes!

As many have pointed out, the reason elected officials tend to neglect infrastructure projects, like reinforcing levees in New Orleans and bridges in Minneapolis, is that there's no glory when a bridge doesn't collapse. There are no round-the-clock news specials when the levees hold. You can't even name an overpass retrofitting project after yourself -- it just looks too silly. But everyone's taxes go up to pay for the reinforcements.

Preventing another terrorist attack is like that. There is no media coverage when another 9/11 doesn't happen. We can thank God that President George Bush didn't care about doing the safe thing for himself; he cared about keeping Americans safe. And he has, for seven years.

If Bush's only concern were about his approval ratings, like a certain impeached president I could name, he would not have fought for the Patriot Act and the war in Iraq. He would not have resisted the howling ninnies demanding that we withdraw from Iraq, year after year. By liberals' own standard, Bush's war on terrorism has been a smashing, unimaginable success.

A year after the 9/11 attack, The New York Times' Frank Rich was carping about Bush's national security plans, saying we could judge Bush's war on terror by whether there was a major al-Qaida attack in 2003, which -- according to Rich -- would have been on al-Qaida's normal schedule.

Rich wrote: "Since major al-Qaida attacks are planned well in advance and have historically been separated by intervals of 12 to 24 months, we will find out how much we've been distracted soon enough." ("Never Forget What?" New York Times, Sept. 14, 2002.)

There wasn't a major al-Qaida attack in 2003. Nor in 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007. Manifestly, liberals thought there would be: They announced a standard of success that they expected Bush to fail.

As Bush has said, we have to be right 100 percent of the time, the terrorists only have to be right one time. Bush has been right 100 percent of the time for seven years -- so much so that Americans have completely forgotten about the threat of Islamic terrorism.

For his thanks, President Bush has been the target of almost unimaginable calumnies -- the sort of invective liberals usually reserve for seniors who don't separate their recyclables properly. Compared to liberals' anger at Bush, there has always been something vaguely impersonal about their "anger" toward the terrorists.

By my count, roughly one in four books in print in the world at this very moment have the words "Bush" and "Lie" in their title. Barnes & Noble has been forced to add an "I Hate Bush" section. I don't believe there are as many anti-Hitler books.

Despite the fact that Hitler brought "change," promoted clean, energy-efficient mass transit by making the trains run on time, supported abortion for the non-master races, vastly expanded the power of the national government and was uniformly adored by college students and their professors, I gather that liberals don't like Hitler because they're constantly comparing him to Bush.

The ferocity of the left's attacks on Bush even scared many of his conservative allies into turning on him over the war in Iraq.

George Bush is Gary Cooper in the classic western "High Noon." The sheriff is about to leave office when a marauding gang is coming to town. He could leave, but he waits to face the killers as all his friends and all the townspeople, who supported him during his years of keeping them safe, slowly abandon him. In the end, he walks alone to meet the killers, because someone has to.

That's Bush. Name one other person in Washington who would be willing to stand alone if he had to, because someone had to.

OK, there is one, but she's not in Washington yet. Appropriately, at the end of "High Noon," Cooper is surrounded by the last two highwaymen when, suddenly, his wife (Grace Kelly) appears out of nowhere and blows away one of the killers! The aging sheriff is saved by a beautiful, gun-toting woman.

Piper Palin's adorable!

noreply@blogger.com (Sweetface24) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:40:00 +0000

Awwww!!