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Title: MADSEN ON STATE DINNER WITH QUEEN
Source:
Wayne Madsen Report
URL Source: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
Published: May 8, 2007
Author: Wayne Madsen
Post Date: 2007-05-08 16:14:00 by aristeides
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Views: 155
Comments: 8
May 8, 2007 -- Our White House sources report that the Queen's visit to the White House yesterday was a protocol disaster. Not only had George W. Bush commenced his drinking routine early in the morning, just in time for the first mid-day visit by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, but his drunkenness continued well into the evening during the lavish state dinner. Bush dreaded the Queen's visit and prepared for it by getting drunk. The Queen has never hidden her dislike for Bush who she considers ill-bred, impetuous, and a social boor. The Queen's dislike for Bush goes back to 1991 when he insulted her during another state visit by inquiring which of her children was the "black sheep" of her family. The Queen told him to mind his own business. The Queen was also unhappy that then-First Lady Barbara Bush failed to control her son during that visit to the White House. In November 2003, the Queen was incensed about Bush's Marine One helicopter tearing up her flower garden at Buckingham Palace and traumatizing her flock of flamingoes. Bush's communications staff also damaged expensive fabrics inside the royal residence. Bush never compensated the Queen for the damage and she had to file an insurance claim. With that background, Bush groused about having to wear a white tie tuxedo for last night's state dinner. It took the direct intervention of Laura Bush and Condoleezza Rice to convince Bush to wear the appropriate attire. During yesterday's welcoming ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Bush insinuated that the Queen was over 230 years old when he stated she had helped celebrate America's Bicentennial in 1776. The Queen was heard to have uttered the words, "Oh dear." Bush then winked at the Queen who was not amused by the president's antics. Bush also stated that the Queen gave him a look "that only a mother could give a child." It was not the first time the Queen had looked at Bush with an icy stare. Bush also nearly put his arm on the Queen's shoulder as he escorted her down the stairs from the red carpeted dais. White House protocol officials remained nervous about Bush during the entire Royal visit. The Queen and Prince Phillip are sure to have much to talk about on their trip back home this evening. While the Queen was keen on visiting Virginia and the Kentucky Derby, her past dealings with the Bush family had her fearing the White House visit. Bush's boorish demeanor was in keeping with his past indiscretions around the Queen.
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#1. To: aristeides (#0)
Condi has this much maternal influence over him?
What no neck rub?
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
Chimps saves that for the Pizza Boys.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and German Chancellors.
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
"Royal Visit?" Fuck the Queen of England and all her kids and nephews and neices, too. We fought a war a kicked their asses out of this country over two hundred years ago and we've had to pull their chestnuts out of the fire twice since then. The Queen should be kissing the fucking ground and thanking her stars that America exists, rather than getting miffed about some social gaffe on the part of our idiot wannabe king. Let the Brits be offended. Gah, like I give a shit. And Laura and Condi getting their panties all wet because "the !Queen is coming!" She's just another dried up British prig.
If you value security more than liberty you need your head examined.
To traumatize flamingoes and root up gardens strikes me as something more than a mere social gaffe.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
PETA much?
The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer. -Henry Kissinger
That, too.
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma Gandhi
It took the direct intervention of Laura Bush and Condoleezza Rice to convince Bush to wear the appropriate attire.
#2. To: aristeides (#0)
Bush also nearly put his arm on the Queen's shoulder as he escorted her down the stairs from the red carpeted dais.
#3. To: robin (#2)
#4. To: IndieTX (#3)
#5. To: aristeides (#0)
White House protocol officials remained nervous about Bush during the entire Royal visit.
#6. To: bluedogtxn (#5)
#7. To: aristeides (#6)
To traumatize flamingoes and root up gardens strikes me as something more than a mere social gaffe.
#8. To: aristeides (#0)
Bush : ill-bred, impetuous, and a social boor.
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