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Aviation Pro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 06:42 PM
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From Pennsylvania Ave. to the Lone Star State.....
...just another fucking day in the fucking bubble for Two Shoes McChimpFuckstick. Words truly fucking escape me.

Link here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/10/AR2009041002714_pf.html


DALLAS -- The new couple at 10141 Daria Place accepted an invitation to a neighborhood dinner party last month. The guest list totaled eight. The main dish was chicken potpie. George and Laura Bush left their cul-de-sac in the back of a dark sedan, exited through a Secret Service checkpoint and rode down streets bordered by lawn signs adorned with gigantic Ws to welcome them home.

It had been a bad week for the country. President Obama spoke on television about the burdens he had inherited in office: anti-American sentiment, two wars, a recession. But it had been a good week at 10141 Daria Place. The Bushes shared stories over dinner about their return to Texas after eight years in Washington. They had improved their sprinkler system and hung custom-made green drapes. Neighbors had brought over homemade cookies and a potted houseplant.

Not until late in the dinner party did the former president speak in any depth about his two terms in the White House. He told one of his favorite stories, about a trip to Bucharest, Romania, in 2002. More than 200,000 people had come to hear him speak in a town square, he said. The sky turned dark. A cold rain fell. The Romanian president introduced him and -- look at that! A huge rainbow emerged on the horizon, and the Romanians burst into applause.

"Magical," Bush said.

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slingsam Donating Member (202 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 06:46 PM
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1. and.........the potted houseplant...
died????
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 06:47 PM
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2. "Magical"
:puke:
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 07:43 PM
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3. " A raffle determined which two children would receive Bush's cans"
Ok..compare THIS scenario with how the Obama family would have greeted the boys. Going by what we have seen so far with their interactions with children/good causes, the whole group probably would have been invited into the house, their kitchen cupboard probably would have been emptied out/given to the kids, and there would be lots pictures of beaming, happy, UNscared, UNprompted little boys.

INSTEAD, we have this:

From the OP article:

Until then, some neighbors have decided to treat 10141 Daria Place as just another house in Preston Hollow, despite all indications otherwise. The day after the Bushes arrived, the local Cub Scout troop visited their cul-de-sac as part of its annual drive to collect canned food. The troop's supervising parent, Nancy Burke, drove over to Daria Place a few days in advance to ask the Secret Service for clearance.

Sorry, the agents said.

Burke stopped by twice more and received the same answer before finally winning approval from a scheduling aide in Bush's office. An hour before she took the boys to Bush's house, Burke met with them to discuss logistics. Only 30 people could enter the cul-de-sac. The Scouts, ages 7 to 11, needed to wear their full uniforms. A raffle determined which two children would receive Bush's cans. Burke taught them how to talk to the media: "Think about their question before you speak." She demonstrated how to shake a president's hand. "Look him in the eye and shake firmly."

Just after 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 21, two nervous Cub Scouts approached Bush's front drive. As he opened the door, the former commander in chief could have been any Preston Hollow retiree donating cans that Saturday morning: 62, gray hair, loose slacks and a plastic bag filled with canned carrots. Except Bush wore a blue windbreaker with the presidential seal over the left breast, and Burke noticed the Secret Service agents eye the Scouts as they wrapped their arms around Bush and posed for pictures.





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Aviation Pro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 09:43 PM
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4. What kind of fucking assshole would greet a couple of Boy Scouts....
...in a Presidential windbreaker?

Oh, I forgot........

TWO SHOES!

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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 09:46 PM
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5. I can't wait to read his book, lol. It'll be full of delusional horseshit like that.
:rofl:
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