The Irrelevant President -PIX from AZ->>>

[Stephanie]

Who needs him?




Reuters - Mon Aug 29, 1:48 PM ET

U.S. President George W. Bush talks about Medicare prescription-drug benefits for senior citizens during a town hall-style meeting at a retirement community in El Mirage, Arizona August 29, 2005. Bush also briefly talked about Hurricane Katrina and the Iraqi constitution. REUTERS/Jeff Mitchell

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*edit* one more - Yukking it up with the grannie while the Gulf Coast is in dire straits >




President Bush talks to Margaret Cantrell, right, who will celebrate her 82nd birthday next week, during his remarks at the Pueblo El Mirage RV Resort and Country Club in El Mirage, Az., Aug. 29, 2005. Bush is hosting 'conversations' with experts and the elderly in El Mirage and Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., in an effort to sell older Americans on the value of a prescription drug benefit that begins next year for Medicare patients. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)


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*edit* and more - acting like a clown in the middle of a disaster >








U.S. President George W. Bush (R) presents Arizona Senator John McCain with a birthday cake

[kliljedahl]

1. "town hall-style meeting "

:wtf: is that? Hand picked, scripted croed I'm guessing.

[Katidid]

45. Well, I don't know about all of you, but

I am having difficulty financially relating to 'Resort and Country Club' as stated in ..."President Bush talks ..... at the Pueblo El Mirage RV Resort and Country Club in El Mirage, Az."

I guess it will be the folks who are able to afford membership to a Resort and Country Club who will be able to afford his 'prescription drug plan'....

I am disgusted!
:sarcasm:

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Town Hall Style meeting! ROFL!!!

Another Our Leader LoveFest is more like it. I heard MSNBC earlier announcing that they'ld be covering it live. :rolleyes: Of course, FauxViews will trumpeting the call as well. And the deception goes on as these networks fail to repeatedly inform their viewers that every person in the audience is a Bush Certified ticket holder.

[Stephanie]

3. I just can't believe he went ahead with it

I mean WTF?

[PuraVidaDreamin]

5. He had to get on with his lies!

[Stephanie]

8. I hope the thousands in the shelters have an opportunity to see this

The little huckster.

[Norquist Nemesis]

14. I can.

He's in high gear marketing mode. Kick starting the message before re-occupation of the WH. His numbers are down...WAAYYYY down. Iraq's gone past the shit hole and is heading for the sewer, his SS 'reform' agenda is going to have to be managed behind the scenes in committee with Majority strong arm tactics, he's failed to show America that he can and will use his 'relationship' with oil industry insiders for the benefit of Americans, he signed a record setting pork-laden highway bill into law...nevermind the irony of the Leader Lovers ignoring his pronouncement that "it" (TAXES) will create jobs, he's continued to look the other way and not speak of criminals who are part of his inner circle, he refuses to get tough about the rampant hiring of illegal immigrants and enforcement on the southern border, ... and the list goes on and on.

But give him a chance to put his mug up on TV with red banners of Breaking News! and NewsFlash! alerts, he won't skip the opportunity to remind people that he's still the guy they want to have a beer with. Not to mention 3-word phrases (with duly noted pause for exuberant applause) for sound bytes.

Mr. Flim-Flam Man loves the camera.

[FreedomAngel82]

29. I wonder if anybody watches it anymore

[maxsolomon]

4. in the "style" of a town hall meeting

but not actually in a town hall, or actually a meeting.

the medium is the message.

[Stephanie]

6. weapons of mass destruction program related activities

[corker]

7. catapulting the propaganda..

[FreedomAngel82]

30. He has to get through the filter

[Generic Other]

9. Picked crowd of Althiemer's patients? The senile?

Not meaning to denigrate such patients, but they are the only ones who could listen to Bush's message without flinching.

[Stephanie]

10. especially today

It's so innappropriate.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. That cake looks like a cheap piece of shit too - grocery store garbage

Icing is all falling off the side, looks like it took some hack about 5 minutes to make. It's probablly still frozen in the middle.

Cheap suit
Cheap cake

Damn George! You're ROLLING in money with the way oil prices are going, BUY some class.

[confludemocrat]

16. Yeah, this cake makes up for McCain being made mincemeat of in 2000

Mr. "I'm-a-different-kind-of-politician" sucking up to Bush while Bush sucks the crisco and sugar "frosting" off his fingers. Two repugnant individuals.

