Hey, Tammy!

Text of President Bush's RNC Speech

I'll let all the talking heads (and there are plenty of them!) pontificate the details of the President's speech last night. It started kind of slow with all the policy stuff and then warmed up when he opened up to show us a glimpse of his soul.

One of the things that stood out to me was I saw an old friend on the Fox News coverage. I had been watching C-Span in order to escape the incessant talking about "what we're going to hear tonight." I turned over to Fox News about midway through the speech because I liked the camera angles better.

Right about the time Bush was saying, "And in those military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, and idealistic, and strong" the camera panned away from the President's tear clouded eyes to the audience. There the camera lingered for a moment on a tall redhead grasping a flag. There were tears in her eyes to match those of the speaker.

"That's Tammy!" I exclaimed. Tammy was my wife's apartment mate when we were all in graduate school. I expected to see David Wilkins there (I saw him shake hands with Dick Cheney) and Gloria Haskins (she was there with the SC delegation), but I didn't figure to see an old friend I have not seen in nearly a year.

Hope you had fun, gurl!