Posted by Sigismund on September 6, 2007, at 14:38:04
In reply to A man of few words (Bush), posted by caraher on September 6, 2007, at 12:47:06
It's not quite the same because it's APEC, but when Clinton came he strolled down to the Domain with a few minders and spoke to the people who had gathered there to speak. Now you have half a billion dollars worth of security and a 3m fence cutting Sydney in half. That has not been enough to silence the undercurrent of scorn in the chardonnay Fairfax press, ripe for further deregulation and takeover, though I think the reporter you quoted may have been a touch oblique with.....
'And Bush owned the second killer line of the day, as he drew US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice into a photo to make up the foursome. "You can be my date," he purred, an invitation most straight men would kill to issue.'But that is the current dynamic of politics here...that Bush is held in such regard, so universally almost, that no one needs to say anything anymore. Certainly not Rudd. He just agrees that the PM and the President are old friends and associates and have been through a lot together.
The wedge isn't working this time.
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