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Bush’s GOP convention speech
President Bush tonight will speak by satellite from the White House to Republican National Convention delegates.
Look for about eight minutes, as compared to the 15 minutes he had planned to deliver in person Monday night, an appearance cancelled because of Hurricane Gustav.
Here’s what White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said about it:
“It will be a shorter speech than was planned in the hall, but the entire convention is a little bit shorter. … The president is very grateful for this opportunity. He’s going to express his gratitude to all the people gathered in the hall. He will talk a little bit about the hurricane, but mainly the speech is going to focus on John McCain and why he believes that John McCain has the qualities that are demanded by the commander-in-chief role.”
“I think that it worked best - because also, remember, when you’re moving the president of the United States, you can’t just run over to Reagan National Airport (not far from the White House) and hop on a shuttle to the Twin Cities. It takes a lot of logistical effort to move a President anywhere. And thankfully, there’s technology that exists today that President Bush can give a satellite address that will be live for the people in the hall. And another reason that the speech would be shorter is that - I don’t know if you’ve ever been there, but watching something on video for a whole 15 minutes taxes the patience.”
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By hey norm
September 2, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this
he picked up and moved pretty quickly to sign the patently unconstitutional terry schiavo bill into law. i call bs.