Bush Coming to Lincoln Museum Dedication (TREES TO BE "REMOVED")

[doxieone]

http://www.lincolncourier.com/news/05/04/16/c.asp

Bush coming to Lincoln Museum dedication
BY LISA KERNEK
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE

SPRINGFIELD — President Bush and his wife, Laura, will travel to Springfield Tuesday for the dedication of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, the White House confirmed Friday.


(snip)

"Everything will be brief," Smith added, "including his remarks and the ceremony."

Following Friday’s announcement, at the request of the Secret Service, city crews began removing street lights, traffic signals and trees near Union Square Park, site of the dedication ceremony. The poles and trees could obstruct the view of government snipers who will be protecting the president, city spokesman Ernie Slottag explained.

The trees are to be replanted after the ceremony.

[glitch]

1. Everyone needs to just say no to bush visits. I know some cities are. nt

[Zorra]

60. Yep. It's simple. Leave the trees, remove the Bush.

[librechik]

66. perfecto! n/t

[Kerrytravelers]

72. He wouldn't be welcomed here in Pasadena, CA.

We are blue, blue, blue!

Our mayor, Bill Borregard, and 99% (one freeper holdout) of the city council signed a decleration that they wouldn't honor parts of the Patriot Act they found violated the rights of Pasadena residents.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I'm surprised

they didn't dismantle the Lincoln tomb as well. Ol' Abe's been spinning in it for so long I'm sure he's dig a new hole right through the floor.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. That useless war criminal asshole traitorous fuck is so fucking paranoid

he makes me sick.

Clinton wouldn't have done that. Hell, I don't even think Bush I or Reagan would have done that.

[rodeodance]

4. who pays for this tree removal? -

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. The city, I'm sure - I don't doubt that the MISadministration says it

will pay for the tree removal, but you can bet your last cufflinks that they will reneg on it and never pay for anything, just like the republican fucker filth never paid for any of the bullshit they were supposed to pay for when Asshole McCokeHead was out stumping during the elections.

[Maraya1969]

14. He has a pretty good reason to be paranoid - he is hated around the

world! I don't think we've ever had a president that was so hated.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Good point!

he is definitely hated everywhere.

Considering that around the world, out of the 6 billion earth people, there's only 57 million who think he's worth a shit.........well, I guess I'd be paranoid as well.

[bobthedrummer]

52. Yep, President Clinton walked the streets of Rome and many people

went up to him with greetings, Bush hurried to his armored car to escape the booing and jeers.

I get physically ill looking at him, this murdering traitor known as The War President.
:banghead:

[mitchum]

54. What Rabrrrrrr said!

[shadowknows69]

5. In the news

"Today the secret service informed Mother Earth that she'd be expected to leave the solar system due to the fact that her presence blocks the snipers guarding president Bush from spy satelites perched above her orbit. When Mother Earth tried to inform the Secret service that this would in fact remove the president as well she was told that she should watch what she says and asked 'Why do you hate America?'

[MindPilot]

6. removing and replanting a tree ain't cheap

especially if you expect it to stay alive.

Who foots the bill for this useless "security" bullshit? If he wasn't such an asshat, he wouldn't need so much protection.

[shadowknows69]

7. alive is optional

as are all obstacles to his majesty's comfort level.

[dArKeR]

9. Amazing country we have! I've seen these sniper boxes when Reagan

spoke at the DeAnza college sports field. Also, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's did NOT allow any person inside the public outdoor field who "seemed" anti Reagan. People with paper signs, no sticks. A bomb painted on cheek. Colored hair... I have pics but to this day they're lost in boxes.

I always thought about what if one of those snipers goes wacko? Do they have snipers on the snipers?

[mitchum]

55. Several of us were banned when Reagan came to speak at OUR university

this is par for the course for the imperial party

[susu369]

10. Everything will be brief - and will be a COSTLY photo-op

"People arriving by shuttle bus will be dropped off near Fifth and Mason.
-snip-
A three-by-three-square-block area between Mason, Washington, Fourth and Seventh streets will be cordoned off, and only people with general-admission tickets will be allowed to enter."

==
Quite a pattern - bussed in Kool-aid drinkers.

:rofl:

Wonder how those "replanted" trees will fare?

[daleo]

31. This will be a planted crowd as well.

Then they will dig up the crowd and plant it at the next event.

[mitchum]

56. LOL!!!

Sad, but true...funny as hell :)

[MisterP]

33. will they be able to look out their windows? the Mainzers couldn't!

he's like something out of "The Golden Bough," with nobody allowed to touch or look at the king--but he has NEGATIVE tabu.

