What A Vacation for Bush
Protests intrude on Bush's trip to Maine
An anti-war protest winds along Ocean Avenue in Kennebunkport, Maine, Saturday afternoon Aug. 26, 2006. President Bush is visiting his parents for the weekend as part of his summer vacation. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
August 26, 2006
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - President Bush came to his parent's century-old summer home on the Maine coast for a little relaxation and some family time this weekend. He did get that, along with a reminder that his Iraq policy is unpopular with some people.
Several hundred anti-war demonstrators gathered Saturday to march on the road toward Walker's Point. The stone-and-shingle compound on a craggy promontory is owned by former President Bush and his wife, Barbara, and named after his mother's family.
The peace activists sang, chanted, beat drums, waved signs and even played fiddles to protest the Iraq war.
"Bush is fiddling while the world burns, just as Nero fiddled while Rome burned," said Pippa Stanley, 15, of Richmond, Maine, who was helping with the backdrop for pair of fiddlers dressed in togas.
Will Thomas, a Navy veteran from Auburn, N.H., carried a sign demanding that the president "honor the troops, mourn the dead, end the war."
The protesters are aligned with peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who planned to address them by phone. Sheehan, the mother of a soldier who died in Iraq, gained international attention when she shadowed Bush last summer while he vacationed at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
An Associated Press-Ipsos poll this month found that only about one-third of Americans support Bush's handling of Iraq.
The president was spending four days in Kennebunkport on his first visit to the family's retreat in two years and planned to attend the wedding of Walker Stapleton.
He is the son of the former president's cousin, Dorothy Walker Stapleton, and Craig Roberts Stapleton, the U.S. ambassador to France who was a partner with George W. Bush in the Texas Rangers baseball team.
Stapleton was marrying Jenna Bertocchi before about 300 friends and family at St. Ann's Episcopal Church, which is about a minute's drive from Walker's Point.
Others in the Bush family also were attending the funeral of Grace Walker, the groom's grandmother, and the christening of a baby from the Walkers' side.
The president was skipping those events and even planned to stay away from the reception after the Stapleton-Bertocchi nuptials. Aides said the president feared is presence, with his large entourage and rigid security requirements, would be disruptive.
For two days in a row, the president has taken his mountain bike to the Massabesic Experimental Forest, a stretch of woods about a half-hour from the Bush home that is owned by the U.S. Agriculture Department. Accompanied by companions recruited from a bike shop and elsewhere, the president has indulged in early morning rides of about an hour.
He also engaged in a family tradition, fishing from his father's speedboat, Fidelity III. Joining him were his daughter Jenna and the former president.
Even without the protests that dominated the tiny, scenic downtown of Kennebunkport, Bush could not entirely escape presidential duties.
On Thursday, he met with the families of five fallen soldiers. He has engaged in telephone diplomacy on the crisis in Lebanon and the nuclear standoff with Iran. He also was keeping updated on the progress of Tropical Storm Ernesto.
The president planned to return to Washington on Sunday before a week of traveling. He is marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a visit to the Gulf Coast; raising money for Republicans in Arkansas, Tennessee and Utah; and addressing the American Legion convention in Salt Lake City.
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Associated Press writer David Sharp contributed to this report.
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by Housewife4Palestine
It is a proven fact that many who survived Hurricane Katrina still can not find employment, are still homeless among other things that usually goes with the normal course of survival.
For many the promise of a FEMA trailer a year later still is not a reality for them along with many still living in tents in what use to be their front yard. As for health care and other services like in New Orleans for example are still closed to non-existent. As for going to the grocery store with high gas prices, be prepared to travel for that Pizza, or Granola bar.
Bush talks about Rockey Vaccarella and what I have seen this was just another photo opt to make Bush look good as his popularity continues to plummet.
FEMA tells the American public how they are still helping the refugee’s and how this disaster in regards to the survivor’s is a success, it is far from it and at this very moment they are sending out letter’s saying they wish to continue helping some with rent until they can get on their feet in the first sentence; then you read further down in the letter and it looks more like a business form of a threat.
Many survivors’ was promised certain amounts of money to rebuild not just their lives but hopefully their homes that wasn’t completely lost to Katrina. What actually happened for many is they did not receive any money or a token amount which was nothing that was promised in the beginning when many signed up for FEMA’s help. On the contrary, with continuous allegations of theft within the failed system and some people claiming they where victims when they actually wasn’t; has caused great harm to what was a failed system from the time that recovery was announced to the American’s through the media.
It was actually to my knowledge brought to the American’s attention that worker’s within FEMA allegedly stole on two occasions untold amount’s of money that just didn’t come from American funds, but from the global community.
As for Bush patting himself on the back on his part of this situation, he has been skidding across the carpet from the time the news broke that Hurricane Katrina was going to hit and his do nothing attitude was prevalent to way too many people.
The relief that came to many survivor’s was exceptional but for many it came from individual’s or smaller groups rallying, wishing to help those in need and these people deserve more gratitude then the failed American system that couldn’t tell which lie would work for which situation.
As for Bush patting himself on the back, don’t break your arm because many who survived this horrific event doesn’t share in your gratitude.
