President Bush’s appearance in Lancaster on Wednesday will be at the the Jay Group’s new $26 million headquarters at Corporate Boulevard and Indian Springs Drive in West Hempfield Township. That’s in the Stony Battery Corporate Center.
More interestingly, it is going to be “town hall”-style, and if it’s like the one he held in July in Nashville, Tenn., that means some of the 400 folks in the audience might get to ask him a question.
So what’s on your mind? What would you ask him?
In Nashville, he got some tough questions, according to The Tennessean.
Republican activist Scottie Hughes said she, like many conservatives, doesn’t like the president’s guest-worker program for immigrants but views his visit as his way to reconnect with citizens and, more subtly, drum up Republican enthusiasm for next year’s elections.
“We feel disenfranchised with elected officials who have stopped being Republican,” said Hughes, who was among the roughly 350 people who attended Thursday’s address. “They’ve lost core conservative values, and there is no motivation to go to the polls. He knows he needs to regain the public’s trust.”
And there was this, according to The Associated Press:
When Bush was asked about whether he would consider pardoning the two border patrol agents, he seemed briefly taken aback.
“I’m not going to make that kind of promise in a forum like this, obviously,” he said. “I’m interested in facts. I know the prosecutor very well, Johnny Sutton. He’s a dear friend of mine from Texas. He’s a fair guy. He is an evenhanded guy and I can’t imagine, well, you know. …”
To the woman, Bush said, “You’ve got a nice smile but you can’t entice me (into) making a public statement” on the controversy.
Here’s some footage …











