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Monday, September 25, 2006

On his way to Cincinnati...

President Bush hit a fundraiser in Connecticut before heading to Cincinnati and Indian Hill.

Here's the White House pool report:

POOL REPORT TWO
CONNECTICUT-OHIO STEALTH FUNDRAISING TOUR
September 25, 2006

Your representative of a friendly newspaper is currently sitting under the trees at a lovely beach-front table, overlooking the Long Island Sound. We are dining on a delicious lunch of Chilean sea bass, topped with pea puree, cheese ravioli with a butter sage sauce, and salad of field greens, topped with dried cranberries and candied pecans – the very same fare, we are told, that the donors gathered inside the massive home of Scott Frantz, investment banker, are enjoying.

Frantz is the president of Haebler Capital Corporation. His house is a big wood-shingled affair, four car garage, with a dock and a beautiful waterside view and shady manicured grounds.

Chris Shays is said to be inside; no word about the Republican Senate candidate, whose name no one can remember. (It’s Alan
Schlesinger.) No word about any other elected officials either. 65 people inside, $800,000 to be raised, according to Tony Snow ...

And now, circling back to the beginning of the day:
Marine One landed at Andrews at 10:35. POTUS emerged, followed by Rove and Snow and other aides your pool is too new to recognize. All aboard and wheels up at 10:46 for the one hour flight to JFK. After an uneventful trip, plus a 20-minute chopper ride, we landed in a lovely park in Greenwich, not far from the Long Island sound.

The motorcade wound its way through town, past plenty of locals waving American flags, pointing cameras and some hoisting protest signs, including War is Wa$te, and “More Trees, Less Bush.”

All of which made your working stiff pool wonder if the good people of Greenwich have to work for a living.

Sheryl Stolberg
New York Times


3 Comments:

at 2:57 PM, September 25, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

And for those of you who hate President Bush (like me), show up at this so-called welcome and GIVE HIM HELL! George Bush, I HATE you and we do not want you coming back to Ohio after tonight! You and Dewine suck and we are goint to prove it November 7th when we get that bastard Dewine out of Congress! George Bush is the worst President to ever serve this nation and I am counting down the days until he is gone! Bush- go to hell!

 
at 3:12 PM, September 25, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh carl, are we going to get another one of your breathless minute-by-minute updates of Bush's travel throught the city?

This schmuck is wasting tens of thousands of taxpayers dollars flying around the country to campaign for his boot licking lackies. Let's not even get into how he ties up traffic while he's here.

 
at 3:38 PM, September 25, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Regardless of snarling traffic or raising money for his fellow party members, he is the president. 99% of what he does for the country goes unnoticed. We only see the partisian drool rather substantial record of his daily routine. That would also include you sleeping well enough at night. No worry that some one will prevent you from your way of life. Of course I do not agree that he would visit a company that is acitively making military hardware. And in this case, he will look at an area making engine parts for the f18 Hornet fighter. Will he notice all the qualitiy controls we labor over so that all the film cooling holes are in the right place? Will he notice the clean work station or the completed daily shift audits the employee fills out to preserve the system? I doubt it. But he will see cameras, tax payers and those pandering for his support. Would we be complaining if it were Al Gore standing next to that machine? I think so. Though I doubt it would be a F414 part. Maybe something for Snecma instead....

 
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