A Tuesday fundraiser headlined by President Bush for U.S. Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign is being moved out of the Phoenix Convention Center.
Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling enough tickets to fill the Convention Center space, and that there were concerns about more anti-war protesters showing up outside the venue than attending the fundraiser inside.
Another source said there were concerns about the media covering the event.
Bush's Arizona fundraising effort for McCain is being moved to private residences in the Phoenix area. A White House official said the event was being moved because the McCain campaign prefers private fundraisers and it is Bush administration policy to have events in public venues open to the media. The White House official said to reconcile that the Tuesday event will be held at a private venue and not the Convention Center.
Convention Center personnel confirmed the event has been canceled at their venue.
Tickets to the event were to range from $1,000 to $25,000 for VIP treatment. Money was to go toward McCain's presidential bid and a number of Republican Party organs.
You two can Cut and Run, but you cannot hide...
I feel like Yoda
"What a pity, cannot hold a fundraiser young Jedi."
Do the Republican Party organs include the heart and brain?
"it is Bush administration policy to have events in public venues open to the media"
Wow, when I was a kid if I told a whopper like that it was time for a visit to the woodshed. No kidding, I grew up on a farm and when I told a lie like that I got my backside severely whomped on. Not only did my Father hate liars, he considered someone telling him a bald-faced total lie like that a personal insult.
I only did that once. Quite obviously no one took the time to make sure that little Bushie knew that lying like that is a BAD. BAD thing and look where we are now because Poppy and Babs didn't do their jobs as parents.
Toes @ 3:
That phrase hit me the same way. I don't think they're going to have enough money to buy all the repubs a heart who need one.
I'm surprised anyone would pay to attend this shindig. Just tossing their money in the trash would make about as much sense.
"Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling enough tickets to fill the Convention Center space, and that there were concerns about more anti-war protesters showing up outside the venue than attending the fundraiser inside."
I doubt any anti-war protesters would pay $1000 to attend anything inside with bush and McCain. But in seriousness, I understand the intent of the sentence.
How funny that would be. A whole bunch of protesters outside and a hand full of repubs rubbing elbows inside with bush and McCain.
save your money, don't go to the show.
don't you eat that neo- con snow job.
From my perspective, this figures. The Republicans are finding that they are running out of friends but are gaining a lot of enemies. McCain's dumping of those two Pastors and Bush's past use and then throwing away of the Christian right has surely pissed that voting block off. Now, you have the veterans who know they will get the shaft as soon as they leave the service even though they had served in the wars that this incompetent and crooked Administration started. Add to that, every other person that also received this same treatment (I.E. Katrina victims) from them and you have a very large and growing, angry crowd.
You know the "party organs" didn't include the heart or soul - because the re-PIG-lic party doesn't have them.
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What are we supposed to do with this information?
Poor ticket sales.
This is funny.
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L.A. Confidential @ 12:
Laugh.
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L.A. Confidential @ 12:
Enjoy it!
My Friends, some call you the elite, but I call you my base (al quaeda).
Note that sidewalks are public places, even in front of "private residences". Also note that if you fill a water balloon with dogshit, you can then pressurize it normally with water. A quick shake to mix the contents, and you have a PERFECT "donation". The story SAID they needed more donations....
What I want to know is what the 25k VIP treatment would entail...
rusted flagpin enigma4ever of Watergate Summer @ 7:
I was curious about this myself.
jjasonham @ 18:
You get a picture taken with the Prez. Then you put that up at home and in the office and it looks like your a personal buddy to the Prez. Then people think, OMG this guys the Prez. He must really be important.
jjasonham @ 19:
I was curious about this myself.
Nothing. It's the same old stuff. Hillary Bad, Obama Good, McCain Old. . .
Fear? The Republicans getting a dose of their own medicine? Wonder how much they like it?
So .. who's gonna drop out first .. Hillary .. or McCain?
