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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

The last pool report from Bush visit

Pool Report No. 3, October 29, 2007

The president left the fundraiser at 6:40, as scheduled, but made a previously announced stop at the Montgomery Inn Boathouse, a barbeque restaurant on the river, where he attended the 60th birthday party for Johnny Bench, the Hall-of-Fame catcher for the Big Red Machine. As it turned out, after two closed events, it was the president's only public appearance of the day.

Mr. Bench and his wife, Lauren (double check the spelling), attended the fundraiser earlier and accompanied the president's motorcade to the restaurant. The president waded into the first floor dining hall, campaign style, working the room. The pool was kept at bay but at least one supporter shouted, "Keep it up, George."

The president made his way to the stairs where he stopped and turned to a man, Todd Upton, who hoisted his three-and-half-year-old son, E.J., over a banister. "Guess what he wanted me to see?" the president said, tugging at the boy's Ohio State University sweatshirt, as the elder Upton held him up for the cameras.

The president went upstairs to a separate section for Mr. Bench's party.

"Believe it or not, he's 60," the president said.
He remarked something like that wasn't so old, but the pool could not hear terribly well. Whatever he said, Mr. Bench agreed.

"He can still play," the president said.

"My accountant wants me to," Mr. Bench replied.

A considerable amount of laughing, posing and handshaking then took place in a scrum surrounding the president and Mr. Bench. At least three friends of Mr. Bench could be heard expressing surprise at the visit. "The president of the United States ­ how cool is that?" one guest said. He introduced himself as "a friend of John's" but the pool didn't have time to get his name before being ushered out and down the stairs.

The president stopped at the cashier and picked up an order, apparently placed in advance. It included, in full, three racks of pork spare ribs, Saratoga chips (kettle fried), onion straws and the inn's barbeque sauce, according to the press office. The president appeared to insist on paying, but left it to someone else to settle the bill. The president's aide, Barry Jackson, a local, said the ribs were the best in the world.

The president carried them in a large white paper sack back to the motorcade, which arrived at the airport uneventfully, though the friendly crowd at the gate had grown considerably. Air Force One departed at 7:30 p.m. and returned to Andrews at 8:30 p.m.

Steven Lee Myers
New York Times


Pool Report No. 3A

A correction, with apologies: the pool mistyped and should have said that the stop at the Boathouse was previously UNannounced.

Also, as the press office clarifies, Mr. Bench did not ride in the motorcade, though he was at the earlier fundraiser. He made his own way to the party.

Steven Lee Myers
New York Times


8 Comments:

at 12:25 PM, October 30, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Carl, your breathless minute by minute reports of our irrelevant president must have the 24 percenters sitting in the edge of their seats. You are pathetic.

 
at 2:42 PM, October 30, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

A translation of this useless, pandering "The last pool report from Bush visit" blog follows:
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The pool was kept at bay but at least one supporter shouted, "Keep it up, George."

George W. Bush replied "Thanks Mom!"

"A considerable amount of laughing, posing and handshaking then took place in a scrum surrounding the president and Mr. Bench."

Fortunately our illiterate pResident wasn't required to form any complete sentences.

"At least three friends of Mr. Bench could be heard expressing surprise at the visit. "The president of the United States how cool is that?" one guest said."

Hey Wow! Johnny Bench you have been honored by the presence of an alcoholic, drug addled, lying, phoney christian conservative and war monger! Your mother must be SO PROUD!

"The president appeared to insist on paying, but left it to someone else to settle the bill."

YEAH! THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER! Just like his illegal war in Iraq.

Cincy911Truth

 
at 9:42 PM, October 30, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Keep it up, George."

this is working out pretty good for these folks.

johnny, i used to think you were a real person, but if you draw support from this clown, you're a sad sack.

 
at 3:40 PM, October 31, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you for visiting Cincinnati, Mr. President! You're always welcome here. After all, it was the voters of southwest Ohio who got you re-elected over John Skerry in 2004.

And thanks for bringing a ton of cash into Chabot's war chest. Now Driphaus will lose by an even larger margin!

 
at 4:21 PM, October 31, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dear Cincinnatians for W,

Let's be honest. It was Diebold and the corrupt activities of Secretary of State Ken Blackwell who got W. "re-elected'. Why do you think various Ohio Board of Election officials involved in the 2004 election are going to jail?

Oh that's right! It's just pure partisanship on the part of the SOS Jennifer Brunner right? There definitely is something to the old adage that "ignorance is bliss!"

Check out the book "What Went Wrong in Ohio?"

 
at 8:48 PM, November 01, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

It was definitely Blackwell, not southwest Ohio, that got Bush the win. Now that we have a legitamate Secretary of State it should be interesting to see who the electoral votes go to next fall.

And Bush you are not welcome here and stop tying up traffic during rush hour. thanks.

 
at 9:38 PM, November 01, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Take off your tin-foil hat, you liberal moonbat. John Kerry lost Ohio by roughly 100,000 votes.

Your candidate lost. W won. Get over it. The voters of Ohio were smart enough to vote for the right man in 2000 *and* 2004.

And here's a book for you:
"At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election" by Bill Sammon.

 
at 2:20 AM, November 05, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey Cincy 911truth. Your PO called; time to "come home" and take your meds.

 
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