Bush & PUBLIC appearances

[midnight armadillo]

I was trying to think...when was the last time Bush gave a public appearance, wherein anyone could attend? I can't remember a single speech he's made that hasn't been either to people giving him money or to a captive military audience. Well, I suppose there was then one on the WTC wreckage, but that's the only one that comes to mind.

Has any president ever avoided the public so carefully?

[tom_paine]

1. No and no. But then, Bunnypants* is NOT pResident. He is Emperor

He is King.

Free America WILL NOT KNEEL!

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies...

[Vickers]

5. Hahahahaha, I love that photo!

:toast:

[nostamj]

2. the WTC site was STRICTLY controlled

you could not get within blocks of the site at the time * made his visit. even volunteers (I know a few who worked there) had to go through checkpoints.

* has NEVER appeared in public.

[midnight armadillo]

4. Really!

Well, I certainly swallowed the media image hook line and sinker on that one...I hadn't realized it was stage managed too.

[SoCalDem]

3. He only visits the "pretend public"

and the soldiers.. I am always amazed at the nerve ..To snuggle himself in the bosom of the military with HIS record of "service".. Rush Limbaugh has "prepped" the soldiers well.. Most do not even know about his record..

[I thought so.]

9. Yes indeed!

Bush can't sway people that terrify him. He is the boy in the bubble.

[zbdent]

6. Remember, the last elected President was quite a guy

who would stop the procession in the middle of a drive just to shake hands with the real working people.

[nostamj]

7. and the faux prez

was EGGED at this inaugural

[I thought so.]

8. Ah!

You have posted what I have thought for some time. His staged managed appearances can hardly sway swing voters.

[Randypiper]

10. Helen Tomas talked about that a year ago on Donahue

And I heard that the crowd at the plastic turkey visit in Iraq was handpicked.

[central scrutinizer]

11. not only stage managed

but blatantly manipulated. Remember the duct tape covering the "Made in China" stickers. Remember the "rally" in Indianapolis where they asked some of the men to remove their suit coats and ties and put on work shirts to make the audience look more diverse. Then they colorized the faces of some of the audience to make it appear racially diverse as well. Even the troops are screened before events like the plastic turkey photo op to make sure they were all dittoheads. There have been reports of the troops being rehearsed ahead of time. Remember the "free speech zones" are always a long way from * and never on the intended route of travel so he doesn't have to even see the great unwashed public. Plus all of the official photos are managed - make it look like a halo above * head, or as the fifth face on Mt. Rushmore. And who could forget the carrier stunt, complete with codpiece.