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MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WILL BE BLOCKED FROM BUYING TICKETS TO THE BUSH INAUGURATION UNLESS THEY ARE DONORS OR SUPPORTERS OF BUSH. YOUR THOUGHTS?

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MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WILL BE BLOCKED FROM BUYING TICKETS TO THE BUSH INAUGURATION UNLESS THEY ARE DONORS OR SUPPORTERS OF BUSH. YOUR THOUGHTS?


[+] ballot by mojo
created Sun Jan 16, 05

People answering phones at Ticketmaster on Friday said callers needed an invitation and an identification number to buy a ticket to observe the inauguation. Bleacher seat tickets are restricted to Bush donors, fundraisers, supporters, and invited guests.

Is this yet another way for Bush to control public perception of him and his presidency? Is this yet another example of Bush elitism? Or is it just politics as usual?

(Note: The public has been given complete access to every past president's inauguration - with the notable exception of G.W.Bush's last one in 2001.)

Control and manipulation, plain and simple.
Good old politics as usual = SPIN control
Good security - he is aware of his unpopularity, even though he claims he has a 'mandate'
His way of keeping the protestors out
Smart in view of 911...Very smart!
To rule out assasination possibility


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COMMENTS:
The Bush machine has apparently mastered the practice of manipulationa nd propoganda; to teh point where large parties who get screwed by his policies and actions will defend him to the death.

And we deride the "propoganda" of other countries ...
by Cathexis on Sun Jan 16, 05 10:47am [+]

What he said.
by Truthseeker013 on Sun Jan 16, 05 11:08am [+]

No surprise -- the Bush administration has shown, time and again, that they only want to surround themselves with people who support their policies (preferably blindly). The Bush administration views loyalty above all else, even to the point of sparing the truth to blindly support lies.

Heil Bush.
by xxxxxxxx on Sun Jan 16, 05 2:20pm [+]

This is pretty F#@*ed up right here.
by thc2883 on Sun Jan 16, 05 5:53pm [+]

I worry about this country.

Are we still living in a democracy? Things like this only used to happen in totalitarian regimes.

Kim Il Sung, watch out, there's a new dick-tator in town. And he's got nukes.
by LCD on Sun Jan 16, 05 10:45pm [+]

People who don't support Bush might be terrorists so he has every right to ban more than half the population from his staged media event.
by cretin_slap on Mon Jan 17, 05 8:48am [+]

That figures. I had trouble getting into Nuremberg several years back as well.
by _Beelzebubba on Mon Jan 17, 05 12:00pm [+]

He's doing this so that protestors can't get in.
by Liberal_Democrat on Mon Jan 17, 05 10:35pm [+]

I heard them pro-testers love Saddam and hate democracy.
by cretin_slap on Tue Jan 18, 05 3:55am [+]

Inauguration's $250,000 donors

COMPANIES

Altria Corporate Services Inc. (New York)
Parent company of Kraft and Philip Morris
Ameriquest Capital Corp. (Orange, Calif.)
Financial services company
Argent Mortgage Company (Orange, Calif.)
ChevronTexaco Corp. (Concord, Calif.)
Corporate Capital LLC (New Orleans) Investment firm
Exxon Mobil Corp. (Washington)
Golden Eagle Industries Inc. (Charlotte)
Buiding materials company
Kojaian Ventures LLC (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)
Long Beach Acceptance Corp. (Paramus, N.J.)
Auto loan company
Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Los Angeles)
Rooney Holdings Inc. (Tulsa) Construction company
Sallie Mae Inc. (Reston, Va.) Student loan organization
Southern Company Inc. (Atlanta) Energy utility
Stephens Group Inc. (Little Rock, Ark.)
Investment firm
Town and Country Credit (Irvine, Calif.) Mortgage company
United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, Conn.) Aerospace and industrial manufacture

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INDIVIDUALS

Elliott Broidy (Los Angeles) Founder of investment firm Broidy Capital Management
Michael Dell (Austin, Texas) Founder of the Dell computer company
Richard Kinder (Houston) Former Enron president
S. Davis Phillips (High Point, N.C.) Former North Carolina commerce secretary
T. Boone Pickens (Dallas) Texas oilman

Sources: Presidential Inaugural Committee, company Web sites, news reports
by cretin_slap on Thu Jan 20, 05 4:42am [+]

Bush is a total scumbag, no doubt.
by cranky on Tue Feb 01, 05 5:36pm [+]

Anyone who sees elitist exclusionism as "very smart" isn't.
by xxxxxxxx on Thu Feb 10, 05 5:12pm [+]

Just remember - The only one in the last election that was more unpopular than Bush was Kerry! ;)
by Dad2DaBone on Mon Feb 14, 05 2:07pm [+]

You're forgetting "Nadir" (intentional misspelling).
by xxxxxxxx on Mon Feb 14, 05 10:19pm [+]






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