I think I could spend a few hours just having fun captioning that photo that accompanies this post.
We might need an open thread to see how everyone is planning to spend this weekend. Just a thought.
Old School Patriot @ 17:
I'll hold the dog. You hold the balloon.
L.A. Confidential @ 21:
Nothing. It's the same old stuff. Hillary Bad, Obama Good, McCain Old. . .
This morning I read all the comments from the open thread last night and it seemed to me that everyone got to have their say and opinion on the matter. There was even in one comment a link to Keith's special comment.
L.A. Confidential @ 12:
Watch and learn.
There are conservatives who think that the way to rule is buy fear and secrecy, from "the gut" rather than with facts, humility, or humanity. And for 7 years, that is exactly how Bush/Cheney ran this country. With no regard for anyone but their own power-mongering selves. And, as a result, this is what has happened to them.
Fear is not any way to govern. It might work in the short-term, but in the long-term it always ends badly. And this is the archetypical example of how badly.
Damn, now what am I gonna do on Tuesday? I had my sign already:
Imprison Bush
Defeat Mccain
Guess I'll stay home and do my nails.
Might I suggest that McCain and Bush take their fundraiser down into a local sewer. They would feel right at home there. After all, that is where their fellow rats hang out.
jjasonham @ 19:
Same here. Can't be an oversight, it is obviously a deliberate act, and it is also indefensible. Anyone care to try? Anyone?..... Bueller?......
pissed off patricia @ 26:
Yeah "pastor problems" . .flag pins, race cards, gender bias, exit polls, "kitchen sinks" and all the rest.
MountainMan23 @ 23:
I figured that they would merge and run together. In denial.
There isn't much going on in my garage right now if the Repubs want to plan a fund raiser here in Florida sometime soon. There are a few boxes in there, bikes, a mower and our car but since it's a two car garage we have plenty of room for them.
Bridget Jones @ 32:
Hold on sweetie
Bridget Jones Says @ 32:
MountainMan23 @ 23:
So .. who’s gonna drop out first .. Hillary .. or McCain?
I figured that they would merge and run together. In denial.
I figured THAT out a long time ago. All this talk about an Obama/Hillary "dream ticket" is bullshit...that is the ONLY way Obama could lose the election! Instead it has been obvious foror months now that Hillary is running for the REPUBLICAN VP slot...since she has been running LIKE a rethug.
Bridget Jones @ 32:
Haven't they already? Okay not officially but sorta.
L.A. Confidential @ 34:
It might be funny. Though, I think their first argument would be over who is going to be on top. :)
Old School Patriot @ 35:
I think obama is too smart to pick Hillary. He'll just talk to her about it so that he will be hisusual diplomatic self, but in the end - it'd be political suicide for him to pick her - especially after her RFK comments yesterday.
"the McCain campaign prefers private fundraisers and it is Bush administration policy to have events in public venues open to the media."
soooooooooo, by implication mccain is more secretive than bush? :-O
what ever part of this statement resembles anything looking like fact is the part of the statement that was not included in the statement. allow me to demonstrate: "it is bush administration policy to have events in public open to the media (with pre-screened bushie attendees complete with an array of planted pre-written compliments, questions, comments and topics).
t-bone @ 30:
Okay I looked around and according to some blogs people are saying that Hillary wants to kill Obama so she can be President of the U.S.A. That what she said yesterday was like some kind of secret code or something and she will do ANYTHING up to and including taking him out to win.
Bridget Jones @ 32:
Personally, I think McCain will finish last. Finishing last will probably do him some good. It will remind him of his days at the Naval Academy where he pretty much finished close to last as well.
pissed off patricia @ 36:
Oh yeah. The day she started attacking Obama.
I was initially for John Edwards. When he bailed, I had a difficult time choosing between Clinton and Obama because I thought they were both qualified - but by Super Tuesday, I picked Obama. In the weeks since, I have lost more and more respect for Clinton over her behaviour. It's sad really - I always considered her such a strong role model for young women.
