Bush the Compassionate Conservative

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From today’s Social Security event in Galveston, Texas:

MR. BENTLEY: And we’re operating in central Iraq. I’ll be back there next week.

[snip]

THE PRESIDENT: How many children you got?

MR. BENTLEY: We have two children. We have a four-year-old son named Patrick, and a three-month-old daughter named Elaine that I just got to meet for the first time.

THE PRESIDENT: Really?

MR. BENTLEY: Yes, sir.

THE PRESIDENT: No wonder you’re emotional. (Laughter.) That’s awesome.

MRS. BENTLEY: She was born two days after he deployed.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, great.

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From today’s Social Security event in Galveston, Texas:

MR. BENTLEY: And we’re operating in central Iraq. I’ll be back there next week.

[snip]

THE PRESIDENT: How many children you got?

MR. BENTLEY: We have two children. We have a four-year-old son named Patrick, and a three-month-old daughter named Elaine that I just got to meet for the first time.

THE PRESIDENT: Really?

MR. BENTLEY: Yes, sir.

THE PRESIDENT: No wonder you’re emotional. (Laughter.) That’s awesome.

MRS. BENTLEY: She was born two days after he deployed.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, great.

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What's your point? Was he supposed to say, "I'll get him right home for you"? The man is a vollunteer soldier. Maybe he should have waited till he got out to have kids. That is a decision that he made, not the president. These things happen. If a leader based his decisions on each individuals circumstance, he would never make any decision at all. That's what makes him a good president. He has the strength to make the tough choices. We usually spend years under a demoncratic president too weak to take care of the hard stuff. So when a repub hits office, he has to make the choices that the dem was too weak to make. That is why we are where we are as a country today.