Orders given that Bush's feet are not to come in contact with dirt

[Kbick]

Money in his coffers, but no dirt on his shoes
Jimmy Breslin
March 11, 2004

For days now, the job at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County has been to follow the order from the White House through the Secret Service and down to the park workers:

"The president's feet are not to touch the dirt."

So all yesterday, large crews drawn from all county parks worked to ensure that, as always in his life, George Bush's feet do not touch the ground when he appears in the big park today.



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[KittyWampus]

1. Too Bad His Royal Highness Will Be Made To Eat Dirt This November

is he really coming to Nassau County?

Maybe I should make plans to go and protest....

[bif]

11. He's going to a dedication of a 9/11 memorial--then to party down

at a fundraiser! Ccompassionate conservative my ass.

[Paradise]

77. LOL!

Thanks.

[slinkerwink]

2. that's so stupid

[DarkPhenyx]

3. Please tell me this is a joke.

OK, as opposed to the rest of his adminsitration which has been a joke as well.

[tom_paine]

50. No joke. He's crazy as a shithouse rat

That our Tiberius!

[CO Liberal]

4. They Don't Want Him To Get The Dirt Dirty

:-)

[northzax]

9. indeed, you know the cleanup costs

associated with removing toxic slime from parkland? NJ doesn't have that kind of money lying around.

[CO Liberal]

17. FORT KNOX Doesn't Have That Kind of Money Lying Around!

:-)

[Myra]

74. Hee hee, good one CO Liberal. I'm plagiarizing that!

:)

[librechik]

the mandarin president--what's next, a sedan chair and

long fingernails?

[Paradise]

78. LOL

again. Thanks.

[jean]

5. sarcastic but maybe they're worried about 9/11 contamination

[MissMarple]

Oh, that's even better. Everyone but George can walk on it.

I can't stand these people.

[otohara]

6. Because The Photo Op

wouldn't be perfect. It's all about the photo-op

[Mari333]

7. Oh really!! How about not allowing Bu$h there AT ALL

How dare he! For him to show up is like a murderer coming back to the scene of the crime...what are they going to do, carry him into the place like Cleo-fucking-patra with slaves?
Someone tell that little prick off..Kerry? Hello? Kerry?
In the meantime, how fucking dare he show up there. Some lowlife fratboy spoiled rotten who doesnt want dirt on his stinking shoes..
LONG OVERDUE THIS GUY WAS PERPWALKED!!!

[ninkasi]

34. Mari, I thought of you

when I read the article. The supposedly straight talking, regular guy he wants us to believe he is, can't walk on dirt. What he can do, though, is to send your stepson, and thousands of other loved ones to fight and die in Iraq without adequate protection, proper equipment, or even enough food.

My loathing of him and his gang of thugs knows no bounds.

[belle]

59. Really, they may as well just Photoshop it in.

That's the story of his whole damn "presidency." I'm still not convinced Cheney isn't just a very convincing hologram.

[gypsy11]

8. This is a joke right?

[Cooley Hurd]

12. It has to be...

Cripes! How utterly stupid to use (Nassau County) taxpayer's money so the Shrub won't walk on dirt.

Just when you think you've heard it all... :wow:

[Beetwasher]

10. 1. This is Narcissistically Extreme 2. Who the "F" Pays for This?

Bush is demented and drunk w/ power. The guy really thinks he's emperor. What's next? A gilded litter carried by eunuchs?

[salin]

32. My first question when I read this on a GD thread.

Remember the concerns in 02 midterms of local communities having to ante up the increased security costs for trips from Cheney? Well now we are talking about even MORE costs that are likely to go to the community. Security costs are real - less to quibble about except who pays if it is ostensibly a campaign visit. But this - purely cosmetic and superflous - tax payers should NOT have to pay to prevent bush from tripping and looking like an oaf.

This sounds more like something I would expect to read about an imperial leader who over the years grows more and more quirky and whose demands based on a sense of divine right grow more and more ridiculous (you refer to the same image conjoured up for me... which African leader had to be carried to events on the backs of supporters in a special 'royal' coach of sorts? this story makes me think of the early indicators/precursors of such behavior - like early onset)

[havocmom]

37. Just one more trick to bankrupt municipal governments,

get voters to consider realling the local pols and vote in corporate puppets... like, hm,they did in California?

[goclark]

48. They have Lost It Big Time

If this election wasn't so serious we would be LOL every second.

The little Emperor has no clothes!
He doesn't even have a change of shoes that he could wear in the dirt and take off when he puts on his Amani suit and high class shoes for the fun raiser.

I say we take up a collection for some scum bag tennies and send them to his office. Better yet, I hope protesters at the Fund Raiser entrance(if they can come with a mile of the party) throw some shoes all over the road near the motorcade.


Why isn't THIS on TV?

[Khephra]

60. Olbermann is actually going to cover the "Bush's feet touching dirt" story

tonight.

[Florida_Geek]

13. This is unfucking believable.

What does he do on this "ranch".

