Much Ado About Nothing

By Rudizink

Geedubya has now left the building. We watched his pre-departure press conference this morning on Fox News 13, at Earl Holding's flagship Grand America Hotel, right here in the heart of Zion. He again exhorted his gathered Republican party faithful to "stay the course" and urged them to re-elect Utah Senator for Life Orrin Hatch -- to yet one more US Senate go-round. He referred to the GOP as the party of "fiscal discipline," and reminded us that we must "endeavor to persevere." He's back on-board board Air Force One now, headed south to Crawford, we guess. Our two days in the national political sun now begin to fade into memory; and nothing seems to have changed very much.

As our presidential visitation winds to a close, we thought it might be approriate to host a little news roundup, to spotlight the manner in which our local media covered this event. Our hometown newspaper did a bang-up job of reporting, we think, with two front-page stories in today's edition. Shad West's Love him or hate him focuses on some of the many demonstrations that occured around Salt Lake City, and reporter Ed White's article covers the legionnaire angle. This was an American Legion shindig, after all.

And the Deseret Morning News provides a good general write-up, summarizing the last two days' news, in a tidy nutshell here.

As an added bonus we'll also link to a couple of Salt Lake City blogs, which had a real heyday with this presidential event:

Oblogotory Anecdotes had a lot of fun with Rocky, and added a gentle chiding about mayoral bad manners.

The Third Avenue is not impressed by the protests. "That isn't to say that protests and marching in the streets in general is fruitless. The immigration march in the spring proved that protests are still very effective in the US. I just think protesting this president on this policy with this crowd is a waste of time and effort. But if it makes you feel better, have at it."

Wethinks Third Avenue has a definite point.

And Dee's Dotes really knocked themselves out over this, with a very eleborate photo gallery.

But what about it, gentle readers? Did we actually accomplish anything useful with this event, beyond cheap, self-indulgent entertainmant? Your blogmeister decided to ignore the whole thing and just go fishing for the past two days; and somehow he doesn't think he missed very much.

Comments, anyone?