[Horse with no Name]

12. What is so ironic is that he picked El Mirage

A very upscale community.
However, it wasn't always that way. El Mirage used to be no more than shackle huts full of poor when I lived there in the 70's.
I wonder how these developers got hold of this land and turned it into what it is today?
Anyone know? Was it flooded and then rebuilt? Or was the land merely just taken away from the poor that lived there?

[phusion]

32. I dunno...

But I did notice that he is visiting rather upscale places like there and Cucamunga.

This is typical, of course. I guess his handlers are always trying to avoid a meeting with Bush and Reality.

[Jim Warren]

13. After dessert Awol will be reading "The Pet Goat" /nt

[Bluebear]

15. Smiling, partying, lobbying while people suffer.

Who needs him is right.

[Beaverhausen]

17. Ok now I'm convinced Bush and McCain are lovers

why is it photos of the two of them always make me want to say "get a room, will ya?"

[madokie]

18. AAHHH, his "bulldog"pose

[mshasta]

19. a disaster???...

let them eat cake!!!

[Stephanie]

20. d'oh!

Welcome to DU!

[Bluebear]

21. PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Beaverhausen]

22. We have a winner in the photo caption contest!

:applause:

[mshasta]

24. thank you!

[Roland99]

27. Thanks for the idea!!

http://www.conjur.com/blog/2005/08/29/let-them-eat-cake/

[thereismore]

23. No class. Can't even hold a tray like a normal person.

That $.99 cake with a drooping side. What color was that suit, puke brown or puke green? Cake prolly brings back memories when mama bought him one for his birthday. What a disaster.

[Roland99]

25. Whatsamatter, GW? Seniors aren't buying the BS prescription drug plan?

Keeping money out of your drug company buddy's coffers?



WAAAAAHHH!!!!!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

26. Will someone in the Photoshop Brigade PLEASE

Go to town on that last pic?? A natural thumbsucking pose is GOLD I tells ya GOLD!!! lol

[FreedomAngel82]

28. I didn't even recognize McCain

[Historic NY]

31. Rome burns....Bush eats cake...............

WTF is wrong with him. He looks so happy, while others in his nation are in misery.

[Stephanie]

33. Commander Cuckoobananas?

he's out to lunch.

[Hubert Flottz]

34. Why don't Bush and McCain get a damned room?

"Let them eat cake," Shrub smirked and said!

[littleraf]

35. Bush is showing how much he hates New Orleans

New Orleans is 70% black and of course Democrat. They are the most solid voting block in the state and the backbone of Democrat power in Louisiana. 65-percent of Louisiana's voters are Republicans but for over a century New Orlenas has kept the GOP from taking over the state and it infuriates the GOP to no end. In Bush's sick mind New Orleans is receiving God's righteous punishment for having defied "His" will (His being God or Bush, take your pick) and it's Bush's pleasure to ignore them in a disaster while he attends to what for him is the real crisis -getting people onboard a health care agenda that nobody wants.

[Gatchaman]

36. So, in the midst of a national tragedy...

...President Numbnuts thinks it's more important to attend a "let's scare the old folks with the evil liberal socialized medicine boggie-man" rally than go to Washington and DO HIS FUCKING JOB!!! Nero fiddles while Rome burns indeed.

Yes, I realize that there's little he can directly do in Washington, but it's what all the big grown-up presidents did. Hell, even his old man would have gone back.

What a pathetic man, ket alone a pathetic president.

[Stephanie]

41. that's the same attitude he took toward NYC

9/11 was on a Tuesday and he didn't show up here until Friday - stayed for ten minutes, made an ass of himself, and didn't return until the RNC, except for a few visits to lie to the UN.

Welcome to DU.

[NightOwwl]

44. That still pisses me off to no end.

Every time I hear the media and the pundits fawn about how he led this country so masterfully after 9/11 I want to :puke:.

He didn't even show up on Ground Zero UNTIL FOUR DAYS LATER! The most horrendous attack ever, and NO ONE COULD FIND HIM!

Great leader my ass. :grr:

[lonestarnot]

37. Why didn't you just pie him with the cake McCain, you gutless

wonder. Whatsamatta for you? You afraid george would sock you in the eye?

[PatrioticLeftie]

38. Enjoying that cake, Georgie?

'Cause the folks in NOLA aren't enjoying the rain (by which I mean HURRICANE!).

[BlueJac]

39. He is a clown

[edhopper]

40. Bush to McCain-

"Say howdy to your nigger youngens and your drug addict wife."

[NoSheep]

43. oh damn. that made me laugh.

What are you gonna do?

O8) :shrug:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

42. He's holding that mike like he's afraid it's going to run away

[Aviation Pro]

46. Once again....

...AWOL.

Fuck Bush.