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Well, since so many of you have demanded that I write about the presidential visit, I’ve finally decided to break down and write it.

The day was long. I mean, it seemed to drag on for at least a week. Waiting in line was fun though, because everyone was basically heckling the president.

<Robert>: Doors open at 7:45, arrive by 9… I wonder who the opening act is?
<Brian>: GWAR!
<Robert>: And on the second stage?
<Rachel>: Rage Against the Machine, duh.

We finally get in, but not before I get the wand twice. I think that woman with the wand liked me, because she got awfully fresh with that thing. Of course Rachel had helped me out by loading me down with her cigarette case & lighter in line, so they probably thought I was trying to use second hand smoke to give the President cancer.

Before we even get into his speech, I’ll go ahead and get his mispronounced/misused words out of the way. Some of them may have simply been his accent. And for the record, I pronounce nuclear the exact way he does.

Desirest/Desirist

Could possibly be a person who desires or a phrase used to describe the state of being most desirable. (Actually appears from the transcript to be the words ‘desires’ and ‘to’ drawled together)

gooderer

The state of being even gooder than gooder. see also ‘bestest’ (more than likely was ‘good, er, er’ as he tried to remember his next line)

entourage

different pronunciation, same word. George, it’s not ‘on-tour-ugh’… I can’t help you with this one.

Of course I know that I shouldn’t pick on him about the way he speaks, since I speak quite less than perfectly myself… but it’s so much fun!

I sat in the seventh row, with a direct line of sight with the president. It was kind of amazing to be that close to the man who’s running the country. He had some interesting points, but of course I didn’t agree with most of them. In fact many of the people in the crowd, most of whom were Republician seemed to be heckling Bush before, during, and after his speech. I don’t personally like the man, but I feel sorry for him that he’s become so universally disliked, especially when it’s obvious that he’s little more than the spokesman for a giant political machine.

And he didn’t help himself much at our school when he started calling us by another school’s name. We’re wondering how long it’ll be before Dr. Zeiss changes our name to PCC, after all, we have Presidential backing for the change now.

(And for you web designers out there… Why is the White House website not valid HTML (no doctype or encoding set either) or even Section 508 valid?)