[soup]

11. Dedication-Day Security:

Prohibited items: Back-packs, duffle bags, Alcohol, glass, glass bottles, cans, coolers, Weapons of any kind - including firearms, pocket knifes, Umbrellas, Mopeds, bicycles, scooters, roller blades, skateboards
http://www.alincoln-library.com/dedication/home.html

Weapons list includes Umbrellas, Mopeds, bicycles, scooters, roller blades, skateboards???

[Roland99]

12. MacGyver could make a nuke out of a Dixie cup and some toothpaste

[soup]

16. Imagine what he could do with a tree and a Moped!

The mind boggles. :D

[Occulus]

71. Now he can send it to another galaxy through the Stargate,

in a jumper powered by cow farts and a flux capacitor.

[all.of.me]

13. that is outfuckingrageous!!!!!!!

good god. can't they have him be some place where they don't have to go to these ridiculous, drastic measures?!?!?! poor trees! they will not be happy. they will not recover from this. ugh. this makes me sick.

why don't they just keep him home and sedated?! jesus christ.

(the brilliant part, though, is that "Everything will be brief, "including his remarks..." rofl)

[Botany]

17. The man knows he is in a "mafia" type criminal operations and

has made enemies who want to see him dead. As a father I can not
think of the rage I would feel being an Iraqi Dad, upon seeing his children dead
from *'s war.

He is evil. Steals elections, kill people, and afraid to face real Americans.
Cowboy tough guy! Drop him into any semi wild ecosystem (woods, prairie,
mountains, ocean, and so on ....) and he would be gone with in two days.

[BrotherBuzz]

18. Leave the Hangman's tree, damn it!!

[Vickers]

32. lol!

:thumbsup:

[cornermouse]

19. Tell him to stay home.

He isn't worth all this.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

20. Nice comforting thought though, now that you mention it...

that the murderous paranoid chimpy can not have one private moment...can't stroll through a park, can't lay on a beach listening to the waves, can't sit at a Dairy Queen eating a cone, can't window shop at Chrismas time on a snowy evening. Most of the nicest things to do in life...he can't. And to think, he created that life for himself out of lies and greed. Just desserts.

[Roland99]

22. But...but...but...America and the world are safer now

Have the terrorists really won or is this administration crying wolf a million times too many?

[saskatoon]

34. Nice comforting thought

Those are for normal people, you think he gives a shit for this type of pasttime! OH NO sir, his is enjoying trying to take over the world and screwing all us peasants who enjoy eating a cone--that is IF we can afford it.

[cmd]

21. Healthy Forests

was the first thing that crossed my mind. Now I'll go read the article and get spitting mad.

[rodeodance]

23. these people actually believe Bush cares about the musuem!!

...."It’s not often you get the president of the United States coming to my district and to central Illinois, so it says a lot for what he thinks of Lincoln and what we’ve done at the museum," LaHood said, adding that he has been invited to ride back to Washington with the president on Air Force One.

[NYC Liberal]

36. When was the last time he WENT to a museum?

I mean, for a non-political event

[Norquist Nemesis]

79. Nice little photo-op for LaHood when he runs for Gov

I wonder if they will allow Blagojevich in close proximity.

The thing is, even though Illinois went for Kerry, downstate is red (though Democrats have been making progress :)). They'll have plenty of people trampling each other to get on the buses.

[doxieone]

24. Are there more threats against Bush these days...

Or is he getting more paranoid?

[raysr]

25. And this is a

"popular" president?? They gotta remove the fuckin' trees???!!!

[DrZeeLit]

26. Are they going to censor attendance, as per usual?

Great place for a protest, don't you think?
Just thinking about Civil Rights and the right to peacefully gather. All those freedoms for which Lincoln preserved the Union.
Ironic that * is allowed near the place, after gutting the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights these past years.

[kweerwolf]

27. Why would BushCo show up at the Lincoln Museum ...

... unless he's going after the gay vote?

Guess we'll know for sure if he is accompanies by Jeff Gannon.

[w4rma]

45. Then he would be going after the prostitute vote, instead. (nt)

[Stinky The Clown]

28. I just read this and I AM SCREAMING FUCKING MAD!!

Who the FUCK is this asshole? Why the FUCK do cities put up with this sort of shit? This man is a boil on the sphincter of humanity. He is lower than whale shit. He's mold in the trap of a toilet at a no-name gas station operated by "Earl". He's less than the last maggot to leave a dead animal.

I HATE THIS MOTHERFUCKER

Insult upon insult upon insult upon insult ... it never ends.

FUCK YOU, GEORGE BUSH, YOU SORRY ASSED SACK OF DOG SHIT. YOU WORTHLESS, CLASSLESS, BRAINLESS, PURPOSELESS, FECKLESS, UGLY ASSED MOTHERFUCKER.