Joe O. @ 42:
And he was the best that the Republicans could do? Scary how far they've fallen since Abraham Lincoln first started their team...
In Obama's campaign response to Hillary's comments yesterday, they said something about there being no room, or something, in this campaign for comments like that. I think that told us there will be no dream/nightmare ticket.
I'm thinking the McCain folk are getting nervous now. They realize they are going to be really running against one of the sharpest and classiest people they have seen in the Democratic party in a long time.
Bridget Jones @ 44:
Regardless, you better prepare yourself for $8 a gal.
pissed off patricia @ 45:
He is slick. I agree with that.
"Tickets to the event were to range from $1,000 to $25,000 for VIP treatment. Money was to go toward McCain’s presidential bid and a number of Republican Party organs."
Does Larry Craig's organ get VIP treatment in the Convention Center men's room?
Bridget Jones @ 43:
I lost a good friend several years ago due to an argument we got into as I was defending Hillary. How strange that seems now.
Bridget Jones @ 44:
In an election year where the Republicans can only win if the Democratic Candidate starts eating his or her own fecies during a debate they don't want to run their highest hope. McCain will never have another chance so they let him run.
Its funny isn't it? The two men in the picture both served as pilots. One, finished close to last at the Naval Academy yet got a pilot's assignment conducting bombing missions in Vietnam. The other didn't show up for drills, never left the states but always ended up being bombed by the alcohol he consumed.
pissed off patricia @ 45:
It's hard to run on change with someone who is still playing by the old rules. She's said that Obama can't win traditionally purple swing states without considering the fact that he might instead win other ones and not need to play by the old strategy to which she clings (essentially catering to the racists in Appalachia).
How could he trust her now anyway?
McCain might as well stay at home. He's going to be embarrassed in November.
L.A. Confidential @ 47:
Come on, you know you love the guy. You're just playing hard to get :)
Bridget Jones @ 52:
I cannot tell you how much I hope you are right.
Pretty funny that Bush and McCain can't even gin up any enthusiasm in Arizona!
They have to hide. What public venue could they fill? A phonebooth maybe?
Cap Jones @ 55:
Maybe a stall in the men's room?
L.A. Confidential @ 46:
No mass transit where I live of any sort - like most of America. It's definitely going to get tough for the many people who already live hand to mouth. I feel for them, because they are going to have to make seriously tough decisions between gas and food.
pissed off patricia @ 53:
Nope, I'm beginning to "see through" it.
L.A. Confidential @ 58:
I've never trusted politicians anyway I don't care who they think or say they are.
You got to stay on top of these people and keep the pressure on them to keep their promises.
L.A. Confidential @ 58:
Okay then who will get your vote?
pissed off patricia @ 49:
Tee hee. This is my favorite part:
Not only are they using Bush to rescue McCain, but lots of other stuff too, but the people couldn't even be bothered to support other Republicans' sex scandal/disease ridden "organs".
Cap Jones @ 55:
What you stated shows just how far and how fast the Republican party has fallen and in such a short period of time. It was just a few years ago that the Republican party was a mammoth movement that was entirely in lock step with each other. That, as we see is no longer the case. In fact, I bet its so bad now that those ticket prices listed are just for public showing in order to save face. The real ticket prices are probably much, much lower.
Bridget Jones @ 32:
Hillary merges with no male.........LOL! Sorry, couldn't resist.
pissed off patricia @ 60:
The lessor of all evils
pissed off patricia @ 54:
Logically, as we know that the situtation of the economy and gas prices is going to get worse, he has little to stand on. People will blame the Republicans. They will blame him, as a long term politician who supported the Republican policies.
Also, I saw this morning that the Dems are starting a probe into the billions is US tax dollars that the Iraqi leadership has embezzled and misappropriated for their own use. If that is publically broadcast on a daily basis over the next few months, McCain will be lucky to win Idaho.
