[r_u_sirius]

" I would never even think of being a guest at someones home and start an argument! Very unclassy!"


She was in her own home when they discussed the death penalty.

[i]But when the Bushes came to Britain in the summer of 2001, Mrs Blair, “more tribal in her politics than Tony”, according to a close family friend, embarrassed her husband. As the two couples sat down to dinner, with the officials no longer there, Mrs Blair could not resist an argument. She is a human rights lawyer and turned to the death penalty, a subject on which she has blunt views.[/i]

[cupcakes]

I missed that too. I still would not invite someone in my home and then start such a debate with them. Still shows a lack of class in my book.

[BruceS]

While you are right that Mrs. Blair was the hostess at the time, do YOU start arguments with guests you invite into your home? The way I was raised, you were very polite to guests (family was another matter), almost to the point of letting them do almost anything. You just didn't invite them back if they didn't behave politely.

By the way, they were not in Mrs. Blair's house at the time. They were in the official residence of the Prime Minister of Great Britian - kind of like the White House. Would the First Lady (any first lady) be right in deliberately being rude to an official guest in the White House when they were not in the living quarters? I think not.