Friday around 11:30 am I am driving southbound on I-494 which is the southern bypass around the Minneapolis St Paul metro area. All of a sudden, 4 lanes of interstate come to a complete halt. I say to myself WTF? must be a bad accident up ahead. We sit for over 20 minutes. There must be at least 10 miles of cars stopped all saying WTF? People going to lunch, people leaving town for the weekend, people needing to get to important meetings. Why were they stopped on the Interstate? Read below the fold.
The Interstate was stopped so the Presidential Motorcade could pass. WOW. What a screwup by the president. Why would he do something like this? As we begin to go I think of the impact his little jaunt to this "bluing" area has had. Not only did it piss off many travellers on the Interstate and other arterials. I think of MSP International Airport, which is one of the busiest airports in the country. Northwest Airlines main hub is there. Flights had to have been grounded the whole time. How many travellers did that affect? How much business was lost thanks to W? Especially on a Friday to cause business travellers to miss their flights home....missing their families even longer? What kind of nonsense could that have been. I looked at my wife and she said it was probably just a mistake. I said no....it is called ARROGANCE. Every caller into local talk shows hit the nail on the head. He is not my president. He is the Republican President. I think that is a great way to frame W from now on. Instead of calling him the President of the United States, we should refer to him as the Republican President.
He spoke in a Mpls suburb for 45 minutes about Medicare and how to fill out 4 pages of requests so seniors can buy cheaper prescription drugs. He failed to realize that Sen. Dayton takes seniors to Canada to purchase drugs a whole lot cheaper than this sham of a program as well as the state of Minnesota even doing it better than this sham. This ARROGANT Republican President is more than welcome to visit Minnesota on a weekly basis. Each time he visits, he will piss off even more people making Minnesota a blue state for a long time to come. Thank you Mr. ARROGANT Republican President.
Peace