I really don't think this hurts feminism in this country. She's just one woman, she doesn't represent all women no more than one man represents all men. Few people are going to judge you or me by what Hillary says or does. At least no intelligent person will do that. She is her own person and only she is responsible for what she does, good or bad.
There are a lot of smart strong women out there in the world. It is time for a woman president, just not this woman, this time.
ConcernedCanuck @ 64:
So, Bill Clinton is a woman! I'm shocked! :D
Well, WTF do the Repugs expect when they're down to the dregs of the 28% dead-enders. McBush is in his last throes. O will be greeted as a liberator, with flowers and candy. On Jan. 20, when he takes the oath, I hope he begins with, "Our long national nightmare is over."
Okay let me see if I can spark a riot here and get some action going on this blog this morning.
Let me think, how might I do that.
pissed off patricia @ 67:
Unfortuantely, we live in a country that judged all women (or all Latinos, blacks, gays) on one of the most prominent. You know that tired argument on authority (or visibility). And as such a prominent female, too many people will use her as the measuring stick for all women.
In time, I agree that other strong women can overcome - but Hillary had a choice on how she would behave, and it definitely has not helped the cause.
L.A. Confidential @ 65:
Well that rules McCain out. Hillary most likely won't be around so I guess you are an Obama fan whether you know it or not. Welcome aboard.
L.A. Confidential @ 70:
Start defending John McCain?
come see the failed shadow of a rethug president. it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and says silly things like a duck. oh lots of takers for $25,000 there i'll bet.
If John McCain linked Obama to the RFK assassination it would've been up by now. Is there ANY reason at all why Hillary's comments on Friday and the reactions to those comments haven't been posted?
It's all the rage elsewhere. Oh well, perhaps I'm just a sexist.
Anti-war protesters at a republican fundraiser? NO, couldn't be!
I wonder who's fault THAT is? Carter's, Clinton's?
How come not a word of this from the MSM? Oh yeah it's a holiday weekend, there aren't any newspeople working at NBC, ABC, FOX Noise or CNN. Right?
Canceled because most Rethug donors that could afford to blow $25K on Bush 43 and 44 are in jail/prison, or need the cash to pay their lawyers for their pending court defenses.
Bill @ 75:
Clinton News Network?
nitehawk @ 2:
I completely disagree.
Yoda would say it like this: "What a pity, hold a fundraiser young jedi cannot. hmmm, yes"
Bridget Jones @ 71:
She should not have listened to about half the people on her campaign staff. They ran her as something she wasn't and it took her right down the drain. It also would have helped if we had heard less from Bill. I think at times he forgot which Clinton was on the ticket.
L.A. Confidential @ 12:
Why, take up a collection, of course. Lord knows, the anything-but-conservative Boosh, has left NOTHING of our hard earned money in the coffers.
pissed off patricia @ 72:
I'm not a FAN of anything or anyone. Especially a guy who could be my kid brother. I also don't appreciate many of the things he and his handlers are doing to try to win this thing.
However if he's the choice he's the choice.
If I could go to the moon that would be my real choice at this point.
Bridget Jones @ 57:
Same here. Mr. G has a 40 minute commute to his day job. Mine is 20 minutes. We used to take a lot of side work playing here and there (orchestra musicians), but now the gas is so high we can't make much of that work pay so our income is decreasing. No chance of carpooling due to location and schedules that vary from day to day and no chance of finding work closer to home because of our occupations.
Us in the heartland are screwed.
Can't they hold at it some hanger or military school with a captured audience like they always do? How about Gitmo?
Bridget Jones @ 68:
Don't think she merged with him much.....at least that is the rumour.......hahahahahaa.......now I'll be a HillHater even though she's lied repeatedly, she still has many supporters. From Sniper Fire to JuneGate, to pick a lie. This woman is nothing more than a Repub in Dem clothing.
