Rumsfeld speech nixed after ‘too many people objected.’
By on Sep 20th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Rumsfeld speech nixed after ‘too many people objected.’
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was supposed to speak to the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce in Kansas on Dec. 4. But today the Wichita Eagle reports that his appearance was quietly canceled last month after “too many people objected.”
The Chamber, which is traditionally conservative, is now expecting to hear from former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, who recently joined the speaker’s circuit.
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Hey, Rummy is lucky, at least they didn’t Taser him!
September 20th, 2007 at 12:51 pmIt’s pretty bad when even Rummy has to say, “We’re not in Kansas anymore.”
September 20th, 2007 at 12:52 pmGotta really suck when you get bumped by Snow-job.
Rummy, just go away to your compound in Arroyo Seco, NM and let the world try to clean up your sh!t streak, OK?
September 20th, 2007 at 12:52 pmand after Tony Snow’s speech some nutjob will give a speech about how people and dinosaurs co-existed peacefully.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:53 pmor maybe that is Tony Snow’s speech.
-FSM-
Wow! Kansas? The super red of the red states? Brownback’s Kansas? I would have thought they would have been happy to hear from Rumsfeld. I wonder what changed.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:53 pmIt’s good to see that bum being treated like the disgrace that he is.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:55 pmThis will be good for Tony. I hear he needs the money.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:55 pmCould it be the people of Kansas are — evolving?!
September 20th, 2007 at 12:55 pm#6…Remember, Rumsfeld is now accepted as a failure, the scapegoat for everything the administration did wrong in Iraq. The glorious success of the surge could only happen once he was thrown overboard. It’s OK to hate Rumsfeld, even on the right wing–notice that they replaced him with Tony Snow
September 20th, 2007 at 12:58 pmthat “tony needs money” line just cracks me up…
the repugs are always lecturing about choices and planning…
seems tony’s choices have been underperforming for him…
and now he’s out to profit from LIES…
but that is a step up from rummy…
September 20th, 2007 at 1:00 pm…
#10 – Thanks for the clarification. I wasn’t aware of this, and it seems that not all of the right-wing (Jake) got the memo that it’s Rummy-bashing time.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:00 pm“Could it be the people of Kansas are — evolving?!”
Nah, they just don’t like to be reminded of how foolish they were for swallowing the WMD bait. Who would want to listen to an hour and a half of CYA rhetoric coming from this bum, knowing how wrong he was in the past? It would be like listening to Custer recount the failures of his troops at Little Big Horn.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:02 pmGO TONY SNOW!!!
Comment by Jake D. — September 20, 2007 @ 12:48 pm
Yes! Go! Somewhere far away!
September 20th, 2007 at 1:04 pmCaptainMantastic sez:
You might want to tell that to Shakey Jake.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:05 pmWhat does Tony Snow have to talk about? Talking points we have all heard before? Go Fony Faux!
September 20th, 2007 at 1:09 pmMantastic, if you’re arrogant and ignorant at the same time, you also don’t care about someone else talking who doesn’t agree with you. Also, sociopaths don’t care about people who don’t agree with them either.
Do you even have a point?
September 20th, 2007 at 1:10 pmif you’re confident about your positions, you’re not afraid of someone else, who disagrees with you, talking.
Comment by CaptainMantastic — September 20, 2007 @ 1:03 pm
Some people don’t like to sit and listen to a pack of lies, either. I know I’m not too keen on it, especially if the venue doesn’t allow the listener to call the speaker on the lies. I doubt Rumsfeld is going to put himself in the position of actually having to answer hard questions from anyone.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:11 pmGreat a-hole: “Moveon.org is getting their head handed to them……it’s fun to watch.”
We’ll see who gets their head handed to them in Nov. 2008. I’m betting THAT will be fun to watch.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:13 pm19: Dream on. About those 22 Grand Old Pervert seats up in 2008 and 19 in 2010. Your “Stay the Course” party will become the 21st Century version of the Whigs.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:13 pm23: More a repeat of 1932 (Not a baseball metaphor, idiot-boy). You are a Grate American.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:15 pmChamber caliber.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:17 pm“Great Americans” sez:
Hi, Mr. Pee.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:19 pmOkay, time to get the troll repellant.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:19 pm“As Witchita falls, so falls Witchita Falls”
Pat Metheny
So sad, Rumpty Dumpty can’t even get a gig in Kansas.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:19 pmGreat a-hole: “It will be a repeat of 2004……Dems think they have it then get it ripped away. RedSox fans can relate.”
