President speaks at LSU yet can't attend his daughters graduations?

[spanone]

First of all, CNN is covering his commencement speech at LSU. Is this news?? Even FAUX isn't covering this event. Secondly, if the prez can go talk at LSU, why the hell can't he attend his own kids graduations?

[gratuitous]

1. Lesson for the Bush girls

Go to college in a swing state, and daddy will speak at your commencement.

Besides, in Stupidhead's world, the girls didn't attend his graduation, so why in hell should he go to theirs?

[oldcoot]

16. I really feel sorry for the Bush twins

They have probably spent their entire lives living with the fact that they are not high on Daddy's list of priorities.

[caledesi]

23. Yeah, remember when one of them had an appendicitis and *

was busy fishing while she was in the hospital.

And they have the nerve to critize the Clintons.

Makes me sick. :puke:

[keithyboy]

19. Republican family values..

Just another example.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Official story is that he doesn't want to disrupt the ceremonies...

I think that he is afraid of protests.

[spanone]

4. Why isn't he afraid of the same for LSU???? Cheap excuse.

Daughters are probably ashamed.

[bluedog]

6. disrupt

what the hell does he think he does when he goes to other schools? The security is tight in them as well and many poeple don't want his face to spoil their childs day..talk about bullshit!!

[Baltimoreboy]

10. What parent would want to destroy their kids' graduation?

I can't even imagine Bush would want that.

[spanone]

11. Destroy? by attending? So he is destroying the LSU familys' graduation?

[Baltimoreboy]

21. Protests

You have to admit that protesters would be much more likely to attend the Bush kids' graduations. That has to be why he isn't doing so.

[bluedog]

12. my daughter

graduated from St Pete College (FL)in Criminal Science in Dec.They had a speaker from Russia..who took an hour to praise bush and his capture of Saddam.all he talked about was the Iraq war.People were getting pissed and many of us walked out until he left the stage..yes, this rhetoric spoils what should have been the speaker focusing on the grads themselves........

[Baltimoreboy]

22. I would blame those who CHOSE the speaker

Speakers do what they do. The group that picked him should have chosen better.

[meegbear]

3. Faux ain't covering ...

for fear someone may say something negavtive about our fearless leader.

[Jacobin]

5. Jeeze, he's fouling the air of my state

Last time he came here to help horseface try to beat Mary Landrieu for the senate, it backfired on him and we were one of the few bright spots in the 2002 election.

I hope when the students and parents look at him, it will remind them of the war crimes photos and connect this criminal with what he has wrought.

Hope he leaves soon and goes back to his bat cave in D.C.

[OKNancy]

9. I caught the first minute and then

had to leave the room. He mangled the words, waited for applause but none was given, and hissed his way through the same old tired crap he always says.

I did hear one boo.

[Jacobin]

29. WOW! No kidding?

Excellent!!

Thank you for that report. I would have assumed that he would get polite applause, but I guess there is just so much coming out now that he is toast.

Great news.

[jus_the_facts]

7. Makes me wanna HURL knowin' he was picked to speak at LSU.....

*throws dog shit at his smirkin' face* :freak: :puke:

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. If I was graduating from UT, I'd be SOOOO pissed if he showed up

I'm glad the grads there get a break. If I was one of the grads at LSU, I'd be heckling from the floor.

Guess the twins are learning that having Shrub for a daddy isn't always what it's cracked up to be.

There would definitely be protests in Austin if he showed up.

[VolcanoJen]

13. LOL... Daryn Kagan just asked Judy Woodruff about this on CNN!

Pretty funny... Judy was tripping all over her words in her rush to defend the President.

Daryn kind of bit her lip and said, "It just seems... well, I'm sure a lot of people watching the commencement speech today are wondering."

LMAO...

[jackstraw45]

14. Bush* family values...lie and lie again...

So it's okay to disrupt the graduation for OTHER kids and their families but not your own.

Just like it's okay to send OTHER kids to their deaths in Iraq but not your own kids.

[trof]

15. Simple, LA is "in play" politically.

Massachusetts (Yale) isn't.
Neither is Texas, where the other one went.

[Cleita]

17. I'm not defending Bush, but it's probably a security

decision. With four Bushes there, the target would seem very tempting. Also, if someone takes a shot at Bush, at least the twins won't be part of it. It's the same reason my parents traveled on separate flights. If one of the planes crashed at least one of them would still be alive to raise me.

Another, more selfish reason on the part of the Bushes is that he knows he's a moving target, so he doesn't want to expose the twins to more danger than necessary. I guess he doesn't care about anyone else's kids.

[Bridget Burke]

26. So why can't he send Laura?

There are some indications the twins are not overfond of their Pa, but why can't their mother see them graduate? She's hardly controversial; the fashion police are sharptongued but unarmed.

If Laura--on her own--would be unsafe at such a public gathering--how safe can the twins be?

[Cleita]

27. This also begs the question, are the twins going to attend their

own graduation? It may be they won't. Perhaps this is why Bush and Laura said they won't. You don't have to attend the ceremony to graduate and get your degree. A lot of smoke and mirrors and secrecy with this crowd.

[VolcanoJen]

18. Department of Unintended Chalabi Ironies (Josh Marshall)

Priceless... from www.talkingpointsmemo.com:

Department of unintended Chalabi ironies. From President Bush's commencement speech at LSU: "On the job, and elsewhere in life, choose your friends carefully. The company you keep has a way of rubbing off on you. And that can be a good thing or a bad thing."

[Jacobin]

30. I saw that on TPM!!

Irony is lost on this dunderhead. He is sinking himself with his own "words"

[gasperc]

20. "no one wants thier Dad booed at thier graduation"

Al Franken, 2 minutes ago

[salin]

24. they gave him an HONORARY DOC. in..... SCIENCE (omg!)

guess they don't give much weight to the National Academy of the Sciences.

Here is a MSNBC story on the speech - check out the title:

Politics behind Bush LSU speech
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5031092/

[spanone]

25. For him to graduate Yale it must have been honorary.

[dArKeR]

28. Politics behind Bush LSU speech - MSGOP (look at the aWol pic. IDIOT!)

BATON ROUGE, La. - Trying to counter the attention that Democratic rival John Kerry is paying to Louisiana, President Bush on Friday defended his administration’s efforts in Iraq as he combined a commencement address with fund-raising in a state he won comfortably in 2000.

Stressing the need to serve society in remarks aimed at projecting the image of strong leadership, Bush received an enthusiastic welcome from the faculty and 3,200-member graduating class of Louisiana State University. Several members of the audience sat in silent protest as everyone else stood and applauded as Bush was introduced.

“One of the ways to honor freedom is to serve freedom,” Bush declared, saying his goal is “a free and democratic Iraq.” Tying Iraq’s stability to U.S. security, Bush said, “We will ... defend the freedom and security of this nation.”

Bush was awarded an honorary doctorate in science and cited by the university for having led the nation at “one of the most perilous times in its history.”

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5031092/