Bush visiting NYC today --- thought the City felt different

[fryguy]

I'd like to know why the let him land his helicopter in Central Park instead of at one of the several heliports in the City. Guess ruining the ball field and preventing those who would otherwise use the park on such a nice Spring day shouldn't concern him at all as long as he can get in and out as easily and quickly as possible......


Two limousines, one carrying President Bush, drive through Central Park in New York, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 after Marine One landed in a ball field in the park. Bush is in New York to visit a charter school in Harlem. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

[Horse with no Name]

1. Why doesn't he use Marine 1 and land in a park in Baghdad?

:)

[Virginia Dare]

3. Yeah, he and Pickles can go rug shopping...n/t

[meldroc]

11. Just like an open-air market in Indiana...

or to be specific, Gary, Indiana.

[Javaman]

2. Ah so that's what that dark cloud was. nt

[JHB]

4. Who uses the commercial heliports?

People who use helicopters a lot. =money, =*'s "base"


Why would he inconvenience his base by using their heliports when he can inconvenience common park-goers?

[aquart]

5. Make him go away.

[fryguy]

8. according to NY1 he is spending the evening

guess we have to endure him here a little longer.... :(

[rodeodance]

12. umm. must be another fundraiser

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. What a grand fucker! Does it up as if he were the emperor of the world!

& he does it up using the tax money he collected from poor bastards all of this place.

[Zywiec]

7. Did he have to pay a congestion fee?

[mcscajun]

9. Oh, hell! I have to go into Midtown West tonight.

:grr:

[npincus]

10. I thought I smelled shit wafting across the Hudson

that explains it.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. That's probably because the Park is closer to the charter school in Harlem than

the heliports which are downtown. Otherwise he'd be exposed to more people in NY in a motorcade.

Just knowing he's within 50 miles of me, gives me the creeps.

[fryguy]

17. could have used the mid-town pad on the West Side

then just head up the West Side highway to the 125th Street exiti. just bothers me to consider what alterations might have been madeor damage cause by Marine One landing on the newly seeded ball fields -- let's not forget that when he visited the 9/11 memorial on Long Island they paved over part of the park lest his feet touch grass or dirt......

[Starbucks Anarchist]

14. That explains the heat.

That ball of hellfire that surrounds him is melting everything here.

[Oilwellian]

15. The criminal always returns...

to the scene of the crime.

[bdamomma]

16. isn't that the truth!!