What regalia do I wear?
Bah! John is an independent. As is xtisme. And Weirddave.
What? STOP LAUGHING! 
-Joe
OK, so your default assumption is that Bush walked there without Secret Service guards. We disagree on that.
It makes sense that I would want to be able to take money out of ATMs without debiting my bank account, but that doesn’t mean I get to do it.
Well, not necessarily.
The best PR skills in the world won’t save a president’s approval rating if what he’s actually doing does not produce good results.
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On preview, I see this has been addressed. I’ll just clip everything except for the smileys.
Bush Sr. did that too. During the '92 election there was some guy from the Clinton camp going around to Bush rallies, heckling the president dressed like a chicken. The phrase “Chicken George” played into his schtick somehow. I think he had it on a sign or something. Nowadays, of course, that chicken would never get through the gate and would probably be trucked off to a secret prison and killed, but instead of having security tackle the chicken and break his legs, Poppy Bush enegaged him from the podium, joked with him, traded jabs, took the piss out of him. His then campaign manager, Mary Matalin, said that she begged him to stop talking to the chicken but he kept doing it anyway, telling his handlers, “I love that chicken.”
It was one of the many things I really liked about GHWB even though I voted against him. He wasn’t a coward and he wasn’t an idiot.
I think they went too far with it, but for a while there they had a great run of people defending them no matter what they did. They overplayed their hand.
Heh, well they played the press, just like this thread is about.
One of their greatest triumphs, convincing people that Bush is an idiot. I never thought he was an idiot.
Also, I think that the job he has done was designed to weaken the country in relation to corporate control. People say he was a failed CEO, he was actually a marvelously successful CEO. The reason people think he failed is because they are under the misapprehension that his corporations were designed to succeed. They weren’t they were designed to fail, they were tax shelters.
I saw that happen – but it was a Pub dressed as a chicken heckling a Clinton rally. He was playing off the whole “draft-dodger” meme.
Well, in that case it is completely unjustifiable.
Regards,
Shodan
Actually, there was a chicken suit following GHW Bush around in 92, because of his apparent intense fear of presidential debates. The Clinton camp had to pressure the Bush camp for months to get them to even sit down and start negotiating for a debate schedule and format. I don’t think it was the same guy or the same chicken suit at every one of Bush’s appearances, but it happened. Of course, in typical Poppy fashion, Bush actually made the chicken guy into a phenomenon himself, by talking to him every time.
Well, that’s OK, then.
Regards,
Shodan
It really is too bad that no one ever got those two to fight.
Once, Ronald Reagan stopped in OKC for a rally. At the time his catch phrase was “America, go for it.”
When he came to the point in his speach, the person at the applause sign, yes, there was an applause sign, missed their cue. So he redid the line, the sign went on, and the crowd cheered.
Guess what aired on the news that night?