Ok -- first, Air Force One has a freaking bedroom in it. Pinched nerve my ass.
Second, "she can be my date?" Really? As if there isn't enough speculation about W. and Condi?
There's speculation about W and Condi? I didn't know about that.
She's too smart for him anyway. She'd wanna talk about international diplomacy, or the impact of American policy on foreign economies and he would keep interrupting her to show her some new lolcats he saw on The Google.
Bush doesn't like black people.
Ok -- first, Air Force One has a freaking bedroom in it. Pinched nerve my ass.
I was thinking the same thing.
Second, "she can be my date?" Really? As if there isn't enough speculation about W. and Condi?
I didn't realize there was any speculation. This is new to me. Say what you want about Bush politically, but I don't think we have heard of any speculation on any extra-marital affairs.
Bush doesn't like black people.
Please. He has had more minorities in prominent cabinent position than any other President. Thanks Kanye.
Please. He has had more minorities in prominent cabinent position than any other President.
"Knock Knock"
"Who's there?"
"It was a joke."
lol you live in the US?
how have you missed the bush condi affair?
and you dont think smart women like goofy geeks?
She's too smart for him anyway.
i don't think she is very bright, at least not smart enough to be secretatry of state, but then again bush isn't smart of enough to be president..... "Chancey Gardner"
Bush doesn't like black people.
he likes them fine.... just as long as they are useful, obedient and stay in line, though he doesn't seem to respect them much.... witness colin powell.
Bush doesn't like black people.
She's black? ...what?
I didn't realize there was any speculation. This is new to me. Say what you want about Bush politically, but I don't think we have heard of any speculation on any extra-marital affairs.
This didn't help.
http://www.nndb.com/people/205/000024133/ At a dinner party while Rice was National Security Advisor, she referred to President George W. Bush as "my husband" before abruptly correcting herself.
but I don't think we have heard of any speculation on any extra-marital affairs.
You must live under a rock. LOL Not only have folks been talking about that, I've been in several lively threads about his relationship with his daughters.
Please. He has had more minorities in prominent cabinent position than any other President. Thanks Kanye.
"I can't be racist. I have black friends! Did you know peanut butter was invented by a black man?"
He has had more minorities in prominent cabinent position than any other President.
Does that really mean anything?
I have no black friends, so does that automatically make me racist? I have a Jewish friend though, that base is covered.
I've been in several lively threads about his relationship with his daughters.
whatchooo talkin' 'bout willis ?????
whatchooo talkin' 'bout willis ?????
It is the opinion of incest survivors in a number of forums that Barbara is the president's "special girl". I have no opinion, personally.
what makes them say that ? i detest bush, but thats a pretty strong suggestion.
Ok -- first, Air Force One has a freaking bedroom in it. Pinched nerve my ass.
"Her physicians have strongly advised her to not travel overseas in order to avoid potential complication and aggravation by extended long distance travel," her spokeswoman, Sally McDonough, said in a statement.
The injury occurred while Bush was hiking in Zion National Park in Utah in late April, McDonough said, and she has since been treated with physical therapy.
Air Force One has a freaking bedroom in it.
I was thinking the same thing when I read this article. It's not like she'd be sitting in the non-reclining back row (or in front of Mike D.) of a Southwest Airlines flight, sandwiched between two crying babies. :)
CT, are you telling us that you and Killfile know more about the First Lady's condition than her attending physicians? The fact that AF 1 has a bedroom in it is beside the point. Plus, that corkscrew approach to that air base in Balad might not be the best thing for it either ;>).
what makes them say that ? i detest bush, but thats a pretty strong suggestion.
I was trying to find the discussion threads and couldn't, but I know that there was some discussion of body language in a few pictures of him and the girls.
BH,
I'm saying that I too have a pinched nerve in my back (actually, the condition developed from flying a great deal), and that I could deal with flying red carpet style on AF1 pretty much anywhere in the world and be happy that I'm not flying coach.
Also, where does it mention that the First Lady is not flying on doctor's orders?
