Posted on 07/14/2004 3:39:02 PM PDT by Taka No Kimi
It is a conversation between President George W. Bush and National Security Adviser Condi (Condoleezza Rice):
GEORGE : Condi! Nice to see you. What's happening?
CONDI : Sir, I have the report here about the new leader of China.
GEORGE : Great! Lay it on me.
CONDI : Hu is the new leader of China.
GEORGE : That's what I want to know.
CONDI : That's what I'm telling you.
GEORGE : That's what I'm asking you. Who is the new leader of China?
CONDI : Yes.
GEORGE : I mean the fellow's name.
CONDI : Hu.
GEORGE : The guy in China.
CONDI : Hu.
GEORGE : The new leader of China!
CONDI : Hu.
GEORGE : The Chinaman!
CONDI : Hu is leading China.
GEORGE : Now whaddya asking me for?
CONDI : I'm telling you Hu is leading China?
GEORGE : Well, I'm asking you. Who is leading China?
CONDI : That's the man's name.
GEORGE : That's who's name?
CONDI : Yes.
GEORGE : Will you or will you not tell me the name of the new leader of China?
CONDI : Yes, sir.
GEORGE : Yasser? Yasser Arafat is in China? I thought he was in the Middle East.
CONDI : That's correct.
GEORGE : Then who is in China?
CONDI : Yes, sir.
GEORGE : Yasser is in China?
CONDI : No, Sir.
GEORGE : Then who is?
CONDI : Yes, sir.
GEORGE : Yasser?
CONDI : No, Sir.
GEORGE : Look, Condi, I need to know the name of the new leader of China. Get me the secretary general of the UN on the phone.
CONDI : Kofi?
GOERGE : No, thanks.
CONDI : You want Kofi?
GEORGE : No.
CONDI : You don't want Kofi?
GEORGE : No. But now that you mention it, I could use a glass of milk. And then get me the UN.
CONDI : Yes, sir.
GEORGE : Not Yasser. The guy at the UN.
CONDI : Kofi?
GEORGE : Milk. Will you please make the call?
CONDI : And call who?
GEORGE : Who is the guy at the UN?
CONDI : Hu is the guy in China.
GEORGE : Will you stay out of China!
CONDI : Yes, sir.
GEORGE : And stay out of the Middle East. Just get me the guy at the UN.
CONDI : Kofi?
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It wasn't funny when it was posted at DU. It isn't funny still.
Oh dear. I'm sorry. Didn't mean to offend anyone. I posted this joke because the wordplay on the leaders' names, IMHO, was so hilarious in my opinion.
It's old, used to be with Clinton in it. I guess I am not the Abbott-Costello type.
I agree. I'm not offended by it but that is such a worn-out routine.
It was funny. Thank you for posting it.
Hu Jintao, a native of Jixi, Anhui Province, was born in December 1942. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1964 and began to work in July 1965 after he graduated from the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, where he had a major in the study of hub hydropower stations. He is an engineer. If you're going to talk it, ya gotta walk it. The clinton* years ended in 2001.
So....does that mean that the email I got with this "joke" using Clintons name never happened because Hu came in 2003, and Clinton went out in 2001?
So that means there were NO White House related jokes made of Clinton after 2001, right?
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