Bush’s Policy Chit-Chat: Undiplomatic Prose

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Bush’s Policy Chit-Chat: Undiplomatic Prose nytimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/world/middleeast/18prexy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: July 18, 2006
STRELNA, Russia, July 17 — For anyone who has ever wondered what President Bush sounds like when the microphones are off, the answer, at least at lunchtime on Monday, was blunt to the point of profane, laced with a wiseguy edge and, like anyone forced to make small talk, willing to fall back on safe topics like air travel.


Using a vulgarity, Mr. Bush said at one point that Syria should get Hezbollah to stop its attacks on Israel, describing American policy in the kind of unfettered language that he acknowledged only weeks ago sometimes gets him in trouble when he uses it publicly.

Discussing diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, Mr. Bush said the approach favored by Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, “seems odd.” Referring to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Mr. Bush said he “felt like telling Kofi to get on the phone with Assad, make something happen.”

The microphone caught him discussing global trade talks, his impatience with long speeches, even his preference for Diet Coke. For four minutes, the world was given an unscripted look at how he does business with his international counterparts, especially Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, who, apparently alert to the peril, brought the episode to a conclusion by turning the microphone off.

[MisoWeaver]

1. I don't know...

The whole premise of "Bush uses curse words" seems kind of stupid to me.

BFD

[Warpy]

2. Then try this one on for size

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPArZwLHi2Y

[Lenore]

3. You may not care but the Christian Conservatives should!

...but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth... Colossians 3:8

...Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one... Colossians 4:6

...There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals... Proverbs 12:18

...Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit... Proverbs 18:21

...For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right... Jeremiah 23:10

...O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment... Matt. 12:34-36

...Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer... Psalms 19:14

...Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear... Ephesians 4:29

This is not an all inclusive list, just a sampling of what the true standard of a Christian is supposed to be. Doesn't George Bush claim to be a Christian??

[Stuckinthebush]

4. Oh, don't be silly!

You know they throw out bible verses only when a Democrat is involved!

With the anointed one, they politely look away.

;)