{"id":8050,"date":"2006-07-27T14:14:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T18:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8050.html"},"modified":"2006-07-27T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T18:14:21","slug":"when-life-gives-you-lemons-the-secret-service-gives-you-lemonade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/when-life-gives-you-lemons-the-secret-service-gives-you-lemonade\/","title":{"rendered":"When life gives you lemons, the Secret Service gives you lemonade"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have seen the very nice pictures<\/a> of the president stopping at some kids’ lemonade stand in West Virginia this week. What you may not have heard is that the whole scene was, as Dan Froomkin described it<\/a>, a “cynically staged photo op<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The president’s motorcade came to a halt when Bush stopped to buy some lemonade from a South Hills girl on his way out of town.<\/p>\n

Charleston attorney John Miesner’s 8-year-old daughter, Mary Melinda, set up a lemonade stand at their home on Bedford Road, but moved it Jim and Jean Miller’s property on Loudon Heights Road after the Secret Service asked them to move it.<\/p>\n

Little did they know that the president would drop in for a cold drink. Miesner introduced himself to presidential adviser Karl Rove while the president spoke with his daughter and her friends.<\/p>\n

Bush told the kids he liked their marketing campaign, which included signs that read “God bless W” and “Lemonade for the President, 50 cents.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is there any part of this presidency that isn’t<\/i> choreographed?<\/p>\n

By the way, just as an interesting side note, Bush did not drink the lemonade himself, telling the kids he had to watch his weight since he turned 60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may have seen the very nice pictures of the president stopping at some kids’ lemonade stand in West Virginia this week. What you may not have heard is that the whole scene was, as Dan Froomkin described it, a “cynically staged photo op.” The president’s motorcade came to a halt when Bush stopped to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}