Putin: Meeting With Bush 'Very Positive'

[Career Prole]

"We are satisfied with the talks and their results. I have the feeling that our American partners would have the same assessment," Putin said at a news conference with Slovakia's president a day after his summit with Bush. "The meeting went in a very positive way, in its character and in the chosen themes."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050225/ap_on_re_eu/bush

"The meeting went in a very positive way, in its character and in the chosen themes."

Boy, did Pootie-poot give a signal there or what?

While Bush tried to keep a smile on his face throughout the session with reporters, Putin seemed tense.

Go ahead and give 'im a good foxy cussin', Vladdy...he bearly understands English, much less Russian.
Cussin' the shrub helps me feel better...go ahead. :evilgrin:

[sundancekid]

1. * speaks about "truth" in journalism like he has ANY clue -- puke!

and from the same article of the original message, here's another gem:

~snip
Bush was challenged by a Russian journalist who asked about "violations of the rights of journalists in the United States" without giving specifics.

"People do get fired in American press," the president said, adding that they get fired by editors or producers or others — not by government.

But while saying that a free press is the sign of a healthy society, Bush added: "Obviously there has got to be constraints. There's got to be truth."
~snip

[Career Prole]

3. Ain't that a kick in the pants?

"People do get fired in American press," the president said, adding that they get fired by editors or producers or others — not by government.

The Russian reporter should have asked "Does the government have the right to fire those reporters which it hires?"

[booksenkatz]

2. "Very positive"

"I'm more positive than ever that America is run by a psychotic chimp."

[chickenscratching]

4. ahahaha

i think i'd rather have my country run by a psychotic chimp than by this barbarian half orc with an intelligence/wisdom level of about 2 ( ok, maybe 2.5?).

[bahrbearian]

5. I can understand you defending chimps

but is there any need to slam barbearians and orcs.

[JTorres138]

6. Gotta love this Bush pic...

[LeaderlessResistance]

7. Putin Reacts To George Bush

Putin commenting on the loss of freedoms in the USA since Sept 11. "I'm referring to the great powers that have been assumed by the security services due to which the private lives of citizens are now being monitored by the state. This could be explained away by the consequences of September 11th, but this has nothing to do with democratic values... Why don't you talk a lot about violation of rights of journalists in the United States."

[Career Prole]

8. Testing my new photobucket account

and the abilty of babelfish to translate "squirrel" to russian...

[lebkuchen]

9. Jacques, Gerhard, Vladimir...

Tell me Bush didn't call the Pope "Johnnie Boy" during their last meeting.

[Skidmore]

11. Don't you find his use of other leaders first names in formal

settings bizarre? I've never heard this done by any other man in the office of President. I think he's trying to convey the sense that they're all buddy-buddy and using their first names also diminishes them as world leaders. He's such an insulting and clueless jerk.

[Career Prole]

14. Do you remember Belgium on Monday morning?

THE PRESIDENT: Guy, or Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for your kind introduction...

I didn't see anyone mention it, so it couldn't have happened...but besides using the Belgian Prime Minister's given name (and then awkwardly correcting himself) I could have sworn he pronounced it Guy as in "Guys and Dolls".

[lebkuchen]

15. Exactly right

Customarily, Europe is formal. In Germany even neighbors refer to each other as Herr/Frau. Bush's team has either made no effort to learn customary addresses, or else it has, and has specifically coached Bush to use first names to, as you say, diminish leadership stature/make it appear to the good ole boys back in Crawfish, Texas that, "Hey! We's kin!"

The result of Bush's willfull ignorance of protocol and cultural mores (as well as our military's) is being played out in Iraq right now.

[Skidmore]

10. Excuse me, when someone "tries to keep a smile on his face",

it is also implied that that individual is tense. So what was Weed tense about? Positive, my hney.

[Career Prole]

12. Now that's an excellent point.

Which until now had eluded me completely. :dunce:

I love it too. Thanks for pointing that out to me...I'll be having fun with it tomorrow with the 'pukes at work. :D

[cliss]

13. Bush is such a used car salesman.

He reminds me of Kurt Russell in the movie "Used Cars" and his sleazoid friends. Only Kurt Russell was funny. George BeelzeBush is not.

He's so maudlin, so burlesque. If you scroll back up and look at Bush, notice the overdone, sweeping gesture. He wants to be Vladimir Putin's buddy, so he wants to show it. The problem is, he's not really Putin's "buddy", so it's all just for show.

Now notice Putin. He's on a slow simmer. Mentally, Vladimir is sharpening his knife and judging the distance between Bush's ribs.....

A picture tells a thousand words....:smoke: