"A chatty Bush personally greeted the leaders"

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A chatty Bush personally greeted the leaders as they arrived for lunch.
To President Hamid Karzai of Aghanistan he said, "Hey, Mr. President, you look good. How's everything going? You're doing a heck of a job."
As he and King Abdullah II of Jordan shook hands, Bush remarked, "There's a good man."
When President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen arrived, he had a large ceremonial dagger in the front of his belt that the Secret Service had apparently decided not to remove. As Saleh introduced himself, Bush pointed to the dagger and jokingly made a few stabbing motions, according to a reporter on the scene.

-- From an article on the G-8 summit in the Chicago Tribune today

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/49402.1020.A.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

To President Hamid Karzai of Aghanistan he said, "Hey, Mr. President, you look good. How's everything going? You're doing a superb job."

To Morrissey: Hey, fuck you too, pal.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Those Yemeni daggers are badass. But not for the rhino that loses his snout.

― andy, Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Is the President doing coke again? That sounds like lovey-dovey coke talk to me. "Man, you are a great emir... we've really got to hang out more often..."

― andy, Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

It may interest you to know that the basic idea for 'Chatterbox' (and also 'The Vagina Monologues') comes from Les Bijoux Indiscrets, an 18th century (1748) novel about talking vaginas written by Denis Diderot, one of the key philosophes of the Enlightenment and editor of the Encyclopedie, a key text of western rationality. It shows that, in Europe at least, sensuality and intellect have never been enemies. Bush, on the other hand, seems to have neither.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus is that a non-sequitir?

I don't know what's more appalling, the outright chauvinist hostility of Henry Hyde (see Tribune letter from yesterday) or the glad-handling condescension of Bush. Or is it just stupidity? Anyway, is this what people mean when they call him "personable" and such?

Ned, can we resize that image possibly?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Also I believe the approved journalistic spelling is "heckuva."

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cse.msu.edu/~postrobe/images/bush-dumb.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

the accompanying photo thread:

Fun with AP Photos and the 2004 G8 Summit

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"in Europe at least, sensuality and intellect have never been enemies"

NEVER been enemies? You are historically ignorant Momus. Read up on
your european history c.1100-1550 AD.

Whitman, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Pound, Carlos Williams obv. represent a tradition of thumbing their noses to that.

― de, Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nationalcynical.com/Images/humor-political/bush-pope.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

don't forget Thoreau.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

he's american.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

tee hee. i just missed the section above where he lists a bunch of american authors.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the point.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

yup.

anyway, arguing with momus using facts has about as much point as breaking into a car with toothpicks. he has abstractions of "europe" and "america" which he holds dear, and far be it for history or reality to force him to abandon them.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

but the uncomplicated nature of these abstractions means he can more easily harness them for superficially clever rhetorical arguments.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

and when that fails: puns! puns ahoy! (or simply an exchange of abstractions, to keep people on their toes.)

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Am, the mods would have to do the resize.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

DAMN YOU RAGGETT

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

It's too easy sometimes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Read up on your european history c.1100-1550 AD.

The very same monks who were preserving Aristotle for posterity were having their evil way with the village wenches, and each other, if we're to believe Voltaire.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, that explains what happened to Abelard. Anyway, the philosophes were strictly a French phenomenon, it was hardly trans-European.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

genius

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post to momus Yes, and it was called "sin".
Subversion of the prevailing ideology came in the form of semi-pagan Arthurian Romances. Otherwise the distinction between 'intellect and sensuality' is preserved until the Renaissance, the effects of which start to be felt Europewide in the 16th century

― de, Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a bit of a miracle that we're having such an intellectual conversation on a thread about he-who-should-never-have-been-born, anyway.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

You're just jealous because he got to play with President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen's ceremonial dagger and you didn't.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus I do respect your intellectual er, curiosity, I just think you should pay attention to part of Dylan's lyric for "My Back Pages"

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps....

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow.

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

― de, Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Also "Love Rollercoaster."

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm waiting for the spin-off thread "A chatty burning bush personally greeted the leaders," but I'm not gonna make that thread myself.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Do it, it could be about "Three Amigos"!

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm. okay.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

or, er, Moses.

Moses > Momus, btw.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i just don't know why people bother arguing with him (momus, that is, not moses).

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 11 June 2004 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Big Guy, how's the day so far for you, Tiger?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 11 June 2004 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

you cannot argue with the leader of the Israelites.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

that was always my debate tournament closer.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 11 June 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

and you won state every year.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

greeted the leaders and leered at the greeters

― the surface noise is another unwelcome bonus resulting from a preamp's inab (ele, Friday, 11 June 2004 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Something about these G-8 summits brings out the jokester in Bush:

It was his final summit with the Group of 8, the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia as well as the United States. President Bush, the most senior member of the group, was attending his eighth summit, and for years he withstood pressure to take a firmer stand against global warming.

It was the topic on the minds of summit partners and demonstrators.

His final words to the likes of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

That was the report from the British press, citing "senior sources" who said Bush made the private joke as he was about to leave Japan on Wednesday.

It stunned his partners, according to the Telegraph, which said:

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.

...
A White House spokesman responded to our inquiry: "I don't have anything on this for you."

― Eazy, Friday, 11 July 2008 07:01 (seventeen years ago)

"I got nothin"

― El Tomboto, Friday, 11 July 2008 07:02 (seventeen years ago)

Good thing we had Momus to point out Bush's faults for us.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 11 July 2008 12:01 (seventeen years ago)

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