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You are a foolish snob, Dr. Hook. And we're not. We just think this thing is friggen hilarious.
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What? I almost openly declare my admiration for mulattos, and yet you call me a racist?Originally posted by aaglo
RACIST!
There is only one human race, and we all belong to it.
Freedom is just unawareness of being manipulated.Comment
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Oh, I think it's hilarious, too. I also think that it's pathetic.Originally posted by GP
You are a foolish snob, Dr. Hook. And we're not. We just think this thing is friggen hilarious.
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund FreudComment
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Yeah, well...that figures based on your politics, Guy.Comment
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It is kind of pathetic, though...Comment
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Well my politics wont get in the way of me saying dubya is an ignorant fool.
...people like to cry a lot... - Pekka
...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - SnottyComment
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A lot of those guys are not brainiacs. Dubya is pretty good at showing it though...Comment
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Yeah, he should learn to hide it like Gore.Originally posted by GP
A lot of those guys are not brainiacs. Dubya is pretty good at showing it though...
...people like to cry a lot... - Pekka
...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - SnottyComment
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All these pages and no one checked snopes yet?
Is it true? Until something more definitive comes along one way or the other, consider that:
------The item is short on specifics (such as the date of the meeting at which Bush's gaffe supposedly occurred) and has been reported in only a few foreign news outlets, all several months after the fact.
Bush and Cardoso did meet in the Oval Office back in November 2001, and the meeting was attended by national security advisor Condoleezza Rice, but the earliest citing of this story we've found so far, in O Estado de S. Paulo, didn't appear until 28 April 2002. Of course, it's certainly possible that President Cardoso was being diplomatic in refraining from speaking of the incident at the time and therefore didn't talk about it on the record until months later, although none of the reports we've seen specifically identifies who told the press about it. It looks like people are assuming President Cardoso did because of his "learning phase" comment, but the accounts don't identify him as the source of the story.
--------Of all the other people present at the meeting between Bush and Cardoso -- Secretary of State Colin Powell; Chief of Staff Andrew Card; White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer; Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs and Deputy National Security Advisor Gary Edson; Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Lino Gutierrez; Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs Ambassador Eric Edelman; and Ambassador John Maisto, NSC Senior Advisor on Latin American Affairs -- that Condoleezza Rice should be the one to intervene and fix up Bush's embarrassing inquiry (a black woman with superior knowledge coming to the aid of a "racist" white man in trouble) seems a little too perfectly ironic.
---------The final comment, attributed to Cardoso, that "regarding Latin America, Bush was still in his 'learning phase,'" is rather reminiscent of a joke told about Vice-President Dan Quayle in 1989: that Quayle said, "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." (The essence of the joke was soon put into Quayle's mouth when it quickly mutated into a claim that he actually had said those words, and the joke has been widely cited as a "real" quote ever since).
So, it boils down to: "No one really knows if that happen, but it is that interesting that anti-George Bush site gwbush.com broke the "story"."Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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