Great News Bump!!! The President is coming to town!!
Posted on 08/26/2005 6:23:30 AM PDT by RonDog
Great News Bump!!! The President is coming to town!!
My best guess would be North Island Naval Air Station - not Coronado.
My best guess would be North Island Naval Air Station - not Coronado.You seem to be correct, but I am confused.
Not sure that I understand the difference between "Coronado" and "North Island Naval Air Station."From:
Bush to speak in Coronado on TuesdayI guess that my knowledge of San Diego is somewhat limited.
[V-J Day ceremony with veterans and active duty military]
www.signonsandiego.com ^ | August 26, 2005 | George E. Condon Jr., UNION-TRIBUNE COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
Posted on 08/26/2005 2:23:14 PM PDT by RonDog
Bush to speak in Coronado on Tuesday
By George E. Condon Jr.
UNION-TRIBUNE COPLEY NEWS SERVICEAugust 26, 2005
WASHINGTON – President Bush plans to take his campaign to shore up sagging support for the war in Iraq to San Diego next Tuesday with a speech at North Island Naval Air Station.The Coronado speech will be the third and final Iraq pitch during the president's five-week vacation as Bush attempts to blunt the growth in anti-war sentiment and a drop in his approval ratings...
CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
What does the headline above mean?And how is it consistent with the part about the President speaking at the "North Island Naval Air Station" ?
Bush to speak in San Diego on Tuesday
By: North County TimesPresident Bush will be in Southern California the first part of next week, capping a two-day visit to the region with a Tuesday morning speech at San Diego's North Island Naval Air Station on the 60th anniversary of the Japanese surrender ending World War II.
The speech will be the third and final in a series of remarks intended to shore up support for the ongoing war in Iraq and continuing military action in Afghanistan. After his speech, Bush is scheduled to visit the Naval Medical Center in San Diego.On Monday, Bush will present the President's Volunteer Service Award to Joe Graff when he arrives in Ontario. Graff has spent more than 4,500 hours as a volunteer with that city's police department and with other organizations in San Bernardino County.
Bush will fly to North Island Naval Air Station aboard Air Force One after his Medicare forum and will spend the night in San Diego.
His speech the next morning will be preceded by an address from a World War II veteran and remarks by other local military and political officials, a White House spokeswoman said.
Bush's visit to San Diego will be his sixth since he assumed the Oval Office in January 2001.
It appears that the President WILL in fact be flying into the Ontario airport...Do you think that the motorcade will travel down Archibald, Haven or Milliken?
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White House confirms Bush visit to Rancho
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
San Bernardino County SunRANCHO CUCAMONGA - President Bush plans to visit the city on Monday to discuss senior prescription drug plans and drum up support for the war in Iraq, White House officials confirmed Friday.Bush is to arrive at Ontario International Airport before heading to the James L. Brulte Senior Center, where he will spend nearly 40 minutes in the early afternoon discussing his administration's new prescription drug benefit program to 200 invited guests and media.
"The president will discuss Medicare and the new prescription drug care program,' said Allen Abney, a White House official. "He's discussing the same issues in Arizona earlier that morning.'
On June 16 at Maple Grove, Minn., Bush unveiled the new drug benefit program, which is expected to begin in January. The new Medicare drug program will service all Medicare beneficiaries and is expected to assist one-third of low-income seniors with Medicare drug benefits that wouldn't require premiums, deductibles or gaps in coverage.
Co-payments will amount to no more than $5 for most people, and more than 95 percent of their drug bills will be covered, according to White House officials.
The president's visit comes at a time when his job approval ratings have plummeted to nearly 36 percent, according to a poll released this week by the American Research Group.
For invited guest Hilda Katz Phillips of Rancho Cucamonga, a supporter of the president, his arrival to the city is a welcome event regardless of the polls, she said.
"I'm very satisfied with Medicare as it is,' said Phillips, 81, who participates in classes at the senior center. "I'm more concerned about the pharmaceuticals, and I want to thank him for his continued support for Israel.'
Protesters, both conservative and liberal, are preparing for the president's arrival.
The Riverside Area Peace and Justice Action, an anti-war and anti-Bush group, will protest the appearance.
"We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country,' said Dick Morris, an organizer of the protest.
The group will be met by Free Republic, a conservative group based in Fresno, that plans on giving support for the president's policies and programs.
"We're going to have some signs and a bullhorn to support our president,' said Doug Cogan of Upland, whose son-in-law, Navy Petty Officer Josh Lazanis, has served three tours of duty in the Middle East.
