President Bush visited Silicon Valley today. I find it amusing that of all the places he could have visited, he chose a defense contractor, United Defense Industries. One of the few places he could find a warm reception. If he went to a more typical Silicon Valley haunt, like SGI, or Sun, he would be shunned. I'd like to think he'd get booed out of the theatre, but geeks tend not be so vocal about their political beliefs.
Of course, it's ironic that he said that he knows how Silicon Valley is hurting to United Defense Industries, who undoubtedly is doing quite well thanks to Bush's policies. He knows how Silicon Valley is hurting, but he doesn't go to anyplace that is actually hurt. Well, I guess the smiling faces and loud cheers are more important to him then facing the realities of the valley.
Protesters were present outside, of course. The pictures aren't up, but I'm sure that by tomorrow basetree.com will have them, since I know Eric went down there this morning.
Posted by ahyatt at May 2, 2003 09:22 PMEric's pictures from this are at:
http://www.basetree.com/photography15.html
Posted by: Andrew Hyatt on May 5, 2003 02:51 PM