First lady Laura Bush had stayed back in Washington, saying a pinched nerve prevented her from taking long flights.
Please. He has had more minorities in prominent cabinent position than any other President. Thanks Kanye.
Oh you mean minorities like THIS one didn't you. Now he ain't the first one to go self inflicting him self to a human hunt by going all "me wanna me wanna" and kind of voluntarily beg to happily stroll down a street of the more common Latino neighborhoods of LA or Miami, or...do you think so?
Bush doesn't like black people.
Actually Bush likes black people. He just doesn't care about them, or so thinks Kanye and all the black people in New Orleans (or I should say in makeshift trailer parks throughout the country)
She's too smart for him anyway.
Not to stereotype them, but Condi likes football players -- once dated a Denver Bronco. She's a superfan -- she'd show up at games hours in advance to get autographs and watch them warm up.
"Knock Knock"
"Who's there?"
"It was a joke."
I should have known. That's teach me to not look at who was commenting.
mmm nothing like this to up his/her ratings..
Bush visit has caused serious disruption and cost to all business around the most popular & expensive part of Australia I can tell you that right now !
the cbd's too expensive anyway
B-O-O H-O-O. I'm sure they will survive.
yeah i dont think you-d boohoo if we spent an insane amount of money and shut down your town for say hugo chavez?
well belive it or not.. some peopel actually feel that bush is a criminal that makes chavez look like the pope and the idea of spendng .3 billion of the tax payers money or about $15 per man woman and child in australia, just so a war criminal can come and tour.. sure they will survive, but will they ever get the stink out of the place?
No a lot of these businesses are highly geared. the real estate is so high the rents are so high etc...A week or two wothout income can push them over the edge. I really mean that !
Dad-burn it! Someone went and troll-baited Joules yet again!!!
some peopel actually feel that bush is a criminal that makes chavez look like the pope
And some people think that history will be much kinder to Bush than you might expect. Regardless a cry baby is still a cry baby and walking up to bull and poking it with a needle is going to get a response. You want to blame Bush then so be it but he did what Americans wanted him to do. It took a great deal of votes to allow us to go to war and while some say Bush didn't examine hte evidence well enough, I say that same evidence was not examined close enough by foreign leaders either. All those in favor, said I.
You know what, actually.. Would we have gone to war had Saddam cooperated with the UN? They provoked the war just as much as we sought a war out. Saddam chose to spit on us and every other country and he got what he got the appropriate reaction.
Don't mess with the bull young man, you'll get the horns.. (been dying to say that..)
yeah i tend to be too easily goated and overly verbose.
I work in the Sydney CBD.
Apart from the fence, the security preparations for APEC were relatively unobtrusive until Bush arrived Wednesday evening.
Thursday morning I got off the ferry I catch to work to find five helicopter gunships hovering overhead with big fat machine guns prominently pointed at myself and other business folk.
As I walked to work in pouring rain commuters spent 15 minutes standing behind locked barricades attempting to cross the street because "a motocade is due". No motorcade eventuated as the hundreds of sodden business folk were finally permitted to go to work.
One of my workmates was stopped on his way into work by police who demanded to search his car. Without ceremony they forced him out of the car and required him to open all doors and the boot. He couldn't get the boot open so they pulled out the back seat and forced a search dog to go into the boot that way. The dog began yelping - the signal for "I found a bomb" - and guns were drawn. After a few tense moments the dog came out clutching in its mouth ... an apple core.
From my office I could see snipers with automatic weapons stationed on dozens of roofs across the city. Today, Friday, is a forced public holiday in Sydney. Roads around the CBD and up to 10 miles away are blocked. Helicopters and jet fighters buzz overhead. The place looks like a frickin' war zone. But there is no war. Just paranoia.
On Saturday night there is a multimillion dollar fireworks display for Bush's pleasure. Sydney residents have been ordered to stay away from this display and "watch it on TV".
George Bush is surprised that "the authorities" are "inconveniencing" Sydney. He's happy to tear across the city disrupting the lives of millions of people so that he can ride a pushbike. Though this makes him feel "a little guilty".
