Posted on 06/15/2008 8:21:24 PM PDT by nuconvert
Nice editorial I have to say.
If it weren’t for the food and soccer ,I might really like that country
Bush has been steadfast and all adversaries have had to think twice wondering how "crazy warmonger" Bush would react to various moves on the international scene.
When Bambi runs the show keep an eye on China/Taiwan and Iran.
Better him on my side than his enemies.
With what’s being offered on the table for the next meal, I think our allies may regret their loss of perspective when Bush needed their help and wish him back.....the next meal the US will serve up looks paltry indeed.
I think you may have hit on the perfect label for BHO....
O'Bambi
The first thing Kennedy did after entering office was to get his hat handed to him at the Bay of Pigs then by the time Kennedy held the summit with Khrushchev at Vienna, Khrushchev didn’t have any use for Kennedy and in some ways, felt sorry for the new U.S. leader which convinced Khrushchev that he could steam roll right over Kennedy which gave us the Cuban missile crises and within a breath away from a nuclear war.
I can only wonder how much trouble someone as weak and unqualified like Obama would get us into.
During the Clinton administration the Al Qaeda gained in strength and as much a they messed with us, they knew there was no price to pay so nothing to stop them except being read their miranda rights which gave us 9/11.
Bin Laden estimated that Bush wouldn’t do anything either and that all American presidents were weak and if Bush did what the Democrats wanted, if Bush did what would look good in the polls, Bin Laden’s assessment would have been correct.
One day, a friend of mine from Canada who was a soldier e-mailed me a few weeks back. He was training at Bragg in NC with US SF in an exchange program, and I asked him how the culture was. We started talking politics then what he said shocked me.
I asked: “so I guess that with Bush’s GWOT, American Special Forces are now busier now than they were during the Clinton years...”
He answered: “That’;s what I thought, but most of the senior offices now who were enlisted men back then told me that they were busier BACK THEN because they had a pinko president who took blow jobs while everyone at Bragg were busy cleaning up his mess in the Far East and in Kosovo.”
Actually, Ditter, as I recall the event of Bush’s “slip’” he referred to some moment in the Queen’s life as being in 17something, instead of 19something. (Someone who remembers the whole story, please correct me if I remember wrong.)
In any event, the Queen looked surprised. Bush picked up on it, and made his comment about “a look only a mother could give,” which everyone took to refer to his jokes about his own mother who is extremely well liked. The Queen got a big kick out of it. They enjoyed a real laugh over it.
Here’s the exact slip the Pres. made in welcoming Queen Elizabeth:
***The American people are proud to welcome Your Majesty back to the United States, a nation you’ve come to know very well. After all, you’ve dined with ten U.S. Presidents. You helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 — in 1976. (Laughter.) She gave me a look that only a mother could give a child. (Laughter.)***
You’d be surprised. She just keeps it under control during official occasions.
Apparently she is a very good impersonator. She does a very good Tony Blair, and amazingly, Concorde (??)
Maybe, but the UK Telegraph wouldn’t be interested in that, of course.
Thanks for posting this. Britain will always be our special friend. The relationship is not only between countries and governments, but between peoples.
Hear, hear, indeed!
I agree. History will completely vindicate, and maybe even venerate, Bush and Blair.
My thoughts on this subject as well!
She gave a GREAT speech in Richmond, Virginia last year to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown settlement.
In fact, a link to her speech would make a great "punctuation point" to this thoughtful article in the Telegraph.
All that said, I thought the humorous story set out here was quite touching, as to Bush and as to the Queen. It deserves its own post, I think!
There was a telling moment when Mr Bush last met the Queen just over a year ago. Having made a characteristic verbal slip, he turned towards her, his face carefully set in that leer he carries off so well.
Finding her unamused, he grinned to onlookers: "She gave me a look that only a mother could give a child."
At first glance, this might seem like gaucheness, even lèse-majesté.
But think about it for a few seconds and you will see what a beautiful compliment it is. To acknowledge Britain as his country's "mother" might be historically accurate, but it is by no means uncontentious in contemporary America.
Many US politicians like to pretend that their institutions are a happy multi-culti fusion, owing just as much to Cajuns, Native Americans and Guatemalan illegals as to the high-minded Englishmen and Ulstermen who drew up the constitution.
President Bush was saying something true and touching but - being the man he is - passing it off as a folksy joke.
Thanks for posting that!
Looking at that again, and remembering some of it now, that doesn’t look like a slip to me, but rather a deliberate joke. There was a lot of ribbing going on here and there about the Queen and how long she had reigned. Seemed to me at the time this was one of those “you were there at Creation” type jokes, with a folksy punchline.
But Bush definitely was showing affection and admiration for the Queen. This is the way he really does do that to his own mother, who is quite regal in her own bearing.
Glad to hear all that about the Queen, I have never met her. I did meet her sister Princess Margaret once but because she spoke the queens English and I spoke Texan I had a little trouble understanding her.
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