Bush is a truly Amazing Aviator!! Read below the fold to find out why!
So, I'm sitting here at Chicago airport waiting for my outbound flight
that has been delayed by 4 hours due to our dear leader's visit to
Chicago today. When we were flying in to catch the connecting flight,
the pilot announced that since bush was in Chicago, we were being
forced to go into a 'holding pattern' for an indefinite time until the
all clear is given. He also announced that air force one is granted
extra special security and extra large distance between it and any
other plane in the vicinity.
Many other people are here at the airport, either stuck here for the
night (their flights were canceled) or delayed by a similar amount of
time. Lots of people are making snide anti-bush remarks (something I
find very encouraging given that just 5 years ago, bush had a 90%
approval rating, and I remember myself being jeered at for making such
snide comments about bush in Oct. 2001).
The main reason for posting this diary is to ask those of you who know
many more things than I do a question (and indeed, there are quite a
few of you here like that). I first also must apologize as perhaps
this post deserves not to be a diary and instead a just a post, but I
am hoping that in making this a diary entry, more people will see it
who will be able to answer.
The question is: When bush goes galloping around the country in
air-force one for his republican fund raisers, telling the rest of us
that we are cut and run democrats, who is footing the bill? Are tax
payers paying for his flight, the fuel, the food, the security
personnel, and everything else? Are tax payers also paying for the tens
or perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue due to the
delays that he is causing, not to mention the stress, lost family, and
lost sleeping time? I can understand that a president conducting
"presidential business" causing such delays, for example if bush had
something important to "decide" in Chicago, but a fund raiser?
This can't be legal!! Please help me out with this!!