Posted on 07/31/2008 5:26:08 AM PDT by srmorton
GATES MILLS, Ohio -- President George W. Bush made a pit stop on his way back to the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Tuesday evening.
After leaving a fundraiser in Gates Mills, his motorcade passed a home with a sign asking the president to stop by -- so he did.
Video: Bush Visits Euclid Plant
Bush got out of the car and spent a few minutes with Ruth Harris, who was celebrating her 91st birthday with her family.
Bush sat in a chair next to Harris and said "91 years old -- how special."
When neighbors noticed what was happening, they soon surrounded the president for a moment with him, too.
The photos are clearly amateur, rather than media pro. In fact, they resemble stills taken from either a cell phone or minicam.
19 or 91, dead or alive ........ BJ Clinton doesn't seem to be too particular.
Yeah, when Clinton’s motorcade came through the south of the cities in Minnesota, he stopped for a throng of people at the side of the road and he greeted people, but it always felt like grandstanding.
Bush just comes across as good folk and the man proves it again.
Absolutely. The man has class, character and a good heart. I think he would have stopped whether cameras were there or not.
I love him, too!
I’m not so sure slick willie wouldn’t have done it even with the woman being 91-”man honey, you don’t look a day over 75, are you interested in an internship”
It seems the nightmares would be the pre-announced events where some individual of ill-intent has had time to plan an attack.
I recall my military security training that taught me not to be predictable in my movements. Make random movements on my post. Don't allow a potential enemy or intruder to log a pattern which he may use to develop a plan of attack.
It seems like a random stop like this could actually enhance security, in that a potential down-the-road pre-planned attempt would be foiled.
Anyway, the stop at the woman's 91st birthday celebration is quite Reaganesque, isn't it? I love this kind of thing in a president, eveen though I am not a big Bush fan. I do think it is something real in him. If someone like Obamanation were to do likewise, I would take it as phony.
And he’s not running for a darn thing. Just being himself.
And haircuts on the runway
I have a photo of Dubya on the mound at Yankee Stadium right after 9/11
He makes me so proud of him and so proud to be American
Never thought of it that way. Yes, it was great for the whole group that were present. lovely gesture.
You will find MANY more photos from this ‘happy birthday’ stop and other events here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054020/posts?q=1&;page=1
That’s not true. Oh sure, the secret service will protest, but they still know who the boss is!
Can’t be so sure about that, he thought that mummy was good-lookin’.....
I disagree. It may have taken a few moments for secret service to check things out before he exited his vehicle but he is the President and everyone around him follows orders.
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