President Bush beyond 9/11
Believe it or not, ABC News did this interview that they set us, with former President Bush and Marine veteran Jacob Wood as they discuss their plan for helping veterans reintegrate into the US (Editor’s Note: Yahoo is stingy with their videos, but you can see it at the link above).
Bush said he takes inspiration today from the resilience of hundreds of veterans he’s met over the years who’ve overcome post-war trauma and injuries to lead productive lives. He pointed to the example of Dan Gade, a veteran who resolved to conquer his handicap as a one-legged amputee so that he could once again play Legos with his young daughter. Gade has since been able to ride a mountain bike alongside the former president.
“I said to Gade, ‘I’m sorry you got your leg blown off,’” Bush recalled. “He said, ‘I’d do it again.’ There’s no self-pity, no ‘woe is me.’ It is, ‘I’m going to continue to live life to the fullest.’”
Bush was joined by Marine Corps veteran Jacob Wood, who is collaborating with the former president on his Military Service Initiative. After returning from service in the Iraq and Afghanistan, Wood co-founded Team Rubicon, an organization that employs veterans in disaster relief efforts. He said it was significant that Bush is showing leadership within the post-9/11 veteran community.
Rather than read my pointless blather, go read the rest of the interview.
Category: Do You Miss Me Yet?, Veterans Issues
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ABC sent me the embed link and Yahoo cut it off, but the video is at the link above.
Heh. Now there is a President. If the current resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue bothered to stop blaming the former resident for EVERYTHING over the last 5+ years and had tried instead to learn from him, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now.
I know, I know, it’s a pipe dream. Alas …
Love or hate Shrub’s politics, he is a class act, head and shoulders above Naught-bama.
GW and Laura bush each have at least ten times more class in just the tip of their pinkie fingernails than B. Hussein and Michelle 0bama will ever have put together!!
The only thing remotely similar that we’re ever likely to see from the Glorious Leader is maybe a charity golf game, and even that would only be because he was going golfing that day anyway. Actually, it’s more likely that Obama would have the charity event cancelled so he could have the course to himself.
Bush was a long way from perfect as a president, but he’s a good guy at heart, unlike his successor. He also understands leadership and the responsibilities that go with it, unlike the Glorious Leader.
Put any rabid left-of-Lenin libtard in a room with Bush, and they’ll come out with respect for the man and a much-needed lesson in civility (I’m told Reagan had the same effect, but I hadn’t yet started kindergarten when he left office, so I’ll defer to those with better firsthand knowledge). Put that same libtard in a room with the current asshole-in-chief, and suddenly they don’t want to talk about their Glorious Leader. They might even admit that Clint Eastwood was onto something with the Empty Chair Debate. Funny how that works, ain’t it?
President Bush spends time with the military because he understands that he sent them into harm’s way and is responsible for them, and continues to show his concern. Obama (the term President intentionally omitted) spends time with the military when it’s to his benefit.
Here ended the lesson
Speaking of 9/11…some sh1t bag scums in the NYC police & fire dept. Over a 100 individuals were charged for disability fraud…whole “traumatized” by the events of that fateful day – not. Estimated taxpayer loss is believed to be over $400M.
http://news.yahoo.com/more-retired-ny-firefighters-cops-arrested-pension-fraud-150615014–sector.html
We were just talking about Bush and how his leadership is currently unmatched. He may have expanded the shit out of the government, but there was never any doubt whose side he was on. A class act, to be sure.
Team Rubicon is awesome. Their reports from Haiti were believable. It is one organization that I feel comfortable donating too.