Some Audience Members Told Not to Wear Ties for Bush Speech “When you see somebody who is in coat an tie, then not in coat and tie, then in coat and tie, it sort of reveals that this is about stagecraft rather than statecraft,” said [Bill] Bloomquist, [political scientist].

Okay, for eight years Republicans complained that Clinton was all about show and not at all about substance. Then the Prince of Thieves comes to power and within the last month has had the Navy postpone the return of an aircraft carrier at the estimated expense of $1 million (not to mention the day delay on thousands of soldiers seeing their families for the first time in months), but now he's telling his audiences what to wear in the attempt to delude the public into thinking that his policies are not directed towards the rich, but to "ordinary folk" or whatever.

A government that tries to deceive the people or create optical illusions is not a representative one. Representative governments represent the PEOPLE....the people are not tried to be made to represent the government.