Bush opens Oval Office to Gore: 'Photo opportunity'

[underpants]

Source: Baltimore Sun

George W. Bush won the White House.

Albert A. Gore Jr. won the Nobel Prize.

The two will meet today in the Oval Office, where President Bush will honor the American winners of this year's Nobels, including Gore, the former vice president who claimed his share of the prize this year for his work on global warming and also claimed a majority of the popular vote in the presidential election of 2000 but lost to Bush in the Electoral College -- following a 36-day court fight over a disputed 537-vote margin for Bush in Florida.

They have met before -- at the funeral for President Gerald Ford, for instance. But not in this environment: The office which Gore once hoped to claim.

Yet the Oval Office ceremony will serve as a "photo opportunity,'' not a public ceremony per se, the White House says today. What's said in the Oval Office may well stay in the Oval Office.



Read more: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/11/bush_opens_oval_office_to_gore.html

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What a bunch of classless asses :grr:

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Gore belongs in the office - the other guy cheated his way in...

[AlinPA]

2. What will Bush** say to insult Gore? If he doesn't, he will disappoint his base.

[tom_paine]

4. Yes, it will be grotesque and cruel, an insult to all Americans.

You watch. Fuhrers have to be Fuhrers, and be who they are.

You are absolutely correct, but it isn't about making his Stormtroopers happy...he could give less of a shit about his programmed drones. It is about making HIM happy, and his smirky comments are meant for the impotent and powerless Amerikan Subjects.

It is primate-dominance-establishment.

I wish you hadn't reminded me that this is 99% certain to happen, sometimes I'd rather be surprised by the inevitable.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

13. Reminds me of To Kill a Mockingbird...

Atticus Finch meets Bob Ewell...

[Dr.Phool]

3. Watch your pockets Al. He's gonna steal your prize.

Again.

[Ishoutandscream2]

5. Bush to Gore, "I'd kill for that Nobel thingy"

I know, old Stephen Wright joke, but I could see the Dunce saying that.

[Demeter]

6. Will Al Go?

I Wouldn't! Talk about walking into the lion's den without a prayer.

[underpants]

7. Oh I think it is quite the opposite

especially from a "phoyo op" standpoint- the Americans people are going to get a vivid picture of how things could have been oh so different.

"Don't blame the people we voted for Gore" - great bumpersticker I saw once.

[MotorCityMan]

8. A comment left about the article

"George Bush continues to be a class act as a person. Does anyone notice that he does not resort to belittling people, calling persons names, or demeaning them, as is done so often to him? He restored dignity to an office that was so
badly damaged by scandal prior to him.
There is value in being a decent human being, as President Bush is demonstrating today in his honoring Al Gore."


* a class act?!?!?! :puke:

[Ishoutandscream2]

9. Unbelievable. So what do these folks think of Plamegate

Oh, I guess a blow job trumps treason. What idiots.

[NYC Liberal]

14. LOL! Like the time he mocked a blind man for wearing sunglasses?

Or the time he went to visit a VA hospital and "joked" about he'd been "injured" too...a scratch while clearing brush?
Or the time he told a man in a wheelchair "You look mighty comfortable"?
Or the time he told a reporter that he had "a face for radio"...MORE than once?
Or the time he mocked Karla Faye Tucker just before she was about to be executed?

Then there was the time he invaded a county which has led to 3,000+ Americans dead and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead for no DAMN REASON!

I could go on and on and on.

[petersjo02]

10. Will Bush tell Al the story about "the rug"? n/t

[Lisa]

11. Georgie probably lay awake all night, thinking up backhanded things to say to Al

One of the few areas in which Bush excels is at making unpleasant put-downs, to use on people who are too classy to sink to his level. Remember his "hanging" comment to MLK's widow?

[Supersedeas]

12. Sandra Day O'Connor can be so proud that she was played a part in this event

[Javaman]

15. I think moron* was hoping some of Al's intelligence would rub off on him*. lol nt