by Mark Silva
President Bush has been to Mongolia and Uruguay.
He has visited 75 nations on six continents.
But he hasn't been to Vermont, as president.
Gov. Jim Douglas, Republican governor of Vermont, is asked in this charming video produced by Ken Herman of Cox Newspapers, a White House correspondent who hails from Texas via Brooklyn, why <strong>Vermont alone among all the 50 states has not received the president.
Ronald Reagan hadn't visited either, Douglas notes.
"He's certainly welcome,'' the governor said of the president.
Could the fact that several towns have voted for his impeachment, some threatening to arrest him if he shows up in town, have any impactt?
"I think he understands that he's not wildly popular in Vermont,'' says Douglas, who is seeking reelection and is asked if he'd welcome the president's campaign help.
"Vermonters, because we're such a small state, really rely on retail politics,'' says the governor, waging his fourth campaign - without help from outsiders. "Vermonters don't care what outsiders think.''
What about Bush, has he been a successful president?
"Too early to tell,'' Douglas tells Herman. "I think history will judge.''
Bush, for his part, isn't slighting anyone. On this very day, the president declared parts of Vermont a disaster area -- due to tornadoes and other storms.
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Comments
Well, Douglas says it all" Too early to tell if Bush has been successful! LOL!!! Obviously nobody thinks he has otherwise wouldnt they be able to say yes? What a joke and disgrace to this country!
Posted by: Scot S. Blakeley | August 15, 2008 4:26 PM
...I really doubt that they missed very much!!!
Posted by: Mary Dawson | August 15, 2008 5:40 PM
Now you can understand what the good people of New Orleans have been asking, for several years, now !! Only, in their case, he may have appeared there, but the services of his good Offices, have yet to complete their work !! How do you like that for being Presidential and a Republican President, at that !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | August 15, 2008 5:41 PM
MMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Posted by: Elsie | August 16, 2008 5:21 PM