Bush dons tux and tails for state dinner *[Unabashed Bush Bash ALERT]*

Associated Press ^ | 11-19-03 | SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer

[Oldeconomybuyer]

This AP "journalist" is a POS.

[sonsofliberty2000]

Wow, why doesn't he tell us what he really thinks?

Patriot Paradox

[tbpiper]

This AP "journalist" is a POS.

You're far to kind.

[Mercat]

Yes, but this castes Bush as a down home populist. I like that image a lot.

[jsbankston]

"Laura and I are deeply honored to accept Your Majesty's gracious hospitality and to be welcomed into your home," he said, reading from large cards.

Does the President really read off of que cards or does the writer work for the NYT and is just making this up?

[mass55th]

I heard that President Bush doesn't own tails and had to rent a suit for the occasion.

[LouD]

like the "mirror-topped plateaux," ... and the "Apples of the Hesperides Candelabrum."

Hey, I'm no hick, and I'm pretty well educated by anybody's standards, but I don't know what the hell any of those things are - and I'm guessing the reporter didn't either, until he got the press handout.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Don't know. But my first reaction was the President didn't want to wear his reading glasses at a formal state dinner. Seems this POS journalist was trying to make a different case ... pathetic.

[Paul Atreides]

From OpinionJournal.com

London's Guardian yesterday published a series of open letters to the president from various Englishmen and Americans. Many were hostile--the Guardian is a left-wing paper--but we like this one from novelist Frederick Forsyth (ellipsis in original):

You will find yourself assailed on every hand by some pretty pretentious characters collectively known as the British left. They traditionally believe they have a monopoly on morality and that your recent actions preclude you from the club. You opposed and destroyed the world's most blood-encrusted dictator. This is quite unforgivable.

I beg you to take no notice. The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin.

It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century. Broadly speaking, it hates your country first, mine second.

Eleven years ago something dreadful happened. Maggie was ousted, Ronald retired, the Berlin wall fell and Gorby abolished communism. All the left's idols fell and its demons retired. For a decade there was nothing really to hate. But thank the Lord for his limitless mercy. Now they can applaud Saddam, Bin Laden, Kim Jong-Il . . . and hate a God-fearing Texan. So hallelujah and have a good time.

Bush seems to have taken Forsyth's advice. Good for him--and good for America.

[CyberAnt]

What bothers me is the SNOB speech. As if GW has never been to a state dinner (until he started having them himself). I bet GW and Laura were regular guests at Reagan's and his Dad's state dinners.

This guy makes it sound like GW has been out in the barn so long he doesn't know how the upper class lives. The truth is .. Bush does know how the upper class lives, and he has chosen NOT TO LIVE THAT WAY.

[walden]

Beefeaters??? Real Texans don't drink gin.

[Paul Atreides]

The only way the author of the article knows is because his "longtime companion" is an interior decorator.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Bump #9

[Paul Atreides]

I may have to check out his novels!

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Top Hat, White Tie And Tails -- Irving Berlin

I just got an invitation through the mails:
"Your presence requested this evening, it's formal
A top hat, a white tie and tails"
Nothing now could take the wind out of my sails
Because I'm invited to step out this evening
With top hat, white tie and tails

I'm puttin' on my top hat
Tyin' up my white tie
Brushin' off my tails

I'm dudein' up my shirt front
Puttin' in the shirt studs
Polishin' my nails

I'm steppin' out, my dear
To breathe an atmosphere that simply reeks with class
And I trust that you'll excuse my dust when I step on the gas

For I'll be there
Puttin' down my top hat
Mussin' up my white tie
Dancin' in my tails

[txhurl]

and he has chosen NOT TO LIVE THAT WAY.

You are correct. Review the dinner photos - notice the lighter shades around his eyes... this is from tanning while wearing sunglasses while he chops down his own cedar trees on his ranch in Crawford.

Not from some L.A. tanning booth.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

I heard that President Bush doesn't own tails and had to rent a suit for the occasion.

That's what a nasty article said a couple of days ago. Bush has enough money to own a closet full of tails and what ever goes with it.

[MoralSense]

You got that right, and the reporter didn't. Just like Berlin said, it's white tie and tails, not a tuxedo.

[Arpege92]

Your honesty about not knowing what "mirror-topped plateaux" and "Apples of the Hesperides Candelabrum" is refreshing. I don't know what the hell they are either.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go and brush my TOOTH so I can watch another exciting episode of HEE HAW! ;-}

[Peach]

What a slam!

Class will out and the reporter obviously feels outclassed.