Sydney has had visits by many US presidents in the past. I personally attended a public talk by Bill Clinton given in Sydney's Botanic Gardens in the late 90s. Security searched citizens attending the talk as they entered the gardens. Clinton arrived by ferry and spoke for over an hour. There were no gunships or jetplanes, no motorcades or blocked roads, and no disruption to businesses anywhere in the city.
George Bush, not "the authorities", is @!$%#ing up business in Sydney. And you may say "B O O H O O" - it's not like he's bombing hundreds of thousands of us to death as he does to other countries. But you can bet Howard will wear the consequences in the elections later this year - his seat in Sydney was already on a knife edge ...
Peter, sorry to seem insensitive. It sucks to have that kind of thing dominate your home. I only meant that your businesses aren't all going to fail over the disruption. Although you would be correct to place more blame on Howard. Personally I would blame Bush had the roles been reversed.
It's obvious that Bush is not exactly enjoying the same type of celebrity Clinton and his extramarital affairs. There is nothing happening in your town that your government didn't green light and they must have known that security would be so tense. It seems like they would have wanted keep things a little cooler somehow.
Here we are 18 months later. Howard at least got his karma. Bush is strutting around trying to find anything to put in his library that isn't still stamped secrete. And the world is paying the price.
But what happened to the AP story? I didn't know NV was forced to remove AP content after 14 days ... ?
I sure wish "I" would have gotten an apology when he disrupted Kansas City during a recent visit.
Bush visit has caused serious disruption and cost to all business around the most popular & expensive part of Australia I can tell you that right now !
I sure wish "I" would have gotten an apology when he disrupted Kansas City during a recent visit.
You guys are ridiculous. You can pick on Bush for whatever you want politically, I am cool with that. But this isn't even his fault. Also, it isn't just him in town that is causing this problem. And this would be the same security procedure no matter what US President was there. Me thinks you guys are just looking for something to bash him at this point.
Why shouldn't I? He doesn't take serious criticism seriously, he hasn't responded to any "serious" accusations, and -- I think he may be the worst president in the history of America. In my view, the guy is @!$%#ing up the country, and if I can't take a jab at him for making me late to work because he needed to get a photo op at a local diner (on top of all the really @!$%#ed up @!$%# he's caused) then...
That has been the case for a long time. Blame Bush. I am annoyed by it but considering that most complaints and attacks people unleash are just the result of them being sheep, I suppose they just can't help it. At least in this case it's a semi-legitimate complaint but as you pointed out it's not within the Presidents control. If something were to happen to Bush or any foreign leaders visiting the backlash would not be pretty. I don't hear anyone arguing that the security isn't needed so I can assume the sheep are not idiots. They are just whiners.
The worst whining, finger pointing campaign and beginning of the cry-baby epidemic was still started from Katrina. The response to that disaster just could not be fast enough. No one could have been prepared for that. The local government passed all heat onto FEMA and the President rather than take any responsibility. That is what happens when you have people who expect everyone else to do things for them. If I am in charge of the safety and prosperity of entire cities then you have better believe I would know it's my job to push hard for levies to be re-enforced. People knew the dangers and ignored them by placing their faith in old and apparently inadequate barriers. A relatively small hurricane is all it took to overwhelm that system and like everything else it's Bushes fault.
no there wouldnt
he is very hated over there and while there would be security not the type of draconian security they are having now.
The pm has even said the security is specifically for the protestors of bush and that it is to prevent them from becoming violent. He said that. He said it was their fault.
SO you can whine and you can call people ridiculous but when PM howard says it is for bush, I'm going to belive him.
and really you dont have to look anywhere to bash bush anymore, his crimes are like air, I think some peopel are just desperate to defend the man. SOrry we elected Bluto from animal house, unfortunately darth vader was his vp and decided the constituion was a Gdamn piece of paper(you can deny he said it but cant deny he acts like it) he also thinks the presidency is a dictatorship and that the other parts of gov are their for show. We attacked a country that didnt attack us, became synonymous with despots through out the war as a country that tortures and has secret prisons. Bush is no differnt from castro, chavez, amadinajad, mao, sadddam. We torutre innocent people. I know you can justify it, so did saddam. Did you hear him justify it at his trial? SO it made disturb you that peopel bash bush, but it disturbs me and the rst of the world he still sits in the WH.
It will take us 2 decades to get the stink out of the place.
Look I wasnt not intending to pick on Bush per say but the whole idea of locking up the major city in Australia. They could have held in in Canberra the Nationals capital which is far safer securer anfd has a lot more space...
JoulesBeef: You make a point about as well as my 6 year old. He has nothing but TV and fictional references as well. As for Chavez, I am beginning to think you have a crush on him or something. At any rate, I find it HIGHLY unlikely that Bush was the person that chose the place and I can say with absolute certainty that you are a person to be pitied as you seem to have nothing to fill your heart with except for hate. I could go with my initial reaction and reflect that hate back on you but I think I would rather give you a long, warm, comforting hug.
If you still wish to spread hatred over the fact that Australians were inconvenienced then I suggest you take it up with the people who were hosting the party and not the guest. I certainly don't go to a party and find the most hated person in the room to complain about my car being blocked in by a lack of packing spots and people double parking. No, I go to the host of the big bash, I say "Hey, the parking situation sucks here..." And then it's usually good to offer up suggestions like next time having the invite warn of the parking problem and suggest alternative spots nearby. (otherwise you are just a complainer)
Seriously though.. come here big guy.. let me lay this hug on you.. I know you need it!
Now we have both sides calling each other sheep. Interesting.
Well it's because the left likes to play both sides depending on the argument, time of day and position of the moon. It's supposed to be..
Liberal = Media's sheep
Conservative = Bushes cronies
Stick with it man!
"i don't think she is very bright, at least not smart enough to be secretatry of state"
You obviously don't think much of Stanford University, where she was Provost and Professor.
whatever. sometimes intelligence has to be demonstrated in the real world. so far she's a dunce.
Fruit bats swooped overhead.
I think he was bitten by one of the fruit bats! Condi is his date!?? Is there no limit to the stupidity of this idiot! First, he gives Angela Merkel a shoulder/neck massage at a public meeting...now he calls Condi his date!
We should have impeached this nincompoop before the end of his first term!!
I think winking at the queen takes the cake, personally.
You're right, Damian...I forgot about!
From Anna-belle Crabb Sydney Morning Herald Political Journalist
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September 9, 2007Page 2 of 2 BEHIND THE FENCE
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AdvertisementGEORGE BUSH was in a good mood yesterday as he helped himself to his buffet lunch.So when he caught sight of your correspondent, who had embedded herself 'twixt bain-marie and pasta salad with pen poised attentively, he was inclined to be expansive.
"Oh, you people are recording my every move here, aren't you?" he drawled. "I tell you what, I'll help you out. Here's your first sentence. 'The President takes a spoon …"'
"In your right hand or your left hand?" the Herald asked, slightly bewildered but happy to be in the frame for some high-level one-on-one, even if only on the topic of the cold buffet.
"Yes. Important. He takes the spoon in his right hand, and he takes some salad. But how many pieces? One, two … "
Whereupon the leader of the free world proceeded, as a friendly service to the readers of The Sydney Morning Herald, to count out pieces of spiral pasta as he dropped them one by one on to his plate. "Eight!" he concluded. "Eight noodles! There's your story. Nice helping you out!"
Emboldened by this significant exchange, your carbohydrates correspondent can now further report that the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, augmented her plate of barbecued chicken and sausage with a helping of root vegetable couscous, but eschewed the pasta spirals completely, suggesting perhaps a worrying rift with her leader.
Hovering besottedly at Dr Rice's elbow was the Defence Minister, Brendan Nelson, wearing a dashing open-necked black shirt and grey trousers that made him look excitingly like an extra from Saturday Night Fever.
Mr Bush, anticipating his first Aussie barbecue of the trip, had warned Mr Howard with Texan directness: "I'm a meat guy."
