Protests Force Bush To Relocate Hoover (Institute) Meeting

[hezekkia]

Although President George Bush was scheduled to meet with fellows at the Hoover Institution on Friday, the presence of more than 1,000 protestors forced him to change his plans and meet with the advisors and faculty members at the residence of former Secretary of State and Hoover Fellow George Shultz on the outskirts of the Stanford campus.

More than 100 armed law enforcement and Secret Service officers lined the streets outside of Encina Commons, as students, parents, faculty members and local residents protested Bush’s anticipated arrival...

http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=20166&repository=0001_article

also a story in the San Jose Merc-News
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/the_valley/14400850.htm

[fooj]

1. His gig is just about over, isn't it?

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[C_U_L8R]

2. Keep shutting him down

People in the streets is the only thing that will end this nightmare

[Toucano]

4. Absolutely true! n/t

[William Seger]

26. Yes! Keep forcing him into "Lying Speech Zones"

[Az_lefty]

3. Beautiful man, just beautiful n/t

[burrowowl]

5. Oh! Loverly!

Afraid of a measly 1000 protesters!?!?
Let's take to the streets in DC by the Millions!

[cliss]

7. I've read that the ONLY people

they're afraid of.....is Americans. Not the French, not the Kurds or Iranians, or the Chinese.

Because they're the only ones that can get rid of these tapeworms.

[hezekkia]

8. that would re-arrange his whole schedule!

[cosmicdot]

6. 1999 article: California think tank acts as Bush 'brain trust'

"It started cozily enough in April 1998 in the home of George Schultz, former secretary of State to President Reagan and now a Hoover fellow. Mr. Schultz's home on the Stanford campus was host to three hours of wide-ranging policy discussions involving half a dozen Hoover fellows, all built on the premise that Bush would eventually run."

http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1999/07/02/p2s1.htm

so, which Fellows? how many? a secretive session??

why is our pRetzeldent meeting with a right-wing organization with ties to Scaife, Bechtel et al?
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1479 did we taxpayers pay for this pow-wow session?

couldn't have been a large meeting if they could assemble in Schultz's home

what's up with this meeting?

things not going too well???

[BrotherBuzz]

28. And don't forget Rice is a protégée of Shultz - he introduced her to GWB

In 1998, Governor George W. Bush, of Texas, whom Rice already knew, but not well, from visits to the Bush family in Texas and in Kennebunkport, Maine, and who was thinking about running for President, spoke at a Republican fund-raising event in San Francisco. George Shultz, the former Secretary of State, who introduced Bush, arranged an impromptu policy discussion for him the following day, at the Shultz home on the Stanford campus, with a group of experts from the Hoover Institution, an on-campus think tank that functions as a Republican government-in-exile. Rice, by that time also a protégée of Shultz's, was there, and evidently turned in another dazzling performance. "Condi had a lot to say," Shultz told me. "And he listened." Soon Shultz's experts were being invited to Austin for more seminars. In 1999, Rice resigned as provost of Stanford and became the head of Bush's team of foreign-policy advisers, which was known within the campaign as the Vulcans.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/021014fa_fact3

[radfringe]

9. did the "DECIDER" decide to move the event

or did someone else make the decision?

has it occurred to anyone that in making the statement "I'M THE DECIDER" - bush has taken total responsibility for all decisions that have been made since plopping his butt in the big chair?

If we take him at his words -- "I'M THE DECIDER" -- that means no more pet scapegoats, no more 'don't take it lieterally', no more "gee I didn't know"...

When someone declares themselves the "DECIDER" that means they also assume responsibility for those decisions.

[0007]

10. junior's done

[maddezmom]

12. who will be the first to stick a fork in it?

:evilgrin:

[cpousnret]

11. sems fitting,meeting at the hoover institute.

failure breeds failure.maybe in the end we will have bushvilles spring up.

[Punkingal]

13. Bwahahahahahaha!

I'm glad he finally ran into some protestors they couldn't hide from him. Makes my day!

[ninkasi]

14. This is encouraging

Apparently the protest started out with about 200, and more people keep joining, until there were about 1,000 protesters. This is what should happen every time he tries to show his simian face, people should protest, and others should join, until he realizes he is hated as the worst president in American history. I love the thought of a new generation of students leading the way, it makes it seem like the old days.

[leftchick]

15. I believe this is a first!

CBS evening news even showed it! Take that you stupid chimp!

:bounce:

[peacebird]

16. Fantastic!!!! Best news I've heard in a long, long while!

:grouphug:

Thank you to everyone single solitary person in that protest!!! Now if only we can keep the momentum - keep showing up at all their photo ops!

:patriot:

[donsu]

17. fantastic is what I thought too - smirk so hates to have his schedule

interrupted. :)

[whatelseisnew]

18. sneaking around to avoid them

Protesters said they were disappointed that the President would not see them and accused the President of sneaking around to avoid them.

[Olney Blue]

33. Slinked away, just like he did from the Superdome.

[zann725]

19. 1,000 (prob. 100+) Stanford (Marin Co.) students scare the Prez away?!!

Berkeley students maybe, but Ivy-league Standford?

Doesn't take much these days, I suppose. No wonder he's not visiting Crawford.

[Bush_MUST_Go]

21. Hopefully "The Decider" was paying close attention to "The VOICES."

[BrotherBuzz]

23. Leland Stanford Junior University isn't in Marin County

Stanford is 37 miles south of San Francisco in Santa Clara County adjacent to the city of Palo Alto, Stanford lies at the heart of the Silicon Valley, both literally and historically. Marin County is north of SF.

[wellst0nev0ter]

20. Where Are The "Free Speech Zones" When Ya Need Em

Whatta loooser! :rofl:

[Rex]

22. Flee you yella bellied coward.

nt

[wordpix2]

24. thanks to Stanford students and organizers! Way to go

[Terran1212]

25. Go Stanford!

[genieroze]

27. Oh, poor baby.

:cry:
:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

edited to add::nopity:

[Catrina]

29. I'm amazed that this was allowed to happen. Doesn't Rove usually

make sure to keep all protestors at a safe distance from Bush? How hard would it have been to do that? Maybe his protectors are no longer protecting him.

Regardless, it is a powerful symbol of how far he has fallen since after the 'election' when he announced that reporters would be only allowed 'one question and NO FOLLOW-UPS!' And that he had 'political capitol' and 'I intend to spend it'.


Good for those people. They are the first to put a stop to something he tried to do! They may be remembered for that. I see it as very symbolic of things to come. :applause: :applause:

[hezekkia]

30. a picture from the Stanford protest

[Olney Blue]

34. Bush, meet your new base.

[DemoTex]

31. Bu$h heard "Hoover" and thought they meant lines of coke.

[EFerrari]

32. Lol!

:rofl:

[tabasco]

35. Thank you protestors !

Bless you for standing up to the criminal tyrant !

:patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot::patriot: