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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 07:59 PM
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Italian press: Rice and W 'the world's ruling couple'
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1400002,00.html

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Condoleezza Rice and George W. Bush are the world’s ruling couple, remarked Italy’s La Stampa – a pair which defines the dynamics of postmodernism. Their political relationship isn’t like one between kings and queens, political marriages or even like normal lovers, the paper said. But they are a couple nonetheless, it added. Rice is probably the closest person to the president, they trust one another and the paper pointed out that she’s the only one who can influence him without scaring or irritating him.

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TwentyFive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 08:01 PM
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1. Not a couple - more like massa and slave
Edited on Thu Nov-18-04 08:02 PM by TwentyFive
Rice is the loving mother that Bush never had. Growing up, the Bush family had Black servants. My guess is they treated little George alot better than Babs did.
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Pooka Fey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 08:02 PM
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2. She's free to leave whenever she wants to.
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 08:05 PM
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3. How do you think Pickles feels about this?
Edited on Thu Nov-18-04 08:05 PM by WindRavenX
Methinks she feels a scandal commin' on... (we can only hope)
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DireStrike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 08:34 PM
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4. "only one who can influence him without scaring or irritating him"
Why does he always come off sounding like a frightened animal?

...oh yeah.
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 11:48 PM
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5. that got me too
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