Lemonade Was a Popular Drink…

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…and it still is. Bush gets more props and stunts than Bruce Willis:

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.

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.

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.

Bush told the kids he liked their marketing campaign, which included signs that read “God bless W” and “Lemonade for the President, 50 cents.”

He bought a few cups for reporters and photographers traveling with him.

“A couple of members of the press sheepishly came forward to receive lemonade,” Miesner said. “It was a very nice surprise that he actually stopped.”

Bush did not drink the lemonade himself, telling the kids he had to watch his weight since he turned 60, Miesner said. Capito drank up, complimenting the kids.

I wonder if the Labor Department is going to include these kids in the July jobs report.

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Comments

  1. sarabeth says:

    Little did they know that the president would drop in for a cold drink.

    So nice when the press, that bastion of democracy, that pillar of freedom, that exposer of hypocrisy and cant and falsehood, that pillorier of cynical exploitation of sugar and spice and everything nice, decides to play along with Presidential stunt-staging with a little harmless white lie.

    It must have been because the kids had no idea the President would be stopping by that they made up that sign saying “Lemonade for the President, 50 cents.”

    I just hope they stuck it to the man, that it was 25c for everyone else.

  2. Nick in Beantown says:

    If only Grace Slick had some cute kids and a lemonade stand…