Bush campaigns in deep south, defends war

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040521/ap_on_el_pr/bush&cid=694&ncid=2043

BATON ROUGE, La. - Campaigning in the Deep South, President Bush (news - web sites) on Friday defended the Iraq (news - web sites) war, helped his party raise $2 million and shared life lessons with Louisiana State University graduates. "Choose your friends carefully," he told them.


The political overtones of Bush's visit to Louisiana were not lost on the commencement crowd.

As Bush received an honorary doctorate, a man in the auditorium shouted, "You're the man!" After a moment of silence, another shouted, "Four more years." Then, after a round of applause, still another yelled, "Five more years!"


Earlier, though, several members of the audience remained seated when the crowd rose to its feet and applauded when the president was introduced.

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[Bush_Eats_Beef]

1. And another infant photo op...ka-ching! Just like money in the bank.

[David__77]

2. Ooh man! If I were there and graduating:

If some creep yelled "four more years" I would promptly yell "IN JAIL!" But, then again, I'm in wonderful California and I don't expect to see him at any commencements at my school.

[gratuitous]

3. "Choose your friends carefully"

"Because you never know when they'll be convicted of bank fraud, and try to undercut your power grab, and then you have to raid their homes in the middle of the night, and then the ingrate goes grousing to the media, and makes you look bad, until you can coax him into boarding a small airpl--"

At which point the President's microphone suddenly malfunctioned, and he was hustled off the stage.

[schultzee]

4. Bush has got to appeal to his fundi supporters in the south