She's not even looking at him ,she's looking beyond him.
Posted on 05/08/2007 5:52:54 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Kiss my butt. What I said was history and true. Your have your head up your butt. We kicked the Brits butts twice and won our independence. Thus, we do not bow to a king or queen, or the president! PERIOD. We provided the Brits with tons of intel during the Faulkins campaign. If you didn’t know that, read up on it fool.
Oh, I see. They burned the White House, but did not win the campaign, so in your eyes that is a tie?? I guess since we got bombed at Pearl Harbor, we lost or tied WWII somehow in your line of thinking? Geeze.....
Regarding the Texas accent and who in the Bush family has it or doesn’t have it:
W is the only one in the family who both grew up in West Texas and returned there as a young man, married a West Texas gal, and lived in Texas for the next quarter century.
His parents were adults before they set foot in Midland, and public service has taken them out-of-state as much as they’ve lived here. His siblings moved away.
Other than travel and the Presidency, W has lived all but his first two years and his prep school/college years in Texas. What do you expect him to sound like?
I honestly think that George W. Bush draws more criticism for his authenticity than for anything else. The guy is who he is, and it rankles both the left and the right.
We don't. Not like that. Having Pop carve the turkey or having the President walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to the inauguration is not tradition. Well it is but it is not the standard of Old World tradition.
As for power, the British certainly welcomed our power in WWII, and didn’t refuse the use of our power in the name of any sort of tradition.
Power has its uses yes, to protect tradition, to salvage what we hold dear, but not to lord it over tradition as too many here want to do. It is in service to tradition but it is not more powerful. If it is, then we forget who we are and from whence we came.
Again as evidenced by many of the posts here
She's not even looking at him ,she's looking beyond him.
The queen can grimace, glare, or just go the hell home. I hope we send her a bill.
You know Your Majesty, if I close one eye you look like Betty Ford.
Ridiculous!
Luckily most of us here noticed she’s on different sides right away.
I don’t think even the queen is that uptight. Heck, even if she did give him “a look”, it’s probably more that she either didn’t hear him or didn’t understand! I somehow doubt she’d be appalled about the comment.
The british media seem to be suffering from golden broomstick rectal upward insertion syndrome.
US citizens do not have royalty to titles of nobility. (ie ronald reagan was “knighted” but did not use the honoraria “sir”)
To british media: get a life.
I agree the queen doesn’t need insults. Not only is this story specious, but likely the woman isn’t such an uptight anyway. She may be formal but she’s never struck me as a true snob.
But I would never call either war a “draw”. Totally disingenuous. What war is EVER a draw unless both have destroyed each other (e.g., nuclear holocaust?)?
considering the queen stories over her amusment with the “billy bass” singing fish. (those little animated singing fish which were popular a few years back) she probably does have a sense of humor.
The british drive bys are blinded by BDS.
good for bush...welcome to earth queenie...
Heh. I’ll never forget the nice lady on our tour asking our guide if it was “ok to wear pants to church” and the way he smirked and winked at our driver and said “I most certainly HOPE so!”
Here you go.
I think I know what it is though. They're really angry at the Americans who DO get off on all this royal stuff. If we could chart ourselves a course somewhere between the rabid royalhaters on the one side and the slavering anglophiles on the other, I think we'd be better off.
From Barbara Bush’s book A Memoir, page 414. Completely twisted by this article. This lunch was on May 14, 1991:
“We had a quiet lunch with HM Queen Elizabeth II, HRH... I jokingly told Her Majesty that I had put our Texas son as far away from her as possible at the table and told him that he was not allowed to say a word to her or, for that matter, to our only daughter’s beau, who was coming to the dinner that night. She asked him why that was. Was he the black sheep in the family? George W. allowed as how he guessed that was true. (Not true at all.) Then she said, “Well, I guess all families have one.” George W., of course, asked her if thier family had one and who it was. She laughed and asked me why I thought him so dangerous. I told her that he said what he felt and besides that, he threatened to wear cowboy boots in the evening to the State Dinner. I told her that they had Texas flags on them or GOD BLESS AMERICA. She asked him which pair he was going to wearthat night and he said, “Neither. Tonight’s pair will say ‘GOD SAVE THE QUEEN’.”
Sorry for the late reply. I see what you're seeing, however, the background is different and may be from a completely different side. If they camera changed sides, then the President and Queen turned around...it would give the same affect and appear just like one of them "chnaged sides". :-)
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