I mean this, if it wasn't for the unknown effectiveness of the GOP assassins at their 527s, you could call this election in. The codger is a horrible candidate, his staff is worse. This guy is toast. The only chance he has is being able to destroy Obama via racial,religious, and patriotism smears and not take a hit for doing it.
pissed off patricia @ 80:
Which I think strengthens the argument against her being the better candidate. How she ran her campaign is a strong indication of how she would run the show. And if she listened to the wrong people, unable to discern for herself what was and what wasn't sound advice, how could we trust her as a leader to pick a quality cabinet who would advise her well? Obama just ran a better campaign. Though, I know I'm singing to the choir here :).
I think Bill had serious problems being on the sidelines. He even made some uncanny comment about slitting his own throat if he were to become "first gentleman". I saw speculation that perhaps he was subconsciously acting like he was in order to get attention, and even sabbotage his wife. Fortunately for her, he has earned so much esteem from his two terms that he can afford to throw a tantrum every now and again and have it quickly forgotten. Unfortunately for her he was just a minor nusance.
Gretchen @ 83:
Sorry to hear that.
Sadly, most middle class and poor Americans are screwed. And I think the saddest part is that we could be doing something about this - despite what the talking heads are claiming.
Bridget Jones @ 88:
Meh. We'll survive but we won't be playing much good Brahms any time soon.
I agree that we could be doing something and I'm getting the feeling we're being distracted in another direction. Business as usual when someone has something up their sleeve.
As for us, we're looking at ways to cut back elsewhere in order to use the least energy (and gas) possible. I just might be pushing an old-fashioned mechanical lawn mower over our acre this summer.
ConcernedCanuck @ 85:
Yeah, well, that's probably true. LOL
I can't afford the energy to hate her. Maybe just enough to pity her though... 40 years of working for this and she's reduced herself to hate speech and desperate acts? What a waste!
You know she was the President of Young Republicans, and a Republican until she switched parties when her Democratic husband decided to run for the Governor of Arkansas? It was strategy rather than choice to become a Democrat...
Bridget Jones @ 87:
I agree with both of you. I connect the problem to the DLC/DSCC/DCCC. DLC candidates are 'handled' by their advisors. that's what did in Gore and Kerry. LIEberman and Feinstein are DLC, along with Rahm Emmanuel and Chuck Schumer, Menendes(NJ) and Lautenberg.
I would imagine one of them may relocate to another country sometime next year due to the fear of a hanging.
Gretchen @ 89:
CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 91:
Look at that picture of McSame with Wanton Boy. Looks like he's auditioning for the role of Frankenstein.
What is it about the photo ops with those two? Talk about creepy. Master and servant. Tyrant and sycophant.
A big big hat tip should go out to:
Phoenix Radio Station 1480 KPHX - The Valley's Progressive Talk
www.1480kphx.com
The KPHX local radio hosts have really been doing a great job organizing and promoting the protests!
KPHX has "More of the McSame" billboards all over Phoenix!
Check out the KPHX websight for Photos & streaming info!
P.S.
Don't forget that KPHX is the flagship station for the Nova M
radio network.....The ones who brought back Mike Malloy and
Randi Rhodes!
www.1480kphx.com
D.G. Bowman @ 95:
The Democrats can save millions on teevee ads by simply showing this picture and the text " McCain: The Bush 3rd term." in blood red letters.
I think C&L doesn't need to post a story about Hillary's comments. The threads took up the mantle quite well. Do we really need them to post an article? Her comments and Olberman's response are easily accessable.
(crying hysterically) "Leave Crooks and Liars alone!"
KevKev in Apache Junction @ 96:
I enjoy listening to this station online when not listening to 940WINZ here in South Florida.
They can't fill the place with check-writing Republicans...
and they don't want media coverage of it in any case!
These people are desparate.
