Bush Hits the Road for Fund Raising (6 Days)

[underpants]

Lots to read here including a cocktail reception.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/bush
2 hours, 5 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - In six days away from the White House, President Bush (news - web sites) is the star attraction at five events aimed at pulling in cash to help get him re-elected and put other Republicans in office as well.

In between, he'll speak on the economy and on his effort to give religious groups more of a role in federal programs, make good on a two-year-old invitation to host the president of Mexico at his Texas ranch, and even attend a rodeo. Do you think they will allow photos at the rodeo?

But he'll spend the most time shuttling across California and Texas to meet a heavy fund-raising schedule.

His new stump speech for political audiences includes only an allusion to judges who have allowed gay marriages in some states.

"We will not stand for judges who undermine democracy by legislating from the bench, or try to remake the culture of America by court order," he tells fund-raiser crowds these days.

Bush's trip also puts him on the road raising campaign cash the same day that his re-election committee begins airing its first wave of TV commercials. The campaign has bought at least $4.5 million worth of airtime, starting Thursday, aimed primarily at shoring up his popularity with his conservative base and Hispanics.

[bif]

1. Fundraising 24/7/365 but only anhour for the 9/11 commision

You just try and use Ground Zero as a backdrop you fucking asshole!

[underpants]

3. All this talk of his "leadership" complete BS

All he does is fundraise and make speeches.

I am guessing that he has some sort of official reason to make these trips or else he has to pay for them. The article doesn't say anything about.

The rodeo thing is going to be something else I can imagine.

[lancdem]

5. And I remember well how the GOP and media

jumped on Clinton for raising money, but he at least spent plenty of time actually governing, unlike dumbass.

[The_Gopher]

6. on the bright side, he's not in DC fouling things up even more

[shrike]

7. I remember Bob Woodward denouncing Clinton

"A president should not be a fund raiser," his exact words. Still waiting for the same denunciation of shrub.

[underpants]

8. After months of seeing Dems out with the people.....

they are going to put him behind podiums and with the suits?

I know how much the manufacture image but they have to know that it will be a stark contrast to many people when the only see W with the um elite.

You are right they jumped all over Bill for fundraising but now...not so much. We all do know that Bill put in late hours and "multitasked".

This rodeo thing may just eclipse the flightsuit pics but then they are so brazen that they will probably use both.

[dArKeR]

9. Woodward is really a GOP/NSA mole. You're not going to hear it from

Woodward! I'd like to see this article/info so we all could write to the post. And now, our children are dying and being amputated, blinded... and you've got AWOL cracking jokes around the country! This is immoral and disgraceful.

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[wabeewoman]

27. Wonder if we could find the quotes

directly from archived papers? It would be great to start a grass roots effort EVERY time they say or do something inconsistent with how they treated Clinton and email them and all other papers-just to let them know we are on to them. A little late but in time for the election....

[young_at_heart]

2. Millions for him while millions of people lose jobs!

It would be nice if there was just a little outrage over this blatant use of power by the people who think our country is a democracy.

[underpants]

4. Will every news report start with "While on a weeklong fundraising...

binge President Bush said....."

At leas the first part of it should be included so people can see what he is all about. THIS apparently is their first big push? Collecting money?

[central scrutinizer]

13. of course not

here's the key phrase "In between, he'll speak on the economy ". In other words, the taxpayers are picking up the tab for this fundraising trip, just like all the others.

[Clyde39]

11. Forking over big money for corporate greed

Meanwhile social services are being cut left and right.

[Cheesehead]

17. Kerry's speech last night

promising repeal of Whistle Ass tax cuts for the rich, closure of loopholes used by predatory corporations and preservation and expansion of traditional SS/Medicare will make fundraising easy as pie for the Shrub. Conservative special interests will be shovelling money into this campaign.

[buff2]

10. Why does this idiot need millions and millions of $$$$?

If he's such a "great president" like the repukes claim he is,then why does he need all that money to run on? Oh,I forgot.He needs all the money he can get his grubby hands on so he can run negative and smearing ads and pay freepers to protest Kerry everywhere he goes. And of course,not to mention the millions of snail mail,phone calls and going door to door spreading his vicious lies. :puke: :puke:

[underpants]

12. Already has 163,000 volunteers signed up

many are already in place and ready to move. That averages to 3,260 per state but of course some states are already out of the picture so the states "in play" will get THOUSANDS of "volunteers".

You hit the nail on the head-if he could argue on not only the issues and policies but his actual performance he wouldn't need all that money. Plus figure in all the free time he gets on the news.

[devinsgram]

14. They might as well just burn their money

Instead of giving it to a lost cause.

[PurityOfEssence]

15. Takes a whole lotta money to get the slaves to vote for Simon Le Gree

This guy's selling people on actively supporting their own destruction; he's gonna need a lot more than that quarter billion dollars he's sure to have.

[Tommy_Douglas]

16. How are they even going to spend all this money?

Or do they just plan on pocketing a bunch of it? Sad...

[underpants]

20. TV ads TV ads TV ads

Depending on where you live expect to see W' ads and image every freakin' where from now until November.

They can't keep it...at least by law they can't but W probably hasn't been briefed on that by his lawyer either.

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[bushisanidiot]

18. Every Day Since He Was Installed Into Office Has Been A Campaign Day

including everything he did on 9/11. The photo of him on AF1 on 9/11 is a campaign prop.

He's the campaigner in chief.

[underpants]

21. Image control message control punishing reporters who stray

That is the MO and yes they have been campaigning since day one. What else would W do? There is only so much bubblewrap one man can pop.

When W made his big war speech in Cincinnati in October 2002 NYT's Dana Milbank went line by line and exposed the whole thing as, at best, a misrepresentation. Milbank was not allowed back in the White House for a week after that.

[PaDUer]

23. That's for sure...

and now they're having plastic surgery with all that loot he's getting! Maybe he'll run out on the country with all the $$.

[progressivebydesign]

19. It would be news if he WASN'T fundraising!

Hell, if he spent six consecutive days WORKING on the nation's biz.. now THAT would be LBN!! What a shameless whore that man is..

[LeinesRed]

22. disgusting...

and only seconds to spend per victim at the 9/11 commission.

[Manix]

24. ...money grubbing warmonger!

nt

[Malva Zebrina]

25. Oh doesn't he think he is the great leader

going around for almost a week, twisting the arms of those he promises favors to if elected>

He has no notion that he is responsible for the murders of ten thousand Iraqi people. And that is in indication of his pathology.

No, what , in his little stupid brain is important, is that he "raise" money for his "unopposed" campaign. That is the most godamm important thing in his pathetic little life.

May he go down in infamy and take his fat assed, dumb speaking, frumpy, also wannabe a great first lady, along with him

[Just Me]

26. I hope he trips and breaks his nose!!!

And scrapes his face up real raw so that he looks like crap for the next couple of weeks or so *LOL*!!!!

For the first time in my life, I feel absolutely no guilt whatsoever in despising another human being and his/her exclusive little click.

[drscm]

28. So what is Bush going to do, besides hide the simple facts and lie.

"We will not stand for judges who undermine democracy by legislating from the bench, or try to remake the culture of America by court order," he tells fund-raiser crowds these days.

In recent rulings regarding gay rights, who appointed a majority of these "activist judges"? Members of the GOP. See

http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/03/030204activistJudges.htm

Someone once said that Bush was not interested in "conservative" or "non-activist" judges. He is more interested in appointing judges that will do his bidding and that agree with him, pure and simple.

I wish the Democrats would point out the hypocrisy of Bush and his decrying "activist judges."