WTF??? Chimpy coming to Halifax???????????

Pure rumor right now--my boss said he thinks Chimpy's coming here after the Potemkin "visit" to Ottawa.

:WTF:

Say it ain't so! Anybody know anything more? Nothing on the usual web sites about this.

Anyway, tradition Nova Scotia hospitality will NOT apply!

:grr:

Bush debacle.... I think you've suffered enough, our most hospitable friends!

Sort of a strange time of year to visit Halifax, though, I would think...?

Results from google search for president bush halifax.

http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&tab=nn&ncl=http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml%3Ftype%3DpoliticsNews%26storyID%3D6911336


http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/11/24/Bush-Halifax_041124.html
-- that one's only 32 minutes old. ;)

Last Updated Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:28:18 EST

HALIFAX - U.S. President George W. Bush is expected to visit Halifax next week on his two-day Canadian tour, thanking Atlantic Canadian residents for helping stranded American passengers following the Sept. 11 attacks.

Bush will make his first official state visit to Canada Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, but up to now he was expected to travel only to Ottawa.

Details of his itinerary are expected to be confirmed by White House officials on Thursday.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1101319910705_96729110/?hub=Canada

Fears of being booed are one reason why U.S. President George W. Bush will be giving a speech in Halifax next week and not to a joint session of Parliament.

"We didn't see the need and, frankly, we didn't want to be booed. There are other, better venues," one U.S. official told The Canadian Press on Wednesday.

A White House spokesman said that Bush's agenda has not been finalized but confirmed he would not address Parliament.

While it's not clear what the president's agenda will be in Halifax, he is expected to thank the Canadian navy for their contributions to the war in the war on terror. Bush may also thank the people of Halifax, Moncton and Newfoundland and Labrador who took in thousands of stranded tourists after the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington.

Does the phrase ABOUT FUCKING TIME come to mind?

How about TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE ...

Maybe if he apologized for those Canadian troops his troops killed ... with feeling ...

killed in Afghanistan were from Nova Scotia. People here have deep roots and LONG memories.

That little shit thinks this is a "friendlier venue". It's not.

:grr:

I was thinking what a clever trick it was go to someplace and thank people. How could they boo you when you're essentially saying how wonderful they are, eh?

Hope you're right! Any details on organizing being done for the visit?

They're just now beginning to realize that the only workable venue is the airport. Anywhere else would involve trying to impose security on the entire city of Halifax in... less than a week.

The local peaceniks already had plans for a public trial of Chimpy on the library lawn followed by a perp walk to the US consulate. Other ideas are being bandied about, but since nobody knows where they can even put the little POS without a big ruckus, it's a bit hard to organize anything.

My guess: Either he never leaves the airport or they cancel the whole mess altogether.

About which let me just say: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

:evilgrin:

When I asked about "organizing being done for the visit", I was speaking in 60s/Saul Alinskyese. ;) ... Now there's an idea we could pass on to anyone in the House who was interested ... eat a big bean dinner before W's appearance ... well, if he were going to appear.

That info about the disorganization on the official side is fun, though. It would really be nice if the whole escapade were just a big old mess. He gave us a pseudoroyal audience, and we didn't put on our best bibs and tuckers and make sure the red carpet was rolled out, and just didn't give him the reception to which he has become accustomed. Like how he gave a war and we didn't come.

Of course the Conservatives would make extremely loud indignant-chicken noises in the House for some time after, backed up by most of the nation's print media (wot an embarrassment it would all be and such a blot on the national copybook) and the Liberals would have to sit there with egg on their faces, and the rest of the world (which follows W with some interest, even if they don't give a thought to us) would be amused.

How just too bad that we won't have access to Fox by then. If we don't treat their boy right, I'm sure the chickens in the Fox house will be squawking even louder than our own. Given how they love to hate us, whatever happens will certainly not be to their taste. We'll have to get Wonk, who does such a service by making Fifth Estate and other CBC stuff available to DUers, to give us a video link. Maybe somebody will top "Soviet Canuckistan", if we do it up really good.

Soviet Canuckistan, makes me fall over every time I think it.

I wonder if he will fly in a crowd of supporters to address

your welcome George, no need to visit