SIX THUNDEROUS STANDING OVATIONS FOR PRESIDENT BUSH

"We miss you, George!,” a man in the crowd yelled.

In Crystal Beach Park Arena in the small rural town of Woodward, Oklahoma, population 12,000, the Freedom Ring 2009 festival was held. 9,200 tickets were sold. The organizers said that 14,000 enthusiastic supporters attended the event, and it was standing room only for President Bush's address to the crowd.

Bush spoke to thunderous applause and six standing ovations. Bush called the U.S. the ‘’greatest nation on the face of the earth." (Has Obama issued an arrest warrant for insulting other nations?)

Six standing ovations? I suspect it will be sixty in no time. If Obama has taught us anything, it's a terrible longing for what we've lost. A paradise lost, slipping so casually through our fingers.

The New York Times actually filed the following report. It makes you wonder who gets the pink slip for this one:

Thunderous Okla. Applause Greets Bush on July 4 NY Times

Former President George W. Bush was greeted by thunderous applause on the Fourth of July as he told thousands of spectators in a rural Oklahoma rodeo arena that the U.S. was ''the greatest nation on the face of the earth.''

Bush was given six standing ovations as he spoke on a warm, humid evening in GOP-friendly Woodward, a town of about 12,000 residents in northwest Oklahoma and the latest in a handful of out-of-the-way places Bush has visited since leaving office.

During a 30-minute speech mostly devoid of political references -- he mentioned his successor, Barack Obama, just once in passing -- Bush thanked members of the military, spoke about the bravery of injured soldiers he'd met and told stories of people in difficult situations helping others.

''Patriotism comes in all different kinds of forms,'' he said. ''Freedom is beautiful, freedom is precious, freedom must always be defended.''

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After the speech, Bush waded into the crowd for a few minutes, giving hugs, signing autographs and shaking hands. ''I didn't think he'd do that,'' Fanning said. ''I told him he's welcome back any time.''

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In 2004, Bush won 80.9 percent of the vote in Woodward County as he defeated Democratic challenger John Kerry.

''I came because George Bush was coming down here and I wanted to see him,'' said 48-year-old Douglas Stewart of nearby Freedom, who had a U.S. flag attached to his ballcap. ''I helped put him in office twice. I'm proud to say I did.''

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The town welcomed Bush with banners on restaurants, hotels and a highway entering Woodward. Three protesters standing outside the arena with anti-Bush signs left by mid-afternoon. No protests were seen inside the arena.

City Manager Alan Riffel said it was the first presidential visit to Woodward since the late 1950s, when Dwight Eisenhower landed at the airport outside town en route to view drought damage in the area.

Comments

[Mongol]

The Last Legitimate President of the United States of America until we get another one!

He's still my president until an honest and qualified American takes his place.

[RISE_UP]

Don't know what you got, til it's gone.
Don't know what an American President is, til you get an anti american one.
I miss you to, George.God bless you and your family. God bless Cheney, another American.

[DeeDee]

we miss him so much

[Crusty]

It's amazing how much differently people can see a man when you don't have the fog of the mainstream media distorting things. Let's hope Americans can shed their past gullibility. Let's find out if voters can look through the propaganda smokescreens the news media throws up in the service of the DNC to see Sarah for how she really is and put her in White House where she belongs.

[kaps]

'In 2004, Bush won 80.9 percent of the vote in Woodward County as he defeated Democratic challenger John Kerry.'

Of course.

That is because small town Americans can smell the indisputable stink that comes from a traitor.
No matter how the so-called elites try to spin the sewage we can smell it!

obama, kerry, clinton, emmanuel, kennedy (all of 'em), pelosi, reid etc....they all have the same stinkin' smell.

[RISE_UP]

you left out John Freaking McCain he has the same smell. Best friends with Kerry

[pythagoras]

Although I was never a fan of George W. Bush's, compared with our Ogiggles the Islamofascist-in-Usurper now polluting the Oval Office, he is a veritable Thomas Jefferson.

I am also hoping that Ogiggles will be proved to be an illegal usurper in a US Court of Law (the prospects of this by the way are improving with each passing day); and that the election results will have to be thrown out...meaning that Bush and Cheney will have to be brought back for an interim period so that new elections can be held for a LEGAL US Presidency.

[gunjam]

Ms. Geller: Permit me to post a minority opinion. If one compares GWB to the current White House occupant, he does indeed look much better. However, in comparison to, say, Ronald Reagan, GWB also shrinks in size. I will not list all GWB's goofs and errors here, but suffice it to say that, if America is once again to regain true superpower -- or, at least, world-leader -- status, we need to set our sites higher than the current Administration, certainly, but also higher than what GWB gave us. We cannot afford to "settle" any longer. No more internationalists. We need a gutsy, stand-up, America-first, Constitutionalist.

[WesternMilitant]

Bush was, and is, a RINO. Do not kid yourself. The fact that he may not be a repugnant as Obama does not endear him to me one bit. Gunjam is correct in his assessment. Conservatives believe, and practice, small government. Bush grew the size of the federal government on his watch. RINO.

[sfcgal]

I am a Okie from birth and I have lived here all my life. This election made Oklahoma history for the first time all 77 counties went RED for McCain/Palin. I am proud of my state and I am glad the leftist liberals don't control our state. If Gov. Palin runs in 2012 I will predict she will once again make Oklahoma history. We love Pres.Bush and we all make mistakes but the mistakes Pres.Bush made was minor compared to the fascist idiot we have in now. " THE SARAH REVOLUTION 2012 " The true American Frontier Woman

[Getzel]

Although, I was never a die hard Bush fan. I did appsheate his moral clarity. And I miss that moral clarity which this country needs desperately..