Does the Telegraph not realize that the Easter Egg Roll is already over?!
Posted on 04/17/2006 7:35:20 AM PDT by IrishMike
Clifford the Big Red Dog and Sesame Street's Cookie Monster will provide the Bush administration's first line of defence as the White House Easter Egg Roll is flooded by hundreds of protesting homosexual parents.
Faced with the prospect of the 128-year-old tradition being hijacked by gay pride advocates, aides to President George W Bush have carefully scripted the event to limit the political damage.
Homosexual parents seeking public acceptance of their families have already secured many of the 15,000 tickets available to the public.
But it was clear yesterday that protesters would be kept far away from the First Lady, Laura Bush, who is overseeing the event on the White House lawns.
By the time the gay pride activists are allowed in, Mrs Bush should be gone, leaving them to confront giant-sized children's characters.
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In years past has Mrs. Bush stayed for the entire egg-roll? No, she makes a considerate appearance and moves on. This is not news...but the left wants to make it seems as though she's snubbing. Ridiculous.
The Washington Post had a big article about this in yesterday's paper.
Why people have to draw attention to themselves, I don't know. I was also a bit upset that there were people in line who said they were getting tickets for 4-5 other families -- which means that some families who actually waited in line might not get tickets.
Beyond that, there were all these quotes about couples who said they were afraid, or didn't think they could do this, until the "protest".
They apparently have trouble accepting themselves as couples, but want to force the rest of us to provide special treatment for their "couplehood", probably to make them feel better about it.
They might have wanted to, but the White House website is specific that the limit was five tickets per person, so it would not have been possible to get tickets for "4-5 other families". http://www.whitehouse.gov/easter/2006/
***In years past has Mrs. Bush stayed for the entire egg-roll? No, she makes a considerate appearance and moves on. This is not news...but the left wants to make it seems as though she's snubbing. Ridiculous.***
You sure got that right, Mrs T. Both the President and the First Lady ALWAYS make a courtesy appearance for a short time.
That's funny that these children's characters like the Cookie Monster will be the ones facing off against the deranged activists. I remember reading a story a few years ago about a man at a Sesame Street theme park who got into a fistfight with someone dressed as Cookie Monster. That must have traumatized a couple of the kids watching it.
Also, 6 years ago, my family and I went on a Disney cruise. As you can guess, there were staff members dressed as all kinds of Disney characters there to talk with the kids and stuff. Well, when we were first getting checked in, my brother and I noticed a door which was labeled "Characters only." My younger brother tried to dare me to go in there, but I told him, as plainly as I could, that I had no interest in getting my butt kicked by Goofy before the cruise ship even weighed anchor.
My husband organized a conference with a trip to Disney World one year, and brought home a picture of himself being hugged by "Minnie Mouse". I chided him about consorting with "other women" on his trip and he said, "I never forget that inside each costume is just a big, sweaty Teamster".
Have you no shame?
For myself I would comment that surely there is just the ONE occasion, when the homosexual would just get on with their lives. They seek,not acceptance but dominance. In this they are an abomination.
Anyone who has read the first chapter of Bill Sammon's "Misunderestimated" should understand why these gay protestors will not be allowed near the First Lady.
Sammon describes in chilling detail how a mob of gay protestors attacked the President's limo in Washington or Oregon. They got dangerously close to the President, and also they attacked, physically, some elderly and disabled people who attended an event at which the President spoke that night. Funny, how we didn't hear about that from Newsweek, CNN, et al.
It's a deep psychological need for approval. Not more complicated than that.
Yea, when my adult daughter and I were at Disneyland a couple of years ago, we were both hugging Minnie, and as we pulled away Minnie gave my boobie a little squeeze. I guess we could have sued for big bucks, my we just laughed at it. Crazy teamsters!
"Homosexual parents seeking public acceptance of their families have already secured many of the 15,000 tickets available to the public."
Well that's it. I'm convinced. Queers are wonderful people who just happen to be different than the rest of us. No actually they are BETTER. No, they are the finest people God ever made. No they are angels walking among us.
I guess I'll have to admit that having them demonstrate and pervert the Whitehouse egg roll makes me want to be a queer myself.
Is there anything these loathsome creatures won't destroy if they can?
The Sodomites HAVE TO BE at odds with the Bible. There is no middle ground. So they attack a goofy "Easter Egg" hunt at the White House to make their point. But it doesn't matter because homosexuality is still a bad choice, and that's all it is.
It is the same "everybody does it" mentality.
If ONLY they can convice the general public they are part of "everybody" then it is just another sex act.
They are using children to promote their disgusting behavior, it is no different than clearing a minefield with their bodies.
I can't imagine a christian organization trying to snatch up all the tickets to the easter egg hunt.
And if they did, I know the Washington Post wouldn't cover it as a good thing.
I got my rear pinched by Mickey!
I've seen some post-event coverage, and it sounds like it all went off perfectly peacefully; no "attacks" of any kind.
wow!
That's something I never heard!
But I barely watch tv news.
And if I do watch it, it's Fox News.
And I'm getting sick of that too.
Does the Telegraph not realize that the Easter Egg Roll is already over?!
Not that big. I'm 5'4", and I was at the top end of the height range when I took a temp assignment to wear a Care Bear costume. The top of the wearer's head is well below the top of the costume head -- the window is usually through the costume's mouth, not the eyes.
Teamsters? Probably not. Sweaty? Oh, hell, yeah. Skip the sauna; wearing a foam-rubber character costume, you'll sweat away about a pound an hour, and get paid for it.
I should mention that, according to what I'm told, Disney characters work 20 minutes and then rest 10. I had no such luxury. As a temp, I was expendable.
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