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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 08:38 PM
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Bush didn't stick around to listen to Chirac's address
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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frank frankly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 08:39 PM
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1. he had to leave!
he was bored!
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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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whathappened Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 08:41 PM
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3. jr. just did'nt
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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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 08:42 PM
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4. Neither did the news organizations
Cnn signed off after ten minutes or so. Fox ignored it. Msnbc signed off. Cspan2 was the only coverage.
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 09:58 PM
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17. Cspan dropped it when
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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NaMeaHou Donating Member (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 08:43 PM
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5. I'm listening to it now on
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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RummyTheDummy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 08:45 PM
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6. Actually.....
A local station was doing a Barney marathon and he couldn't miss it.
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bluedog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 08:46 PM
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7. he's rude
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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screaming_meme Donating Member (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 08:46 PM
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8. A pity. Chirac is a noble man
I hope he's around to do business with a new Democrat president :)
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 05:53 AM
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18. Hi screaming_meme!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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bearfartinthewoods Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 06:52 AM
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20. oh please......he's a conservative politician who happens to be french
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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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 09:01 PM
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9. Bush's nerves were too shattered
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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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 09:04 PM
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10. Listening to evildoers can befuse and confuddle the mind.
Edited on Tue Sep-23-03 09:07 PM by Bozita
Plus Chirac doesn't even talk English.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 06:58 AM
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21. Oh Yes He Does
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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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 09:15 PM
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11. Bush is known for his temper
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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KC21304 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 09:57 PM
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16. The incident with Al Hunt occurred during the l988 campaign, 2 yrs
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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JewelDigger Donating Member (440 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 06:46 AM
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19. Wasn't there another incident
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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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 07:01 AM
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22. A new york times writer
cheney also on mike responded "big time".
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 09:18 PM
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12. "Who cares what you think?"
still has that attitude.
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glarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 09:46 PM
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13. He, Condi & Powell all arrogantly left..and then they wonder why other
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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Ouabache Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 09:53 PM
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14. Some would call it UNCIVIL
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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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 09:54 PM
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15. Well...
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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