Posted on 03/10/2007 4:08:22 PM PST by Kitten Festival
While President Bush did the talking, the first lady did the walking. Laura Bush played tourist Saturday on a foot tour of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the ruins of a 17th century Portuguese fort with a view of the broad River Plate and Argentina on the opposite bank.
As her husband met with Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez at a nearby countryside retreat, the first lady strolled in a violet-colored pantsuit down quaint cobblestone streets of the old town of Colonia de Sacramento.
Uruguay’s first lady, Maria Auxiliadora Delgado, escorted her. They both smiled as tourists and residents applauded them. Three women and a young boy held up flags of the United States and Uruguay on the 40-minute walk.
"We admire the United States," said Graciela Muttes, an Uruguayan who proudly clutched an American flag, unlike demonstrators who burned such flags in protest against Bush’s trip elsewhere. "Despite what you hear, we want to show that we are not all violent and don’t go around with faces masked, throwing stones."
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Typical ''journalist''. The ''River Plate'', indeed, putz. In English, it's the ''Silver River'', Rio Plata.
"Despite what you hear, we want to show that we are not all violent and don’t go around with faces masked, throwing stones...as do people in your...how you say...'Democrats Party?'"
There. All fixed. ;)
Good catch, though. Are there any photos of her trip?
I'm sure Hillary is planning the America-is-evil tour of South America and Europe right now.
After finishing the tour, the two first ladies returned to a presidential retreat house at nearby Anchorena Park, where their husbands, both tieless and casual, were wrapping up talks and planned an "asado" _ a barbecue of roasted lamb from Uruguay’s famous ranchlands.
Asado. MMMmmm. It doesn't get much better than that.
LOL.
Trips to Venezuala and Bolivia are in the works.....
Clinton was sucking up to Morales last September. This ought to be a campaign issue, Morales is the Andean Mugabe.
This reported by the AP???????????????????????
To be fair, the term "River Plate" is in common usage in South America, as in the name of Argentina's top soccer team.
Perhaps it's something like the Constitution, which has changed very little in actual content over the centuries, but has changed its ''meaning'' radically at the whim of certain groups. Just a thought. Call me old-fashioned (g!).
Thank you! Laura, lovely in Lavender. :)
Indeed! A lovely lady in all colors, but the lavender makes her even lovelier. :)
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