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This type-casting has started to take on a whole new meaning. Why, the man is unbelievable -- he knows how to get things done. Buffoon or idiot . . . he makes things happen.

Would someone please call me a "buffoon" . . . I want to be like George? Not Michael Jordan or other superstars who can't seem to get their life together, but I want to be taught by a man whose infectious spirit inspires success wherever he goes.

George Bush is a model we should all want to emulate, and if we can't seem to follow in lock-step with him, I would at least encourage us to point out the leadership qualities in this man to our children.

There are multitudinous examples of valor and character. Oh, that we could raise a generation of "buffoons" just like George.

It's a lesson lived-out before our very eyes and some are just too blind to see. Teach your children, point out the remarkable feats this man overcomes, and make him the object of every lesson taught of strong moral mettle. What better example can you find?

When the Democrats at the recent State-of-the-Union speech began showing their lack of class by booing and braying as donkeys do, George Bush immediately turned toward those most negative and strident sounds, looked the attack dogs in the eye, stayed on message and did not wince once.

Ladies and gentlemen, what a lesson! I hope many of you taped his address to the nation. Children should be encouraged to watch a leader who can stand in the face of those who would shout angrily in one of the most unbecoming, un-American displays of ignorance ever seen in a State-of-the-Union message and still with figurative "spit" on his face, use forceful language and not back down. Hallelujah! George Bush was magnanimous! It did my heart good!

When the President stared them down, he showed a "mirror on their error," as if choreographed to shine a light on the ugly sight they were. Not many men have such a strong constitution to do that, but he did it with brilliance.

Parents, there's a great lesson to be learned here. Whether you like George Bush or not, he's the kind of man who has the strength and fortitude that we should all desire for our children. Wow, what a show of courage!

My patience has run thin with the bombardment of gloom and doom from those who choose to make life miserable for our President in the next four years. Because now you're starting to make my life miserable, and it's an indictment on my intelligence that would have me believe I picked the wrong man.

You see, when George Bush won in November, not only did he get a mandate from the people, but we got a mandate, too. When the people of Iraq went to the polls last week and voted overwhelmingly, not only did George Bush get another mandate, but we did, too.

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