It's a Nice Place to Visit, but He Can't Stay(Bush the coward, part 984)

[spotbird]

CRAWFORD, Tex. More than a year ago, when Karl Rove and President Bush began planning the Republican National Convention, they picked New York City in early September so that the event would flow into the third anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks.

Some Republicans said then that Mr. Bush might even visit ground zero, despite the risk of appearing to make political use of the tragedy. Most others said the convention's timing would remind voters of what the campaign considers Mr. Bush's finest hour - the moment he grabbed the bullhorn in the rubble at the tip of Manhattan and shouted that the people who had knocked down the buildings would hear from him soon.

But now it turns out that Mr. Bush may not spend a single night in the city that helped transform his presidency.At this point, the unofficial plan is for him to arrive in Manhattan sometime on Thursday, Sept. 2, the final day of the four-day convention, deliver his acceptance speech that night, then leave immediately for Pennsylvania.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/23/national/23letter.html?ex=1251000000&en=9bbfd6a1ee6b729f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

[geek tragedy]

1. Good.

He's not welcome here.

[aquart]

9. I don't even want his plane to touch down.

Can't he just buzz the Garden from Air Force One?

[BJ]

2. Wot a weenie

[Old and In the Way]

3. It wouldn't surprise me if a "terror alert" makes him a complete no show.

I'll bet he videotapes his acceptance speech. That way they can edit it before showing to the true belivers.

[saskatoon]

36. no show

like "No Show" right after the planes hit when like a "Wrong Way Corrigan" he took off w. instead of back to his Job in Washington. Just like Cheney when "he was literally picked up OFF his feet and rushed to the bowels of the building" and NO way could he resist those big brutes.

[karlrschneider]

53. Wasn't it Rummy who claimed he was "literally picked up" & carried off?

Maybe the emulsion on my formerly photographic memory has fogged.....
:eyes:

[Cocoa]

4. just drop off the plastic turkey

and run.

[aquart]

10. Drop the turkey from Air Force One.

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

[Career Prole]

14. ROTFL!

Best episode ever!:D

[The Icon Painter]

25. Thanks

I needed the reminder of that episode. The Bob Dole revision to type has left me sick to my stomach and it's lovely to remember happier day.

[myrna minx]

33. I needed a good laugh.

Thanks. :hi:

[Tight_rope]

39. LMBAO...

[gatlingforme]

60. LOl, I love it.

[kohodog]

42. Maybe he'll show up with a Razorback hog under each arm.

Marine guard: Nice pigs Sir.

Bush: These aren't pigs, they're genuine Arkansas razorback hogs.I got one for Cheney and one for Rumsfeld.

Marine guard, saluting: Nice Trade Sir.

[progressivebydesign]

5. There are reports that they are building a bubble for him to speak in..

.. no lie. It's supposedly some sort of enclosure, see-thru, 9 feet above the normal stage.. but totally surrounded by blast and bullet proof glass or something... just a little hamster tunnel to walk thru. I think the man is drowning in paranoia.. now he's afraid of his own fucking delegates???? That's just sick!!

[Sub Atomic]

6. Do you have a source for that?

I know of several online forums where that bit of data would cause a maelstrom!!

[fob]

12. Source? Have you learned nothing. No one needs a source anymore.

Just quote the above poster anonomously and preface the comment by "some people are saying..." And while you're at it, add some shit of your own. Hell I would like to add that the thing is practically invisible! If you don't see on TV it's PROOF that it IS THERE!!

:evilgrin:

[progressivebydesign]

16. I'll find the link. Thank you.

Rather than dismiss you as a rude butthead for your comments.. I'll choose to believe you were skewering Michelle Malkin, not me.. certainly not ME, as I have been here at DU since early 2001 and have 5,000 posts.. I KNOW I'm not being treated as a liar or distruptor.

Right? :evilgrin:

[fob]

27. Rude Butthead would be one of the kinder names hurled in my direction

but in this case it is unfounded. The "Have you learned nothing" comment was rhetorical, and directed more at the right-wing "braintrust" in general rather than to malkin specifically, although she is the latest shining example of this "tactic".

As an under 2,000 poster, I defer to your unDUniable greatness.

:evilgrin:

Peace and thanks for the link

[truth2power]

24. Too funny, FOB!

You don't even have to append "some people are saying". Typical whacko thing anymore is just to throw something out there as if it's from God's mouth to their ear.

An acquaintance told me last week, "Bush has a 160 IQ." This person has a Phd. Goes to show... whacko-ness is no respecter of education.

[Blue Gardener]

40. High IQ does not equate to common sense

Anyone with a lick of sense knows * is an idiot.

[Morning Dew]

47. How true !

Here's one that some people are saying -

One of Colin Powell's purple hearts was awarded to him for falling in a hole.
The other was for being a passenger in a vehicle that crashed.

Believe it or not.

[progressivebydesign]

17. Here's your link and source:

http://www.nydailynews.com/08-20-2004/news/politics/story/223982p-192424c.html

It was a story linked from Buzzlfash.. on their main page. It's a good read!

[Sub Atomic]

28. Thanks Caliphoto!!

[JoFerret]

31. If he appears from a hole below stage

- highly appropriate - like a devil in Jacobean tragedy.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

48. "The ultra-secure Bush stage..."

Pre-speech jitters!

[spotbird]

7. Let's pray that's true.

I'd love to watch the chimp in a hamster cage while the rest of NYC is exposed to a threat.

