He hosted two foreign leaders, the presidents of Paraguay and the Kurdistan Regional Government, at the White House, stepping before the cameras for a total of 11 minutes. He gave the graduation speech at the F.B.I. Academy in Quantico, Va. And he and Mrs. Bush hosted a light-hearted celebration in honor of the 150th birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, complete with a bespectacled Roosevelt impersonator who looked about the East Room and commented wryly, “Well, I must say, I like what you’ve done with the place.”
Joe Lockhart, a former Clinton press secretary, said Mr. Bush’s absence from the public stage, though brief, had consequences. “This has an impact,” Mr. Lockhart said. “The world marches on; we’re in an economic crisis. We have tensions at home and abroad, yet I think if you walk down the street and ask people, ‘Has the president already left?’ you’d have a lot of people saying, ‘Yeah, I think so.’ ”
On Friday, Mr. Bush was to leave Washington at noon to spend the weekend at Camp David. Unlike elections past, he will not travel to his ranch in Crawford, Tex., to vote; casting his last ballot as president in person would almost certainly have drawn the sort of news coverage the White House might not want. Instead, the Bushes sought the privacy of absentee ballots this year, casting their votes for Mr. McCain by mail.
The couple will watch the election returns from the White House; Dana Perino, the White House press secretary, said the public would most likely hear from her, and not the president, on Tuesday night. To avoid getting drawn into a discussion about the race, Mr. Bush has steered clear of news conferences all fall; Ms. Perino would not say this week when reporters might get a chance to question the president directly about the outcome.
If the past is any guide, Mr. Bush will be matter-of-fact about the result. At the Roosevelt event, the president “seemed sort of fatalistic” about Mr. McCain’s chances and his own place in history, said Representative Peter King, Republican of New York, who was there. Mr. King said his wife grew emotional, telling the president how much she would miss him. Mr. Bush did not grow emotional in return.
“He just said, ‘Yeah, yeah,’ _ he seemed like, what happens, happens,” Mr. King said. “I always feel that he thinks it’s his job to keep everybody’s spirits up.’
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Is is not toaly over still.... the Bushney,s..... they are hiding for good now on days but still ..... they are there and Wating to Take Over one more time if god forbids....... the old war monger dude McCain wins
The son of Ronald and Nancy Reagan even is endorsing Barak Obama!
Did I tell you earlier ladies and gents that Reagan and Nancy stopped their friendship with the old war monger dude after he Cheated on his wife who so bravely fought for years to get him out of Hanoi hilton ? Is the old war monger dude even allowed to use the name of Reagna in his campains at all or talking about Reagan in his so called "speecheLeeches" ?????
His father would never accept Palin as the Vice president he says and I am sure he is so right......
I am certainly not a Fan of Reagan as President at all... but still he and Nancy have certainly being able to learn this Ron being on the right side as well!
Obama will be in my city in a few hours and he will make one of his speeches and help others understand how much better a choice he will be for the country.
"You been watching THE DUDE too long.Got infected by HIS Hate"
Hmmm..lets see. Shouts of 'terrorist' and 'kill him' at Republican rallies; demands that he prove he is actually American and not Indonesian or Kenyan;frightening people from Middle America with claims that Obama will take away all guns and talk radio; claims that he has actually murdered somebody; emphasizing 'hussein' in his name as if to somehow snidely suggest that he is some kind of Islamic-loving anti-American; Bill O'Reilly snarling that Ashley Todd is an Obama plant and that her actions are an Obama conspiracy which the Democratic campaigners have been plotting for over two years to make the GOP look bad. Some of the Republican party could give Osama Bin laden lessons in hate. As Garrison Keillor put it so well "The American people are going to reject 'The Angry Old man of the Desert' and 'Whoppee the Ice Queen'.
cenobite: "You been watching THE DUDE too long.Got infected by HIS Hate"
Hmmm..lets see. Shouts of 'terrorist' and 'kill him' at Republican rallies; demands that he prove he is actually American and not Indonesian or Kenyan;frightening people from Middle America with claims that Obama will take away all guns and talk radio; claims that he has actually murdered somebody; emphasizing 'hussein' in his name as if to somehow snidely suggest that he is some kind of Islamic-loving anti-American; Bill O'Reilly snarling that Ashley Todd is an Obama plant and that her actions are an Obama conspiracy which the Democratic campaigners have been plotting for over two years to make the GOP look bad. Some of the Republican party could give Osama Bin laden lessons in hate. As Garrison Keillor put it so well "The American people are going to reject 'The Angry Old man of the Desert' and 'Whoppee the Ice Queen'.
I hope you aren't talking to me here. I've been making up my own mind and I've been working for the Obama campaign for several months now.
The Dems. did not have to "plot" to make the GOP look bad, they ARE bad! O'Reilly is a liar.
FreeHappy: Obama will be in my city in a few hours and he will make one of his speeches and help others understand how much better a choice he will be for the country.OBAMA 08
CLEVELAND OHIO , WILL ROCK AS WELL AS MOST OF THE REST OF THE UNTIED STATES! BRUCE THE BOSS... WILL MAKE THE RALLY EVEN MORE GREAT..... LUCKY YOU FREEHAPPY!!!!!!
Apparently I am the only one here who is "required" to post a full face of MYSELF only! I have been told this in an email by CS but I see lots of other pictures that are not.
Hot_Single_Dude: CLEVELAND OHIO , WILL ROCK AS WELL AS MOST OF THE REST OF THE UNTIED STATES! BRUCE THE BOSS... WILL MAKE THE RALLY EVEN MORE GREAT..... LUCKY YOU FREEHAPPY!!!!!!
Thank you! I am extremely excited, I would love to go there now and get my place in front but that would be a bit extreme.
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