[lbo-talk] while Bush slept

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 12 13:31:49 PDT 2005


Mark Bennett wrote:


>Well, Bush was never really in the city of San Diego. He flew into the
>North Island Naval Air Station, which occupies one half of an island in
>the middle of San Diego Bay, and he stayed there the entire time. Which
>seems odd. Does this man never show himself to the public outside of a
>military base? I mean, look at his itinerary today: He flies onto an
>aircraft carrier and deigns to visit NO itself now that it an armed
>camp. San Diego is as reliable a Republican city as one can imagine
>(after all, Nixon considered it his "lucky city.") if Bush is loath to
>show himself to the public at large in San Diego I can't imagine where
>he'd feel comfortable doing so. The man is unusual in this respect,
>isn't he?

Funny behavior for a guy who went AWOL, eh?

But it gives credence to those Capitol Hill Blue stories: a single "Go fuck yourself Mr Bush" might send him into a rage.

Doug



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