Canadian calls Bush "moron" - and boy is she ugly.

Globe and Mail ^ | 11/22/02 | Allison Dunfield

[moyden]

Yeah, I know this has been posted, but you haven't see her pic ...

Françoise Ducros, the federal official who caused a firestorm by reportedly calling U.S. President George W. Bush a "moron" offered to quit on Friday, but Prime Minister Jean Chrétien refused to accept her resignation.

"So as not to have this matter overshadow the Prime Minister's important work here at the summit, I have offered my resignation," Ms. Ducros said in a statement, read aloud in the House of Commons Friday by Transport Minister David Collenette.

She added that "the Prime Minister has refused to accept the resignation."

Speaking with reporters in Prague, Mr. Chrétien said he was satisfied.

"She has apologized to me for the blunder," he said, adding it was a shame that in modern times a private conversation isn't that private anymore.

According to reports, Ms. Ducros made the statements during what she thought was a private conversation.

Ms. Ducros said the comments attributed to her "in no way reflect my personal view of the President of the United States," but she in turn apologized for the attention they had attracted.

Members of the Canadian Alliance, who had called on the Liberals to fire Ms. Ducros earlier this week when reports of the incident came out, were not satisfied with the statement.

"That's a finely crafted non-denial coming from the communications department," Alliance MP Jason Kenney said during Question Period.

The Alliance has been accusing the Liberals of harbouring anti-American sentiments that have caused bilateral relations with the country's major trading partner to erode. Canada and the United States have been on shaky ground lately over several issues, including visa requirements at the border and U.S. softwood lumber tariffs.

Mr. Kenney said that Ms. Ducros's statements suggest an "anti-American sentiment" that is present in the Liberal party as a whole.

Transport Minister David Collenette said the Canadian Alliance was focusing on an irrelevant issue instead of the achievements of the summit.

Some Liberal MPs, however, have said publicly that the statement was unacceptable. They included Industry Minister Allan Rock and Liberal leadership front-runner Paul Martin, who praised Canada's special ties with the United States. On Thursday, Mr. Rock called for an investigation into the comment.

Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark called the Prime Minister's inaction on the comments a double standard.

"That's internal. The more serious issue here is ... we don't have a more important or difficult relationship in the world than our relationship with the United States," Mr. Clark said after Question Period.

He urged the Prime Minister to reconsider.

"She has done the honourable things. So should the Prime Minister."

Mr. Collenette, who was in the House of Commons answering questions on the issue for the government, stressed that the issue had already been addressed Thursday in Prague by Mr. Chrétien.

At the time, he said that Mr. Bush is not a moron but a friend of his.

Meanwhile, Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham, who was attending meetings Friday with U.S. officials in Prague, said that "the blunder will not hurt Canada-U.S. relations."

U.S. officials, meanwhile, have made light of the remark.

"I just dismiss it as from somebody who obviously doesn't speak for the Canadian government," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, accompanying the President, told reporters in Prague before Mr. Bush left for Moscow.

The incident happened during NATO meetings on Wednesday in Prague.

The National Post newspaper reported that a senior official criticized Mr. Bush for using the meetings to try to drum up support for military action on Iraq rather than discuss new NATO initiatives and called him a "moron."

The speaker was later identified as Ms. Ducros. With a report from AP

[albee]

That woman is so ugly even her dog closes his eyes when he humps her leg!!!!!

[archy]

[pankot]

In four years Bush can get a PhD and no longer be a moron, however, in four years, no matter what she does this woman will still be ugly.

[guitfiddlist]

Speaking with reporters in Prague, Mr. Chrétien said he was satisfied. "She has apologized to me for the blunder..."

"...and I told her that as her punishment, she was to take a number of photographs of herself, and hand them over to Fox News."

[widowithfoursons]

No, it's Robert Morse ("How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying").

[TopQuark]

and boy is she ugly.

Sorry, I don't see it: I think his face is pretty manlya and intelligent. I think he will easily find a nice woman to live with.

/Sarcasm>

[madison10]

Winston Churchill to Liverpool socialist MP Bessie Braddock, who told him, "Winston, you're drunk.": Bessie, you're ugly. And tomorrow morning I'll be sober, but you will still be ugly.

There are about 6 or 7 versions of this "supposed" quote.

[Endeavor]

Dear Man from Oz,

That is the same connotation of Coyote Ugly in Texas.

[Endeavor]

Ha! Obviously not when you're spelling! (Lookout, we might surprise ourselves and beat you next week)

[agincourt1415]

Canadians are just going through that UGLY LESBO SOCIALIST PHASE, it will pass, LOL, then I could be wrong.

[genefromjersey]

This lady is NOT ugly : She's EOOGLY !

She so eoogly, grizzly bear RUN when they see her.

Toadfish jes fall in LOVE with her.

Janet Reno be motatin' ( that's 10 knots faster 'n haulin' ass, foo ! ) up to Canada in her red pickup truck-gonna sweep her off her SIZE 12 FEET !

OOOOOOO-eeee , she's EOOGLY !!!!

[Saundra Duffy]

LOL! She looks just like she would be from the California legislature, only much prettier.

[IamHD]

[desertcry]

..... he agrees with her.... Yes, canada's prime minister critter, loves kissing the butt of morons.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

She(?) used to be in the Bay City Rollers.

[A_perfect_lady]

It's Frodo!! Frodo thinks Bush is a moron! Oh man! I am totally not going to see LOTR II now.

[river rat]

Don't believe it....

I've spent several glorious vacations in Montreal with my daughter-in-law's family at the Jazz Festivals....and the vast majority of folks I've met there have been just fantastic...

If I were a young unmarried male --- Montreal would be high on my list of places I'd go to check out the beautiful, intelligent and feminine women.... Believe me -- they DON'T all look like the moron in this article.

Judging all of Canada by their public leftist assholes, is like judging all of America by the lunatics in Berkeley.

Semper Fi

[wiseone]

Chrétien is more concerned about losing the lesbian dyke votes, than insulting Prez Bush!

PM on aide: She calls me a moron, too
'She may have used that word against me a few times'
LOUISE ELLIOTT
CANADIAN PRESS

PRAGUE - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien refused today to accept the resignation of his embattled communications director, Francoise Ducros, over her alleged remark that U.S. President George W. Bush is a "moron."
Chrétien said Ducros had apologized to him for the furor sparked by a conversation she had with a journalist at the NATO summit in Prague.
"She was graceful enough to offer me her resignation," the prime minister said. "I have not accepted that."
Ducros, who did not appear at the news conference in Prague, told Chrétien she couldn't recall whether she made the remark but acknowledged she frequently uses the word "moron," Chrétien said.
"I know her very well," the prime minister told reporters. "She may have used that word against me a few times and I am sure she used it against you many times. It's a word she uses regularly."

[desertcry]

Chretien is more concerned about losing the lesbian..... I agree, Canada's PM critter is a slimy politician, like liberal democrats in the USA. These politicians will sell their mother, and grand parents to get power. They have no moral princilple, thus they can pander to perverts to get their votes. The Canadians are just behind the curve, and like the USA, they will soon find out that the liberals are bankrupting, and sinking their country fast. The question now is will the Canadians have the will to kick these liberals out of power.