Who’s in your foxhole?
For eight long years the left in this country railed to anyone who’d listen about the evils of Bush. Mean, hateful, vile and nasty things that would make anyone’s blood boil. Headlines from impartial news journalists were filled with negative after negative. Even if there was no gloom and doom angle in the story they had their way of projecting an outcome that suggested imminent doom because of Bush’s decisions.
I am like millions of Americans who wanted to throw shoes at the TV while listening to the likes of former sportscaster to now vaunted political anchor Keith Olbermann who spews out lies and obvious bias. I wanted to pull my hair out when Dan Rather was caught in a bold faced lie and came out without a scratch. There are literally thousands of instances of gross over the top reporting yet one man remained quiet.
Perhaps we can all take a lesson from the courage displayed by our 43rd president in the face of his eight year assault. Maybe we should resolve ourselves to quietly continuing to work and do what’s right as our own neighbors cackle and repeat sound bites with no substance. That is what George Bush did. And no matter how hard he bit his lip and mustered the strength to face his relentless accusers they kept coming. It’s as if they wanted to break him no matter what the cost. They chipped and chiseled looking for that one crack that they could then dig into with a hammer drill of hate.
But ‘W’ did more than show us the virtue of remaining calm in the storm. Make no mistake he fought tooth and nail for our freedoms and to preserve our safe and prosperous homeland. His style and convictions wouldn’t allow him to stoop to the level of white hot hatred and his faith in God gave him the strength that his godless revilers could not break.
His legacy should not only be Iraq or freeing tens of millions of oppressed people. His example and leadership should be remembered because it has inspired the likes of you and I, just humble citizens to lift up our voices and make ourselves heard as a people ready for true change.
This is what leadership is and this is why history will vindicate a man who needs no such validation. These qualities are what people need in a leader and a man without them is only a hollow figure head at best. Love him or hate him he was in your foxhole for eight years and you were glad he was.
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