Mr. Bush's Long Christmas Vacation
Mr. Bush has been notably absent since the tsunami tragedy. A lot of the other world leaders have made nice statements expressing their condolences, but ours hasn't.
In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder cut short his vacation and returned to work in Berlin because of the Indian Ocean crisis, which began with a gigantic underwater earthquake. In Britain, the predominant U.S. voice speaking about the disaster was not Bush but former president Bill Clinton, who in an interview with the BBC said the suffering was like something in a "horror movie," and urged a coordinated international response.
And after being called stingy for only pledging $15 million in aid, and then increasing it to $35 million under pressure, you'd think Bush might want to be a little bit nice and empathic (rather than just pathetic) to the other people on the planet.
But then what can we expect from him given his stellar track record of pissing of the greater part of the European Union and the rest of the world with our ever-so-accomodating-and-cooperative foreign policy.
In other news, Georgie was seen padding around on the ranch in his Rudolph slippers mumbling "well if the rest of the world leaders jumped off a cliff, should I jump off a cliff too?"
In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder cut short his vacation and returned to work in Berlin because of the Indian Ocean crisis, which began with a gigantic underwater earthquake. In Britain, the predominant U.S. voice speaking about the disaster was not Bush but former president Bill Clinton, who in an interview with the BBC said the suffering was like something in a "horror movie," and urged a coordinated international response.
And after being called stingy for only pledging $15 million in aid, and then increasing it to $35 million under pressure, you'd think Bush might want to be a little bit nice and empathic (rather than just pathetic) to the other people on the planet.
But then what can we expect from him given his stellar track record of pissing of the greater part of the European Union and the rest of the world with our ever-so-accomodating-and-cooperative foreign policy.
In other news, Georgie was seen padding around on the ranch in his Rudolph slippers mumbling "well if the rest of the world leaders jumped off a cliff, should I jump off a cliff too?"
posted by cookie christine @ 12/29/2004
1 Comments:
At December 29, 2004,
Anonymous said…
I know he probably thinks that's a rhetorical question, but there are a lot of people who believe a little cliff-jumping should be in order. (Oh, yeah, he probably doesn't know the meaning of "rhetorical question", so maybe he's really asking!)
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