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Cherie Blair: 'Tony's heart sank at Bush election win
Times Online ^ | 5/14/08 | Philip Webster

Posted on 05/13/2008 4:46:36 PM PDT by Dawnsblood

The Blairs’ hearts sank when they learnt that George Bush’s victory over Al Gore in 2000 had been ratified and that he was to become President of the United States, Cherie Blair reveals in The Times today.

She tells how she and her husband watched Mr Bush on television and were concerned at his poor grasp of foreign affairs, but Mr Blair was determined to have a strong relationship with the Republican President.

Although they had initial reservations about his political leanings she and her husband learnt to appreciate “a very funny, charming man with a quirky sense of humour”.

Mrs Blair describes Mr Bush’s tendency to “talk Texan” – a trait that he himself has blamed for his bad press – but goes farther, comparing him with Bill Clinton, who is also from the South. She says: “Clinton may talk Southern, [but] he doesn’t think Southern, whereas Bush thinks Texan.”

In her autobiography, Speaking for Myself, serialised this week in The Times, Mrs Blair recalls that her first reaction on hearing about Bill Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky was: “Oh Bill, how could you?” and that he had been “bloody stupid”.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2000; algore; blair; cherieblair; election; eurotwitsforkerry
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To: Dawnsblood

Cherie Blair is a BRIT TWIT!!! Good grief...STFU and let us think you have some brains, Cher!


21 posted on 05/13/2008 5:40:59 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: steelyourfaith

I SWEAR I didn’t read yours first!!


22 posted on 05/13/2008 5:42:18 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Dawnsblood

Yeah, well Britain hasn’t had a real Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher.


23 posted on 05/13/2008 5:43:31 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Ann Archy

I know, I do that all the time. It is a natural innit? :-)


24 posted on 05/13/2008 5:45:43 PM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: Mr. Mojo
Clinton may talk Southern, [but] he doesn’t think Southern,

Nope, Bubba thinks with his pecker.

25 posted on 05/13/2008 5:59:57 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (DemocRATS....the party of Slavery, Segregation, Secularism, and Sedition)
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To: rocksblues

Cherie Blair is a never was.


26 posted on 05/13/2008 6:01:27 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Dawnsblood

“Cherie Blair...because one coat-tail riding ***wipe on the world stage just wasn’t enough...”


27 posted on 05/13/2008 6:27:24 PM PDT by CaliGirlGodHelpMe
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To: Dawnsblood; All
“Clinton may talk Southern, [but] he doesn’t think Southern, whereas Bush thinks Texan.”

Who cares how they talk or think. The problem is they both act Globalist and Statist...

28 posted on 05/13/2008 6:45:33 PM PDT by tarheelswamprat
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To: Dawnsblood

Cherie has an unfortunate case of hoof in mouth disease that has not served her or Tony well over the years.


29 posted on 05/13/2008 6:55:00 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Dawnsblood

What a silly bunt.


30 posted on 05/13/2008 6:57:36 PM PDT by steveo (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: steveo

LOL! It’s “bint” - and she isn’t young enough to qualify for that term, anyway. But as another poster pointed out, she actually praised Bush and the Times buried it deep in the article, instead putting the slant they wanted on the story.


31 posted on 05/13/2008 7:03:55 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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