[Lisa]

69. Laura spent months slipcovering "Prairie Chapel" ...

Probably in the same shade as her green pantsuit!

(she must have gotten tired of * whining about the icky, common dirt coming anywhere near his patrician self)

[kimchi]

14. F'n g-d stupid idiotic lazy creep!

What is he now, the damn emperor?

Way to show how you are just a regular guy, you elitist scumbag.

(OMG it feels so good to be mean again!)

[UpInArms]

15. I am shocked and awed

at the blue blood that graces our WH -

perhaps I should start bowing when he appears on my television screen?

I do believe I am going to be sick

:puke:

I don't feel better - that was not nearly enough -

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[Virginian]

16. Then flood the place and let him walk on water. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

26. LOL!

Touche!! :)

[cclark401]

30. Great comment...

Great idea!! That should re-enforce the 700 clubs impression of him!

[Octafish]

64. His dad walks on oil.

Hey! A hearty welcome to DU, cclark401!

Down the Bush Organized Crime Family!

[radwriter0555]

18. He and his dad both have OCD issues.. both prone to fits of rage..

and bizarre compulsions.

[Habibi]

52. Fine.

There are drugs for that. He should be taking them.

[truth2power]

75. Is this true, rad?

Just wondering, because that's the first thing I thought of. Sounds obsessive/compulsive to me.

[smirkymonkey]

19. Yes, it would be considered environmental

contamination. He poisons everything he touches.

He'll be at a fundraiser in NYC tonight as well. I can't believe he dares to show his ugly face here! :grr: :mad:

[demdave]

20. Not LBN...clearly marked Columnists

[frank frankly]

25. thanks for the wonderful notification, demdave

it is LBN.

[TahitiNut]

38. Actually, it's not LBN, imo.

Rules for Posting in the Latest Breaking News Forum

1. NO opinion pieces, editorials, or other stories that are not news.
2. NO news that is more than 12 hours old.

---

The "story" about this visit has been in the news for quite some time as a Google search shows.

[frank frankly]

66. my bad

sorry, I should have checked the rules

my apologies...

[tlcandie]

21. I could give a rat's ass about his feet !!!! BUT his head on the other

hand certainly needs to come back down to earth!

/pictures a hoist lifting him by his feet so they are in the air where his head touches the earth/dirt

[yella_dawg]

22. I thought they'd taught the Chimp to wear shoes... n/t

[KansDem]

31. Yeah, but someone still needs to tie them...(eom)

:dem:

[StlMo]

68. and Unka Dick is busy fucking up the world!

!

[frank frankly]

23. every day, a new plateau of fucked-up-ness!!!

this is why we need Air America ASAP. imagine Al Franken having this to read!

[progressivebydesign]

24. How much are the taxpayers paying for this farce?

This.. THIS is the kind of thing that really damns a candidate. This should be made very public.. There is something wrong with that man.. something very, very wrong. Is it because he can barely walk without tripping now?

[enough]

27. Breslin is a poet.

Great great article.

[catzies]

28. Welcome to DU, Kbick!

:hi: Thanks for the link about the Chimperor.


Gee, it's only 8:45 here on the West Coast and I'm already digusted for the day. Sheesh.

[Hotler]

29. Somebody show this...

to John Stewart and Louis Black.

[moondust]

33. Forget the feet. Go for the nose.

Face down. "He's fallen and he can't get up!"

[yardwork]

35. Interesting contrast with Kerry

W promotes himself as a "cowboy" on his ranch in Texas (which is a pig farm he bought shortly before the 2000 election). W goes to cattle shows and NASCAR events to prove his manhood, but he won't let his feet touch the dirt?

How wacked is that?

Compare and contrast with photos of Kerry windsurfing, driving a motorcycle, and making a goal in ice hockey. Oh yeah. And serving as a soldier in Vietnam.

[Virginian]

73. The ranch stuff is all an act

to convince the poor people in the red states that he is a regular guy. The ranch is just a piece of land with a house on it. He will never do any real farming there. That would involve getting his royal hands dirty. If any real work gets done there, he has a ranch manager to handle it so that makes the place more of a plantation.

[kittykitty]

36. What does he do in Crawford?

Do his feet touch the dirt when he is cutting brush (for photo ops)?

Does this happen everywhere he campaigns? This is weird.

[w4rma]

39. How imperial of the little emperor.

I want the whole Republican Party out of power in November. These narcissistic bafoons, and **especially** His Royal Highhorse, must go.

[Stephanie]

40. Men who are not afraid to get dirty - see these pix:

SHAME on George Bush!

[bushisanidiot]

41. What the hell?? Do the repukes believe AWOL is the POPE???

his glorious, richeous feet shall not touch the dirt??

this administration is completely INSANE!!

[ironflange]

42. Boy, some rancher that guy is!

Scared to get his tootsies a little dirty.

[donsu]

43. he should be made to walk on a path of dust from the towers

be made to crawl to the memorial site

[Rich Hunt]

44. but he'll rub bald people's heads

He's turning into Howard Hughes.