Wishes don't get a ticket to speechBUSH: Even among his Inland backers, few are invited to Monday's talk.
12:33 AM PDT on Saturday, August 27, 2005
David Martin admits he and President Bush "disagree on just about everything."But the longtime Republican from Ontario still wishes he could attend the president's Monday speech about Medicare at the Rancho Cucamonga senior center where Martin sometimes eats lunch.
"I'd be well-behaved," said Martin, 68.
Martin and others are likely to be disappointed, however. The come-one, come-all approach to public appearances by major politicians has become a rarity.
Today, handlers' desire to manage the message and security concerns mean most political events are scripted, invitation-only affairs.
The estimated 200 people who will attend Monday's speech reportedly will be a mix of Republican community leaders and senior-center regulars screened by the White House.
Jeanette Whitworth, a 64-year-old Rancho Cucamonga resident, said some of her friends were disappointed that the crowd would likely be mostly hand-picked.
"This is a senior-citizen place, and they think they should be able to go," Whitworth said, wearing a senior-center VIP button. "But I understand, it's a security thing."
Several senior-center volunteers who had been invited to Monday's event declined to give their names, saying they were told by center staff not to speak about it. But 80-year-old John Lupo volunteered that he had been invited -- a byproduct of his wife's service at the center.
The Rancho Cucamonga resident and registered independent voter joked that he earned his invite for "being a nice guy."
At the busy center last week, preparations for the president's visit were visibly under way.
"I don't think those guys are senior citizens," said Rancho Cucamonga resident Jack Finster, pointing out a group of solemn men in dark blue blazers walking purposefully through the hallway.
Also planning to attend is Ramon Alvarez, 46, owner of Alvarez Jaguar and Alvarez Lincoln Mercury in Riverside. Alvarez said he received an invitation from the White House. He met the president in 2002 when Bush spoke to mainly Hispanic leaders in Santa Ana.
Bush is far from the only politician to opt for hand-picked audiences at his public events. Gov. Schwarzenegger's town-hall meetings are dominated by friendly guests.
In May 2004, a staffer for Rep. Joe Baca, D-Rialto, ejected some high school students from a John Kerry presidential rally in Colton because he believed they were Republican agitators.
Barbara O'Connor, director of the Institute for the Study of Politics and the Media at Cal State Sacramento, said the Bush administration tends to select the president's audiences not just based on security but on ideological agreement. And that's mainly done to present the right image on television.
"It's largely done for the broadcast media," she said. "These events are widely covered and repeated over and over. Their concern is to have a friendly and amicable audience. They want happy, cheery faces."
O'Connor said the site where Bush will speak on Monday says something in itself. Rancho Cucamonga leans Republican. Fifty-nine percent of voters there cast ballots for Bush in the 2004 presidential election.
In Palm Springs, known more as a senior-citizen community, 62 percent of voters backed Democrat Kerry.
The Bush administration's efforts to ensure there's no dissension among the president's audiences is nothing new, said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a senior scholar at USC.
The late President Nixon had a hand-selected audience at his televised "town hall" meetings. Former President Eisenhower used actors to ask pre-selected questions in his television campaign ads.
"I don't think they're doing it any more because of protests," Jeffe said. "I think this is a part of the regular screening process, the regular advance process for any public event that this president makes. They don't want the kind of dissidence that not screening would bring about."
Invitations depend on more than just political leanings. Invited guests also need to fit the demographics the White House wants to reach out to.
Daniel Perez, a 19-year-old Riverside Republican, hopes to see the president Monday. Perez said he called the Republican parties in Riverside and San Bernardino counties as well as the office of Assemblyman John Benoit, R-Palm Desert, looking for a ticket. No one would help him, he said.
Perez said he doesn't have any questions he wants to ask Bush. "I think the privilege of meeting him would be enough in itself."
Staff writers Michelle DeArmond, Jim Miller and Michael Fisher contributed to this report.
Reach Claire Vitucci at (202) 661-8422 or cvitucci@pe.com
Reach Paul LaRocco at (909) 806-3056 or plarocco@pe.com
Coronado is a small town - across the "bridge" from downtown San Diego. North Island is at the very tip of the same (sort of) island with Coronado.
If you go out to the famous Hotel Del - and sit on the beaches, you can watch all the jets land at North Island. It's a very restricted place. You should feel very honored you're getting in .. and .. by the way .. North Island was where Bush hopped a plane to land on the carrier.
Rally Bump! Thanks for all the good information!