[rzemanfl]

37. You forgot "and the horse he fucking rode in on." Seriously,

cities and towns across the USA should pass "Bush not welcome here." resolutions (make that "Bushes" to cover Daddy and Momma, the two little sluts, Pickles, Jeb, Niel and all the other evil spawn).

* isn't worth moving a tree for, although it occurred to me that clear lines of fire cut both ways. One of these days one of these snipers is going to shoot some poor innocent bastard in a crowd.

[raysr]

57. Christ,

don't sugar coat it!!!

[SammyWinstonJack]

69. And those are his good qualities.

:rofl:

[rzemanfl]

75. Please give me your thoughts on this Husb2Sparkly:

"NEW PORT RICHEY - A bronze plaque commemorating President George W. Bush's election stop here during the 2004 campaign will be dedicated at 3:30 p.m. April 29 at Sims Park, between Main and Bank streets."

This is in Pasco County, Florida.

http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBAXU22P7E.html

[tsuki]

29. Do you think that it bothers him that President Clinton could jog

down Kurfurstendam with a couple secret service, or that President Carter traveled all over the Middle East and watch the polls during an election w/o bodyguards, and he's afraid to travel in his own country?

What a chick-hawk chicken-sh*t.

[madrchsod]

39. i think here are alot of trees

i`ve been there on a field trip and if it`s the same area where i was, there are alot of trees and some are old. this must be a different area than the blocks i walked around.

[ramapo]

40. This is insane

He should just stay in Washington and do some work for a change.

[SillyGoose]

50. I agree with you...

This guy is supposed to working not gallivanting all over the country wreaking havoc on cities and their inhabitants. They really need to slap him with a travel moratorium.

[daleo]

30. Remove trees and then replant them?

So that government snipers have a clear shot. That's a sad state of affairs. I recall Bill Clinton wading into crowds, unconcerned about the danger as far as I could tell.

[NYC]

46. People climbed lampposts and hung out 3rd floor windows of

brownstones to get a look at Clinton on 125th Street, shortly after he had left the presidency.

People wanted to see him. There was a large crowd. One man climbed a lamppost to see over people's heads. Another man was leaning out the window from the 3rd floor, which gave him a good view.

That was all the "security" necessary for Bill Clinton.

This tyrant is uprooting trees which may not survive. Why should trees be uprooted for his photo op? He can go somewhere treeless. (Where's the nearest tundra?)

Edit: I don't know what made me do it, buy I looked up "tundra". Read this definition.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation such as lichens, mosses, and stunted shrubs.

Ha! Perfect. Send our stunted shrub to the tundra.

[montana_hazeleyes]

49. Perfect ,NYC

LOL

[drduffy]

35. Now, now

you KNOW 'Rovie the Closet-Boy' can't afford to lose his figurehead. Or was that c*ckhead?

[madrchsod]

38. hey cowboy

who are you afraid of? the people?

[AlCzervik]

41. Well trees are natures terrorists you know.

[kohodog]

42. Lets just get rid of all trees. They're nothing but a nuisance anyway!

I'm sorry, but we've gone overboard. This pResident must live in total fear. Maybe that's why he stutters. Our system of government was set up to serve the people, but we've gotten to the point where the omniscient leader is all important (or is that now pronounced "impordant" as spokespeople in this admin like to say?) must be protected from all regular citizens. Scrape off your bumper stickers and leave your cell phone at home if you want to be within 20 miles of this guy.

Maybe his paranoia comes from a meth problem, not coke. He's out of control imho.

[K8-EEE]

43. Also, Kids Have Had Their Doctor's Appointments Cancelled

On a music board I go to, one of the posters is a nurse at a pediatrics hospital in the neighborhood of this GWB Photo Op in Springfield and says that they were told they couldn't be open during his visit, they will not be able to see patients on that day.

She says that every pediatric specialist in town is in this center and are having to shuffle around these kids and I imagine a lot of them are quite ill. She sounds pretty pissed off especially since they were told at the last minute. She said, "Bush showing how much he cares for kids."

[Valerie5555]

58. OMG I wondered if you could imagine being a pet keeper, discovering BLOOD

in your dog or even cat's urine and are all freaked out for you thought your cat or even dog had a urethral blockage of some sort, which could be a VETERINARY EMERGENCY and the main emergency vet clinic also happened to be where Bush or * is having his photo op.

[Logansquare]

44. * visiting "Six Flags Over Lincoln"--how appropriate

A prominent Lincoln scholar gave it that name after seeing the "life-like" Lincoln family figures placed in dioramas. It makes the presidential animatronics at Disneyland seem positively dignified. This should complete the desecration of Lincoln's memory.

