Bush* was forced to speak in a ZOO!

[thereismore]

as per Malloy. The Indian partliament did not allow him to speak there, so, naturally, he spoke at the ZOO. I wonder how far the chimpanzees were from their leader.

[CottonBear]

1. He wasn't allowed to speak at his second choice of venues either!

So the zoo it was! Oh, the irony! ;)

[leveymg]

8. Mommies, don't let your babies grow up to be Dubya

[CottonBear]

10. What a nice picture. It's an insult to chimps to call Bush by their name.

:(

[Joanne98]

2. But, but, the monkeys were happy.

[LiberalEsto]

3. So happy that they threw feces at him

pretty good for a chimp

[Cyrano]

4. Don't insult the chimps.

How often do they get the opportunity to do a shunning?

[tatertop]

5. I have never heard of anyone giving a speech in a Zoo

Leave it to Bush

[rodeodance]

6. the zoo was contained in some kind of fortress--security you know.

[rodeodance]

9. Baby Bush go home --here is good article on it-the "Old Fort"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Baby Bush go home

Arundhati Roy
Wednesday March 1, 2006
The Guardian


On his triumphalist tour of this part of the world, where he hopes to wave imperiously at people he considers potential subjects, President Bush's itinerary is getting curiouser and curiouser. For his March 2 pit stop in New Delhi, the Indian government tried very hard to have him address our Parliament. A not inconsequential number of MPs threatened to heckle him, so Plan One was hastily shelved. Plan Two was that he address the masses from the ramparts of the magnificent Red Fort where the Indian prime minister traditionally delivers his Independence Day address. But the Red Fort, surrounded as it is by the predominantly Muslim population of Old Delhi, was considered a security nightmare. So now we're into Plan Three: President George Bush speaks from Purana Qila, the Old Fort.

Ironic, isn't it, that the only safe public space for a man who has recently been so enthusiastic about India's modernity should be a crumbling medieval fort?
Since the Purana Qila also houses the Delhi zoo - George Bush's audience will be a few hundred caged animals and an approved list of caged human beings who in India go under the category of "eminent persons". They're mostly rich folk who live in our poor country like captive animals, incarcerated by their own wealth, locked and barred in their gilded cages, protecting themselves from the threat of the vulgar and unruly multitudes whom they have systematically dispossessed over the centuries.

So what's going to happen to George W Bush? Will the gorillas cheer him on? Will the gibbons curl their lips? Will the brow-antlered deer sneer? Will the chimps make rude noises? Will the owls hoot? Will the lions yawn and the giraffes bat their beautiful eyelashes? Will the crocs recognise a kindred soul? Will the quails give thanks that Bush isn't travelling with Dick Cheney, his hunting partner with the notoriously bad aim? Will the CEOs agree?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

11. Good stuff!

"Will the crocs recognize a kindred soul?"

BWAHAHAHAAAA!!!

[Cyrano]

7. To anyone who's ever heard a Bush "speech" a zoo is a fitting place.

[Vidar]

12. Apparently no circus in town.

[Minnesota Libra]

13. How appropriate - Anyone got any pictures of.....

.....the boy king and the chips sqawking???? :bounce:

[xkenx]

14. How dare some of you insult chimps and other zoo animals that way!

I used to call our would-be emperor a cockroach until I realized that even those creatures have a basic honesty about them, so that I was denigrating them with the comparison. I haven't thought of a really appropriate name, unless it might be "He-whose-name-shall-not-be-uttered-because-some- life-form-might-be-unfairly-tainted."

C'mon folks, help me out here.

[Neil Lisst]

15. it's the only place Bush wouldn't be booed!! n/t