Ex-Presidents Can’t Fill Auditorium

sad-bush-clintonPoor George W. Bush and Bill Clinton! Now that we have a black president, it seems that nobody cares about our white ex-presidents:

David Bester is a man willing to go to great lengths for a spectacular show. Indie rock band The Hold Steady is worth it, he says. U.S. Presidents numbers 42 and 43 are not.

So he’s selling the two tickets he purchased to tomorrow afternoon’s “conversation” between George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for less than their $189 face value.

Organizer Christian Darbyshire yesterday said “400 or 500″ tickets were still available from a total of 6,000.A call to the ticket hotline confirmed that general admission tickets are still available at $229, but anyone willing to ask around can probably get their hands on discounted seats.

Ryerson alumni recently received an unsolicited e-mail offering tickets for $189, as did other organizations, after the company co-ordinating the event, Power Within, hawked a discount offer in a bid to extend publicity. 

Why is Canada being such a “reverse racist” by not spending just 200 CanadaBucks on our former Leaders of the Free World, who could barely put together gas money for the drive up to Toronto because of the recession and/or socialism?

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