Bush tries out new media strategy in Chicago ( it's not about politics)

[underpants]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060707/pl_nm/bush_dc_1

CHICAGO (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, seeking to improve his standing among Americans and bolster Republican chances in November elections, argues his causes in the U.S. Midwest on Friday as part of a new media strategy.


At Chicago's Museum of Science and Technology, Bush holds a midmorning news conference in which he will take questions from regulars in the White House press corps as well as Chicago media.

White House officials said Bush's Chicago stop, which included a dinner with Mayor Richard Daley and local leaders on Thursday night, was the first in a series of similar trips he would make around the country in coming months

White House officials denied a political motive in the new strategy but said Bush wanted a chance to take his case to Americans about his policies.

"These trips are good for the president, getting out of the (Washington) Beltway, talking to people about their lives, hearing their stories, being able to share ideas with local leaders. That's something that he likes to do, and he'll do more of it," said White House spokesman Tony Snow.

[TomInTib]

1. "White House officials denied a political motive"

That's what they said when he did exactly the same thing before the mid-terms.

"Talking to people about their lives"

Bullshit.

He will be answering scripted 'questions' from reporters.

[zanne]

2. What's "new" about that?

Every time his poll numbers slip, he's all over the place.

[MattP]

3. What Press Confrence?

I just turned it on and have heard him talking for five or six straight minutes about freedom and how we should bring it to every one because they want it and he knows it.

[truthisfreedom]

5. yeah, delivering freedom from being alive at the point of a gun...

freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

[MadJohnShaft]

4. He likes Chicago, the food, and the people

reports our live report

[RUZIK1]

6. doublespeak

This is so much a Triumph of the Will concert that you would think we were born yesterday. The BigLie is the Herr Decider's forte.

[Magleetis]

7. The stream

of lies and bullshit never ceases to amaze me. What ever they say the opposite is true.

[XNASA]

8. Chicago's Museum of Science and Technology?

WTF is that?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

9. It's a really kick-ass museum in Chicago n/t

[XNASA]

11. Really?

I've been to the 'Museum of Science and INDUSTRY' many times.

But never the Museum of Science and Technology.

[underpants]

10. It's on 57th and Lake Shore drive

http://www.msichicago.org/

apparently :shrug:

I thought for a moment there that this was the place that had the evolution exhibit but naw W wouldn't go anywhere near there.

[XNASA]

12. It's a typo.

It's 'Science and Industry', not 'Science and Technology'.

[mopinko]

15. that would be the field museum of natural history

crazy exhibit, that. they had to put up a space where freepers could leave little messages on a bulletin board. some sick ones on there.

[American liberal]

21. Unless they changed the name and I didn't know about it,

it's the Museum of Science and Industry, located not too far from the University of Chicago campus. Did they change the name?

The museum recently had a special exhibit of cadavers shot full of different colored dyes and preserved in some sort of polymere in different sorts of action poses. It sounded kind of weird, but my friends who went to check it out thought it was pretty cool, albeit a bit creepy.

My favorite exhibits when I went there on field trips as a kid were the echo chamber and the mine shaft. The echo chamber consisted of two pedestals located at either end of a rather dark, cavernous room. there were some sort of concave metal disks atop the pedestals. If one person whispered into the contraption just right, the person standing at the other end could hear him or her, without any sort of special amplification device. And the mine display had an old fashioned mine cart you'd get into and it would roll through a fake horizontal mine shaft while a mechanized voice would drone on and on about the wonders of coal. Obviously, this was long before I was environmentally or politically aware. It was the only moving exhibit you could actually ride in at the time.

[Bandit]

13. We get to pay for his campaigning

What was that they called Clinton? "Campaigner in Chief"...What a joke..

[samsingh]

14. no, it's about the money his cronies and bosses receive

[gratuitous]

16. And Wall Street responds

As the Dow Jones Industrial Average drops more than 100 points.

[ima_sinnic]

17. "These trips are good for the president"--who gives a flying #$@*&?

as usual, it's ALL ABOUT HIM.
Hey, we really don't care what's "good for" *. When the %@#&$ is he going to do something good for the American People with no thought of profit, reward, publicity, attaboys, or any other gratification for himself?

On the other hand, everytime he goes out on these little speaking follies, his poll numbers drop accordingly. He proves repeatedly that he is without substance--intellectual, moral, or spiritual--so BRING IT ON!! Let the little dumb@$$ make an even bigger fool of himself.

[warrens]

18. I think this is a good time to remind everyone

I'm paying top dollar for seats at his trial. And even more for good seats at the execution of this gang of nazis.

[NYC]

19. Okay, but I'll expect a full report from you.

Some of us will be in the cheap seats, or totally shut out. Have pity on us.

[Monkeyman]

20. After his so called reach out

A welcome Committee met his convoy to J Dennis Hastert district . In no uncertain terms he was told what we think of him an Hastert

www.john06.com

[American liberal]

22. I am dismayed to see no mention anywhere of protesters at his

Chicago appearance. What's up with that? Have we rolled over and played dead until the Nov. election?

[w4rma]

23. I guess Chicago's Museum of Science and Technology will lose funding now

that Shrub has decided to give a speech there. It seems that everywhere he gives a speech he works to destroy it.

[Vidar]

25. But due to the clever name change,

the Museum of Science & Industry will survive.

[Reckon]

24. He just wants free press.

ah.. er.. duh

[zann725]

26. Please! Shrub ONLY ever focuses on, talks about himself.

Can't see beyond the end of his own pinocchio-growing nose, and the needs of his "Base."