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Tue Sep-23-03 08:38 PM
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Bush didn't stick around to listen to Chirac's address |
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He's simply not interested.
You'd think now that we need to beg for help he could have sat through Chirac's speech to the UN. Nope.
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Tue Sep-23-03 08:39 PM
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Tue Sep-23-03 08:40 PM
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2. Either that or he had to change his pants.... he so full of it. |
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Tue Sep-23-03 08:41 PM
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want to sit and hear some other veiw on this subject , he was boreing and was affraid france mite get more attention then he did , looked like the bunch was ready to fall to sleep to me well jr. was talking , even codee and powell were talking it up well jr. was talking ,
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Tue Sep-23-03 08:42 PM
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4. Neither did the news organizations |
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Cnn signed off after ten minutes or so. Fox ignored it. Msnbc signed off. Cspan2 was the only coverage.
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Tue Sep-23-03 09:58 PM
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17. Cspan dropped it when |
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the President of Micronesia was just finishing up... I don't understand why though. All they did was rerun Washinton Journal from earlier in the morning.
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Tue Sep-23-03 08:43 PM
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5. I'm listening to it now on |
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Edited on Tue Sep-23-03 08:47 PM by NaMeaHou
On C-SPAN.org
Amazing how leaders of nations can make sense. I was beginning to think that all leaders must be slow, dull and without compassion.
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Tue Sep-23-03 08:45 PM
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A local station was doing a Barney marathon and he couldn't miss it.
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Tue Sep-23-03 08:46 PM
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was just reading on another board and some repub said he had meetings with the other leaders....well, the others had speeches to give...how the hell did he have urgent business with them? So people are so damn dumb!!
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Tue Sep-23-03 08:46 PM
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8. A pity. Chirac is a noble man |
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I hope he's around to do business with a new Democrat president :)
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Wed Sep-24-03 05:53 AM
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Wed Sep-24-03 06:52 AM
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20. oh please......he's a conservative politician who happens to be french |
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and while tens of thousands of old people died in the heat this summer, he vacationed for a month in cool canada.
nobel...hardly.
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Tue Sep-23-03 09:01 PM
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9. Bush's nerves were too shattered |
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to stick around. Or maybe he had to go home to sober up. Maybe he had a 'few shots of the ole Cornpone' to settle his frazzled nerves.
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Tue Sep-23-03 09:04 PM
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10. Listening to evildoers can befuse and confuddle the mind. |
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Edited on Tue Sep-23-03 09:07 PM by Bozita
Plus Chirac doesn't even talk English.
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Wed Sep-24-03 06:58 AM
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I remember Chirac being one of the first foreign leaders to rush to Ground Zero (within days of the attack) and spoke IN ENGLISH...highly accented, but very articulate. He showed real compassion that day and it's a shame a man who came rushing to our aid has been so trashed by this regime.
Even more interesting is that Chirac is a CONservative...not a Liberal like Blair or Schroeder...how do the wingnuts explain why we're having problems?
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Tue Sep-23-03 09:15 PM
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11. Bush is known for his temper |
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and he HATES criticism. They had to whisk him out so he wouldn't be forced to listen to criticism and be stoic through it.
Story goes that in the Bush1 years, there was a person who read all of the major newspapers to look for stories and the type of treatment given to the president so that the WH could retaliate through rights of coverage. The rumour was later played out in spoof on Murphy Brown who for a season or two was blackballed from any WH coverage due to her critical coverage of the president (remember she was shown as a flaming liberal). The story also goes that the one who played this role... was W.
There is also a story that in 1986 or 1987 a drunken Bush stumbles up to a WSJ journalist (I think - Al Hunt), and starts swearing at him saying something along the lines of... "I SAW WHAT YOU WROTE".... shortly after that - W is reported to have seen the light, converted through Jesus and gone sober.
All that said as items that seem to strengthen the impression that he has a short fuse and a very thin skin. I think he COULDN'T stay - because he couldn't listen to what he knew was going to be critical.
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Tue Sep-23-03 09:57 PM
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16. The incident with Al Hunt occurred during the l988 campaign, 2 yrs |
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Edited on Tue Sep-23-03 09:58 PM by Kerryfan
after Ltfc ( little turd from Crawford ) supposedly got religion. He used the F word and Al's wife and son were there. Bush said he wasn't going to forget what Al had written.
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Wed Sep-24-03 06:46 AM
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19. Wasn't there another incident |
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when * was on the 2000 campaign trail and said, on an open mic, that some particular reporter was an A**hole?
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Wed Sep-24-03 07:01 AM
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22. A new york times writer |
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cheney also on mike responded "big time".
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Tue Sep-23-03 09:18 PM
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12. "Who cares what you think?" |
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Tue Sep-23-03 09:46 PM
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13. He, Condi & Powell all arrogantly left..and then they wonder why other |
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countries don't want to help...They don't even have the courtesy to listen to the speech of the man they want to help them!.....unbelievable chutzpah!
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Tue Sep-23-03 09:53 PM
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14. Some would call it UNCIVIL |
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to not be willing to listen to others as you expected them to listen to you...
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you?
So, he won't be surprised when his rambling, incoherent pleas for aid in Iraq fall on deaf ears.
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Tue Sep-23-03 09:54 PM
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Edited on Tue Sep-23-03 09:54 PM by Hippo_Tron
I'm not particularly interested in what Chirac has to say either but for god's sake I would at least have the courtesy to stick around if I were president.
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