Dr Nelson, by contrast, is very much a Rice guy. As the Secretary of State took delivery of her couscous, an attendant alerted her to the presence of green salad, but Dr Nelson interceded protectively. "Secretary Rice has salad on her table, thank you," he intoned with crushing finality. The attendant retreated.
Oh, to be in the arms of a military man.
It must be said at this point that the Pasta Salad Bilateral, in which so much was shared and learned, came only after a lengthy and exacting logistical ordeal.
The barbecue was at Garden Island, or rather HMAS Kuttabul, as it is known within the navy, with its adorable habit of pretending that chunks of land are actually boats, with port and starboard and all.
It was staged by the Defence Force in a marquee at 12.30, to allow the President to meet some Aussies and get his laughing gear around some local beef.
Australian and US media representatives were allowed in twice: once for five minutes to watch the President storm the buffet, and once for another five to watch him make some "remarks".
This 10 minutes of access, for journalists, required four hours of marshalling, X-raying, head-counting, waiting, doodling, bus-boarding, realising we were on the wrong bus, swearing, bus disembarking, briefing, re-briefing, swearing, and trooping up and down stairs at HMAS Kuttabul, bless all who do not sail in her.
It is impossible to do anything at APEC without fuss. In fact the further into the event one gets, the more one stops trying to find out what is going on behind the fuss and starts suspecting that the fuss is all there is.
The President, for example, travelled by motorcade from his hotel to catch his 9am bilateral with the Prime Minister.
Fair enough, though the meeting was at the Government's Phillip Street offices, from which an empty stubbie could probably be lobbed - by a skilled arm - into the presidential hotel, the InterContinental.
The press conference between the two leaders, during which Mr Bush took the opportunity of congratulating Mr Howard on his new status as a grandfather, took place at 11.05am, but journalists were required to be in place and marshalling across town by 8.45.
And the harbour cruise from the Opera House to Garden Island and lunch - normally a lovely trip - cannot have been especially relaxing for Mr Bush, whose vessel was ringed by naval jet-skiers and a knot of black inflatable craft loaded down with gunmen in black neoprene burqas.
Still, it was nice to hear that at some point after lunch, Mr Bush managed to break away and go mountain-bike riding, on an actual bike, whose wheels were touching the actual ground, possibly in the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.
Perhaps, once in a while, protocol smiles on a man who serves himself.
I'm not sure where people got the impression that putting someone's ENTIRE article in blockquotes means you're not stealing the content, but jesus:
Quote a paragraph -- link to the rest.
Otherwise, you're stealing.
I only put half the article but i think you get the point ! Stealing well call me a thief if you like !
or at least remove the 'advertisement' tags
Great story - vastly better if it were true. I must say I had the IMPRESSION from a photo of Dr Condoleezza Rice (Dr Death, aka Wicked Witch of the West) with George Bush (Dubya, World's #1 terrorist) in Sydney the other day that there was that SOMETHING in Dr Death's mien.
Normally Dr Death (complicity in 4 million excess deaths in the Bush War on Terror aka War on Women and Children) (see: link ) has eyes flashing as befits the spokesperson for the Genocidal Amerikan Evil Empire - but in this photo she was strangely submissive before Her Man with an almost post-you-know-what, universal, unmistakable secret smile.
Have they joined the mile high club? This particular junket has cost the US taxpayer about A$100 million and Australia an estimated A$360 million - surely the most expensive you-know-what in history if God exists, is a humanist, has a sense of humour and the story is true.
Don't you have a neo-Nazi seed from one of your buddies to keep you busy?
Correction: if you include the cost to business of a Sydney-only long weekend holiday on account of APEC, the cost to Australia is A$660 million (see "World's #1 terrorist in Australia. Dr Death arrives for APEC Summit": link ).
Of course expert analysis of the photographic record should elicit the truth (unlike the mountain of lies of the Bush Administration about 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, oil, New Olreans, etc buried under "secrecy", "National security" etc provisos).
