BUSH Visit To Homey Diner In Peoria "Interrupts" Breakfast

[kpete]

Jan. 31, 2007 - On Tuesday, President Bush popped in for a surprise visit to the Sterling Family Restaurant, a homey diner in Peoria, Ill. It’s a scene that has been played out many times before by this White House and others: a president mingling among regular Americans, who, no matter what they might think of his policies, are usually humbled and shocked to see the leader of the free world standing 10 feet in front of them.

But on Tuesday, the surprise was on Bush. In town to deliver remarks on the economy, the president walked into the diner, where he was greeted with what can only be described as a sedate reception. No one rushed to shake his hand. There were no audible gasps or yelps of excitement that usually accompany visits like this. Last summer, a woman nearly fainted when Bush made an unscheduled visit for some donut holes at the legendary Lou Mitchell’s Restaurant in Chicago. In Peoria this week, many patrons found their pancakes more interesting. Except for the click of news cameras and the clang of a dish from the kitchen, the quiet was deafening.

“Sorry to interrupt you,” Bush said to a group of women, who were sitting in a booth with their young kids. “How’s the service?” As Bush signed a few autographs and shook hands, a man sitting at the counter lit a cigarette and asked for more coffee. Another woman, eyeing Bush and his entourage, sighed heavily and went back to her paper. She was reading the obituaries. “Sorry to interrupt your breakfast,” a White House aide told her. “No problem,” she huffed, in a not-so-friendly way. “Life goes on, I guess.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16908975/site/newsweek/

[peacebird]

1. I guess his act really *isn't* "playing in Peoria" anymore, eh?

:evilgrin:

good!

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. True, so true

:toast:

[Sequoia]

2. BEST NEWS ALL WEEK!!

[NYCGirl]

3. Oh, man. That's telling. NT

[Skidmore]

4. Guess it's not playing in Peoria any more.

[gratuitous]

6. But I thought everyone just LOVED the Boy King

All those adoring crowds of military personnel, clapping and grinning like Chinese peasants in a Maoist documentary, all those rich industrialists at the $5,000 a plate dinners. I thought everyone just dreamed of the chance to sit down with this guy and have a beer with him. Well, it’s Peoria, Illinois, after all. Hardly the heartland of America, and certainly not representative of how real Americans feel about their president.

[Nickster]

7. WOW! That is very telling. Peoria is normally very red. We NEED PICS! n/t

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

8. That Is Too damn Funny. Any Chance There's Video?

[acmavm]

9. He's been a damn rude interruption to life on this entire planet.

Dammit, there is no way to describe how entirely depressed it makes me to think that some pathetic cowardly snippy rude arrogant little rich frat boy ever ended up contaminating OUR White House.

But I guess when your grandfather and father deal with Nazis and death squads there isn't much that you won't dare to try. And having a family knowing where all the bodies are buried (literally AND figuratively) doesn't hurt either.

[rhiannon55]

10. Haha! I bet widdle Bushy got his feewings hurt...

Poor widdle DICKtator...:rofl:

[peacebird]

11. another link - with a photo!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6315881.stm

[The Count]

12. Oh, no - what happened to his political capital?

[wakeme2008]

13. this guy looks like he want to hit Bush

:rofl:

[Phredicles]

19. Caption: "Please don't touch me..."

"...a perfectly good jacket I'll have to burn."

[Bob Loblaw]

14. That's just great.

This past election season I was hoping the worthless Publican Congressman (he lost by the way) would go door to door in my neighborhood so I could tell him to get off of my property.

If I owned that restaurant I would have told Bush he was not welcome there and that I was invoking my prerogative to serve whomever I please.

[cspanlovr]

15. As I read this, I thought of the movie "soap dish"...

where sally field's character was so down she had to go to the mall in new jersey to have people fawning and fainting all over her. Does whoopi goldberg working at the WH?

[flordehinojos]

16. i wonder if he ran into some friends of mine who throw slippers at the t.v. everytime they see him.

haven't heard from my friends.

man! the man is such an in your face, photo op opportunist. interrupting somebody's breakfast who does not even want to acknowledge him, to force them to do so, and on to top of that to force them in to a photo op!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[gatorboy]

17. So is he still flying around on his big fucking plane, wasting fuel..

Telling the peasants to conserve?

Ya gotta love how completely clueless the moran is.

[badgerpup]

18. I'm surprised they let him in the diner at all...

...since most of his appearances are staged in front of a handpicked, carefully selected herd of sheep audience.
Just going in cold like that, without taking the temperature of the audience...unusual, you think?

I wonder whose idea that was. Be funny if it was Bush's own idea...he's just gonna drop in and spread a little of his presidentin' awesomeness around...but the people ain't having any.
:rofl:

[bdamomma]

20. I hope wherever this murderer goes he will get a cool reception

like that, he is always thinking about himself, how is perceived by the "regular" people.

[TZ]

21. that gives me hope that even the "reddest" of states..

can come to their senses. :)

[madrchsod]

22. i guess no one in middle america

gives a shit about george. good thing karl is there to rock him to sleep.