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Cheney Draws Tiny Crowd in Davenport

A group of Deaniacs joined Billionaires for Bush to protest the
Cheney visit. One of their signs reads, “Health care is already
affordable.”  Another reads, “Education is NOT for everyone.”
I love the “Thurston and Lovey” look of the couple in the front.
Connie captured this photo at Peabody's, down the street from
the Cheney event in Davenport.

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After an outside camera projected the approaching motorcade of SUVs (at least 15, all dark colored gas guzzlers) on a large screen inside the Mississippi Room of the River Center, the pseudo-VP entered to the musical question: “Are you ready to rumble?”

Actually, no, Mr. Cheney. I am not “ready to rumble.” I think that “rumbling” is now and remains a very bad idea. The next song was “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor….another very old song to pump up the crowd.

In the spirit of Halloween, some of the scarier things I heard at the Cheney rally were these:

1)    The prayer (by Pastor Carl Roberts of the Bettendorf Christian Church): “We’re thankful that we have servants like pResident Bush and Vice pResident Cheney.  We believe that they are the best men for the job at this time.” (Speak for yourself, Pastor.)

2)    “I’m sick of Democrats mocking our pResident, aren’t you?” Actually, it is more the entire world that is “mocking” our “pResident.” The reason? Aside from being voted the “scariest villain in a movie this year” by Europeans, (a nod to Bush’s appearance in Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11”), he is quite possibly the worst pResident we have ever had. Most of the civilized world regards him as a loose cannon and the greatest threat to world peace (an actual poll result, in Europe, “greatest threat to world peace: 70% said “George W. Bush”). If you tried to script a president who appeared more foolish, uninformed and unintelligent (despite his legacy Yale degree), a movie audience wouldn’t believe that someone this ignorant, uninformed, arrogant and out-of-touch could be elected. (And, actually, class…does anyone really believe that he was elected in 2000?)
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