Another Bush Moment You Won't See In The MSM

By Dave Hinz - Publisher
04/02/07

I would like to thank the Anchoress for pointing out this photo from the Daily Mail of President Bush aiding Robert Byrd to his seat at the ceremony for the awarding of a congressional Gold Medal to the Tuskegee airmen who served our country so nobly during WWII.

George W Bush is the President of the United States, not an usher. Robert Byrd is a former Ku Klux Klan member-turned elder statesman of the US Senate, a Democrat who has said that the President lied about the reasons for invading Iraq. “Eventually, the truth will emerge. And when it does, this house of cards, built of deceit, will fall.”

So why then did this President take the time and trouble to take the hand of his political enemy, a man who has said, “We have heard a lot about revisionist history from the White House of late in answer to those who question whether there was a real threat from Iraq. But, it is the President who appears to me to be intent on revising history.”

Why would this President show such deference and respect to a man who has suggested that he, the President, has been guilty of impeachable offenses?

 

The answer is as simple as the humility of this President. He took the hand of Robert Byrd, to help him into his seat, because Byrd is approaching 90 years of age, and this President is respectful of his elders. He took his hand because he needed help, and this President is not the type of person to turn his back on a fellow human being in need. He took his hand as an act of friendship, because this President does not take his politics personally. He understands that his political enemies are not his personal enemies.

As we have chronicled before, this President is a true man of compassion, not a phony politician. Both the President and Senator Byrd have secret service people who could have aided the Senator. There is staff at such a ceremony that could have done the same thing.

 

Other Presidents would have let them. But President George W Bush is not just any President. He came to Washington as a "Compassionate Conservative." He was ridiculed for that phrase. The bipartisanship he envisioned has never emerged from a city divided along ideological lines for decades.

But this President will not himself change, simply because the establishment refuses to meet him halfway. He will continue in his way, to promote a "new tone" in Washington. His political enemies will continue to ridicule him. Meanwhile the MSM will, for the most part, ignore this photo, and more importantly, the compassion of the man that the photo implies. He will be vilified as a liar who took this nation into an unnecessary war, for the profit of his friends. Today's MSM might ignore the humanity of this man, but history will be kind to President George W Bush.