The Bushes plan to install a permanent gate outside the cul-de-sac later this year.
Until then, some neighbors have decided to treat 10141 Daria Place as just another house in Preston Hollow, despite all indications otherwise. The day after the Bushes arrived, the local Cub Scout troop visited their cul-de-sac as part of its annual drive to collect canned food. The troop's supervising parent, Nancy Burke, drove over to Daria Place a few days in advance to ask the Secret Service for clearance.
Sorry, the agents said.
Burke stopped by twice more and received the same answer before finally winning approval from a scheduling aide in Bush's office. An hour before she took the boys to Bush's house, Burke met with them to discuss logistics. Only 30 people could enter the cul-de-sac. The Scouts, ages 7 to 11, needed to wear their full uniforms. A raffle determined which two children would receive Bush's cans. Burke taught them how to talk to the media: "Think about their question before you speak." She demonstrated how to shake a president's hand. "Look him in the eye and shake firmly." [emphasis added]
H/T to Mock Paper Scissors.
Burke stopped by twice more and received the same answer before finally winning approval from a scheduling aide in Bush's office.
ReplyDeleteThey booked the kids in between his Super Mario Brothers session and his coca-and-num-nums time?
I think in hindsight the part that really left me POd was that Shrub was only giving cans (no word on how many) to TWO Scouts for their drive - not sponsoring it, or doing something else meaningful.
ReplyDeleteForget, please, "conservatism." It has been, operationally, de facto, Godless and therefore irrelevant. Secular conservatism will not defeat secular liberalism because to God both are two atheistic peas-in-a-pod and thus predestined to failure. As Stonewall Jackson's Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago:
ReplyDelete"[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt bath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth."
Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).
John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com
PS – And “Mr. Worldly Wiseman” Rush Limbaugh never made a bigger ass of himself than at CPAC where he told that blasphemous “joke” about himself and God.
Wow, how current.. to bring Stonewall Jackson (and his CoS) into the conversation. Nothing like promoting Confederate soldiers to make your point, Editor Lofton. Perhaps next you can quote Goebbels or Himmler to prove that 'our country is collapsing'.
ReplyDeleteOur country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).Kiss His Son? Whoa, sounds like some hot man-on-man action there, John. Are you sure you haven't been watching too much Torchwood?
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