The people of Wisconsin have had to adjust their daily lives for a single event. Big whoop. For EIGHT YEARS, every time algwhore came to Tennessee they would stop traffic on the Interstate to allow him to pass on his way to the family plantation in Carthage. Usually durng rush hours.
Here is a tip. Get some wood and nails and build a bridge and then get over it.
Apparently he's never heard of what it's like when either of the Clintons traveled. Even today I read that signs, etc., are removed from Hillary's presence.
Where's the barf alert?
The Presidency has been Imperial since LBJ.
The People have more or less liked it, don't ask me why.
So, from now on, any president that is making a campaign stop needs to monetarily reimburse everyone inconvenienced, needs to pay to keep order everytime the local University turns out it's typical mob, and is encouraged to allow said mob to shout him down wherever they may turn up. Does freedom of speech also mean that when I am exercising that right, that someone else must be forced to hear that speech in order to fulfill that right?
The Cap Times is still pitching it after all these years, eh? When I was at UW, the conservative club mocking named its annual freedom award after William T. Evjue, legendary leftist editor of the Times. The paper fumed but there wasn't anything they could do about it.
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The President came through our area a few weeks ago. No "no-free-speech" zone. Anyone could line up anywhere along the 10+ miles his motorcade drove on.
One guy did, protesting about no jobs. One.
Amazingly, I wasn't allowed to block the road and make the President's motorcade stop so he could shake my hand, and I like the guy. Imagine that.
With the level of hatred against the President in the country right now, I'm not surprised by this. Was there no where (bridges/overpasses, hillsides etc) these people could have "free-speeched"? Just because we have a first amendment, doesn't mean people are allowed to get in his face to disagree with him.
I wonder how many of these protesters thinks it's just dandy to not allow pro-life demonstraters near abortion clinics. Goose, meet gander.
Get back to me when they close down LAX again like they did when King Bulbnose had his arse hairs pucked on the tarmac.
Get back to me when they close down LBJ Freeway (!!) in Dallas just because King JizzWhizz needed an entrance and an exit to and from his brother's wedding.
And you opinion on the shutdown of Boston during the DNC Convention this year is??
EVERYTHING which is stated in this article is going to be imposed on Bostonians during the Convention. It is "well known" (ie. Bostonians and some here on FR have seen the articles). I have NOT seen the media outrage as in this case.
AND, a little less bias and a bit more fact would have lended more credence to the authors report. As it is, it is impossible to tell what is fact and waht is fiction. For example, were there no free speech zones, or is this something the reporter *thought* were there. The careful reader is left to wonder.
Well, I do understand the free speech implications here - but the protestors also miss a certain point. They are obsessed with telling Bush what they think of him. Bush really doesn't care. However, if they were more saavy, they would play to the media covering the protest and get their opinions out through the media to a larger audience with the power to vote one way or the other in the upcoming election.
I have been herded into "free speech" zones before - and they have a certain benefit of having the press swarming over them, and I've gotten several interviews as a result. So I think the free speech implications here are not nearly as profound as folks wish to make them out to be, if your goal is to be effective to voters instead of trying to make a point to a politican who could care less.
Has Dubya gotten a haircut on Air Force 1 while shutting down an entire airport yet?
You're getting some amazing reactions on this thread.
You'd think the fact that Komrade Klinton did it would have FReepers expecting something different from our current president.
Apparently not.
Even Al Bore caused traffic tie ups in our town and he wasn't even in office anymore. Just having the tied up traffic. At least "King George" mingles with the commoners (and not just for photo-ops) instead of acting like some elite jack--- like some other presidents and their colleagues.
Nice picture of the Canadian bus.
I note that many of your detractors use the ol' "everybody does it" argument. Glad to see moral relativism is alive and well here--just like the White House.
You think these DemoRats are uptight now???
Just wait until we deliver Wisconsin's electoral votes come November to our current President!
Then you'll really hear some screaming!
Yes: I am a Wisconsin resident; yes, I live in La Crosse. Yes, His motorcade went right past my house, and yes, if he wants to come back once a week until the November election, it's fine by me...in fact, he has my invitation.
How long did you have to search to find this crap?