Surreal! Bush surrounded by the 30 percenters.

[ProSense]

Low in Polls, Bush Makes More Time for Friendly Crowds

President Bush at a town-hall-style meeting Monday in Rogers, Ark., where he again threatened to veto
budget bills he disliked.

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: October 16, 2007

ROGERS, Ark., Oct. 15 — Out there in the rest of America, polls show that about twice as many people disapprove of President Bush as approve of him. But here in a cavernous convention center hall, Mr. Bush found nothing but admirers Monday when he answered questions during a town-hall-style meeting.

One man began by commending Mr. Bush “on your steadfastness and your faith.” Another concluded by saying, “Thank you for being my president for the last seven years,” with an emphasis on the word “my.” A third expressed dismay that Mr. Bush could not run for president again.

“It’s time for new blood,” Mr. Bush replied. “Plus,” he added wryly, “I’d be single.”

The friendly audience in northwest Arkansas — not a single questioner criticized Mr. Bush — is typical of such let-Bush-be-Bush events, which the White House is staging with increasing frequency. Mr. Bush’s aides like them because the president is much better in an informal setting, especially one where he can get his message across, conversation-style, without pesky reporters asking the questions.

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No pesky reporters or any 70 percenters!

[SteppingRazor]

1. Ha! no "pesky reporters." Gee, wonder what the reporter who wrote this thinks of these events? n/t

[Virginia Dare]

2. Those are all Wal-Mart millionaires probably...

yep, he's preachin' to the choir.

[scarface2004]

3. what the eff are these assholes laughing about!!

those weapons of mass destruction have to be somewhere?!?!?!?!?

[Richard Steele]

12. B*sh just told them there was a brown person in the crowd, then said "HA- made ya look! Heh heh heh"

[bdamomma]

24. oh, he just disgusts me, someone needs to pop that bubble he

is living in.

[skypilot]

14. If they had two brain cells among them...

...they'd be laughing at the very notion that this guy knows a damned thing about fiscal responsibility. Too fucking stupid to know that the joke's on them--and their children.

[jwirr]

39. The question about him running again is the prime evidence of their

stupidity.

[Arkansas Granny]

22. Hmmm. Are they laughing with him or at him?

[whoneedstickets]

4. Like "Mission Accomplished", if it shows up on a big banner...

..behind Bush, the reality is probably the exact opposite!

Future Banners:
Competent, Quality Leadership!
Ethical Government!
A Man of Values!

[unpossibles]

10. I was thinking something similar....

I guess if you put it on a big enough banner, it must be true!

:eyes:

[rusty fender]

5. That "Fiscal Responsibility" banner sums up the "opposite...

...world" presentation of all his policies. In yesterday's speech he said that it was his job to make sure the Congress doesn't spend too much money!

[Lasher]

19. I literally laughed out loud when I saw that.

Pot, meet kettle.

[BridgeTheGap]

6. "You can fool some of the people all of time" A. Lincoln

Yep, they fall into that category.

[Lasher]

23. Junior actually said that.

"You can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." -- GW Bush, Washington, DC March 31, 2001

I guess he is honest sometimes.

[fenriswolf]

48. i guess some=30%

[Lasher]

57. Exactly right.

I always knew there were stupid people but there was a time when I didn't think there were as many of them.

[madokie]

7. a cavernous convention center hall for such a small crowd

ole bushy boy knows how to wow the few, the thirty percenters, does he not

[rodeodance]

8. “I’d be single.”---ha----Laura has had enough!

[bdamomma]

29. I'd be single??????????

what does that mean?????

[skypilot]

9. "Plus, I'd be single"?????????

I haven't had any coffee yet and am still a bit fuzzy this morning, so maybe this is flying right over my head. Could someone tell me what, if anything, that even means? Does it mean that he'd have to sacrifice Laura to Satan in order to get a third term. Is that the "new blood" he's referring to?

[countingbluecars]

21. Laura is traveling

to the Middle East next week. Maybe he is going to sacrifice her. Only kidding-I've got to stop reading conspiracy theory stuff.

[bdamomma]

30. she is traveling to the Middle East to talk about Breast Cancer

I mean WTF? is that all about, these women are more educated than she is.

[skypilot]

35. It certainly sounds...

...as though he's expecting her to "go" before him. That must give her a warm and fuzzy feeling.

[jojo54]

11. What a moron!

He doesn't know the meaning of "fiscal", let alone "responsibility".

I gotta give a lot of credit to the people who try (notice I said "try") to make his IQ appear to be anything above 50.

[yardwork]

13. Look at the average age of the people in that group.

[catmandu57]

27. The best thing I can say about that is

Most of them will be dead soon. The trouble is, they've probably infected their children and granchildren with their republicitis and we'll have to quarrentine the whole region to get rid of it.

[yardwork]

52. Polls (if we trust them) indicate that many young people are not fooled.

All over the country, young people are reporting that they are totally disgusted with the Republican Party.

[babylonsister]

15. He's living such a lie, but the sheeple who only listen to Rush will believe it. nt

[bdamomma]

31. how can live in denial like that, ugh, what small/narrow minded people

[lpbk2713]

16. The ol' Gopper *If you repeat a lie often and loud enough* ploy.

That pathetic banner. They figure it just might still work since has worked so well for them in the past.

[peekaloo]

17. Older folks love a trained monkey act.

even though he doesn't roller skate or smoke cee-gars.

[bdamomma]

18. his hand picked crowds who fill those loyalty oath forms in.

sickening little man. I hope he falls like Humpty Dumpty.

