Full Version: If someone of the opposition crashed a rally
I wrote this at the tail end of a post in the thread about the Supreme Court Ruling that law enforcement can require a person to give his/her name:
What do you think would happen? Or are there any links--recent ones--that deal with this very thing?
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Sometimes I wonder what would happen if someone who wasn't one of "the faithful" was actually able to attend a Republican Rally and verbally challenge Bush about a policy--would Bush actually try to answer him, or would he just be carted away by the Secret Service, held and questioned until his background information came up on computer, and then charged with creating a public disturbance or some other charge. And what kind of spin would it be given on the news? Would it make it on the news, or would it be edited out? Does anybody have an idea about this?
What do you think would happen? Or are there any links--recent ones--that deal with this very thing?
Sadly I think there are instances of what you were talking about and it went down exactly as you quoted. I'll have to look around later today and see if I can find anything in the news, because I am fairly certain I have read about such things.
The questions that Bush answers at rallys are pre-scripted. He already knows which questions will be asked, who will do the asking, and his response. It has been that way for a long time (not just Bush, Clinton was that way as well. I witnessed this at a rally at University of Florida in the early 90s).
I don't know if anyone has been arrested for offering a challenging question at a rally. More than likely they were just ignored, as they have always been.
I don't know if anyone has been arrested for offering a challenging question at a rally. More than likely they were just ignored, as they have always been.
I'm not sure if this qualifies but apparently someone did just that and Bush flipped them the bird. I realize that this is a blog entry, but that doesn't make it untrue.
First Cheny drops some f-bombs, now Bush flips people the bird... it was indeed a good match.
First Cheny drops some f-bombs, now Bush flips people the bird... it was indeed a good match.
QUOTE(Cube Jockey @ Jul 13 2004, 12:54 AM)
I'm not sure if this qualifies but apparently someone did just that and Bush flipped them the bird. I realize that this is a blog entry, but that doesn't make it untrue.
First Cheny drops some f-bombs, now Bush flips people the bird... it was indeed a good match.
First Cheny drops some f-bombs, now Bush flips people the bird... it was indeed a good match.
Blogs are never made up, especially when they are the blog of some teenager
. "We took a picture, but the glare was too bad to see him..."Then how the heck did YOU see him?
Don't contradict yourself, CJ:
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I'm not one to make a big deal out of something like this, because I don't consider using profanity to be a bad thing necessarily. Cheny was expressing an emotion and he chose to do it in that way, I've done that in the past too. I don't think it is necessarily the most mature or productive way to express that emotion, but I don't hold Cheny to some special standard regarding profanity that I wouldn't hold myself to. He may be a politician with some power, but he is still human.
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Cube Jockey, um, I don't know what to say about the link you provided. I'll let others read it on their own, but it certainly doesn't reflect badly on BUSH. That piece was about the least mature I've ever read. Proud teenagers stripping into thongs at the rally and forming a human pyramid? Cool, maybe they stole a pack of smokes and loitered around the mall after that.
Amlord and Mrs P, I'm not going to defend the blog entry because:
1) this is casual conversation and not a debate thread
2) Posting that is no less valid (in a casual conversation thread) than anything anyone else has said.
This is a thread that by its very nature lends itself to speculation and things that can't necessarily be proven. If anyone could prove something like PE posted in her initial post do you actually think the president wouldn't be in some kind of hot water for that? More importantly, why would this thread be in casual conversation. Come on guys.
And for the record I didn't contradict my earlier post either, because I never said I was offended or anything of that nature, I was simply answering the question by PE.
1) this is casual conversation and not a debate thread
2) Posting that is no less valid (in a casual conversation thread) than anything anyone else has said.
This is a thread that by its very nature lends itself to speculation and things that can't necessarily be proven. If anyone could prove something like PE posted in her initial post do you actually think the president wouldn't be in some kind of hot water for that? More importantly, why would this thread be in casual conversation. Come on guys.
And for the record I didn't contradict my earlier post either, because I never said I was offended or anything of that nature, I was simply answering the question by PE.
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