An anti-war protest winds along Ocean Avenue in Kennebunkport, Maine, Saturday afternoon Aug. 26, 2006. President Bush is visiting his parents for the weekend as part of his summer vacation. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) August 26, 2006
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - President Bush came to his parent's century-old summer home on the Maine coast for a little relaxation and some family time this weekend. He did get that, along with a reminder that his Iraq policy is unpopular with some people.
Several hundred anti-war demonstrators gathered Saturday to march on the road toward Walker's Point. The stone-and-shingle compound on a craggy promontory is owned by former President Bush and his wife, Barbara, and named after his mother's family.
The peace activists sang, chanted, beat drums, waved signs and even played fiddles to protest the Iraq war.
"Bush is fiddling while the world burns, just as Nero fiddled while Rome burned," said Pippa Stanley, 15, of Richmond, Maine, who was helping with the backdrop for pair of fiddlers dressed in togas.
Will Thomas, a Navy veteran from Auburn, N.H., carried a sign demanding that the president "honor the troops, mourn the dead, end the war."
The protesters are aligned with peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who planned to address them by phone. Sheehan, the mother of a soldier who died in Iraq, gained international attention when she shadowed Bush last summer while he vacationed at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
An Associated Press-Ipsos poll this month found that only about one-third of Americans support Bush's handling of Iraq.
The president was spending four days in Kennebunkport on his first visit to the family's retreat in two years and planned to attend the wedding of Walker Stapleton.
He is the son of the former president's cousin, Dorothy Walker Stapleton, and Craig Roberts Stapleton, the U.S. ambassador to France who was a partner with George W. Bush in the Texas Rangers baseball team.
Stapleton was marrying Jenna Bertocchi before about 300 friends and family at St. Ann's Episcopal Church, which is about a minute's drive from Walker's Point.
Others in the Bush family also were attending the funeral of Grace Walker, the groom's grandmother, and the christening of a baby from the Walkers' side.
The president was skipping those events and even planned to stay away from the reception after the Stapleton-Bertocchi nuptials. Aides said the president feared is presence, with his large entourage and rigid security requirements, would be disruptive.
For two days in a row, the president has taken his mountain bike to the Massabesic Experimental Forest, a stretch of woods about a half-hour from the Bush home that is owned by the U.S. Agriculture Department. Accompanied by companions recruited from a bike shop and elsewhere, the president has indulged in early morning rides of about an hour.
He also engaged in a family tradition, fishing from his father's speedboat, Fidelity III. Joining him were his daughter Jenna and the former president.
Even without the protests that dominated the tiny, scenic downtown of Kennebunkport, Bush could not entirely escape presidential duties.
On Thursday, he met with the families of five fallen soldiers. He has engaged in telephone diplomacy on the crisis in Lebanon and the nuclear standoff with Iran. He also was keeping updated on the progress of Tropical Storm Ernesto.
The president planned to return to Washington on Sunday before a week of traveling. He is marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a visit to the Gulf Coast; raising money for Republicans in Arkansas, Tennessee and Utah; and addressing the American Legion convention in Salt Lake City.
___
Associated Press writer David Sharp contributed to this report.
___
Bush revisits Katrina as anniversary approaches
President George Bush's weekly radio address
Bush's Too Little to Late for Hurricane Katrina
by Housewife4Palestine
It is a proven fact that many who survived Hurricane Katrina still can not find employment, are still homeless among other things that usually goes with the normal course of survival.
For many the promise of a FEMA trailer a year later still is not a reality for them along with many still living in tents in what use to be their front yard. As for health care and other services like in New Orleans for example are still closed to non-existent. As for going to the grocery store with high gas prices, be prepared to travel for that Pizza, or Granola bar.
Bush talks about Rockey Vaccarella and what I have seen this was just another photo opt to make Bush look good as his popularity continues to plummet.
FEMA tells the American public how they are still helping the refugee’s and how this disaster in regards to the survivor’s is a success, it is far from it and at this very moment they are sending out letter’s saying they wish to continue helping some with rent until they can get on their feet in the first sentence; then you read further down in the letter and it looks more like a business form of a threat.
Many survivors’ was promised certain amounts of money to rebuild not just their lives but hopefully their homes that wasn’t completely lost to Katrina. What actually happened for many is they did not receive any money or a token amount which was nothing that was promised in the beginning when many signed up for FEMA’s help. On the contrary, with continuous allegations of theft within the failed system and some people claiming they where victims when they actually wasn’t; has caused great harm to what was a failed system from the time that recovery was announced to the American’s through the media.
It was actually to my knowledge brought to the American’s attention that worker’s within FEMA allegedly stole on two occasions untold amount’s of money that just didn’t come from American funds, but from the global community.
As for Bush patting himself on the back on his part of this situation, he has been skidding across the carpet from the time the news broke that Hurricane Katrina was going to hit and his do nothing attitude was prevalent to way too many people.
The relief that came to many survivor’s was exceptional but for many it came from individual’s or smaller groups rallying, wishing to help those in need and these people deserve more gratitude then the failed American system that couldn’t tell which lie would work for which situation.
As for Bush patting himself on the back, don’t break your arm because many who survived this horrific event doesn’t share in your gratitude.
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