The maps and directions are great!!!
Also, we want to keep our message very SIMPLE, so your sign should be something like this:And, if possible, please stay a while AFTER the rally for our traditional post-FReep "food and fellowship" -- plus a SURPRISE. :o)"REAL Americans SUPPORT President Bush."If possible, also bring WATER and SUN SCREEN -- as it should be HOT.
RAPJA -
The Homegrown Enemy We Will Be Staring Down at President Bush Rally in Rancho Cucamonga
rapja dot org ^ | 8-27-09 | dfu
Posted on 08/27/2005 10:52:22 PM PDT by doug from upland
RAPJA = Riverside Area Peace Justice Action.
From the website of the clueless comes the plan to confront the President in Rancho Cucamonga on Monday...
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There may be a FEW Riverside-based "barking moonbats," but the hard core L.A.-based wackos do not seem very interested in making the long drive to this event.
This announcement, for example, is buried half-way down the page, at www.answerla.org:
Protest Bush in the Inland Empire
End the Occupation of Iraq! Bring the Troops Home Now!
Monday, August 29, 1 pm
James L. Brutle Senior Center
11200 Baseline Road, Rancho Cucamonga
Assemble: NW corner of Milliken and Baseline
Co-sponsored by A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition-LA and Riverside Area Peace and Justice Action
For more info contact 323-464-1636 or 951-653-0743.
The people are turning against the U.S. war on Iraq, and President Bush is on the defensive. He is currently touring the country to defend his criminal policies of war, racism, greed and occupation.
On this tour, Bush is waging a campaign of lies. His biggest lie, a lie he has been repeating over and over again, is that this war is in the interests of working people here in the U.S. The truth is that working people in the U.S. and U.S. troops have much more in common with the Iraqi people than they ever will with the Bush administration, the Pentagon and Wall Street.
Now is the time for the anti-war movement to take the offensive. On Monday, August 29, let's greet Bush and tell him he's not welcome in Southern California.
Bring your signs, voice of protests, drums and noisemakers!
FlyerStop the War on Iraq!
Stop Bush!
Bring the Troops Home Now!
End Colonial Occupation from Iraq to Palestine to Haiti and Everywhere!CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
Carpooling from Riverside at the Hispanic Bookcase near the corner of University & Iowa.We have been up against these bozos before.
We leave at 12 noon sharp. -
RAPJA = Riverside Area Peace Justice Action.
The LAST time, we were on their HOME TURF (in Riverside) -- when they had MUCH MORE lead time.From:
I expect that they MAY have 30-40 "anti-Bush" wackos by the time of our press conference at 1 pm, but they will probably have LESS.
after action report:
DICK CHENEY/Bill Jones in Riverside: "Support Our Troops" rally (7/27)
Posted by RonDog
On News/Activism 07/27/2004 9:18:27 PM PDT · 50 replies · 1,628+ views-- snip --
We should EVENTUALLY get some more precise numbers from the folks who got there EARLY, but it appears that the FReep timeline went something like THIS:
4:00 pm - 40-50 "good guys" - 5-10 "bad guys"(Vice President Cheney arrives, the media go indside.)5:00 pm - 50-60 "good guys" - 75-100 "bad guys"(RonDog finally arrives.)5:30 pm - 75 "good guys" - 200 "bad guys" - who begin to overrun our position(We "declare victory" and fall back to a nearby McDonald's.)
I expect to have 20-30 of US at this event, possibly a few MORE.
BOTH sides have told their people to meet at this same corner.
If we get there FIRST, we should be able to "claim" the PRIME location for media photographs -- right in front of that "Central Park" sign.I would prefer to keep the two sides PHYSICALLY SEPERATED -- as much as possible, but the roads in that area are VERY wide, so the other four corners of that intersection are TOO FAR AWAY from the event.
ONE solution would be for one side to gather along Milliken, and the other side to gather along Baseline -- with the prime northwest corner divided right down the canter, as sort of a "Demilitarized Zone."
From Yahoo! MAPS:
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Another Bump! See you there.
I should be able to make it, I was hoping someone was going to do a rally. Thanks.
We are asking people to start arriving just after NOON......so that we can "stake out" the best possible location -- before our oppostion arrives via carpool from Riverside.
We need to have as many people as possible in place by 1 pm -- for our PRESS CONFERENCE.
A young lady from a cable station has asked for an interview, and we hope we can generate good press for our troops, our president, and FR.
I'll probably be there around 10am or 11am, if not earlier.
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