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Posted by caraher on September 6, 2007, at 12:47:06
"GEORGE Bush is a man who likes a short sentence. Which is not to say the President of the United States reduces ideas to bite-sized chunks. Or maybe it is.
Either way, during the course of his first 24 hours in Sydney, there were plenty of efficient exclamations. Like the exchange on the tarmac as Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile inquired how things were going in Iraq. "We're kicking *ss," he declared. In a similarly thrifty oratory bent yesterday, he telegraphed his lunch order — "I'm a meat guy". Then he buttered up his host — "I admire your courage" — and insisted he was not playing a double game by hinting at moves to start cutting US troop numbers in Iraq: "Whatever you do, don't call me cute."
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.
Posted by Sigismund on September 7, 2007, at 17:15:34
In reply to A man of few words (Bush), posted by caraher on September 6, 2007, at 12:47:06
Sometimes the apparent straightforwardness is quite endearing.
From the Fairfax press again......
'The US President, for whom the English language is not a tool so much as a room full of baited mousetraps, started the day in great form at the Opera House where he told business delegates that he thought John Howard was a terrific host of the OPEC summit.'
Posted by Sigismund on September 9, 2007, at 16:03:07
In reply to A few more, posted by Sigismund on September 7, 2007, at 17:15:34
A US marine stood on the platform and said this at the demo.......
Matt Howard, a former US Marine who served in Iraq, told the crowd: 'Everywhere he (Bush) travels he has to erect a fortress to protect himself. There wouldn't be boots on the ground in Iraq if there weren't oil under the ground in Iraq.'
He was very impressive.
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