Chicago Sun Times: "Bush avoids beef, heads for barbecue"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Hmmm..."Bush_Avoids_Beef"...NAH!

:evilgrin:

Bush avoids beef, heads for barbecue

August 13, 2005

BY ANGELA K. BROWN ASSOCIATED PRESS

http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-mom13.html

CRAWFORD, Texas-- President Bush and his motorcade passed the growing camp of war protesters outside his ranch Friday without incident. As Bush passed on his way to and from a political fundraiser, law enforcement blocked two intersecting roads where the demonstrators have camped out all week. Officers required the group to stand behind yellow tape, but no one was asked to leave. The motorcade didn't stop.

Cindy Sheehan, the California mother who started the vigil along the road leading to Bush's ranch, held a sign that read: "Why do you make time for donors and not for me?"

It was unclear whether Bush, riding in a black Suburban with tinted windows, saw the demonstrators. He had said Thursday that he sympathized with Sheehan but believed it would be a mistake to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq.

On Friday, Bush arrived before noon at a neighbor's ranch for a barbecue that was expected to raise at least $2 million for the Republican National Committee. About 230 people were attending the fundraiser at Stan and Kathy Hickey's Broken Spoke Ranch, a 478-acre spread next to Bush's ranch. All have contributed at least $25,000 to the RNC, and many are "rangers," an honorary campaign title bestowed on those who raised $200,000 or more for Bush, or "pioneers," those who have raised $100,000 or more.

[dogday]

1. By pulling the troops out would that not

send the signal that we no longer wish to fight? Maybe I am stupid or something, but that is the first impression I would get...

[JuniperLea]

2. Maybe it would send the message that Iraq is free?

We caught and imprisoned their despot, isn't it time for Iraq to decide who are the good guys and who are the bad? I'm not entirely convinced that we are still fighting the bad guys. I think Iraq should sort it out. We should never have gone there; there was no threat to the US, which makes US the terrorists. Time to go home!

[susu369]

3. That cavalier bu$h image - his priority is TWO MILLION DOLLARS

and the stupid idiots parade by the grieving citizens? Historians will have plenty of compelling video....

Yes, I have posted this same message in other threads because I think it is so obvious and important.

[Dudley_DUright]

4. Sometimes I get really sick of these supposedly "clever" headlines

the editors come up with (reporters rarely write there own headlines). They just serve to trivialize very serious subjects. :mad:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. Many in the media want to be Jon Stewart, I think...

...and I think that the media is struggling with the notion that our rough and tumble, tough-talkin' and tough-walkin macho Texas-by-way-of-Connecticut prep school Oedipal substance-abusing cowboy of a president is zipping back and forth in his window-tinted SUV in fear of a serviceman's mother.

He's willing to take on the entire world of "terror"..."BRING IT ON"...but he's afraid of a mom from Vacaville California.

He's a coward. That's it, plain and simple.

[Dudley_DUright]

6. "Bring it on" is easy to say

from the whitehouse when you have truckloads of secret service agents protecting your ass. Hand shrub a rifle and a helmet and plop him down in Iraq and watch him cower in terror (like he is from Cindy).

[cliss]

7. That's an unbelievable photo.

I'm assuming here is is a bona-fide photo of Bush. Take another look, DU:ers. Look at the sulking pout on his face. Is he trying to look sad? He just looks like a foolish old man. Notice the hair. It looks white here, very brittle. His arms are outstretched, something his coaches have obviously told him to do. It gives him a "caring", "passionate" look. But the face is an instant turn-off.

LOVE the quote -- look at all the stuttering! He looks like a donkey in this photo.