Swell affair at a grand a head as Dad speaks up to boost Bush

[emad]

Patrick Barkham
Wednesday May 19, 2004
The Guardian

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As every high spending teenager knows, when the overdraft gets big it is best to call in Dad. And so it was that George Bush senior brought a presidential outreach project to London last night in a bid to drum up more dollars for his son's presidential re-election campaign, which has already broken all fundraising records.

Amid tight security, an audience dominated by American expats paid $1,000 (£566) a head to hear the first President Bush appeal for more money for George W at the five-star Landmark hotel in Marylebone, London.

The president has so far raised some $200m (£113m) for the 2004 campaign, more than double the record-breaking sum gathered during the 2000 election. In the Landmark's winter gardens, a pianist tinkled the tune of Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You; outside, unheard by Mr Bush, a group of schoolgirls chanted: "Bush, Bush, shame on you, your son is a killer too".

Inside the hotel, under the eye of dozens of bulky US and British security officers, guests sipped champagne and refused to talk about their audience with Mr Bush senior.
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More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1219976,00.html

[NMDemDist2]

1. i had heard about that little soiree

get the cash where ever you can find it i suppose

[Jivenwail]

2. Puke

I'm about to toss my breakfast. BFEE are shameless.

[emad]

5. Poppy's/Junior's bagman Farish organised this little shindig....

Just hope they empty Guantanamo in time to fill it up with these BFEE scumbags..........

[Kipper58]

3. Do you think he read out this part of his book?

see my sig line.

[emad]

4. Great sig line, especially where he calls Junior "securely

entrenched dictator"....hehe

[TNOE]

6. Protest?

I read where a huge protest had been planned. Wonder how that turned out?

[emad]

9. BBC News story on protest:

About 150 anti-war protesters, wearing black hoods like those worn by Iraqi victims of abuse by US soldiers, greeted former US president George Bush senior as he arrived at a fund-raising dinner.

About 300 police lined the streets outside a hotel in Marylebone where President George W Bush's father was attending the Republicans Abroad dinner on Tuesday evening.

The event aimed to raise money for George W Bush's and Vice President Dick Cheney's bid to win a second term in the White House in November.

Police said one protester had been arrested.

From:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/2945575.stm

[rebellious woman]

7. How much did the queen give, and poodle, a few other unmentionables

[Khephra]

8. How is this even legal?

Foreign fundraising? Going to another country and asking them to help sway a domestic political election by contributing?

That's not how the system should work.

[WillParkinson]

10. Hey, don't worry about it...

We have to trust that the Republicans know what's right and wrong and what's the best for us.

[Hotler]

11. Elect my son again and I'll see that.....

free speech zones are instituted here. You people need to control your peasants better.

[emad]

12. Addendum:

Maybe Poppy's trying to bail out his asshole brother Jonathan over Riggs Bank fiasco, currently on DU:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1626326#1626336

His old chum Prince Turki is Saudi ambassador in London. Wouldn't it be just plain good luck if he managed to smooth over this unpleasant Saudi stuff with Riggs with his Thanksgiving Bird?