Bush is winning friends and influencing people everywhere...

[lefty_mcduff]

These wouldn't be the same folks that Bush wants to bail him out of the Iraq debacle, would it?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&e=2&u=/afp/20031119/od_afp/britain_us_bush_joke_031119182417

In the speech, Bush also derided France, particularly French President Jacques Chirac, for staunch opposition to many of his foreign policy goals.

"...He said France had long resisted American ideals, noting antipathy faced by the last US president to stay at Buckingham Palace, Woodrow Wilson in 1918, when he arrived in World War I Europe touting his so-called "14 points for peace."


"Many complimented him on his vision, yet some were dubious," Bush said of Wilson. "Take, for example, the prime minister of France. He complained that God, himself, had only 10 commandments."


He referred to comments at the time made by then French prime minister Georges Clemenceau who said of Wilson's 14 points: "Even the good Lord contented himself with only 10 commandments and we should not try to improve upon them."


"Sounds familiar," Bush said to appreciative laughter from an audience well steeped itself in rivalry with France.

[eileen_d]

1. What a maroon!

The self-deprecating comments where he compares himself to David Blaine are pretty funny though. Or they would be, if he weren't my president and hated around the world.

[Postman]

2. Wilsom was a liar too. You couldn't hold Wilson's walking stick you shit.

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