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This picture is why Bush will win
All other things being equal, the picture and story behind it are why Bush will beat Kerry.It Felt Like He Was Trying To Protect Me.
 President Bush was working the crowd at a campaign stop in Lebanon, Ohio, when a voice rose above the excited din: "This girl lost her mom in the World Trade Center on 9/11." Bush stopped in his tracks, turned around and without fanfare, wrapped his arms around 15-year-old Ashley Faulkner, hugging her to his heart. "It felt like he was trying to protect me," the teen told The Post yesterday. "Here is the most powerful guy in the world, and he wants to make sure I feel safe," the high-school junior said. "He took 20 seconds to give me a hug for no other reason but to comfort me." Ashley's dad was equally impressed with the president's simple, heartfelt gesture ' and moved by his daughter's response. "That's more emotion than she's shown in 2 1/2 years" since 9/11, said her father, Lynn. "The man just transformed before our eyes. He changed from this very powerful, very important person into a man, and a husband and a father," said Faulkner, 50, of Mason, Ohio. "It was remarkable." "A very honest sort of sadness came over his face," he said. "He backed up to where Ashley was, looked down at her and asked, 'How are you doing'' Then he gently put his hand around her back and pulled her head to his chest to hug her. Ashley sort of snuggled into him and said, 'I'm OK.'" As Faulkner reached for his camera, "The president looked up, right into my eyes, and told Ashley, 'I can see you have a father who loves you very much.' " Bush is genuinely and honestly a believer in what he is doing. Unlike Kerry, who swings to wherever the polls and speechwriters tell him and has only the goal of being president (much like Nixon, Kerry is driven by his desire to be president with no other reason for many of his actions), Bush, for better or worse, goes with his moral center. And thats what earned him his respect (and votes) from those of us in "Flyover country", whom the Liberal Elitists look down upon. Bush lacks the patrician arrogance that Kerry innately posesses - and the emotions in this picture are things that Kerry and his most ardent supporters cannot produce, nor even begin to understand.
Posted by: OldSpook 2004-05-09 |
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