Sweeping up
Doyle, Brian
SWEEPING UP Brian Doyle eorge W. Bush's brush...
...His was also a brief visit...
...We're here just to get a glimpse the moment...
...The crowd applauded un- pretty wild...
...Li field...
...And while you are here, don't all over...
...The song they played over of passion...
...but it does keep 50 percent of the politicians out of office...
...Here are the notes from an in- "hundreds of them, all colors...
...A protester was carried bodily from Commonweal 3 1 October 6, 2000...
...We that phrase) on its campus, inasmuch as wasp t here when Adlai Stevenson came...
...A willowy girl handed him a University must still be giv- tester's spectacles fell off during the initial stuffed purple snake...
...Arizona Senator John McCain, looking uncomfortable, spoke briefly and then stood stolidly at the side of the stage, perhaps replaying the primary campaign in his mind...
...Oregon's biggest Catholic university, on tester's pockets were filled with marbles, • A janitor sweeping up placards after August 11...
...SWEEPING UP Brian Doyle eorge W. Bush's brush with the gym by a burly policeman with shake more hands and pose for phoanti-Catholicism at Bob Jones shoulders bigger than the stage...
...He handed it to G ing his advisers the willies, struggle and a teenage girl picked them an aide, who handed it to a nearby pofor the governor of Texas has left no stone up gingerly and handed them to another liceman (not burly), who placed it genunturned in his search since for a Catholic policeman, who folded them carefully tly on the stage, where it lay quietly for photo opportunity-the prospect of which and put them in his breast pocket...
...I Republicans," said the tuba player...
...Your Republicans, • An oompah band outside the gym, Cross priest seasoned by many years of now, they're a neat people," he said...
...The a moment before one of the schoolbrought him to the University of Portland, burly policeman said later that the pro- children made off with it...
...We're just rabid all sorts and stripes (gentle emphasis on Kennedy...
...man...
...He's just the handsomest around, and plunged into the crowd to author of Credo, a collection of essays...
...I'm for education," shouted Bush, "Democracy may not be perfect, "and for moral values...
...of the fellow," said one woman who • Candidate Bush wrapped up his Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Maghad driven up from Klamath Falls, five energetic speech, shook hands all azine at the University of Portland, and the hours south...
...Not at Bobby, of course...
...We had a lot to sweep into the rally stretched past the soccer ident, no fool when it came to seizing up after Bobby came, yes we did...
...A gaggle of schoolchildren from a nearby elementary school, with their vivacious Hispanic principal, were arranged behind Bush...
...wish Ronnie were running again, but universities were villages where ideas that was before my time...
...I where the Bush rally was to be held, academic and religious-order politics, remember when we had Reagan here, in was made up of elderly volunteers who noted with a smile that the university 1984, and I remember Bobby Kennedy's gather from all over the state to play at was delighted to have political rallies of visit, very brief but wild, and John Republican events...
...The principal looked pained...
...The messiest we'll take this kid as president if we and reason were the proper companions rally...
...The pro- tographs...
...they to Build an Outhouse...
...all the suits left stopped to ponder the terested observer of political theater: • The university's president, a Holy morning's events...
...That was have to...
...Bobby Kennedy's rally...
...forget to visit the admissions office and were throwing things up in the air, in ex• The line of people waiting to get tour our lovely grounds," said the pres- citement, I guess...
...People were throwing things and over: "Moving Willie's Tombstone certainly...
...The girls sat demurely and the boys stood in organized ranks for the briefest of seconds before beginning to tickle each other and hold up fingers behind each others' heads, pick their noses, etc...
...Senator McCain looked amused, though...
Vol. 127 • October 2000 • No. 17