Hannity laid the whole problem of the War in Iraq on THE DEMOCRATS this week on the radio. He said, "They've had control of the purse strings for a whole year now, and they haven't done a thing about it!" I guess the Republican money-bags in Arizona are not ready to buy THAT LINE.
pissed off patricia @ 56:
Shit on a stick.
A friend in the planning committee here in AZ (Vets for Peace) says that the "private residence" is in a gated community. That way, the War Criminals will not have their dinner ruined by members of the 75% - of - Americans vocal minority...
Look closely at their two faces. McCain is so excited and so appreciative of the Bush love, he's beside himself. Bush's face says McCain is making him physically sick, and this bullshit had better be worth the agony! I do have to say that I share Bush's feelings about that pukey old man!
Mick Fowler @ 102:
Which "gated comunity"--the Durango Jail or 4th Ave Jail?
Mick Fowler @ 102:
I guess that is the home of those golfers Dick Morris was talking about last week.
Jeebus, you might have thought that all those SUN CITY elderly "conservative" seniors and the Luke Airforce military personnel might have attended?
SO you mean the elderly don't like Bush and McCain - they don't like their donut-hole Big Pharma giveaway Senior drug bill enough to show up for McCain and Bushie? Wasn't that considered a winner bill for Bush?
And what about those military members, didn’t they like their backdoor draft, stop-loss, no college tuition until AFTER 8 years of Iraq bill enough to show up for McCain and Bushie?
Yep, there is got to be a rich CEO in Phoenix somewhere that can host this private little party of corporate constituency ONLY Party money buyouts.
And how is McCain (or McBush) not like BUSH? He is exactly like Bush.
American people don't get anything, there is ONLY corporate welfare, nothing else matters - and McCain is the reformer - he is going to reform it so that no Americans taxpayers even get a penny on their taxpaid dollar.
What is pork? Is it consider money for the people, instead, you know, money that should go only to corporations? McCain would reform it until no taxpayer money EVER goes to anything but corporate welfare. It's the Repug way, and there is no other way. There is no money for Katrina victims, no money for tornado victims, (that's pork, that's bad) just money to help corporations meet their objectives. Veteran don't need no stinking college, no armored vest. Only Blackwater gets those kind of handouts under the corporate flag of McCain. Faith of our Fathers under the corporate rule.
Somehow, I don't thing American gave their lives for this shit.
The last time Bush showed up for a fund raiser in Phoenix.....
The Phoenix Police had automatic weapons...
and cameras pointed at the protesters....
The Neo-cons also had Phony Petitions going around, and turned the names
over to the F.B.I
The latest rumor going around is that ol' Charlie Keating may be hosting the event!
Yep, that Charlie......The Keating Five!
I have some appropriate 'smaller quarters' for bush. Prison.
KevKev, you are correct about the presence automatic weapons. But I greatly appreciate the presence of the Phoenix Police Dept. I protested Nixon's War back in the late 60's - 70 in a different city, where the Police delivered tear gas and beatings on a non violent crowd. Here in Phoenix I have become acquainted with a couple cops on a first name basis. The mere appearance of one of these conspicuously - armed cops is enough to discourage "aggressive" counterdemonstrators. So far, I am proud of the Phoenix police for doing their job so well: they are protecting my freedom of speech.
I think people making fun of the photo are being too hateful. You just have to know the context of the conversation that was going on for it to appear perfectly normal.
From the video transcription:
McCain: "Weasels ripped my flesh."
Bush: "Rzzzzz."
I am skeptical. (of whether this is so so oooo..)
Bush must speak at public events all the time, and I would imagine anti-war protestors are just routine. Why would they make such a major change because of this? It sounds like there might have been either a legitimate security issue or some campaigning fund-raising strategic reason for the venue change. Both of which seem perfectly reasonable to me.