Repub criminals are not running elections in Ohio anymore, a-hole, and they’re going to paper ballots in Florida. In addition, every single poll shows voters planning to vote for the Dem candidate regardless of who is nominated by margins of 10 to 25%. Have a nice frickin day!
You’re going to lose the Whitehouse for a generation and Dems will have supermajorities in Congress for 20 years… all thanks to your moronic cult leader.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:21 pmGrate Americans: Learn english, syntax and grammer. “the surged”?;
“a third of Bush.”? “buckle like their supposed madate of the last elections.”?
I don’t believe you live in America, because your use of the english language sucks more than you’re perverted sense of loyalty to a bankrupt administration.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:22 pmII doubt Rumsfeld is going to put himself in the position of actually having to answer hard questions from anyone.
Comment by gummitch
Rummy would just start going thru his circuitous act.
Somewhere, we know where, in the East, slightly to the West, are the weapons, sattelites, since moved, Southerly, and somewhat the size of California, that is Northern, we will find them here of there maybe somewhere else that we know and by we I mean me who is also myself and I as well. Learn to say “I don’t know.†If used when appropriate, it will be often. If you foul up, tell the president and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:22 pmhttp://www.rumsfeldsrules.com/
Looks like the troll(s?) Great Americans forgot to wear his/their helmet on the short bus today. Must have smacked his/their noggin a coupla times. Multiple personality dfisorder is nothing to laugh at. Poor, poor troll. Doesn’t realize that he’s in such a tiny ever shrinking minority. My advice is to up your meds and stop washing it down with the tainted kool aid.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:25 pmAfter the MoveOn.org vote, what are the trolls going to do? Toe taps with sen. larry craig or prostitute prowls with sen. david vitter?
September 20th, 2007 at 1:28 pmGreat a-hole: “I write quick because I have a job that requires work and skill.”
“Quick” is an adjective, moron. You need an adverb there to describe a verb. That would be “quickly.”
September 20th, 2007 at 1:31 pmGeorge Soros [Gyorgy Schwartz] is a communist. -Great America P
Your an anti-semite GAP. And,as usual, wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
September 20th, 2007 at 1:31 pmI write quick because I have a job that requires work and skill.†-GAP
Writing on stall walls?
September 20th, 2007 at 1:32 pmGratedAmericans: You hate using commas, too? No time for punctuation either?
September 20th, 2007 at 1:34 pm“I write quick because I have a job that requires work and skill.”
Comment by Great Americans
But not to much skill, after all, parking tickets simply require copying down a few numbers and the date.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:34 pmLiberals have govt type jobs -GAP
Gee, what do you consider the White House?
September 20th, 2007 at 1:35 pmGratedAmericans: You mean the ACLU that is defending your “toe-tapping” hero, sen. larry craig?
September 20th, 2007 at 1:35 pmGrateAmericans = Fascist. Don’t try to spin it differently.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:37 pmComment by Great Americans — September 20, 2007
Your such a terrible liar and political hack and a ADOLPHIST, dont even try to spin away from that. WE KNOW this, Mannnnn.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:38 pmGrateAmericans # 46: You are watching yourself, putz-boy.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:38 pmIt’s fun to watch one conservative -GAP
If only their was a conpervative to watch. I only see a hypocrite, OH wait that is the new conservatism Adolpho-Stalinism.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:39 pmGREAT AMERICAN= Adolphostalinist
September 20th, 2007 at 1:40 pmGreat a-hole: “George Soros = Communist. Don’t try to spin it differently”
Gosh, and he’s so wealthy. Who knew communists could get wealthy manipulating and trading in monetary markets?
For a communist, he sure is a good capitalist.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:44 pmWe’ll see who gets their head handed to them in Nov. 2008. I’m betting THAT will be fun to watch.
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — September 20, 2007 @ 1:13 pm
I dunno, Colonel. Today’s polls are beyond meaningless. The 50% of Americans who even bother to vote will not seriously tune in til September 08; everyone on this list is by definition a political junkie – there is no way to know what the state of play will be a year from now.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:49 pm54: You make most of the paranoid right wingers sound sane. Perhaps you’re a bitter old member of the john birch society?
September 20th, 2007 at 1:50 pm56: Your Amerikkka is not our America, fascist-boy.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:52 pmthe repugs would NOT vote the right way
for the TROOPS yesterday…
but today, they waste time and TAXPAYER dollars
by trying to push a resolution that attempts to
TRAMPLE FREE SPEECH…
after the swiftboaters, the cleland lies, the trashing of
the generals… these republicRATs have a lot of nerve…
and very little else…
SEND MOVE-ON WHATEVER MONEY YOU CAN SPARE.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:53 pm.
