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If there was ever a time for him to come forward and act like a president when the nation is wounded to its soul, NOW IS THAT TIME.
True leadership rises to the occasion and ignores personal risk and discomfort. It is personal courage that separates tin horn tyrants from great leaders.
WHERE THE HELL IS GEORGE W. BUSH?
His presence in Louisiana right now would be an important sign that this country that we are all inthis together and that help is on the way to millions of our countrymen and women.
You want to see real leadership in the crucible of fire? Here it is:
"From 11 A.M. until 1 P.M. there was an ominous stillness. Suddenly from the Confederate side came the reports of two signal guns in quick succession. A bombardment from one hundred and fifty cannon commenced and was replied to by eighty guns of the Union Army whose convex line, advantageous in other respects, did not admit of their bringing into action a large part of their artillery. The Confederate fire was chiefly concentrated upon the Second Corps where Hancock had resumed command. It was, he wrote in his report, "the heaviest artillery fire I have ever known." But it did little damage. The Union soldiers lay under the protection of stone walls, swells of the ground and earthworks and the projectiles of the enemy passed over their heads, sweeping the open ground in their rear.
Hancock with his staff, his corps flag flying, rode deliberately along the front of his line and, by his coolness and his magnificent presence, inspired his men with courage and determination. One of his brigadiers, an old neighbor, said to him, "General the corps commander ought not to risk his life in that way." Hancock replied, "There are times when a corps commander's life does not count."
Description of the Cannonade just prior to Pickett's Charge "History of the Civil War 1861–1865", James Ford Rhodes, 1917
There are times when the comfort of an American President do not count. This is most certainly one of those times.
WHERE THE HELL IS GEORGE W. BUSH?
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