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A Day in the Life of President Bush (photos) - 6.21.05
Whitehouse.gov, Yahoo.com | 6.21.05 | ohioWfan

Posted on 06/21/2005 4:45:09 PM PDT by ohioWfan

Today, President Bush met with Vietnamese Prime Minister, Phan Van Khai in the Oval Office. Khai is visiting Washington to talk with the President about helping Vietnam join the World Trade Organization. It is the first such visit of a Vietnamese leader since the end of the war. He then addressed the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting via satellite (the text of which is given here ).

The President also met with Republican leaders in the White House at a luncheon, accepting a compromise on Social Security, and refusing to back down on the nomination of John Bolton, urging Bill Frist to continue pushing for an up or down vote for Bolton.

This afternoon, the President attended the swearing in ceremony of Dr. Ben S. Bernanke as new Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Building in the White House complex.

Enjoy your trip to Sanity Island and the Daily Dose!!


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dayinthelife; demobstruction; dose; johnbolton; phanvankhai; presidentbush; republican; vietnam; vietnamvisit
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To: SoCalPol

Hmmm... my dad is from Virginia and HE says kiver. My grandmother had an accent just like Pat Robertson's.


81 posted on 06/21/2005 6:27:09 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Mary Jo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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To: snugs
Ah - good - well equiped and putting it to good use. Most excellent.
82 posted on 06/21/2005 6:27:38 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (To err is human; to moo is bovine.)
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To: snugs; El Gato

The gal in the back with the big purse

That threw me then I realised what you call a purse we call a bag, handbag or shoulder bag. Two nations divided by a common language LOL


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In Baltimore we still say "pocketbook" for purse/bag/etc.
Have you ever heard that word? I don't know why we say it.


83 posted on 06/21/2005 6:29:11 PM PDT by maica (Do not believe the garbage the media is feeding you back home. ---Allegra (in Iraq))
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To: ThePythonicCow

Oh good grief, you guys have made me go and do it!! I've reached for the last Klondike bar. Now I'm doomed... DOOMED!

doomed


84 posted on 06/21/2005 6:30:38 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Mary Jo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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To: Fudd Fan

Hmmm... my dad is from Virginia and HE says kiver

What County?


85 posted on 06/21/2005 6:30:41 PM PDT by SoCalPol (More Died At Chappaquiddic than Guantanamo)
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To: mystery-ak

My feelings exactly about VN .. I'm real real real ambivalent about that ..doesn't leave a good taste .. and on another subject, odd they would schedule this without Condi being there.


86 posted on 06/21/2005 6:31:53 PM PDT by STARWISE ( You get the govt. you deserve. CALL YOUR CONGRESS CRITTERS OFTEN -U.S. CONGRESS: 1-877-762-8762)
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To: SoCalPol
The eastern part of Va has a different speech from the earlier well to do English. Their OUs sound Cananian or somewhat how the Queen says OUs.

Indeed so! Mr.FF had the most confused look on his face when he first heard my dad pronounce "cow"

87 posted on 06/21/2005 6:32:00 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Mary Jo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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To: SoCalPol

King George County, just east of Fredericksburg


88 posted on 06/21/2005 6:32:48 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Mary Jo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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To: SoCalPol

But my grandmother was born in Louisa County


89 posted on 06/21/2005 6:33:40 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Mary Jo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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To: STARWISE

VN as long as I can remember, has always been an enemy....knew far too many guys who fought there, it's hard for me to think otherwise...


90 posted on 06/21/2005 6:38:03 PM PDT by mystery-ak
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To: Fudd Fan

If Mr FF sounds like my NJ relatives and remember they
are from the same countys. he can't laugh :-)

Third is touyid.


91 posted on 06/21/2005 6:38:36 PM PDT by SoCalPol (More Died At Chappaquiddic than Guantanamo)
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To: ThePythonicCow

Yes I have had that at Macdonald's. When I was little a milk shake was just milk and a flavour normally strawberry, raspberry or bananna whisked so that it was frothy but no ice cream in it.

We also had what we call ice cream soda which is a fizzy drink such as coke, lemonade, cream soda etc with a scoop of ice cream in it.

Slush puppies I always thought was American this is a drink which is made of crushed ice and then a syrup flavouring poured over it. The ice is crushed is sort crushed and mixed in a machine which normally has the word slush puppy on it.


92 posted on 06/21/2005 6:41:04 PM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: maica

No a pocket book to me a little note book that you make notes in while you are out and about and fits into top pocket of your jacket.


93 posted on 06/21/2005 6:42:26 PM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: Fudd Fan

What is a Klondike bar?


94 posted on 06/21/2005 6:43:05 PM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: ohioWfan

Hi Ohio, checking in.


95 posted on 06/21/2005 6:43:25 PM PDT by baseballmom
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To: Fudd Fan
Klondike bar -- good idea there.

I'll be right back. I need to take a short walk to the 7-Eleven store that is 100 meters away.

96 posted on 06/21/2005 6:43:56 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (To err is human; to moo is bovine.)
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To: SoCalPol

Mr.FF isn't that bad! lol

His sister and, to a lesser extent, his brother have awful metro-NY/NJ accents. I never thought his accent was too bad. But I'm reminded of when we were in Cape May, NJ (extreme southeastern tip) a few years ago, we were in a restaurant and one of the waiters asked if he was from New York. Mr.FF got very insulted and said NO! The waiter said he had an accent and it really ruined Mr.FF's evening. Occasionally he does say a word that tells where he grew up, but really he's not that bad.

Mr.FF is funny when he tries to pronounce "cow" like my dad does, he just can't do it! It comes out "coo"


97 posted on 06/21/2005 6:44:59 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Mary Jo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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To: maica
My Mom used to call a purse a pocketbook. She was born in RI (of immigrant parents) before her family moved from Cleveland.

Wonder if that's an east coast thing?

98 posted on 06/21/2005 6:45:36 PM PDT by ohioWfan ("If My people, which are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray.....")
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To: ThePythonicCow

I need to take a short walk to the 7-Eleven store that is 100 meters away.

Pick me up one too while you are there.
My 7-11 is 2 1/2 blocks away.


99 posted on 06/21/2005 6:46:01 PM PDT by SoCalPol (More Died At Chappaquiddic than Guantanamo)
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To: snugs

My brother-in-law lives in southern California, and when his kids were little they always wanted slush puppies! Just like you describe them snugs. They sold them at the local gas station.


100 posted on 06/21/2005 6:46:13 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Mary Jo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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