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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 08:44 AM
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Matt Thompson (TAP): Shifting Gears (must read about Bush Daytona visit)
President Bush flew to the Daytona 500 on Sunday in Air Force One, and, by all accounts, the people sitting in the grandstands loved him. He "was greeted … by a largely adoring crowd that sees in him the values it holds dear," according to The Washington Post.

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Just before the race began, people were becoming impatient to get to their seats, and the increased security prompted by Bush's visit was slowing things down. To my left, I heard someone ask, "Who's voting for Bush?" Someone else instantly responded, "Not me." I turned back to see who'd spoken, but I was no match for the hundreds of people behind me pressing onward. Then, suddenly, we stopped.

A few feet away, I could see police officers and orange-vested security agents holding the crowd back. It wasn't long before everyone realized we were being delayed until Bush had completed his entrance into the stadium.

After only a minute's pause, people started grumbling. Soon, they started yelling at the security detail. A few minutes more and they'd turned their ire on the president himself.

"We want to see the race, not Bush!" shouted someone in the crowd.

"Why didn't that SOB stay in Washington?" screamed Doug Shelby, the loudest of the voices.

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http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/02/thompson-m-02-17.html

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Mika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 09:28 AM
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1. Love it!
From the same article,
Overhead, Lee Greenwood sang "God Bless the USA." The crowd started chanting obscenities.

After LeAnn Rimes sang the national anthem, the crowd above the grandstands started cheering; those below booed.

Then Bush's motorcade drove by. One middle finger went up in the crowd, then another, and soon they were everywhere.

As the crowd scattered to their seats, one of the few black fans I spotted at the racetrack ran by and saw me scribbling in my notepad. "Writing for a newspaper?" she asked. Before I could respond, she shouted, "Tell them Bush sucks!" Then she disappeared back into the fray.



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ex_jew Donating Member (627 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 10:03 AM
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2. "Bush is the one that went over there and handled shit, you know"
A revealing quote from "Sean". How can the Democrats run against someone who handles shit, which is apparently what we're dealing with outside America's borders. Perhaps Kerry should run on a platform calling for X hundred thousand dead foreigners. That would be impressive to Sean, I think.
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