W's D-Day speech on 100G set (WH Aides Ordered-And tear down bleachers)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/203374p-175359c.html

White House aides advancing President Bush's Normandy visit ordered the Pentagon to erect a $100,000 platform for his entry into a U.S. military cemetery, well-placed sources told the Daily News.

American taxpayers picked up the six-figure tab for the red carpet, walkway and artificial island hurriedly built over a memorial pool so that Bush and French President Jacques Chirac could walk in style to the dais for last week's ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Military engineers were given just one day's notice to create the set for Bush's speech at the U.S. cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, these sources told The News.

In addition, White House staffers demanded that bleachers erected for several thousand spectators be torn down, limiting the number of guests who could attend the event. "Some 25-year-old White House kid thought they weren't esthetically pleasing," one administration official complained.

The red carpet price tag wasn't anticipated by Pentagon planners, so the $100,000, which has already been paid out to the civilian contractors who did the work, will have to be scrounged from somewhere else.

[King of New Orleans]

1. They can just take it out

of the fund that supplies soldiers with body armor.

[RC]

3. Can't. That fund is supplying batteries for crashcart's heart.

[Not Me]

2. Reminds me of his visit to New York for the 9/11 memorial groundbreaking

From Jimmy Breslin's Newsday column....

March 11, 2004

For days now, the job at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County has been to follow the order from the White House through the Secret Service and down to the park workers:

"The president's feet are not to touch the dirt."

So all yesterday, large crews drawn from all county parks worked to ensure that, as always in his life, George Bush's feet do not touch the ground when he appears in the big park today.

Bush arrives for a fund-raiser at a restaurant in the park. That is indoors and he doesn't have to worry about his feet there. But he has to go over ground to an administration building where he is to meet with families of 9/11 victims. After that, he has to go over more ground to get to the site of a memorial to the victims.

He doesn't want his feet on the ground and he will be at a groundbreaking ceremony."

Bush was to move to a couple of locations on dirty parkland. Last Thursday, the bureaucrats in charge of the park heard from the Secret Service. The word immediately ran through the halls of local government.

Not a foot touches the earth.

And the workers went to work. First, there was the ground from a parking lot to a wood building used for special activities. This probably will be where Bush meets with the families.

"We're not even sure he will use this," a foreman said. "They just tell us he is going to meet with families. We ask, 'Where?' They won't tell us. So we went ahead, anyway."

They put up a concrete sidewalk from the parking lot to a ramp leading into a side entrance to the building.


arrogant bastard!!

[AndyTiedye]

10. And we're supposed to believe that he rides a mt.bike on the pig farm????

that fall was more likely off of a bar stool.

[mbperrin]

4. Could also take it out

of the debriefing money for those returning home!

Hell, what could be so stressful?

Right?

[justjones]

5. Take it out of Bush's and the rest of those who ordered this salaries!

[daleo]

6. His supporters will say:

He could have walked on the water, if that damned Frenchman (Freedom man?) wouldn't have been with him.

Besides, Clinton got a haircut once.

[crossroads]

LOL...

Ya got me on that on... I blew water out my nose!
:beer:

[crossroads]

7. LOL...

Ya got me on that on... I blew water out my nose!
:beer:

[crossroads]

LOL...

Ya got me on that on... I blew water out my nose!
:beer:

[crossroads]

8. LOL...

Ya got me on that on... I blew water out my nose!
:beer:

[buycitgo]

9. Mr. Chirac......TEAR DOWN THOSE BLEACHERS!!!!!!!