Thus it is asserted that WOMEN are very good at analyzing MIEN e.g. Women at a dinner party can spot which couple is having an illicit affair. Further, facial analysis (espcially the muscles between the eyes) can identify who is lying (the classic text-book example I have seen is that of Bill Clinton when he said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" - the little muscles moved diagnostically: GOTCHA!
readers of this thread - more of the inevitable, FALSE, humourless, ugly, ad hominem (personally directed) Bush-ite/Zionist abuse that is now commonplace on Newsvine although in gross violation of the CoH.
Condi is a well-educated woman, who has more brains than Bush, Cheney and Rove put together. It's a shame that she had to be Republican. We could use a woman like that in the Democrat party. She could be Hilary's running mate.
what the hell are you talking about ? she's not that smart, she's not competent to be secretary of state...... and she is republican by choice and she makes really bad choices, she won't be spared persecution as a war criminal when the Bush Mafia is held to account. smart my ass!
The fact that she's made some really bad choices doesn't mean the woman is not intelligent. If she had originally chosen to be a democrat, she could be an asset to the party, that's what I said!
i respectfully disagree with you.
..........and if a frog had wings he would'nt bump his ass a'-hoppin' !
she's made some really bad choices...... she had originally chosen to be a democrat, she could be an asset to the party
Channel nine a National TV Station here announced that there was a total of 650 people in the Bush entourage...
It wouldn't be the first time a deeply closeted gay male used a beard.
This thread is just BDS sufferers on parade showing their a55es to each other, seeing who can say the most outrageously offensive crap for a cheap giggle.
Bush is having an affair.
Condi Rice is stupid.
Bush is gay.
Bush molests his daughters.
This stuff is sick and beneath childish.
This stuff is sick and beneath childish.
This from a person with a uid that is likely ridiculing female genitalia. Interesting.
This from a person with a uid that is likely ridiculing female genitalia.
Hrm. A bit of a stretch, but...okay.
This from a person with a uid that is likely ridiculing female genitalia. Interesting.
Jesus H. Christ on an electric pogo stick!
Are you out of your freaking mind?
Your gutter assumption says a LOT about you.
Jesus H. Christ on an electric pogo stick!
And you go on to not only misuse the sacred name of the Christian savior, but to do so in an offensive way.
Are you out of your freaking mind?
It has not been excluded.
Your gutter assumption says a LOT about you.
One can only hope. :D
L-O-FN-L
Gwenny
Jesus H. Christ on an electric pogo stick!And you go on to not only misuse the sacred name of the Christian savior, but to do so in an offensive way.
You're offended by pogo sticks? Wait, don't tell me.
If "electric pogostick" has some "other" meaning, I may not want to know.
Are you out of your freaking mind?It has not been excluded.
Yeah, lot o' that going around these days...
You're offended by pogo sticks? Wait, don't tell me.
If "electric pogostick" has some "other" meaning, I may not want to know.
I, personally, don't care either about pogo sticks or Jesus. Just pointing of the irony of complaining about being offended then saying some that will potentially offend 80% of Americans.
Yeah, lot o' that going around these days...
Not enough . . .or, at least, of the right kind.
Just pointing of the irony of complaining about being offended then saying some that will potentially offend 80% of Americans.
I'm guessing that would be just about the least offensive thing in this thread.
I'm guessing that would be just about the least offensive thing in this thread.
Down at the bottom there . . there's a button that says "Stop Tracking". You don't like something, move on.
'She Can Be My Date'
Whoa that could be a big problem as I think after a few sentences Bush would run out of his knowledge base in talking to Ms. Rice. I think he might be aiming a bit high on this date.
mmm .. I find the comment quite nebulous
Bush doesn't like black people.
I heard that he doesn't like Eskimos either! And also, people who were once frogs but became men after being kissed by a hot princess chick. OH OH.. and also.. carnies! Buy hey.. who likes circus folk? Like dwarves.. wow.. freaky.. small hands. Oh and the bearded lady.. she sucks.. No really she does.. and when she does.. wow.. painful because her beard creates like a velcro effect with.. well.. anyways my mommy is calling.. gotta go.
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