POTUS in MNMPLS

[mojocatt]

So the dubya visit to Minneapolis is over. Just having that moron less than five miles away from me pissed me off. A major stretch of freeway (35W) was closed to bring him from the airport to downtown Minneapolis. They broadcasted his stupidity live from the convention center on all local channels. I managed to catch about ten seconds before I turned the TV off. They kept all with a negative opinion of dubya at a distance, even keeping signs off overpassses on the freeway.

This all seems quite unfair. As anyone else running for POTUS needs to face hecklers and negative opinion. But dubya gets a moving half mile free speech zone?

I really hope they let more than just Kerry debate dubya when the POTUS debates start. I want to see someone who can rip him a new asshole in a debate, Nader would be a good start. As Kerry, like Gore, has himself a real nice glass house and will never toss any real stones at dubya. We need to see the third, fouth and fifth parties in the debates. Folks with nothing to lose by slapping dubya around....and does that boy need a public slapping around or what?

Comments

Fucking Bush

[conandammit.livejournal.com]

"But dubya gets a moving half mile free speech zone?
"

Don't you mean: moving half mile free speech free zone?

I think that violates some kind of basic fundamental rights. Unless you can afford $10,000 a plate dinners, he does not want to know what you think?

The man who will willingly wade into the fray with the masses and take his chances will have my vote.

Re: Fucking Bush

[caveman.livejournal.com]

It didn't matter if you could afford a $10,000 a plate dinner. It was invite only.

[dawny-darko.livejournal.com]

as for...

A major stretch of freeway (35W) was closed to bring him from the airport to downtown Minneapolis.

They do that for the presidents safety. Even if Nadar won, they would do this for him too. I was stopped once by Clinton.. they close the freeway in every city when the president is there.

[mojocatt.livejournal.com]

Ya they do that for Presidents.

This is dubya. We can just toss him in a rear hatch of a Yugo and drive him up the side streets.

So they get capped?

[conandammit.livejournal.com]

If POTUS wasn't an asshole, they would not have to close anything. Getting assasinated is a danger of the job. It used to be that the president was shown openly, so the people could greet their leader, and if it so moved them, wave signs saying how they loved/hated him. Maybe if we were allowed to regale him with signs sayng how we felt, we would not have this pent up rage festering...

I know where snipers come from.

Re: So they get capped?

[notbatman.livejournal.com]

"Getting assasinated is a danger of the job."

Which brings me to my major disappointment with "the Dubya-B" is that he seems to be dodging the infamous "Zero Year Curse" where every president elected to office in a year ending in zero (since 1840) has been assassinated (or had a serious attempt made - Reagan was the first to survive).

I feel I am owed something. I'm just sayin'...

Re: So they get capped?

[mojocatt.livejournal.com]

That would be too good for him though. If assassinated the christian right wing would hold him up next to Jesus and we would never hear the end of it. They would then carve him into Mount Rushmore before the nation gained its wits, because God knows the Dems would never make an attempt to stop it.

I was cheering for more of a Bud Dwyer thing at the last press conference. Then they would just have to face the pathetic fact the boy is going straight to hell by their own rule book. I think we had a discussion of that a couple of weeks ago and that nobody in the press would be shouting "George don't!", more of a "Wait! Let me get good focus".