POTUS

Sometimes we forget that there is a man attached to the office when we are talking about POTUS. We get so used to hearing Bush, reading Bush, and are lacking in the respect for the Office of the President of the United States that we hear or see Bush and think we saw or heard the words The President. This shows not just a lack of respect for the office he holds but for the man himself.

Some people don’t forget:

http://www.washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050630-124908-7077r

"I said: 'I know people are pushing you, but please don't pull the guys out of Iraq too soon,' " said Crystal Owen, whose husband, Staff Sgt. Mike Owen, was killed in Iraq last year.

She didn’t say what the MSM would like her to say. She didn’t curse at The President. She didn’t condemn him. She didn’t call him an idiot, a puppet, Hitler, or any of those other nice things the MSM has been calling him by reporting all the outlandish things the liberal/progressive left has been calling him.

"Don't let my husband -- and 1,700-plus other deaths -- be in vain," she added during a private meeting with Mr. Bush at the North Carolina base. "They were over there, fighting for a democratic nation, and I hope you'll keep our service members over there until the mission can be accomplished."

This woman lost her husband to the vision of The President. His vision? To fight terror by bringing freedom to people trapped in an existence where terror can be taught as a way to a better life. Thus far, this President’s vision has brought freedom to Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and opened the door to freedom in Egypt and Palestine.

The President said:
"We have lost good men and women who left our shores to defend freedom and did not live to make the journey home," he said as his eyes turned glassy. "I've met with families grieving the loss of loved ones who were taken from us too soon."

The link above has more but this is the key to the man the left, with their tools, the MSM attack daily.
Before his speech, as is his custom, the president met for three hours with more than 90 spouses, children and parents of 32 soldiers killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The last person he met was Mrs. Owen.

"Even though he'd met with 31 other families prior to me, it was like I was the only one -- I mean, he made me feel special," she told The Washington Times yesterday. "He wanted to know about Mike and about me and if I was OK."

"I did get teary-eyed and he kind of held my hands for a while," she added. "He was very sincere and gave me a kiss on the cheek as he left -- I was a little flabbergasted."

The only other people in the room were two Secret Service agents and a photographer for the White House, which declined to release photos.

Mr. Bush has always barred press coverage of his meetings with family members of fallen soldiers.

And yet it is just another thing for those who fail to understand the measure of this man, our President.

Mr. Bush has long been criticized by Democrats for not attending the funerals of Americans who have died in the war against terrorism. But White House officials say the president does not want to disrupt public services or create the appearance that he favors one family over another.

And yet he is a man, this POTUS. He deserves respect and should receive it, not just because of the office he holds proudly but because he is a man who leads. Just ask the widow.

"Mike believed in him," Mrs. Owen said. "He was his commander in chief and would have done anything he was ordered to do."

"I was proud to be a military wife," she added. "And I was very honored that the president would take time out to meet with me personally."