URIBE SPEECH TO AIR ON CSPAN AT 1PM TODAY (EDT)

[magbana]

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http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp

[magbana]

1. ALSO ON CSPAN RADIO AT 1PM

[Judi Lynn]

2. Saw your post slightly half through his appearance. My God, could NOT understand him.

Did you go to hear him?

Did people in the room seem to know what he was saying?

I imagine he may speak, understand English just fine, but if people knew it, they'd ask him more direct questions!

I did catch he claimed it's not his administration which intimidates journalists: it's the "TERRORISTS!" Yeah, that's it, it's the TERRORISTS. The same terrorists with ties directly to his own family, his own administration.

This will undoubtedly be repeated this evening. It would be good to be able to hear the entire program from the first.

It was amazing to see his ferocious military officer standing beside him scowling at the crowd, and his other secret service flanking him on the other side right on the speaker's platform.

[Bacchus39]

3. he has a pretty thick accent for sure, another reason to learn Spanish for you

I didn't see anything so amazing about a secret service officer and military officer accompanying a head of state.

[EFerrari]

5. Learning Spanish doesn't mediate his accent. It just makes him obnoxious

in two languages.

[Bacchus39]

9. it didn't bother me, I wouldn't have expected him to speak without one n/t

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[EFerrari]

4. He would have been more effective translated from Spanish.

I'll have to read a transcript because he was pretty much unwatchable.

Question: how screwed is he by this Wall Street debacle? I was going to start a thread but, maybe it's be enough to ask in this one.

[Judi Lynn]

6. His timing in making an appearance here was humorous, wasn't it?

They did ask him how things look to him in light of this astonishing catastrophe, but I couldn't understand his answer.

What a wierd little guy. WIERD. REALLY WIERD.

http://avatarfarm.com.nyud.net:8090/avatarimages/movies/drstrangeloveavatar.jpg

[EFerrari]

7. Early on, he had to pick a side. I'm going to try to watch or read again.

Because when the money dries up, so will he, imho.

[Judi Lynn]

8. He'd be screwn without his shiploads of money from the U.S.

He knows American Congressional Democrats aren't crazy about Colombia's murderous history toward workers, the poor, indigenous people, African Colombian people, and all dissent, and there could be some serious accounting to be made in the future.

No doubt that's why he's at the doorstep trying to wring that FTA outta here before the changing of the guard.

For a lotta laughs, look at google images at photos of all the "Fuera Bush" signs put up ALL OVER LATIN AMERICA in preparation for his not so welcome visit there last year or the year before:

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-37,GGLD:en&q=Fuera+Bush

There are also photos of "Fora Bush" of people anticipating his trip to Brazil.


http://www.cebraspo.com.br/Boletins/64/04.htm
http://images.google.com/images?ndsp=20&hl=en&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-37,GGLD:en&q=Fora+Bush&start=0&sa=N

[Judi Lynn]

10. I listened to the speech again. Looks as if a transcript would be helpful. He said "I insist." That

seemed to strike some of the people there as odd.

_Bush shouldn't have set him up to expect so much from the U.S. taxpayers. (Clearly, Republican presidents see being President as owning a candy store, and it's all "MINE, MINE, MINE" to do with as "I" want, buying friends, laying waste to entire countries, etc. with no need to explain or justify to anyone!) It's a hideous idea in the long run, and it makes him look stupid, and pathetic. So pathetic, in fact, it's almost easy to forget his ties to the death squads/narcotraffickers.

He did say something interesting: over 51 per cent of Colombia is covered by rainforest. This was news.

[Bacchus39]

12. "over 51 per cent of Colombia is covered by rainforest. This was news."

ummm...why? its not really a secret.

I imagine though that figure includes all "tropical" forest coverage and not strictly rain forest given the vast variety of habitat types in Colombia.


http://rainforests.mongabay.com/deforestation/2000/Colombia.htm

[magbana]

11. The protest outside the Nat'l Press Club yesterday . . .

had about 150 people, was very lively, and drew lots of press -- primarily Latino.

[Judi Lynn]

13. If you see any photos relating to the protesters let us know. I l googled, found some

photos of his visit in May, 2007:



5 pages of photos, click photos for larger versions:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwu/sets/72157600169130318/detail/

It's good he got some protesters. Thanks.

[EFerrari]

14. Este tal por qual was on Charlie Rose tonight.

He did much better at putting himself over than when he was at the Press Club. But, he still sounds like a hit man who isn't sure if he'll get his payoff. He sounded conciliatory regarding Venezuela.

[magbana]

15. I saw Uribe on Charlie Rose as well -- ditto on your comments n/t