Real Change

[lame54]

by Bill in Portland Maine

Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 05:50:33 AM PDT

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE...

Change

Under the old guy:

"On Monday, March 21, at billed as a "conversation on saving Social Security," I and two friends, Leslie Weise and Karen Bauer, decided to go down and participate in this dialogue. Unfortunately, we were evicted before the President arrived by an as yet unnamed man, because of the content on the bumper sticker of my friend’s car. That bumper sticker said, 'No more blood for oil.' ... We were parked in the parking lot, stood in line for a half an hour or so, went and sat down in the audience and then were forcibly ejected by a person who was posing as a secret service agent."
---Alexander Young
April, 2005

One of the latest incidents came when John Sachs, 18, a Johnston High School senior and Democrat, went to see Bush in Clive last week. Sachs got a ticket to the event from school and wanted to ask the president about whether there would be a draft, about the war in Iraq, Social Security and Medicare. But when he got there, a campaign staffer pulled him aside and made him remove his button that said, "Bush-Cheney '04: Leave No Billionaire Behind." The staffer quizzed him about whether he was a Bush supporter, asked him why he was there and what questions he would be asking the president. "Then he came back and said, 'If you protest, it won't be me taking you out. It will be a sniper,'" Sachs said. "He said it in such a serious tone it scared the crap out of me."
---Des Moines Register
October, 2004

Under the new guy:

"We're going to take questions. All right. Just want to make sure my mike's working here. Here's the deal on questions. First of all, we didn't screen anybody. So there's some people who like me in the audience, some people that don't. Some people agree with me, some people who don't. It doesn't matter. We want to take questions from everybody."
---President Obama, town hall meeting, Elkhart, Indiana
Feb. 2009

Speaks for itself, really.

[sakabatou]

1. Hey Bill

Get your head out of your ass.

[Median Democrat]

2. You May Want To Modify Your OP, Nearly Ignored You As A Troll

The story does not support Obama = Bush, and I nearly tossed it on the ignore list before reading.

[lame54]

3. .

[sharp_stick]

4. Damned Right

just the change in tone from the old administration to the new one is amazing.

[lame54]

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