Tony Snow...

I was trying to find a quote... a sign off really that came from one of Tony Snow's broadcasts during the Christmas season of 2001. He gave a sweet little message to his daughter. I couldn't find it, but ran across this quote...

“Yet even while staring into a mirror darkly, great and stunning truths begin to take shape. Our maladies define a central feature of our existence: We are fallen. We are imperfect. Our bodies give out. But despite this — because of it — God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. We don’t know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator face-to-face.”

How the conservative movement needs a thoughtful, graceful man or woman with the intelligence and kindness of Tony Snow! Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity are almost always right except in their delivery because they lack grace and forget that you catch more flies with honey. Tony Snow never forgot to be graceful, but he was so smart and so prepared that he was hard to argue with. Until the Republicans come up with a group of folks with Snow's many qualities including his integrity... they won't regain power.

Our Damaged Relationship w/ the World???

President Obama seems to think that he needs to "restore" America's reputation in the world. This statement is some of the most supreme arrogance of the Democratic party. America is and always has been the most generous and self sacrificing of nations. Our people, including our military have served to bring humanitarian relief all over the world. Yes, there are crowds of extremists who protest American policies all over the world. But for every protestor, there are thousands at home who have benefited from American generosity, humanitarian aid or are atleast educated enough to see what American has really stood for in the world... This down on ourselves mentality is a false and damaging creation of liberals in Hollywood and the media who have not bothered with their history...

Charles Krauthammer has the real story here...

This is an excerpt.. but read the whole article..

WASHINGTON -- Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims with "to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect," his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic. Is it "new" to acknowledge Muslim interests and show respect to the Muslim world? Obama doesn't just think so, he said so again to millions in his al-Arabiya interview, insisting on the need to "restore" the "same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago."

Astonishing. In these most recent 20 years -- the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world -- America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved -- and resulted in -- the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.