[DemBeans]

65. it does look tacky

I saw a preview of the museum on CBS yesterday morning, and I failed to see how these movie-set displays constitute a museum. There may be resources for scholars, but they weren't mentioned.

It looks like a tacky tourist attraction more than anything else.

[kohodog]

47. Springfield where? Oh, is Homer going to welcome him?

Are we back in Kansas?

[BeHereNow]

48. Shitty schools etc... but hey...

No annoying trees around!
The fact that the people in that city
are having their taxes used to remove trees
so the smirking one can visit them is outrageous.
I wonder how that money could be used
as far as improving their public schools?
If I lived in that town, it would be the
final straw for me as a citizen. I would
have to move to another country.
It is so outrageous to think that our money
is being spent like this when everything
in our back yards is broken. Our schools,
our public and social protective services, all
being shredded into nothing while they
spend like madmen on something like
this.
I'm going to explode just thinking about it.
BHN

[DulceDecorum]

51. This too, shall pass.

The years of the the thief are four.
Certainly no more.

Then he is going to have to get inside a bubble
AND STAY THERE.

[mitchum]

53. But...but...but...he is so "popular"...

why is he afraid of his loving subjects?

[Catchawave]

61. Can't the snipers SIT IN THE TREES ?

Just keep this little herbicidal nutjob away from Central Park!

[raysr]

59. This'll

cheer you up http://www.nuderepublicans.com/

[doxieone]

62. bump - Any locals have more stories about this???

[Catchawave]

63. I'm not a local, but I found this article online:

http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/53209.asp

Possibly, the trees in question were recently planted? Still, this sounds like quite a pricey little visit for the community! Maybe write the Senator that's all jiggy about this and ask him :evilgrin:

Not how I want my taxes spent, that's for sure!

[doxieone]

67. Thanks for link!

[InternalDialogue]

82. If the trees in question were recently planted,

and they're relatively young, then they absolutely must be removed. All it takes is one person with a body diameter of five inches or less to get lost in there among the trunks. Really, this is all for your own good.

:sarcasm:

[lawladyprof]

64. But trees lower summer temperatures which reduces energy use

as well as making outdoor spaces more comfortable. It will be years before the replacement trees are as efficient in doing this as the current trees.

[SammyWinstonJack]

68. Why doesn't this paranoid little freak just stay on his pig farm! n/t

[ClayZ]

70. " If you go out in the woods today....

You're sure of a big surprise.
If you go out in the woods today
You'd better go in disguise.

http://home.usachoice.net/vcei/tbp-words.htm

For some reason this post reminds me of the song... TEDDY BEARS PICNIC"

Hear a midi file an read the lyrics at the above link.


See they have driven me stark raving MAD!:crazy:

I love line: Catch them in their unawares!

That seems to be a state
bu$h always remains.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

73. So a guy that promotes slavery is celebrating a guy that ended it

[rzemanfl]

74. Please give me your thoughts on this:

"NEW PORT RICHEY - A bronze plaque commemorating President George W. Bush's election stop here during the 2004 campaign will be dedicated at 3:30 p.m. April 29 at Sims Park, between Main and Bank streets."

This is in Pasco County, Florida.

http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBAXU22P7E.html

[Norquist Nemesis]

81. Another taxpayer supported false idol

Will it be placed next to the 10C's? j/k

Maybe they can figure out a way to have the Party of Repression provide sole financial support for it. Otherwise, it's taxation without representation. :hurts:

[rzemanfl]

83. I think this is likely to be the most vandalized place in Florida, not

that I'm saying that's a good thing moderators.

[tabasco]

76. Why do republicans hate trees?

Reagan said trees cause more air pollution than cars.

The brain dead zombies will believe anything.

[Runcible Spoon]

77. Holy shit. I know at least one DUer who has tickets to this!

:evilgrin:

[Cuban_Liberal]

78. You now know three.

Ugh! WHY did he have to come and ruin our visit?

:grr::argh::puke:

[Norquist Nemesis]

80. I just heard this on this morning's news up here in Chicago

Was it big news downstate?...the 'announcement' he'll be there?

The whole thing makes me physically ill that he comes and puts a stain on the whole thing. No doubt his "brief" comments will include "freedom and democracy" with some sort of convoluted connection to Iraq.

Oh, and the mandatory Social Security Reform. :puke:

[SoCalDem]

84. Keep the trees..ditch the Bush

:(

[BadNews]

85. Durbin from Illinois the next target for Repukes!

I have not seen a thread on this yet, but apparently, Durbin a Lincoln/Jewish joke during his speach at the opening. They are going to crucify him in the media and make it out to be Trent Lott like. I have to say he was STUPID! STUPID! STIPID!

Watch for it tomorrow.

[moondust]

86. Zelig pops up in Springfield.

And later disappears.