[Lerkfish]

20. and I don't see a single person of color

[1620rock]

28. Why are some here bashing "old people?" A lot of us old people

are the leftest of the 60's.

[Lerkfish]

42. I wasn't bashing old people. I are an old people.

I was pointing out the lack of people of color in the photo.

:shrug:

[bdamomma]

32. he wants to start his own master race. pitiful little man.

[Ezlivin]

25. Nerve gas the whole fuckin' nest

Vasquez: All right. We got seven canisters of CN-20. I say we roll them in there and nerve gas the whole fucking nest.

Hicks: That's worth a try, but we don't know if it's going to affect them.

Hudson: Look, let's just bug out and call it even, okay? What are we talking about this for?

'Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Hudson: Fucking A!

Burke: Hold on one second. This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it.

Ripley: They can bill me.

Burke: Okay, look. This is an emotional moment for all of us, okay? I know that. But let's not make snap judgments, please. This is clearly, clearly an important species we're dealing with and I don't think you or I or anybody has the right to arbitrarily exterminate them.

Ripley: Wrong.

Vasquez: Yeah. Watch us.

Hudson: Hey, maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal!

Burke: Look, I'm not blind to what's going on, but I cannot authorize that kind of action. I'm sorry.

Ripley: Well, I believe Corporal Hicks has authority here.

Burke: Corporal Hicks has...

Ripley: This operation is under military jurisdiction, and Hicks is next in chain of command. Am I right, Corporal?

Hicks: Yeah. Yeah, that's right.

Burke: Yeah. Look, Ripley, this is a multi-million dollar installation, okay? He can't make that kind of decision. He's just a grunt. Hicks, no offense.

Hicks: None taken. Ferro, do you copy?

Ferro: Standing by.

Hicks: Prep for dust off. We're going to need immediate evac.

Ferro: Roger. We're on our way.

Hicks: I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. (From Aliens)

[Ian David]

26. I've seen stranger...

http://home.comcast.net/~freshlaundry/bush.html?bs=0Qspufdujoh%21Pvs%21Qsfdjpvt%21Gmvjet

http://home.comcast.net/~freshlaundry/bush.html?bs=7Qspufdujoh%21Pvs%21Qsfdjpvt%21Gmvjet

[lpbk2713]

33. Here's the graphic proof of BushCo's alleged *Fiscal Responsibility*

Shit-for-Brains doesn't have the fiscal responsibility
it takes to run a lemonade stand.

[The_Casual_Observer]

41. He's selling his veto of poor childeren's heath insurance.

"Fiscal Responsibility" means no money for poor sick children & those old crackers in that audience are eating it up.

"Budget bills he disliked" - Are they afraid to just come right out & say it?

[Johonny]

34. stupid question

Why does a sitting president need a townhall meeting? It's the type of thing you do if you're campaigning. He isn't running again. It serves no purpose. I think it shows that Bush simply isn't good at anything but campaigning. Given the task of running the country he has spent 7 years running campaigns. Either selling himself or selling terrible ideas of other people. Here he is 7 years into running up the largest debt in American history selling himself to a bunch of insane old white people about ideas a large majority of the country have no interest in. Why? Is his ego that shattered he needs this self congratulatory crap.

[ProSense]

37. He isn't good at that either;

otherwise the audience wouldn't be hand-picked. Add a more objective media and the Bush campaign would have been a series of propaganda rallies with no media-aided mass distortion.

[Warpy]

36. All old, white, and dressed for church

Yep, that's them.

[MissMillie]

38. gotta love the "fiscal responsibility" shit..... (/sarcasm)

Mr. Bush.... care to reimburse us all for the $750 billion you spent on the war on terror?

[truebrit71]

40. Who ARE these mucking forons?

Unless they are all filthy rich, who in their right mind still supports this simple simian?

[The_Casual_Observer]

43. He's got to go way deep into places like Arkansas to find

them brainless enough to still be buying what he's selling.

[tom_paine]

44. The spirtual descendants of those who followed and enabled Hitler

Don't believe me? Click onthe link in my sigline and be introduced to tyhe two decades of scientific research that lays it out conclusively (though it does not make nay mention of that particular conclusion, it is obviously an unspoken one).

[lpbk2713]

45. The joke is really on the BushBots in the audience.

They probably paid several grand per seat so that they could
be fed a line of bullshit from a third-rate bullshitter.

:rofl: :rofl:

[Chimpy McCokespoon]

46. They all look "related".

Must be the inbreeding.

[AndyA]

47. Talk about a contradiction! Bush and "Fiscal Responsibility" in one photo is a CONTRADICTION.

The two do not go together. After the way this man has raped our Treasury, this is another "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" moment in my book.

Remember, he can spend billions over in Iraq, but there's nothing for America's children, or American citizens.

Compassionate conservatism at its best. :puke:

[fenriswolf]

49. god i just

really wanna ask him "what is wrong with you?"

[Javaman]

50. hitler in his bunker. nt

[damntexdem]

51. Surreal? You bet!

It's the only reality that Dubya knows.

[SergeyDovlatov]

53. Are you sure those are not actors? I don't belive they could find that many "supporters"

[Didereaux]

54. They're laughing because the seat of his pants is tore out!

...hey, it's a theory, and it is in Arkansas, and those things are considered pretty durn funny round those parts.

[gatorboy]

55. Considering that crowd, I wonder how well it would go over if it was Medicare

Bush decided to veto.

[Swamp Rat]

56. They look more like .0000005%er zombies to me.

They're not human.

[ProSense]

58. Error: make that 24 percenters n/t

[LSK]

59. maybe bubble boy actually thinks hes popular?