Bush to Geldof: "Didja know I got my own presidential M&M's?"

[kskiska]

From Geldof and Bush: Diary From the Road

I gave the President my book. He raised an eyebrow. "Who wrote this for ya, Geldof?" he said without looking up from the cover. Very dry. "Who will you get to read it for you, Mr. President?" I replied. No response.

(snip)

Earlier, in his private lounge, which is just behind the bedroom with the twin beds with blue blankets, complete with Presidential Seal, we'd talked of personal stuff. I'd been asking about the laundry arrangements. How do they get the presidential shirts, socks, undies, etc., done on this thing? I'm used to rock-'n'-roll tours where there's a washing machine and dryers set up backstage, but this is gigging on a whole other level. At least 20 military transporters haul presidential necessities around the planet. At our hotel in Ghana, the porter carrying my bag said they had thrown out all the other guests because "the President of the World was coming."

"Laundry, huh?" the President mused. "Y'know, I've never asked that. I usually just wear the same thing all day, but if I need to change, there's always a room I can go to. Laundry, huh? Is this the interview, Geldof? It's certainly a different technique!" He's showing me around because I've asked if I can get Air Force One stuff to bring home to the kids. "Hey guys, get Geldof the links and pins and stuff. And the M&M's. Didja know I got my own presidential M&M's?" Wow. "Yeah, cool, right? They'll love 'em." They did. They're in a presidential box with his autograph on them. The Queen doesn't have that. Or the Pope. And I muse later from Car 25 in the 33-car motorcade that there are probably only three people in the world who can bring crowds like this out onto the street — the Queen, the Pope and the President of the United States, and only one's a politician. "Jed," the President says to the man doing the ironing between the twin beds. "How do we do the laundry on this thing?" "We use hotels, sir." Ah.

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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1717934-1,00.html

[mr_hat]

1. Geldof "used to rock-'n-roll tours"? LOL.

[orleans]

9. don't you remember?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kS-pLtSx5DI

[mr_hat]

14. Oh yeah - they were HUGE.

[KamaAina]

2. Let me guess: He just turns the M&M upside down

so it looks like a "W". :dunce:

[bdamomma]

6. .................

:rofl:


just shows you how immature fratboy is, what a jerk he is.

[lumberjack_jeff]

10. That's funny.

"ha come half of 'em say "m"?


:hi:

[DemoTex]

15. I vaguely remember something about W&W pills from Howdy Doody.

Did they make you invisible? I can't remember.

[ramapo]

3. Is this for real?

Geldof asked Bush who was going to read him the book? Bush said that other stuff? He really sounds like the idiot that we all think he is.

on edit: I read the article and damn, it is really true that Bush did something decent, even impressive, in Africa. And maybe he doesn't always talk like an idiot, just a lot of the time.

[kskiska]

4. Unfortunately, it's real.

Time Magazine.

[lumpy]

12. Interesting article. Geldof paints a sympathetic picture of Bush.

Geldof points out that Bush was articulate, intelligent and engaging and did not sound at all like he does in public. After reading Geldof's take on Bush, he comes off as a kinder, caring individual. Much praise for Bush's humanitarian stance as for Africa. Interesting.

[KoKo]

5. Thanks for the article. There's something sad about it...

but it was worth the read.

[orleans]

7. interesting... i have a question

"Whoever is President," Bush says, "will understand Africa is in our nation's interest. They are wonderful people."

now, who is the fuckhead referring to? the african people? or the presidential candidates?

on edit: i found the way bob wrote this very interesting. a great line: "America was flying through the warm African night and I was hitching a ride on her.

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. Just a reg'lar guy.

The sad thing is that we live in the place where he constitutes reg'lar.

[drmeow]

11. One of the problems with psychopaths (sociopaths),

and I do believe Bush is a psychopath, is that they can convince you they are sincere about anything. They also can be very charming. Whether it is because, in that moment, they are sincere about what they are saying or because they just lie all the time is hard to tell. As Geldof himself points out, his statements about Africa don't jive with his actions elsewhere in the world. This tells me more than anything else that his very positive sounding statements about Africa are just his psychopathic insincerity speaking and his spending on Africa is a cynical effort to polish his legacy.

Oh, and ... twin beds?

[lumpy]

13. I have to agree. Psychopaths are manipulative and Bush

exibits all the earmarks.