Posted by Bill Whalen at 12:00 am on Apr 20, 2006 Comments Off on POTUS Operandi
Some thoughts on the President’s Friday visit to Silicon Valley,
which includes a stop at Stanford University and the Hoover
Institution, my neck of the woods.
1) Like most Bush visits to California, it’s amazing how the
local media manage to whip themselves into a frenzy over what
amounts to so little. The last time I checked, the President is
going to talk about education, workforce preparedness and economic
competition at Cisco Systems. Bush couldn’t be on safer nonpartisan
ground. That’s followed by a skull session with the big brains at
Hoover. Yet the press can’t get enough about the Dubya-Arnold
rapport, or lack thereof. And this afternoon’s addition of the
Hoover stop had reporters trying to add all sorts of intrigue to
what otherwise would be a run-of-the-mill presidential visit were
it not for the big guy with the Austrian accent who’s bumming a
ride from the San Jose airport.
2) What does the President get out of this trip, aside from the
satisfaction of once again snubbing the 415 area code? Maybe a road
trip/road test. Look at what’s on the President’s California… Read More