Counterproductive
by matt at 8:30 am on July 15th, 2006 in Bush Man Date, Podium SpinWinning friends and influencing people:
“I talked 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,” Bush said.
To that, Putin replied, “We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy that they have in Iraq, quite honestly.”
I would literally give everything I own to know what was going through Bush’s head at that exact moment.
John wrote:
“like Iraq where there is a free press and free religion.”
Hilarious.
Posted 15 Jul 2006 at 9:28 am ¶
matt wrote:
the more i think about this. the more irritated i get.
he couldn’t put his bullshit talking points on hold for a minute? didn’t anyone think that it was the height of hypocrisy to be lecturing anyone on freedom at the moment? couldn’t bush have looked into putin’s soul and realized that this would be the most likely outcome?
Posted 15 Jul 2006 at 9:39 am ¶
John wrote:
it’s a fine line between message discipline and delusional message.
Posted 15 Jul 2006 at 12:10 pm ¶
Ken wrote:
I’m thinking it was either a monkey clanging cymbals together, or a big pork sandwich.
Posted 15 Jul 2006 at 6:51 pm ¶
tina harris wrote:
Otchem haddashaw, Mr. Putin. That is the closest phonological writing of Very Good
To the King goes a Otchem plohhah, or a Very bad
Thanks for the visit. Not that I would love a former KGB guy. Your story was just so great.
Posted 17 Jul 2006 at 12:10 am ¶