George W. Bush Does Vegas!

The Other Half had to work today, and happened to be in Washington, D.C. He swears that he didn't go there simply because George W. Bush was coming here to Las Vegas. But the timing was mighty suspicious.

I had the opportunity to listen to one of our local right-wing talk shows on the way home from work. The show is hosted by Casey Hendrickson and Heather Kidd, two winners of "Radio Star," an American Idol-type contest. Kidd, a 23-year-old Republican Party activist prone to malapropisms, got to share some time with President Bush at the local GOP event. She was star-struck, virtually bubbling over with enthusiasm for The Decider. If you hadn't lived through the last seven years, and only had this one talk show to go on, you'd believe that George W. Bush was the best President ever! Whatever. I think The Other Half had the right idea.

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Bush, in Las Vegas, defends troop surge

The progress has improved the lives of Iraqis and given the government time to add 100,000 new soldiers, he told the National Policy Research Institute this morning.

Bush is now en route to a private fund-raiser at the home of Sheldon Adelson, a political conservative and chairman of the Sands Corp. Adelson and his wife greeted Bush at a loading dock of the Venetian hotel-casino and rode with him to the speech. . .

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