I got kinda excited with news of the president's national ad campaign kicking off this week. Today's stop: Kansas State University. He's selling Americans on his authority to spy on 'em outside the scope of his powers to do so.
Keeping us scared is a tactic Bush will use repeatedly--to the point of tedium. It's a theme he'll lean on heavily. After all, the more frightened we are of the next terrorist attack, the more willingly we'll surrender our Bill of Rights to him, right?
Curious, isn't it? It's like there's just so much power in the Universe to go around. So to increase his, the president has to usurp our's, congress', and the constitution's.
But the news that had me wishing I was a student at KSU was the headline that Bush is taking unscripted questions from the audience! More and more, the article said, the president is becoming comfortable with this format as a way of building support for the erosion of our rights. Of course, I was forgetting, the audience is stacked. Never mind Bush is the president of us all (if you accept election theft as a legitimate means of seizing power, that is).
Yes, while Bush reigns over 100% of us, half of all Americans are culled from his audiences.
As a result of banning half of us from seeing our president, Bush is learning he need not fear anything in the way of questioning too tough from an audience of young republicans and their fellow conservatives. The curious will only be armed with Nerf Ball questions. Bush excels at handling these. The press has been throwing him softballs for years.
No need to worry about unexpected hardballs or curves. Those pitchers have been ejected from the game. You know, dissent is unsportsmanlike conduct.
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Cept them damn college kids know how to READ...oh shit didn't see that coming? He tried to duck and hide..he even tried to pull the "What, couldn't hear ya"...and then he tried the " I don't remember whatha talking about?", all because some kid, some damn girl had the Nerve to read the Rolling Stone Magazine- and aska bout the Student Loans being cut CUT Raped and Pillaged for 14.7 Billion dollars.... And some student asked something- that really pissed him off and cspan would not air- we need to GET that question- he got all pissy=[ told his people"make sure to get what they brought and get their ADDRESS" we must get the transcript- it was VERY telling....
Besides the fact that he should not be allowed to drive the podium unless he's had a Breathalizer....
he was all-a-swaggery and leaning on the podium...
Turns out those damn college kids in Kansas ain't drinking the Koolaid after all..
Thanks e4e for this update on Bush's PR stop in Manhattan.
My apologies to the Bush administration as it appears pre-meet screening wasn't at all like I painted it, which probably explains some of his reactions you describe.
As one KSU student remarked, looking across the street at pro-anti-war (?what?) activists.
"They ought to support Bush, he IS our president," indicating their is no pre-screening of applicants to KSU before admission.
(NOTE: Just joshing KSU readers. It's always amazing to see students of higher learning advocate blind allegiance to a person of high crimes and misdemeanors, proving critical "thinking" skills are not requisite for university education.)
well, not all the students were drinking the koolaid...and what about the one that asked about the Gay Cowboy movie...now THAT question was not vetted was it?
No, that question was definitely NOT vetted.
Which confuses me with Xtian extremists who can't accept our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters into the fold after god created 'em just as sure he created each and everyone of us (assuming God's a real *person* whose favorite creatures in all the Universe is/are/ahm ----"ta dah!"---- Us! the lil' ol' ones he made to look just like Him!)
(No, no, I wasn't saying God is gay, okay? Although, I've never heard any mention of his wife.)
p.s. I hope I wasn't too irreverent with the above comment, but I'm still smarting from news that Judas wasn't the traitor of Jesus he's made out to be. That's apparently
a callous lie by someone as early as the first century A.D.
"If Judas had not followed his appointed role by handing over the Son of God, there would be no Christianity."
Well, it's obvious I'm falling deeper and deeper into the hole of "off topicism".
Thanx to Nona over at Fish Wars for the news of Judas
Dental work prevented my seeing the Bush/KSU event (although which is better ... a root canal or watching Bush, hmm). Where can I catch it online? Also, dada, I responded with dog knee advice on the post below. D.K.
DK - I promise you the dental work- even a root canal done with a rusted ice pick is less painful than watching even a muted King Chickenshit Speech...( I ran out of marshmallows AGAIN...)
Stop by the Enigma Cafe and see what happened over the weekend- Fluffy got a new Roomate...
That speech reminded me of all the reasons to read transcripts at WaPo, just way too much chimping around for this feeble brain. Due to snow, I was home and caught it against my better judgement. Much coffee snarfing..
Enigma, thanks for the invite. I'll stop by this AM. Hope you have herbal tea for us non-caffeiners. I'll bring some homemade mormon blackberry jam ... not made in my home, but great on hot buttered biscuits! D.K.
D.K. How's the post-root-canal coming along? It's been awhile, only had one, but I had a tooth go bad on a Friday nite. Even bourbon didn't help deaden the pain over the weekend. By the time Monday rolled around and the dentist gave me that novacane, I would have signed a contract of inservitude to him for at least 18 mos. (Fortunately, he didn't charge THAT much.)
Hope you're doing well.
Ouch, my one & only root canal was actually done a year ago, but has since started bothering me again. After a lot of painful messing around, we're treating it as an infection (antibiotics). Plus they painted the whole area with some kind of "de-sensitizer" coating & now it feels pretty good. Never thought of bourbon ... is that a topical or internal solution? D.K.
lily: Love your new avatar. That IS a new avatar, isn't it? Seeing it was the last straw. It's goaded me into blogging "The time for civility has past" (coming to the blog later Thursday). Thank you.
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