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DEL.ICIO.USPresident Bush leaves Atlanta early
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Faced with a line of heavy thundershowers bearing down from Alabama, the advance team for President Bush just gave the orders for an early return to Dobbins Air Reserve Base for his trip home.
The press entourage has been piled into their vans, air-conditioners running.
By 5:55 p.m. Air Force One had lifted off.
Here’s the story so far:
President Bush arrived at Dobbins Air Reserve Base at 3:47 p.m., stepped off at 3:56 p.m.
As greeting committees for presidents go, this was relatively low grade. Top official was Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren. Next in line was Lou Brissie of South Carolina, a former pro pitcher from the 1940s and early ‘50s. Bush spent several minutes with him.
Bush also posed with Sherri Goggin of Athens, who founded the volunteer group Bundles of Joy, which distributes gift packages to premature babies.
A 15-car parade left the base at precisely 4 p.m., taking Delk Road to I-75, which was a ghost of its usual self, even south bound. Then to West Paces Ferry Road to the residence of Harrison Merrill, a developer who specializes in restoring landmark buildings.
Bush went to the Dumbarton Road residence of Merrill for the fund-raiser intended to benefit Republican Rick Goddard, a retired Air Force major general who is challenging U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall of Macon, a Democrat.
Efforts to contact Goddard’s spokesman on Tuesday have failed to meet with any success.
Reporters were sequestered in a nearby house and saw nothing of the event itself, nor the people who attended. A spokesman for the governor confirmed that Sonny Perdue did attend.
The journalistic benefit of this experience has thus far been limited to the thrill of a rush-hour drive down an empty I-75.
Comments
By actonjoe
July 22, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
Really, who would want to be seen with him? His face now represents Failure.
By TR
July 22, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this
Bush is the true Messiah! He brought us Rain. Talk about Hope and Change!
By jonf
July 22, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this
Don’t you just love it when the media knows there is a story and comes up empty!
By John Henry Isaacson
July 22, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this
Looks like President Bush is pulling out early Please NO more misleading headlines. You clog up my in-box all the time with this type of misleading “headlines”. I am sure the staff of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution would have flown through the heavy thundershowers, I would expect that out of them.
By Que0779
July 22, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this
Sam1234, I think that George H. W. Bush should have pulled out early then we wouldn’t be in the predicament we’re in now.
By john
July 22, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this
Sam1234 is a real idiot.
By barry debruin
July 22, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this
Bush is the greatest Jeb Bush in 2012
By Mike
July 22, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this
Why couldn’t Georgie Dork go to Warner Robbins AFB instead of screwing up Atlanta’s traffic! Guess that would save gas, though, wouldn’t it!!!! What a waste, not just in gas, but in peoples’ time! Course he never really gave a tinkers ding dong about anybody else, that might show he was a considerate sould instead of the “Compassionate CON- servative” he claims to be! What an absolute waste of over 7 years and taxpayers bucks as well!
Keep voting for these Republicans and you will keep paying high prices for these crooked suckers! R=RACIST and RAT!
By RJ
July 22, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this
Look at Barry’s last name Deb”ruin”. Read the last 4 letters. That’s what happened under W. and that’s what will happen under Jeb….No brain no pain, right Barry!!!!!!
By shelly
July 22, 2008 8:58 PM | Link to this
I’m embarrassed to know that I’m living in a community with such hateful people. How do you REALLY feel? You are all so sad and pathetic that you have so much hatred directed at the president. I bet you could do a much better job, RIGHT?
Keep on spewing your hate … maybe all that pent up anger and frustration you harbor will cause you to implode! HUGS AND KISSES!!!!!
By Copyleft
July 23, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
Shelly: Actually, yes… a retarded eggplant could have done a better job than Bush. Ask any ex-resident of New Orleans. Or the friends of Terri Schiavo. Or families of Iraqis and U.S. troops killed for no reason in Iraq. Or co-workers who lost their jobs in the recession… or their homes, in the subprime mortgage meltdown.
Saying “I could’ve done better than Bush” is easy, but it’s also like shooting fish in a barrel. Heck, who COULDN’T have?
By Dr B
July 23, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this
What I REALLY loved about all of this is the fact that we, the Americans, had to sit in stand still traffic at the 285/75 merger in Marietta for well over an hour at $4 a gallon prices just so Mr. Bush could not get a little rain on his forehead. Democracy-at its greatest!
By Alex
July 23, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
I hope all of you who were stuck on 75 yesterday enjoyed donating your time and your gasoline to the Republican Party.
I’m okay with it because I know that George is praying for us all and that Jesus tells him what to do.
By Hear the Herd
July 23, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this
George Bush will listen to Jesus someday, when we all have to, on Judgement Day.
I wonder if kings and presidents get judged by God using the same standards as lowlife scum like me?
By j.d.
July 23, 2008 6:15 PM | Link to this
Oh yeah Bush is just a terrible man. Get the fu** outta here! What we did overseas was necessary because 1) a little thing called 9-11, which the ignorant public forgot about, and 2) Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and dirtbag that needed to be killed. Another thing that doesn’t get put out is we beat al-qadea in Iraq to a point where they can no longer carry out even a small operation. And don’t worry, I’m a vet with 3 tours as a grunt.
By j.d.
July 23, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this
Oh yeah Bush is just a terrible man. Get the fu** outta here! What we did overseas was necessary because 1) a little thing called 9-11, which the ignorant public forgot about, and 2) Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and dirtbag that needed to be killed. Another thing that doesn’t get put out is we beat al-qadea in Iraq to a point where they can no longer carry out even a small operation. And don’t worry, I’m a vet with 3 tours as a grunt.
By Amen
July 23, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this
No doubt free the herd, George W Bush will burn in hell for all the sins he’s cast against humanity. The Burning Bush, the burning Bush in HELL!!!!
By Copyleft
July 24, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
Tell us, J.D., did you ever get sent against one of our actual enemies, instead of an impotent stand-in to make the C-in-C look good?
Because that’s what our soldiers are doing right now; playing decoy while the guys who actually committed 9/11 laugh their heads off at us.
I’m no military genius, but even I can spot the difference between Afghanistan and Iraq on a map.