Bush Is First pResident In 75 Years To Have NEVER Visited San Francisco

[matcom]

<snip>

Washington -- Presidential visits to San Francisco have been a tradition since Rutherford Hayes lunched at the Cliff House in 1880.

Presidents arrived by stagecoach and jet. One was shot at. Another died. In all, 20 presidents have visited the city, including every chief executive for the past 75 years.

Except George W. Bush.

Now in the fifth year of his presidency, Bush has yet to set a foot in the city that was home to his childhood baseball idol, Willie Mays, and shows no inclination to do so. The White House is planning a California visit by the end of the month, and San Francisco is not on the itinerary.

San Francisco, with roughly three-quarters of a million residents, is the only city among the nation's 25 largest that has not been host for a Bush presidential visit. If he avoids San Francisco for the rest of his term, he will be the first president not to visit since Calvin Coolidge, and only the second in more than a century.

The reason seems plain to even casual observers of American politics.

San Francisco is as politically, culturally and geographically distant from the president as anyplace in America. Eighty-four percent of the city's voters cast ballots against Bush in 2000, and 85 percent voted against him in 2004. The city has voted Democratic in 12 consecutive presidential elections.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/21/MNGA5EB32N1.DTL

[Dawgs]

1. I'm sure the natives are really disappointed...

NOT!!!!!!!!!!

[Lerkfish]

4. right, I envy them.

I live in Ohio, which, during the last "election" meant we got visited repeatedly by shrub and Dickwad.

[wtbymark]

2. chimpy's from texas

He's a steer, dun got no need to visit that sanfrasciscer

[Lerkfish]

5. chimpy's from massachusetts.

not texas.

[Bridget Burke]

8. No, he's from Connecticut...

Still--not from Texas.

Of course, we welcome non-Texans who have something to contribute. But he & his family have never done a thing for the state. Bush The Smarter never cared enough to settle here. Houses were bought & sold as needed. Too bad he didn't bother to buy some Hill Country land back when it was more affordable--the Pig Farm would have been unnecessary. His official address as President was a Houston hotel & spa.

And we're still suffering from Bush Jr's stint as Governor.

[Lerkfish]

17. you're right, I'm one state off, but at least im closer than texas :)

thanks for the correction.

[soup]

3. Kinda doubt his brother will be visiting anytime soon, either.

Jeb Bush jokes people of San Francisco may be endangered
Thursday, 13 November 2003

AP
Gov. Jeb Bush joked during a Florida Cabinet meeting Wednesday that the people of San Francisco may be endangered and, "That's probably good news for the country."

The subject was environmental land and Bush was looking at a map of showing locations with a lot of different wildlife at the time.

"It looks like the people of San Francisco are an endangered species, which may not be a bad thing. That's probably good news for the country."

People in the room broke into laughter

"Did I just say that out loud?" the governor asked.
http://www.hypocrites.com/article15858.html

--- funny, funny guy JE BushBush. :grr:

Odd, the link provided to the original article leads to 'No instance available'. hmm. Go figure. :shrug:

[terrya]

6. Probably because of them "homosexuls"

I'm sure Jeb has cracked a few "fag" jokes in his time.

[greekspeak]

13. Um...that is queeeyahrs.

Ain't nuthin in Frisco sept queeeyahrs and furnurs and libruls.

[Clintmax]

7. He probably knows he'd be boo'ed and hissed out of the city!

He HAS to keep his self image don't you see, and all those people boo'ing and jeering at him would hurt his feelings. So he goes only where he knows the freepers will cheer him on! He is SUCH a child! I will never understand why this country didn't know that and keep him out of the office in the first place.

[soup]

16. Totally agree, Clintmax.

Both of them.. There is no way that I can find any common ground with someone who thinks either of them is good for our country. It's quite simply beyond comprehension. Thought I was open-minded, but supporting either one of them is just not something I can wrap my mind around.

[bunkerbuster1]

12. There are other live pages that include the original John Ellis Bush quote

Here's one from the AJC.

http://ajc.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&expire=&urlID=8243099&fb=Y&partnerID=552

[soup]

15. Thank you for the link.

I'd completely forgotten the Gary Coleman comment - outrage overload.

>>"I'm glad that Gary Coleman lives in California," Bush said. "A guy like me that believes in limited government probably would have a tough time against a fellow like that because he probably symbolizes smaller government."<<


Sorry Matcom, didn't mean to sidetrack your thread by adding his 'beloved' brother to the mix.

[underpants]

9. How do we know he didn't vist "like a normal couple"??

Hmmmmm?

[Tesha]

10. He's afraid he'd *LIKE* it. (Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, know what I mean)

It'd be fun to see Bush attending a performance of "Beach Blanket Babylon".

Tesha

[calico1]

11. San Francisco will be the only large

city in the US that will not have to fumigate once bush leaves office. I sure envy them!

[getmeouttahere]

14. Limit your itinerary to Sacto & O.C., BushCo!

Too bad we can't keep him completely out of the state.