So now that Shrub (or Rove) has proven he can go anywhere secretly...

[Rabrrrrrr]

Let's be honest, there's a good (though paranoid of me) chance this was done not just as a publicity stunt, but as a test.

What do you think the real purpose of this test was? Where will he go next in secret? What did they just prove today, other than that they can mobilize Air Force One, and send the president into a "war zone" (even though it's technically "mission accomplished"), and the media either doesn't bother to notice or is told not to notice.

Will America now be ready for the media to show Shrub anywhere, no matter how photoshopped or faked the trip might be, so that they can make him out to be a superhero by rigging fake trips and fake photo opps for him?

Was this done to find out whether the media really doesn't care about keeping track of the president, and that they can now abuse that lack of attention?

They showed the world, and they showed us, something. And they proved something to themselves today.

What is it?

is this beyond Orwell?

Or am I just being needlessly paranoid, and it really was merely an emergency trip conjured together in order to upstage Hillary, that also just happens to have real and obvious political benefit for the Shrub and the repukes, but with no other sinister long-term goal in mind?

[Booberdawg]

1. It was just to upstage Hillary

and to replace the "Mission Accomplished" footage for future campaign purposes.

[billbuckhead]

2. Hillary couldn't be seen as more ballsy than the Chimp

or better at propaganda than Rove.

[Booberdawg]

3. I hear ya

But she's got more in brass ovaries than he does in balls as far as I'm concerned. ;-)

[Lady Freedom]

4. What scares me is how he got pass the media!

Do you know what it can take to shut us (media) up about a thing like this! I hate to think what kind of threat those of the media that got to go was under!:scared: :scared: :scared: