Riding in the President's Motorcade

Yesterday was exciting!!

I got to ride in the President's motorcade :-) I was supposed to get into the main event, but when we got there, the DeWine people (a bunch of losers) told me "you're not on the list" and "we stopped admitting people at 4:00"

Ummm... how about, "I was responsible for getting the president here, you heiffers"? Ugh. 1 vote for Sherrod Brown. Not to mention, I'm supposed to be a freakin' DeWine co-chair in Delaware County. All the girls were just jealous because I was more beautiful than them. That's what it came down to, ultimately.

I got some great pics of AF 1. We were parked right there on the tarmac, it was a beautiful sight :-) It's great... AF 1 parks, Bush gets off the plane, talks to the special guests waiting for him, then he gets in the limo, and the press comes barreling toward the waiting vans and off goes the motorcade.... and I was like, "let's just leave the press here, we don't freakin' need them" They were really frantic, because the motorcade started moving before some of them had gotten in... and I think some doors were still open with cars moving. Fun stuff! Too bad Helen Thomas wasn't there... just maybe some sort of accident could have been arranged where a door could have accidentally swung upen. Helen Thomas and David Gregory. yes.

So if I didn't already hate the media, I passed over hate yesterday and went into the DESPISE zone. What a bunch of goons. They were making fun of Ohioans for being so patriotic and loving their President, and making fun of George's bike accident. I wanted to turn around and shove their laptops up their asses. Andrew was driving, and at one point he put on the brakes a little heavy, and one of them said, "Take it easy" followed by some other smartass comment... and I wanted to turn around and say, "he'll take it easy if you engage in objective journalism!" Oh yeah! I just got absolutely nauseous thinking that these idiots are responsible for giving the public most of their knowledge base. *vomit*

Not to mention, the media got to spend time in the 13,000 square foot house, dining on fine foods and drinking beer, while watching TV, etc... and then I asked one of them, "did you see the inside of the palace?" and they said they didn't! freakin' liars. One said something about being confined to garages most of the time and I thought, "Well, if you belong there... perhaps someone should start a car and put rags in all of the openings next time."

George hit the best photo-op after the fundraiser.... you might have seen it. We were rollin, then all of a sudden the presidential limos stopped, followed by everyone else, and the press like, ran over each other to get out of the vans screaming, "You gotta be kidding me!" and George had stopped at a lemonade stand across the street to buy lemonade from some little kids. I was so .. I dont know... proud to be a supporter of him at that moment. He's a great man.

I think I'll REALLY get to meet him on August 2nd, when he comes back to Ohio for a fundraiser for Ken Blackwell. Fortunately, Drew is the county chair here for Blackie, and he'll get me in... and we won't have to go through other people... that apparently don't have as much pull as they say they do.

I just googled myself, as I do every once in awhile... and I noticed that a baby with my name was born on June 28th. Good for her. May she accomplish great things :-)

I received an invitation to Commissioner Kris Jordan's July 20th fundraiser in the mail today... a complimentary one... since I AM an elected official. *sigh* Enough with the perks already! lol. I'm excited... Jordan has a contested election, as do a few of the other officials up in November. Even the Auditor has some competition, if you want to call it that, considering the guy didn't even vote for himself in the primary...

I'd really like to post a whole blog on the NYT thing... that's part of the reason this one is so antagonistic toward the media. They're really a bunch of obnoxious people who over-emphasize their role in society. And we allow them to be important. If Americans were more excited about learning and informing themselves about the issues, the media wouldn't play such an active role in our world... but instead, most americans are passive and then find themselves having to rely on the media for information regarding crucial issues... and they don't care enough to fact-check... or delve deeper. This is the one place I agree with Noam Chomsky... if you know the people are wrapped up in idiocy, like they are only interested in watching sitcoms, etc... you can throw them stupidity and falsifications. It's like my dad says... americans are more interested in watching American Idol than they are the news. And that's tragic.

One more thing... I wish I'd spoken more to this guy, but toward the end of the day yesterday I started talking to one of the guys in the motorcade. I had heard he was a Marine and we talked about school and being older students, but how it's important just to get done - not necessarily how old you are when you get done. I mentioned that my perspective kind of shifted when I saw the A&E documentary on Lima Company, which, as some of you know, I took a big interest in. My heart stopped when he said he was a part of Lima Company. You don't want to say, "Oh, I'm sorry" or a bunch of simple, things. I didn't want to tell him that I spent most of that documentary crying like a little baby. He told me about the privat screening they had for the other marines in lima company, and that he actually liked the documentary. He's proabably already forgotten it, but that brief conversation was pretty valuable to me.

I'll write more later. I wanna go to bed, I'm still recovering from yesterday :-)

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