Bussing in the Potemkin Village people for bu$h's private barbeque

[susu369]

GWB - Potemkin Village Idiot rewards his fat cats:

Bush Turns Attention to Campaign With Reward for Big Fund Raisers
By Will Lester
Associated Press Writer

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - President Bush was rewarding top fund-raisers with a private barbecue down the road from his ranch Saturday, while keeping his public focus on Iraq and what he said was steady progress there.

The Bush re-election campaign was shuttling in about 350 people who had each helped collect $50,000 for the 2004 campaign by June 30. They were getting personal attention from Bush and Karl Rove, his top political adviser, at the nearby Hickey Broken Spoke Ranch.

Two groups that monitor fund-raising activities, Public Citizen and Texans for Justice, said the barbecue showed that campaign donors get the president's ear and favorable treatment from the Bush administration.

"These people are some of the smartest businessmen in America, and if they didn't continue to see a payback in their investment in the Bush campaign, they wouldn't continue to make these kinds of donations time after time," said Tom Smith, director of Public Citizen for Texas.

He spoke at a news conference a few miles from Bush's ranch. An inflatable White House stood behind him, marked with the sign: "White House for Sale." Secret Service agents and local authorities kept an eye on the event.

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The barbecue was closed to the news media.
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This story can be found at: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA4ELFX5JD.html

[Clete]

1. With six hundred acres,

he couldn't find space on his ranch for a barbeque? What a guy?

[dbt]

2. Remember how EVIL Clinton and Gore were?

All they thought about was fundraising, according to the Pugs. And that was EVIL, according to the Pugs.

Now, it's suddenly NOT EVIL?

:argh:
dbt

[Raster]

3. according to the repugs, it's only evil when someone else does it....

...no big deal when it's one of their own. The boundless hypocrisy simply astounds and confounds.

[SpiralHawk]

4. Pretzels for one and all

Pour on the salt.