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Bush at the G8
Bush at the G8
as recalled from what Adriana Huffington saw on the news:
There he was at his press conference in Russia, where he unwittingly gave Vladamir Putin one of the great set-up lines in recent history. Responding to a question about his concerns over the state of Russia’s democracy, Bush said he had talked to Putin “about my desire to promote institutional change in parts of the world like Iraq where there's a free press and free religion, and I told him that a lot of people in our country would hope that Russia would do the same thing.”To which Putin replied: “We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I will tell you quite honestly.”
Then later, at his press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he started off by thanking her for the hospitality, ending the intro paragraph with "I'm looking forward to the feast you're going to have tonight. I understand I may have the honor of slicing the pig."
And even during the Q&A session, faced by hard questions on the bombings in Beirut and Iran's position, he starts it by talking about that same pig:
Q Just to follow up --Bush: Follow up on?
Q On both of these. Does it concern you that the Beirut airport has been bombed? And do you see a risk of triggering a wider war? And on Iran, they've, so far, refused to respond. Is it now past the deadline, or do they still have more time to respond?
Bush: I thought you were going to ask me about the pig.
Q I'm curious about that, too.
Bush: The pig? I'll tell you tomorrow after I eat it.
What a classic American guy, this Bush.
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ReBlogged by ann p on Jul 17, 2006 at 12:05 PM
Posted by ann p on Jul 17, 2006 at 12:05 PM
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