Daytona fans unhappy with Smirk

[Doctor_J]

Sorry if this is a dupe - I just got here and don't see it. It seems that alot of NASCAR fans will be voting with us this fall

http://www.daytonainternationalspeedway.com/fans/006/558/

[BigDaddyLove]

1. As much as I'd like this to be true.......

I don't see how the link you provided stakes a claim to this reality.

[Ilsa]

3. Here's one that does:

http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/02/thompson-m-02-17.html

Quote:
(snip)
Overhead, Lee Greenwood sang "God Bless the USA." The crowd started chanting obscenities.

After LeAnn Rimes sang the national anthem, the crowd above the grandstands started cheering; those below booed.

Then Bush's motorcade drove by. One middle finger went up in the crowd, then another, and soon they were everywhere.

As the crowd scattered to their seats, one of the few black fans I spotted at the racetrack ran by and saw me scribbling in my notepad. "Writing for a newspaper?" she asked. Before I could respond, she shouted, "Tell them Bush sucks!" Then she disappeared back into the fray.

[BigDaddyLove]

5. Now THAT makes me happy.

:)

[MsFlorida]

2. there were boo's at Daytona

not all are happy with our current mis-leader

[saigon68]

4. There are a lot of Working People in auto industry unemployed

Seems their jobs have been OUT-SOURCED. Along with a lot of other industrialized workers. These are the base of NECKCAR fans.

As someone who follows NECKCAR, I can tell you not all NECKCAR fans are in lockstep with The CHIMPANZEE and his rich industrial capitalist friends.

Just look what Edwards did in Wisconsin with his ANTI-NAFTA campaign

[lancdem]

6. I didn't watch Daytona

but my father told me Bush's presence caused a delay in the start of the race, and people weren't happy, to put it mildly.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. Go to American Prospect's website

at www.prospect.org
and click onto the story "Shifting Gears" by Matt Thompson

(Sorry, mods, somehow I can't get the link on this and post it whole)

(snip)
Just before the race began, people were becoming impatient to get to their seats, and the increased security prompted by Bush's visit was slowing things down. To my left, I heard someone ask, "Who's voting for Bush?" Someone else instantly responded, "Not me." I turned back to see who'd spoken, but I was no match for the hundreds of people behind me pressing onward.

Then, suddenly, we stopped.

A few feet away, I could see police officers and orange-vested security agents holding the crowd back. It wasn't long before everyone realized we were being delayed until Bush had completed his entrance into the stadium.

After only a minute's pause, people started grumbling. Soon, they started yelling at the security detail. A few minutes more and they'd turned their ire on the president himself.

"We want to see the race, not Bush!" shouted someone in the crowd.

"Why didn't that SOB stay in Washington?" screamed Doug Shelby, the loudest of the voices.

This is Bush's base?
(snip)


Personally, I think the crowd was just pissed at * and his posse for inconveniencing them. But if this truly is representative of the NASCAR crowd in the South, Bushie-boy done got his prick in a cleft stick.


:kick:

[Katarina]

8. If you haven't been here during race week...

traffic is a bitch. But from the article in the local paper it was much worse this year. People were not happy at all.

http://www.n-jcenter.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Headlines/03NewsHEAD02021704.htm

[Atman]

9. A buddy of mine was there...he said BOOS

were rampant. He said in his section of the stands, the crowd starting chanting "CHIMPY GO HOME!" The press must have lent W Dean's unidirectional mic.

[Crewleader]

10. Hi Doctor

My neighbor who goes every year to Daytona 500 did not go because of hearing Bush was going to be there. It's bad enough with traffic and security but put more on top of that with delays because of Bush's presence, he decided not to go.

Most NASCAR fans are blue-collar working men and women who needs Bush labor policy gone and to have decent wages without taking overtime away....everyone knows he was there to show his face for votes.While more jobs everyday go overseas with not one ounce of stopping it by him!Thank you Lou Dobbs informing the working people in America with The Who, & The WHY these companies are abandoning the land of the free for the land of the profits which meets a republican agenda like the Bush administration.

Bush should be attending every funeral for soldiers we've lost but no glory in that. God Bless those families what they have endure losing their sons and daughters because Bush chose to go to War to get rid of Saddam who threatened his Daddy's life but using our resources and money to do it.

Shame on him and the 2004 election will show how much he is looked apron as the worse president we ever had, not for the people at all...and it will show that in large numbers!