Commissioning of USS GHW Bush Has Special Meaning to GW Bush

Commissioning of USS GHW Bush Has Special Meaning to GW Bush
By Richard Dunham

To President George W. Bush, today's ceremony commissioning an aircraft carrier named for his father is the emotional culmination of a turbulent eight years in office.

"He is a remarkably humble man, which is a rarity in this line of work,'' the current president told the Houston Chronicle on Friday. ``And he's full of grace -- it's been a beautiful thing to behold.''

Ten days before leaving office, the president known as Bush 43 got intensely personal when talking about his father, the man known around the White House as Bush 41.

"He taught me that you can come into politics with a set of values and leave with the same set of values,'' the younger President Bush said. "In other words, he just wasn't father in name, he was father in love, and in the depth of his affection for mom and our family.''

The outgoing president said that he knows how much the carrier commissioning means to his father.

"There's a couple of things that are going to keep him young,'' he said of his 86-year-old dad. "One is the carrier and the anticipation of the moment, (the other is) me getting out of the presidency.''

President Bush and his sister, Doro Koch, are both scheduled to make remarks at the event in Norfolk, Va.

"Obviously, it's an honor to participate and to share in that experience,'' the president told the Chronicle. "The biggest honor will be to be on the platform and watch this good man be honored.''

http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/2009/01/chronicle_interview_commission.html

Obama couldn't even dream up such gracious, heartfelt words about any of his family members (most of whom are laying under his bus) as GWB has about his father. Read it and take a lesson, Lefty-Loos.