I suppose it was a calculated political decision for Bush to do this.
President Bush relived some of his childhood Saturday night when he attended a Little League playoff game near his ranch.
The world’s most powerful former Little Leaguer watched several innings while players from Bryant, Ark., and Lafayette, La., competed for the southwestern regional championship.
If he can go spend an hour or two watching Little League baseball, wouldn’t it have been a smart PR move to invite Cindy Sheehan into his office in Crawford to talk for half an hour or so?
He should have invited her the game.
President Bush has met with about 900 family members of some 270 soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, according to this week’s Newsweek magazine.
I suspect he prefers private meetings with families as opposed to those where the meting would be used for explicitly political purposes.
In this, I agree.
You’re missing my point, Pix. To end this PR battle, it makes sense to agree to her demand for a meeting, which would defuse the whole thing. By not doing so, it goes on and gathers steam and media attention.
And who are you kidding? Nothing this man does is for anything but “explicitly political purposes.” Have you noticed there are no dissenters allowed at any of the “town hall” meetings he attends?
As the Newsweek article sho0ws, there are indeed “dissenters” at the many family meetings that he has held.. albeit in private.
I suppose you miss my point too.. why should this woman get a 2nd meeting when thousands of other families wait their turn?
“why should this woman get a 2nd meeting?”
To get her off the front pages and the tv shows. (I’m arguing from the public relations POV here.)
I think she is being exploited for other means now..
And so is Lance Armstrong….