Air Force 1 not so fun

[Rose Siding]

PHOENIX - One of the most striking differences between the current presidential race and campaign 2000 is President Bush's behavior on the grueling cross-country stumps.

Four years ago, Bush was a candidate, not the President. He frequently lounged with the press on his campaign plane "Great Expectations," handed out nicknames, compared jogging times with reporters, mugged at them during solemn events, and detailed his delight in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

One example of his impish - some called it "frat boy" behavior was when he left the press - section one day, only to return minutes later. When everyone stood up again, he grinned and said he just wanted to see them do that again.

But now he is the President, and a war President at that. He is busier with weightier matters. The questions are tougher, and appearance matters more.....

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/242889p-208234c.html

[trumad]

1. That's right...and his 2000 behavior was soaked up

by the kool Kid's club AKA The White House Press corp.

[JohnyCanuck]

2. AKA Media Whores n/t

[nolabels]

3. Yea, we all worry about how he looks

http://www.downunderwebsites.com/bush.htm

[gratuitous]

4. And yet, like a battered partner

The reporters keep covering for Stupidhead, convinced that if they just stay faithful, if they write or say the right things, then he'll come back to them, call them "Stretch" or "Booger Nose" or "Lazy Eye" again, and everything will be all right again. {Sigh!}

[neomonkey]

5. Uh hello

He is busier with weightier matters

Can someone please explain to me exactly which matters these are that Shrub is busy with?

They sure don't seem to have much to do with the future of this country.

[gratuitous]

6. Okay, they don't have much to do with the country's future

But have YOU gotten to level 37 on the Legend of Zelda? Didn't think so!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. Heh! Heh!

[xxqqqzme]

10. bein' pretzeldent

is HARD WORK! or that's what I've heard.

[AlCzervik]

15. Well it aint presidenting that for sure

it's making stump speeches to the loyalty oath crowds.

[WhiteTara]

18. oh, rove's appearance before the grand jury

and the size of his lawyer bills when all is said and done
defending his demonic agenda.

[flordehinojos]

8. Do dictators ever talk to the press, or ...

are they afraid that a non-mediawhore press might show them up for the clay feet that they have rather than the self-created "made in the spitting image of god" that they have of themselves?

[leftofthedial]

9. then, he was a conman

now, he's a dictator with a direct pipeline from gawd.

[UTUSN]

11. Oh, That IMP! n/t

[leftchick]

12. no kidding..."Imp"??? More like an...

ASSHOLE...

[sam sarrha]

13. more like Corporate P_imp

[catzies]

14. Wasn't "his campaign plane" the Enron corporate jet?

And the "Great Expectations" were Ken Lay's hopes to be Secretary of Energy?

[Lex]

16. The whore press AND Smirk have equally contributed to the

awful circumstances we now face in this country.

I wish I could use my vote to vote the White House Press out of office on November 2nd as well as Bush.

[SoCalDem]

17. Nope.. he's getting a bit frightened by the press..

They sense "blood in the water", and sharks that they are, they might actually start asking him real questions.,...ones that demand real answers :)

[txindy]

19. Awww, poor Junior has it rough on Air Force One

He shouldn't worry, soon he won't be flying in it.