White House trip no ordinary appearance

Nascar.com ^ | 12/6/03 | Marty Smith

[NormsRevenge]

I just know Karl Rove is behind this. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

Support Our Troops Ping

[spoonfork2000]

We must support our troops and our leader at any cost, other wise the terrorists have won.

[ridesthemiles]

I think the most appropriate race for GWB to be the honorary starter, who intones "Gentlemen, Start Your Engines" should be the FIRECRACKER 400 because of the connection to the Fourth of July celebrations. Anybody got any other races in mind?

[ridesthemiles]

I just know Karl Rove is behind this. ;-)

If so, BLESS him.

[NormsRevenge]

These are just a couple of threads with photos of Nascar folks at the White House and news of NASCAR. Intermixed in the last thread, the Awards show thread, are just a few organizations that Support Our Troops.

Check 'em out. Thanks.

A Day in the Life of President Bush (photos): 12/2/03

or

White House Visit/Reception Today by Winston Cup Champ & Top 10 Leaders

or

***NASCAR 2003 Winston Cup Awards Banquet Thread FRom Friday night, 12/5***

[NormsRevenge]

Join the NASCAR Bubba Brigade!!!

The Few Many, the Proud Loud, the Bubbas

Us motorheads get knocked for always turning left and going in circles. That sounds like the new platform of the demRats, if ya ask me. :-)

God Bless America and God Bless Our Troops and President Bush.

[Amelia]

I'd have thought the President already had "the NASCAR vote" locked up - but I enjoyed seeing the drivers at the White House anyway.

[billb]

The Mosul 500 coming in 2004!

[Mr. Mojo]

celebrities from every imaginable genre pop up at the racetrack on a weekly basis.

Amazing. I can hardly imagine it. Then again, the last time I watched NASCAR was during the Petty/Pearson/Yarborough/Allison era.

[WestCoastGal]

"Nick Dietzen, a legislative assistant from the House of Representatives, said, "Combining the White House and motorsports made for one hell of a day. I think our next step needs to be getting ol' G.W. to a race."

Considering the President's track record such as carrier landings and visits to Iraq right under the terrorists noses on Thanksgiving, I would think he would at least be in the pace car. Daytona comes to mind here, since it's the big one, most watched and the start of the season.

Papa Bush could always parachute in too. :)

[Cicero]

I actually participated in a couple of NASCAR races down in Alabama many years ago, when I was at the Army Electronics School in Huntsville. That was when it was still mostly amateur, I must confess. But it sure was fun.

Clinton probably invited NASCAR to the White House too. I don't remember, to tell the truth. But if he did, the whole spirit of the event would have been VERY different.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

If not Daytona, then for sure the Bristol night race. I think that's a great event.

[July 4th]

Just think: will any of the Nascar fans ever vote for a Democrat metrosexual?

[armymarinemom]

I have to print this out to send to my kids.

[Maria S]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072899.htm

Arriving in Cambridge [to attend Harvard Business School] in September 1973 in his spray-painted Cutlass and scruffy clothes, Bush was not at all what his classmates expected when the word spread that he was indeed the son of the Republican National Committee chairman.

"One of my first recollections of him," says classmate Marty Kahn, "was sitting in class and hearing the unmistakable sound of someone spitting tobacco. I turned around and there was George sitting in the back of the room in his [National Guard] bomber jacket spitting in a cup. You have to remember this was Harvard Business School. You just didn't see that kind of thing."

[tbpiper]

The Mosul 500 coming in 2004!

About 33 cars. Every one of them with orange fenders.

[tubebender]

Great post Norm except for this line... But quite honestly, there are few things that get me truly geeked up anymore.

geeked up... GEEKED UP... GEEKED UP! This guy talks like an old man...

[kayak]

Nick Dietzen, a legislative assistant from the House of Representatives, said, "Combining the White House and motorsports made for one hell of a day. I think our next step needs to be getting ol' G.W. to a race."

Unless I'm mistaken "ol' G.W." has already been there done that, though I'm not sure he has since becoming President. I think he was the honorary starter for the FIRECRACKER 400 in July of 2000 during the campaign. And I'm not sure that he hasn't attended another race since then.

[LibertyLight]

A recent National Review edition had NASCAR on the cover and was the featured story - it was terrific.
I sent it to my brother in LA - (who by the way works in the television industry does not talk politics or he would probably fired - as he tells tales of actors constantly spewing anti-Bush themes.)