In my dreams, soon there will be no place left on earth for these scumbags to hide their miserable asses. Time to round up a posse and get some justice done.
sonia @ 111:
Your observation is rational, however, a better explanation is that very, very, very few
persons are willing to contribute $1,000 up to $25,000 to attend any function at which bush and McShame are the honored participants.
Here's what the AZ rumor mill says: "The Powers That Be" have refused the Bush Administration's past requests that "Free Speech Zones" be set up and kept well away from appearances by Important Repuglicans. Indeed, there was one time that they had to have Cheney flown in by chopper at an appearance lest his sensitive feelings be hurt by demonstrators gathered in mass at the entrance of the venue. The poor little neocon ****.
Who would throw good money at a losing candidate? They see the handwriting on the wall, and it says change. The checkbook went back into the drawer.
And since when did the Bush administration have a preference for "public venues open to the media"? That's a good one!
Who pays for Bush's travelling expenses and security costs?? Please tell me its not the U.S. taxpayers...
"...that there were concerns about more anti-war protesters showing up outside the venue than attending the fundraiser inside."
Wow, I'm either really tired or it was just wishful thinking, but I read that as "attending the funeral inside."
I think Saturday night Live really showed us who the real Hillary is. I to was upset to see that this site overlooked Hillary's comments.
Maybe McCain needs a better warm up act than Bush.
More likely, McCain is just starting to realize that the Shrub is not a good luck Albatross to hang around his neck.
sonia @ 111:
When is the last time you saw Shrub speak at a "public event"? It's been well documented for years that Shrub speaks only to carefully screened and friendly crowds that are not even allowed to wear a controversial t-shirt or drive a car displaying a progressive bumper sticker to the event-the parking lot is patrolled and the offenders are either barred from the event or detained or both.
You are either very naive or haven't been paying attention these last seven years.
randomstranger, one can always hope and dream. I was thinking the same thing.
My off-topic, on-topic comment is, why are there so many pictures of McSame so totally sucking up to Bush??? I mean, that's just not normal. He's like a pig trying to get at his mother's teat. Totally focussed on the trough.; the gravy train, suckling the nectar. Know what I mean???
What a couple of stooges. Looks good on 'em. The president came, but no one wated to see him, much less PAY TO.
jjasonham @ 18:
Hookers (male or female-- no one's going to ask questions if you cough up the loot), of course. It's a GOP event.
Bridget Jones @ 27:
For fear to work effectively, people need a fresh dose of terror, otherwise they forget. It's a double-edged sword: If there were some "terror attack" on US soil, it would make everyone want heightened security again, but then it would have happened on bush's watch, and the whole house of cards could come tumbling down. Asleep at the wheell AGAIN! The GOP is not protecting the country.
$25,000?!? I thought the maximum personal contribution was $2,200. Unless the McBush crime machine can account for $23,000 in VIP treatment, aren't they blatantly breaking the law? Not that they haven't done that thousands of times over the last 8 years.
Aren't Huckabee and Ron Paul still in the race? Is Huckabee hanging around to pick up the base, and all the other crazies, that McCranky/bush have pissed/are pissing off? Maybe there'll be a big surprise at the GOP convention.
Filthy Harry @ 108:
Captive audience too. Brilliant stategy Filthy.
sonia @ 111:
Doubtful. They can have all the security goons they want: protests not an issue: bush already prohibits those near him. The simple fact is, it's embarrasing to throw a big party and be the only ones in attendance.
pissed off patricia @ 6:
Sounds like the Whitehouse!
If you want to see Dumb and Dumber, rent it from Blockbuster. You will save money and get a better show.
huh? "it is the Bush administration policy to have events in public venues and open to the media." my ass.
Cheers to my fellow Arizonans....we were going to be out en masse for the Bush appearance...protesters definitely would have outnumbered convention center attendees...and this in McBush's home state!
I have found NOTHING about this in the MSM. Not even on MSNBC. I e-mailed CNN & asked them why it is not on their website.
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