Ladies and gentlemen---our esteemed pResident now hides behind bulldozers!

[CoffeeCat]

I find this story hard to believe. Yet, it happened in my home town today! Lucky us.

Our coward-in-chief--using "security" as an excuse--had the City of Des Moines create a "fortress of heavy equipment" along his motorcade route to an area nursing home.

Obviously, Junior didn't want to look at any protesters today.

The article even states, "In the old days, wooden barriers were enough of a security measure during presidential visits."

A bevy of dump trucks, end loaders and other large, heavy equipment was placed along both sides of the road.

You've got to see the story link--there's link to video. You can view--for yourself--the great lengths that the world's biggest cowardly Bubble Boy is taking these days to shield himself from "We The People."

Junior can barricade himself inside a fortress comprised of a million dump trucks but America will still see what a moronic failure he is!

http://www.kcci.com/news/8624920/detail.html
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From the article:
Construction equipment was used as barriers in several areas along Bush's route.

"At first, I thought they were going to rip up the street, but that would be an excessive amount of bulldozers and stuff for that," said Julie Traver, of Des Moines.


The first of 10 road graders pulled up in front of the Wesley Acres Care Center at about 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, gobbling up a whole lane of Grand Avenue.

Soon after, seven city dump trucks and an end loader were stationed to the west, creating a perimeter to protect the president. It's what the Secret Service calls a blast barrier.

[babylonsister]

1. Rec'd for hilarity; bubble boy indeed, and will continue to live

in that bubble forever. I wonder how that must feel?

Edit to add: you cannot make this shit up!

[TomInTib]

2. And this wasn't the first time.

They did it when the idiot was campaigning in 2000.

Notice how they moved all that heavy equipment during early and late rush hour.

Bastards

[fooj]

3. They did it when he was a presidential candidate in 2000, as well.

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!! What's wrong with the tit-sucking bully? Treasonous, rat bastard coward! Grrrrrrrrr...:grr:

[acmavm]

4. Someone that damn paranoid has to be, if not certifiable, at least

borderline and getting worse by the day. I wonder if he has to medicate himself at night to sleep. Does he hear noises, is he afraid of the dark.

That's a boatload of bad Karma you got there george.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

5. Get thee to the Greatest Page!!

If his Assholiness, George the 1st sees no dissent, then there IS no dissent.

Pathetic at best, Bunnypants.

[bunkerbuster1]

6. "back in the good old days, these wooden barriers were good enough...

but these aren't the good old days."


This stuff just writes itself.

[MercutioATC]

7. What do you expect? Des Moines was trying to buy yellowcake from Niger.

Bush has the intelligence reports to prove it...

[susu369]

8. Did they use any garbage trucks

filled with stinking, useless trash?

[Buns_of_Fire]

51. No need. That's what the pResidential limo is for these days.

(Oooooh, I'm getting NASTY in my old age!)


Edited to add the qualifier "these days." That's not what the limo is designed to do and, God willing, will never be used in that way ever again.

[pacalo]

9. They did the same thing in 2000 when he visited as a pres. candidate!

That kind of debunks the "security" issue, unless he was paranoid about CIA "insurgents" who knew beforehand that the election would be stolen & this country would soon be put at risk.

[TahitiNut]

10. You can't even spell 'coWard' without dubya.

What a sorry excuse for a human being. :puke:

[shain from kane]

11. Nixon hid behind parked buses from Viet Nam protestors.

History repeating itself.

[ellenfl]

12. too bad we can't get him to hide under them. eom

[CrazyOrangeCat]

13. "blast barrier!"

Oh that's rich. "Those ole folks is gonna blow me up, KKKarl!"

what a pitiful POS.

[SmokingJacket]

14. Whereas...

Can you even FIND Bill in this picture?

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[ItsTheMediaStupid]

21. That's different - he was a leader

Jr. is just a rich bully.

[Catherine Vincent]

34. Love that pic of THE PRESIDENT!

[SupplyConcerns]

38. Thank you. That's an amazing picture.

If that were Bush, half of them would be trying to throttle him and the other half would be beating up the Bush-haters. Total brutality. He won't escape his karma forever though.

[nonconformist]

50. Love that picture!

Clinton was NEVER afraid to mix with us "commoners". Still isn't.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Well, we all know that Des Moines is a hotbed of terrorism.

You gotta worry about the Norwegian Liberation Front, not to mention those Al Cow-da operatives. You never know what sort of skullduggery they'll get up to.

[AndyA]

16. What a HUGE waste of time and money!

Bush should just keep his BUSH home if he doesn't want to see protesters.

[SoCalDem]

17. picture & video here

http://www.kcci.com/news/8624920/detail.html#

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

18. Sucks when you have a Pres that has to worry so much about Security.

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. Wow. Sounds like he was trying to protect himself from a missile

launch. But why Des Moines?

[glitch]

20. Such a bwave wittle soldier. Does he still travel with pilly? Does he take

naps on ruggie? Mommy's special boy.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

40. Does he still travel with pilly?

LOLZ!!!!!

[Arkansas Granny]

22. This is just unbelievable. If he is so afraid of "we the people",

why doesn't he just stay in D.C. for a while and do some of that hard work he's always talking about instead of running around the country, trying to prop up his unpopular plans and wasting millions if not billions of dollars with his travel expenses. Can you imagine what just one trip like this must cost when you consider the use of AF1, his entourage, local police and security efforts, and the time lost by local citizens due to the blocked or slowed down traffic that his visits entail?

[burythehatchet]

23. May he spend the remainder of his miserable existance

under the same level of fear.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

28. yes.

[niyad]

35. may he, and each and every member of his mis-administration, and all

their apologists, get EVERYTHING they deserve.

[lonestarnot]

24. that cowardly fucker! You don't say.

[paparush]

25. UnF#cking Believable!! k&r

[hunter]

26. Bush is gonna leave the country when he's done.

He'll buy a big house in Bahrain to "relax" for a few years, just like Michael Jackson.

[petgoat]

46. Can he fly nonstop? If he stops anywhere to refuel he's

likely to be arrested for war crimes. Maybe they'll send up a tanker plane for in-flight
refueling.

[WillyT]

27. Sad Shit, Eh ??? - K & R !!!

:wow:

[wicket]

29. We could use some of that equipment in Boston to fix the roads

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[Blue Belle]

49. They could use that equipment in New Orleans to fix the city.

:grr:

[wicket]

55. Amen to that!!!

I'd much rather see that equipment put to good use than just being used to protect the poor wittle king from seeing dissent :grr:

[Olney Blue]

30. They failed to notice that the crazy dude who jumped over

the WH fence was driving one of the trucks.....

[cami715]

31. What a POS!

If we had all the money he and Cheney have spent on idiotic things like this, we probably could pay down the deficit.

When will people realize this man is insane and he must be removed from office?

But it does make me feel great that he is so scared!

[opihimoimoi]

32. I guess we are not safe.....after all....even from ourselves

[Blue Belle]

48. No kidding... these photo ops and field trips...

are costing us a bloody fortune. We can't outfit our soldiers with proper equipment, but we can provide our president with a escort of enough John Deer equipment to level 10 city blocks. His antics get more asinine everyday

[Catherine Vincent]

33. What a chickenshit!

Here is another example of his chickenshitness:



:-)

[nicknameless]

36. What a worm.

[quiet.american]

37. What a FECKIN' IDIOT! Where's his faith?

If he is indeed the CHOSEN ONE, what's with the lack of faith? Ass-clown.

[goclark]

39. Wouldn't that be a RED location?

[Canuckistanian]

41. Odd juxtaposition

Tools of construction shielding a tool of destruction.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

42. The President was quoted as saying

"Look at all the cool bulldozers and neat trucks! VROOOOM!" Thinking that the dozers had been placed their for his amusement and maybe to ride on later if he's good and the big man in the bulldozer says its ok just for a minute and auntie Condi says its ok too.

[Maraya1969]

43. Next he'll refuse to cut his fingernails and they'll grow long and curled

like a ram's horn. The guy is a freak show.

[formercia]

44. Nothing like being the peoples' President

He's a real love magnet.....

[GeorgeGist]

45. If and when Bush is convicted of his countless crimes...

I hope he's given a Bullet Proof Bubble at Ground Zero to display the rest of his life in.

[MaggieSwanson]

47. The heavy machinery is designed

to intimidate, to play up the fear of terrorism.

I was arrested during election year for civil disobedience. Two friends and I walked between two earth movers, part of a block-long nose-to-nose barricade.

Our purpose was to draw attention to the use of fear as a campaign tool.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041027/NEWS09/410270353/1001

The heavy machinery and the snipers and bomb dogs in Cedar Rapids, Iowa that October afternoon were there to put an exclamation point on the pResident's "War President" status.

By the way, taxpayers paid for the Des Moines visit, which was in truth a fundraiser for gubernatorial candidate Jim Nussle. By stopping at the Senior Center first, it became billed as a trip to talk about Medicare.

Taxpayers also pay for the heavy machinery to be moved around.

Here's a link to the recap I posted last night about *'s visit, still feeling the post-protest euphoria...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=911033&mesg_id=911033

edited to add a few links.

[CoffeeCat]

56. Wow, you made The Register!

That's so cool.

I remember hearing about that story when it came out. I didn't know a DUer was among the arrested.

Thanks for your tenacious attitude, and for yelling at *'s limo.

I agree, that the heavy equipment is designed to instill fear. When you have no communication skills, diplomacy or grace--you go for the fear factor I guess.

[cascadiance]

52. He's gotta be careful about those Rachel Corrie's out there....

That might be suicide bombers waiting in front of those bulldozers!

[Justice Is Comin]

53. I'm amazed they even allow

him in public. He should have his face in a badger hole somewhere.

[kitkat65]

54. Maybe he was worried about all those Iowan IEDs.