Hey Grate Americans- Maybe you should apply for a job as Georgie’s new speech writer. You’ve proven over and over in this thread your unwitting loyalty and complete lack of grammatical skills or use of actual facts.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:54 pm58: Your side’s focus is on hate, bigotry and screwing up America.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:54 pmBut, hey, love your swastika tatoo.
TP admin, are you there?
Mr. Pee has managed to ooze back in…be a mensch and stomp him flat, OK?
September 20th, 2007 at 1:55 pm…
and arguing with a poster named “great americans” who comments
in the opposite vein with simple sophomoric LIES and BULLSHITE,
is another waste of time and space here…
use the damn button.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:57 pm.
Great a-hole: “Conservative focus is on tearing down an axis of evil.”
And, you’ve done a real bang-up job. Iran is more powerful than it’s ever been. Iraq is a breeding ground for new terrorists. North Korea has more nukes than they ever have.
Nice job, dummy.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:57 pmTP admin: Time to take out the garbage, please.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:58 pmTime to “Report Abuse”, gang.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:59 pmMr P? We laughed him off this site so many times we lost track.
Endless insane rants like Mr P specialized in hardly expose anybody but Mr P, who clearly has bad, bad problems.
Yer comments are becoming abusive. No doubt you will be gone soon.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:03 pm“OOOOh…..I’m shaking in my boots.”
Comment by Great Americans
And filling them with his Poweraide-laced urine.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:09 pmRummy won’t be welcome most anywhere, except of course in the Hague.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:14 pm“Great Americans sez”:
You’re not fooling anyone, Mr. Pee.
Mr. Pee’s wit? That’s like talking about Chimpy’s intelligence or Deadeye’s compassion.
Mr. Pee, the only thing your “tear” is our eyes…with tears of laughter.
You’re almost as big a joke as Shakey Jake. Keep trying, and you might even surpass him.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:14 pmIt’s like inviting Mengele to come speak at your PTA meeting.
The man belongs in prison.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:15 pm#15 – reminds me of the playground football joke
September 20th, 2007 at 2:16 pmGo long, longer, keep going….
So Tony found a place to make more money….in Wichita?
September 20th, 2007 at 2:19 pmGee, wonder if this is indicative of what will happen to GW when he hits the lecture circuit?
September 20th, 2007 at 2:21 pm#81 – The lecture circuit at the Hague consists of the other 44 cells.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:24 pmGreat a-hole: “I write quick because I have a job that requires work and skill.â€
“Quick†is an adjective, moron. You need an adverb there to describe a verb. That would be “quickly.â€
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Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — September 20, 2007 @ 1:31 pm
Don’t pick on him, he was only trying to put the finishing touches on George’s latest “robust economy” speech!
September 20th, 2007 at 2:24 pmso the self styled “Great American” believes that Mr. P, a guy who blamed Hillary Clinton for the I-35W bridge collapse, was tearing the evil liberals a new a-hole????
Hehehehhehehehehehahahahhahahhahhoihohohohhohohoohhoho
Oh sweet Jesus that was good for a chuckle. Better watch who you align yourself with GA. or you will look stupid at the end of the day.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:28 pmdidn’t Mr. P also spend several hours trying to claim that Saudi Arabia was not a Muslim country?
September 20th, 2007 at 2:30 pmdidn’t Mr. P also spend several hours trying to claim that Saudi Arabia was not a Muslim country?
Comment by Krazny — September 20, 2007 @ 2:30 pm
Also that Jerusalem was part of Europe and the Constitution was out of date, or some such moronic comment.
I expect Pee to show up from time to time under various guises. Just report him and move on. So far, the registration process has done a pretty good job of keeping him and his fellow idiots out of the mix.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:34 pmKrazny sez:
Yes, he did…that was a real scream. ^_^
September 20th, 2007 at 2:34 pmMaybe they’ll object to Snow too… I’ll have to push for it.
September 20th, 2007 at 3:10 pmCancelled so that they could get Tony Snow. What an insult!
September 20th, 2007 at 3:26 pmtest
September 20th, 2007 at 4:05 pmIf Tony lives that long.
September 20th, 2007 at 11:52 pm#82
The lecture circuit at the Hague consists of the other 44 cells.
Badabing BABY!!!!
September 20th, 2007 at 11:54 pmTony v. Rummy? What sad choices. Man, the Republicrites are so bankrupt!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:06 am