I Hope you are NOT Drinking Anything

I'd hate for you to swallow wrong, or spew that Frappe all over your monitor or laptop.

Today's Washington Post has the Bush/Cheney Campaigns response about "Ask President Bush" and other events filled with Stepfordians and Zombies:

Questions like this about Bush's still unsubstantiated service time protecting the Gulf of Mexico from Charlie:

Typical of the exchanges at Bush's town hall meetings is this one from last week in Beaverton, Ore.

"Mr. President, you were a fighter pilot and you were with the 147th Fighter Wing?"

"Yes," answers Bush.

"And flew a very dangerous aircraft, the Delta F102?"

"Right, and I'm still standing."

"I want to thank you for serving our country"

"Thank you."

"Thank you for serving."

Did they get picture of the person reading that off their 3x5?

OK, swallow now.

Here is the campaign's explanation for these obviously both "staged" and "crowd" managed events:

The campaign insists that the audience is not heavily screened and the questions are not planted. And if protesters are weeded out, that's only a question of hospitality.

If you didn't follow my warning, now is the time to clean off your monitor.