[kohodog]

46. Will it have a wheel? He can get his workout at the same time!

[Zero Gravitas]

8. I hope so!

That would be great if they did that... he would look like an even bigger loser than he does already. Maybe they could make the fear-bubble look like a blacony to comeplete the transformation to Fascist Strong Man.

[LizW]

11. Please say you're not kidding

Is he going to be like Magneto in a plexiglass enclosure?

That would be too fabulous!

[progressivebydesign]

19. I thinking sort of Agent Maxwell Smart-like. N/T

[Malva Zebrina]

13. I read it has an opening that leads up to the makeshift

stage in which a person could conceivably appear magically before the audience via a hydrolic lift. Sounds like something the crazy people would do and if so, he will look more like a fool than ever.

[Career Prole]

18. And all we had trouble with was a balloon drop!

Yes! Put the chimp in a 9 foot tall hydraulic Cuisinart built by the lowest bidder! Let Uncle Dick in too!
:evilgrin:

[jgardner]

29. Balloons!

Can you even imagine what it will look like when the red white & blue balloons bounce off his bubble instead of his head at the end of the convention?

[Career Prole]

35. They need the bubble

to keep the balloons from poppin' on his pinhead. ;)

[Stephanie]

22. I know a stagehand at MSG

I will try to get the scoop.

[MisterP]

34. hamster tunnel?

this is like the orders not to let the Chimperor's feet touch soil--meaning carpets, planking, and concrete paths built in hours for the Great Ape Lord.

[kohodog]

43. We'll have to change his name from Bunnypants to Bubble Boy!

I hope the coward does.

[Norquist Nemesis]

56. Well DUH!!! The republicans are afraid they'll shoot him!

Bush needs that protective glass even while mingling among the faithful. ;)

[MagickMuffin]

58. maybe

It will be like the pope mobile

[kayell]

59. If * really wanted to go among the people, he could use one of these

Avoids having to touch the commoners.

[Malva Zebrina]

15. delete

[progressivebydesign]

20. Wait.. now that I reread it.. could it be part of his "GOD" complex?

You know.. rising above the crowd?? Seemingly larger than life and floating above the delegates like a badly strung angel in a local theatre production??? Hmmmm...

[saskatoon]

37. rising above the clouds

AND the pitiful part of that is that the Funamentalists would BELIEVE it, swallow it hook line and sinker!

[CBHagman]

21. Wow! That's the world's biggest middle finger delivered to NYC

Why doesn't Chimpy urinate on the memorial to victims of the Irish famine while he's at it?

Disgusting.

[Stephanie]

23. Bush has never concealed his contempt for NYC

Bush Hates NY - And the Feeling is Mutual, as 500 Protesters Greeted Him
10-Jul-01
Democrats.com Events

After visiting 32 other states and Poland, Shrub finally visited America's largest city. According to the NY Times, "Mr. Bush expressed something short of pure delight at being back in the state that he lost by nearly 25 percentage points last November and that his advisers view as politically out of reach for 2004. 'How do you like New York, Mr. President?' a reporter asked Mr. Bush as he posed for a photograph with a small cluster of Democrats and Republicans in front of New York Harbor... 'It's a beautiful day,' Mr. Bush responded tersely...

http://www.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Democrats.com+Events

[Zhade]

26. Pussy little bitch.

NT!

[Doosh]

30. wow, talk about "using" New York

[fertilizeonarbusto]

32. Consistently cowardly

I hope this is all true.

[Tight_rope]

38. "They are being very sensitive not to exploit 9/11,'' ...LOL...BULLSHIT!

If the "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" was truly a success, Bush would be exploiting 9/11 all the way to hell. Not that he has not already done that many times in the past 3+years.

[Princess Turandot]

41. Interestingly, they laid a commorative cornerstone at Ground Zero..

a view weeks ago, in a very low key affair. I think Pataki was there, but it wasn't made into a huge political event. Wonder why....

I don't think Bush would dare show up at the 9/11 ceremonies this year. The ceremony is being dedicated to the parents/spouses of the
victims, and they will be the people in attendance, reading the names of the murdered.Given the reaction of many of the families to the 9-11 report, I don't think Mr. Bush would get too many positive photo ops, the way he did when he visited the site when the last piece of debris was removed.

[Citizen Daryl]

44. Just phone it in, dirtbag.

<EOM>

[tlcandie]

45. Wow!! His own Pope-mobile!!!!!

He really does have a Christ complex or whatever that is! Things he's as big and important as the Pope now!!!

Truly amazing!!!!! THAT WILL BE HIS LEGACY... the BUSH BUBBLE!! :+

:wow:

[vetwife]

50. Pop that sucker ! Anyone got a really sharp lllllllllllong needle ?

Rocket Launcher would work ! Not that I advocate it but bust the bubble !

[MuseRider]

49. He will appear looking like

Glenda the Good Witch of the North! What a maroon.

[Fridays Child]

51. Perhaps he'll re-enact his pseudo-warrior flight deck landing...

...puffy package, and all.

[juajen]

55. What's happening to *?

He looks like he's gained about 25 pounds and is a lot less fit since the "Mission Accomplished" photo-op? Anyone have the statistics? Or, could it be kevlar?

[Tight_rope]

57. LOL...Bush is good at acting...What a fake!

[allalone]

52. way off the deep end

do you think he will appear in a puff of smoke? He can't even trust his own party not to kill him? Why does he need this? He is way gone.
I wonder if it will look like a habi-trail.

[burrowowl]

54. Might make it worth it to

view his stage entrance. Too funny, is he afraid of pissed Repugs?