Bush speech updates

[chat_noir]

Is K-State audience an 'amen'?

This shouldn't reflect at all on this incredible lecture series, but given the president's penchant for carefully choosing ideologically friendly venues, his Manhattan audience also should be a little wary of his perception of them as philosophically safe.

All K-State students and faculty are welcome at the speech. Chuck Reagan, who arranges the lecture series' speakers, calls it an "uncontrolled" audience. "We have no idea what the students and faculty would do."
The perception, though, is that you wouldn't have to control such an audience here.

There's nothing wrong with revering the president, demonstrating respect for the office, even celebrating his ideas. And what politician wouldn't want an Amen Corner audience?
But no voter should want a politician's staff to be able to bank so comfortably on an audience's reaction before the fact. So relaxed that they'd risk an appearance in front

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/local/13682418.htm



MANHATTAN, KAN. — Thousands of people streamed into Bramlage Coliseum this morning, waiting to hear President Bush deliver the Landon Lecture.

The crowd included hundreds of soldiers from nearby Ft. Riley and several dozen protesters who were roped off in an area beside the colliseum entrance.

One of those protesters was Danielle Richardson, a Kansas State student from Overland Park.

“We would like to see our troops come home,” she said.


http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/jan/23/thousands_wait_bush_speak_kstate/?breaking




Bush may use the lecture to fight back against his critics for his administration’s actions in front of a relatively sympathetic crowd — Bush received 62 percent of the electoral vote in Kansas, according to www.cnn.com. He got 51 percent nationwide.

The Jan. 18 announcement left the campus buzzing over the news. Some professors

canceled class for Monday, and others stressed to students that they would not be allowed to cut class to attend the lecture.

To attend the lecture, K-State students, faculty and staff had to acquire free tickets Thursday at the ticket windows at Snyder Family Stadium. The massive line wound around the entire parking lot.

“I have never, in my almost 20 years here, seen anything like that ... we may have set a record for the longest line,” Charlie Thomas, director of Bramlage, said.

Robin Fosha, director of ticket operations for the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, said everyone who had waited in the line got a seat and that the only people who were turned away were stragglers who came later on.

http://kstatecollegian.com/article.php?a=8492


hehehehe...they didn't screen out anti-Bush people. Hope our people are there in large numbers, and that some ask tough questions.

[chat_noir]

1. live feed

http://ome.ksu.edu/lectures/landon/

and

http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/video/6364848/detail.html

[atommom]

2. I'm truly amazed they didn't screen this one. This could get interesting!

Makes me really wish I could be a fly on the wall....

[chat_noir]

3. it didn't get interesting...maybe this is why

look at all those uniforms








Maybe this civilian sitting in the middle was taking names?

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Scary pictures

They seem mesmerized.

[atommom]

5. Yes, when I heard they were bringing a lot of soldiers from Ft. Riley, I

was afraid that might happen. I only heard part of the Q&A, but it didn't sound as if anyone was giving him a hard time. (I was a bit disappointed. :evilfrown: )