[proud patriot]

45. Please God let his feet touch the dirt

may he have squishy mud between his toes :hi:

[Nlighten1]

46. Is this for real?

[grasswire]

47. this is the kind of thing...

...that can take a president down. Remember his father's bout with the supermarket scanner?

We need to promote this story.

[Piperay]

49. Geesh, what the hell

kind of rancher is he??? Yeah, I know, he is no kind of rancher.

[SoCalDem]

51. Got Pot-holes???

If there are unfixed potholes, yet they lay fresh asphalt for the chimp, that would make an interesting story :)

[gasperc]

53. I hope this makes it onto an ad

me thinks to email Kerry

[Judi Lynn]

54. All this for a man who used to jam firecrackers into frogs' mouths

and blow them up as a boy.

My, my, my. He's come a long way, hasn't he, now?

Bless his heart!

[smallprint]

55. Maybe his handlers are afraid of Hoodoo foot-track curses

"One of the distinguishing characteristics of African-derived spells in African-American hoodoo is the wide-spread belief in "foot-track magic," a form of evil work in which a magical poison enters the victim through his or her feet, causing an unnatural illness.

Many victims of foot-track magic complain of persistent bad luck that lasts for years, of mental disturbances such as "a wandering mind," or of the inability to gain and control money or love. A significant number also describe their affliction as being accompanied by swollen or painful legs and feet, a staggering gait, or being forced to crawl instead of walk."

That would be nice to see, wouldn't it?

http://www.luckymojo.com/foottrack.html

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

56. Because Gaia will rise up and smite him?

[symbolman]

57. so this creature

can walk on BULLSHIT at the Rodeo but his precious footies can't touch DIRT?

They are afraid that if his feet touched actual ground that the Earth would VOMIT..

This needs to go into a commercial.. this could be as one poster mentioned his father's "scanner" moment..

[LifeDuringWartime]

58. whats the scanner moment?

n/t

[symbolman]

61. Bush Senior

trying to act like a regular guy while running for office, went into a store (with a gaggle of news guys, cameras, etc) and bought a pair of gym socks -- (like this guy EVER shops himself..) --

he was totally fascinated by the scanner that the socks were passed over.. he'd never SEEN ONE..

it was a dead giveaway to the public that this guy was out of touch with normal americans who stand in line all day, etc..

hence the Scanner Moment :)

[Khephra]

62. Poppa Bush was in a supermarket

and he didn't know what a check-out scanner was.

[RevSteve]

63. It would be nice

If the people that work for a living in the area be allowed
free access to go home.  But alas we working stiffs are frozen
in here.

PS the park has a pond that once had a huge number of ducks. 
Wonder whats on the menu tonight?

[Nlighten1]

65. John Kerry's haircut gets revenge!

All the stink that was made from Bill Clinton's and John Kerry's haircuts should become moot now.

[derby378]

67. Bush cringed...

...when Cheney advised him to "get his feet wet" on foreign policy.

BTW, I heard there were some 150 protesters at Eisenhower Public Park, although kept at a considerable distance from the ceremony. Some FReepers counter-protested, too.

[alfredo]

70. Here's a direct link from Newsday

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/opinion/columnists/ny-nybres113703317mar11,0,2088100.column?coll=ny-opinion-columnists

[Paradise]

80. thanks

for the link. been working all week, but better late than never.

[BlueStateGirl]

71. I heard on Stern that David Letterman shows a clip of Bush

cleaning his glasses on one of DAve's staffer's skirts.

Is that true?

[Lisa]

72. yes -- it was her shawl, actually ...

And Bush casually reached out and wiped his glasses on it.

Here's a pic. Scroll down -- it's near the end.

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/incidents.shtml

[yellowcanine]

76. This is the same guy that clears brush on his "ranch"?

Apologies to the real ranch owners. His fraudulency doesn't like getting dust on his cowboy boots, no doubt.

[Paradise]

81. please understand

that i'm fairly new here, so a lot of this stuff is a first for me.
his fraudulency? ROFL

[Paradise]

79. Since

we're dirt to him, perhaps, he wasn't going to walk all over us for a day.

[Vitruvius]

82. I can think of a way to use a rope to keep Bu$h's feet from touching the d

dirt. But I'm against capital punishment -- even for war criminals who start a war of aggression -- which, under international law is "the supreme crime". Life in prison in the Hague (after a proper trial with all the rights Bu$h denies to the prisoners at Gitmo) is the proper punishment.

Not that Bu$h will ever receive any punishment whatsoever for his crimes... The rich and the ruling class are truly above the law.

[mourningdove92]

83. hehehe, I posted this over in Freeperville

and was immediately, and I do mean immedaiately, banned as a disruptor. The post was never allowed to be read.
I guess anything even remotely criticizing Lord Dubya is considered dirupting.
go figure

[Catherine Vincent]

84. I don't know why....That same dirt is what helped him get to the WH.

Where's that red and bloue map that the repukes keep bringing out to prove that Bush* covers more land?