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Until this moment I have been forced to listen while media and politicians alike have told me "what Canadians think". In all that time they never once asked.
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"You don't speak for me."
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Beautiful work, Kate.
Very poignant, Kate, and extremely well executed: Canada’s answer to Edinburgh’s Greyfriar’s Bobby?
What a beautiful painting Kate. I have been sad since America ushered the new stranger into the Whitehouse. I was overcome with loss the day George W. Bush left with his lovely wife, Laura, and …Barny, the real Whitehouse dog; wise, on guard for his people, not afraid of intruders and not afraid to snap at those who bring ill will to America, loyal, clean, solid male without any flash or ‘big bark, no bite’, a dog that a person would want to be with all the time because he would always back you up and would always be good, honest company.
President George W. made me feel safe because he was a mature man (with a mature dog) who had the well being of the people (especially the soldiers) of America constantly in his heart and in his mind. W. and Barny were not ‘play acting’ for the Camera, they were working for the people and they didn’t care about the msm yappers; Barny was back up with a bite. In glaring contrast is the emotionally immature Barack Hussein and his wild out of control pup gamboling around, not even trying to fill the ‘shoes’ of a real Commander and Chief with a real dog that knows what backup means. The pup and the naive, arrogant, agenda driven puppet President have never known emotional or mental stress; they have never been in danger and they have not grown a conscience through experience.
The juvenile ‘team’ have set America for sail on a stormy sea, in a rowboat without oars. The picture of Barny biting the nasty reported who dared attack his master, a man who loved the troops and the people so much that he sacrificed his Presidency to keep them safe (even those who spewed vitriol at him constantly), contrasts sharply with the jangly adolescent and a young pup wildly running out of control over everything that means anything to the American people and their soldiers, the men/women who have stood on guard for freedom and security for America, for centuries.
For me. the beautiful picture you painted, Kate, invokes a personal response to the departure of W., a response, that I could have shared with Barny; under different circumstances. If W. had left Barny, Barny would have ‘waited’ beside a shoe that the trusted man had worn, hoping forever that the man and the old world (the shoe)that he had represented would return. The people who appreciated the good man who was President for eight years cannot ‘wait’ for him to be President again because we know that his Presidency is over; we can just miss him and be grateful for his dedication to us for all those years.
I would guess that many soldiers who have the Youth as commander and chief feel as the dog in your picture and I feel – I doubt that Barny would have ‘served’ the new guy…the soldiers have no choice but in their hearts they know the difference between Barny and BO….they must miss W and my heart hurts for them as it does for your little dog in this picture.
You are a very gifted person Kate. All of us who read and comment here are very fortunate to have such an amazing hostess. Thank-you for posting this; even though it made my heart hurt.
reminds me of them paintings of kids and puppies with the big brown eyes