CA: Bush coming to Santa Clara to give policy speech (Bay Area Alert)

Mercury News ^ | 4/25/03 | AP - Washington

[CounterCounterCulture]

BTW, the lefties have permits for the rally at the park and for the protest.

[NormsRevenge]

Not a surprise.They are such stringent law abiding folks, yaknow.

Getting arrested when the President is in town is a serious offense.

I have been here with barf bag in hand as I listen to the talking heads take cheap shots at Mr. Bush.

Channel 4 has Jerry Brown on laying down his usual drivel.

Channel 2 and their male talking heads are so obviously anti-Bush, I am ready to scream!

You should have heard me last night as the demRats knocked Mr. Bush for hyping the visit to the carrier. What dolts these creeps are?

Stay Dry! AF1 is enroute. 8-)

God Bless President Bush and a pox on the obstructionist demRATic party and all its supporters.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

Just saw AF1 fly over. Should have just landed!

[NormsRevenge]

It's on the ground! WooHooo!!!!

[NormsRevenge]

President Bush just came down the stairs and is congratulating a local fellow for volunteer work in the area for FReedom Corps, Stephen Hauck.

He is now in the car and heading to United Defense.

[clamper1797]

Just came from the rally ... got called into work ... when I left there were 4 news crews ... about 20 pro-Bush people including Freepers Counter Counter Culture and Deal_me-in and about 10 anti-America cretins.

[clamper1797]

The pro-Bush faction was interviewed first ... by channel 8 Salinas and channel 2 ... I believe it was. Then they went over to the dark side to interview them

[CheneyChick]

Well, I've decided to not try Santa Clara.... My eyewitness who works about a block away says all the roads are shut down (no one can come or go) - no pedestrian traffic and SWAT teams and LE are everywhere. No one can get close to this.

[clamper1797]

I had no problem at all either getting in or getting out. I arrived at 6:45AM and left at 8AM .... my boss just can't seem to grasp the concept that there are things more important than work. Unfortunately there are few things that are more important than eating so I answered my bosses request (demand) to return to work.

[CheneyChick]

Were you at Moffett or in Santa Clara?

[clamper1797]

Santa Clara ... Lafayette and Lewis

[vikingchick]

bump for W. Any new info?

[NormsRevenge]

President Bush's speech is DYNOMITE!!!!!

Congre$$ needs to get off their dead-a$$es and pass the tax cut and stimulus package .. NOW!!!!

[CheneyChick]

He just finished an AWESOME speech. No mention of any riff-raff libs making noise. A very very enthusiastic crowd at United Defense! Who knew - right here in Silicon Valley! LOL!

[vikingchick]

I got to see some of the speech on Fox.....excellent.

[NormsRevenge]

From AP

Bush Promotes Tax Cut Proposals

[CheneyChick]

LOL!

	Posted on Fri, May. 02, 2003
	Hundreds of protesters gather for Bush's Santa Clara visit SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) -About 500 hundred anti-war protesters tried to greet President Bush for his brief stop here today -- but his motorcade bypassed their gathering on its way to the defense contractor where he was scheduled to deliver a speech on the economy. Police in riot gear and on horseback watched the crowd, which was generally peaceful. One protester was taken away in handcuffs, though the reason for the arrest wasn't immediately clear. Many protesters banged drums and chanted. One waved a sign that read ``Unemployment up, Stock down, Surplus gone, Deficit growing, Bush out 2004.'' The protesters did not try to block the road -- a common tactic in prior anti-war protests in the San Francisco Bay area -- which had been closed.

[vikingchick]

Memo to protesters: time to put the bongos back into storage. Nobody cares.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Maybe if I had brought my African drum, AP would have noticed our decent-sized group of flag-wavers?

The weather was favorable and didn't get worse than mostly cloudy.

Both factions gathered at the park at Lafayette and El Camino Real. When the police closed the ramps from Coleman to El Camino, we were allowed to use the overpass to walk over to Coleman just shy of the Starbucks there where the barricades were set up. Our side was over first so for awile we were in the majority as the other side rallied at the park. Their contingent marched over just in time for the motorcade to pass by, which used Brokaw and avoided Coleman.

More later with hopefully a few pics, one of "bugman". You'll see... ;-)

[CounterCounterCulture]

Memo to protesters: time to put the bongos back into storage. Nobody cares.

It was rather surreal. Bongoing and doing some kind of ritualistic dance (hop). I've seen more civilized headhunters. ;-)