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GeneralDisorder
11-18-2003, 12:27 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3279179.stm

You just will not believe the disruption he's about to cause. Does he never go out back home...?
RedskinsDave
11-18-2003, 01:06 PM
He doesn't go out as much as Clinton and his father did.
higgybaby
11-18-2003, 01:09 PM
you anti war demonstrators are a hoot..
TexSkin
11-18-2003, 02:58 PM
This does not belong here will move to political forum.
GeneralDisorder
11-19-2003, 03:24 AM
Oops... Is that me being told off...?
GeneralDisorder
11-19-2003, 04:56 AM
Would've been far more entertaining for us Londoners if you guys had sent him over in a glass box like David Blaine.

We could've stuck his lapdog Blair in there with him just in case he got lonely...
Seebs
11-19-2003, 05:01 AM
My boss has to go to London by tomorrow, and she really doesn't like being there at the same time than W
GeneralDisorder
11-19-2003, 05:09 AM
I wouldn't mind normally, but it ain't half going to disrupt my birthday...
GeneralDisorder
11-19-2003, 10:57 AM
Well, a few thousand skanky students (or tax-dodgers, as we call 'em over here...) have gone marching around London, waving placards and being dead angry an' that...

Wait till Bush sees that little lot. That'll really learn him...
BigCountry
11-19-2003, 12:21 PM
Only place on earth Bush can go without finding the slightest bit of objection is Israel.
Skinzaholic
11-19-2003, 01:23 PM
I bet seeing that grandma climb the fence at Buckingham Palace was a hoot!
GeneralDisorder
11-20-2003, 05:12 AM
Erm, that was the Queen, mate...
BigCountry
11-20-2003, 12:49 PM
I couldda used moves like that when I was jumping fences to ditch high school!
Spence
11-20-2003, 03:51 PM
The welcome in the U.K. might be a bit frosty, but it is the only place in Europe where Mr Bush can go. It'd be a lot worse just about anywhere else.
RedskinsDave
11-20-2003, 06:34 PM
The weird part is polls show more Brits welcome the visit than do not.
Spence
11-20-2003, 07:21 PM
Yeah, it is something like 43% in favor and 36% against the visit. But considering the U.K. is our closest ally, that's a pretty lousy number.
Skinzaholic
11-20-2003, 10:23 PM
Well... unfortunately, England shares the same problem with biased media coverage as we do. Amazing how it sways public opinion the way it does.
Seebs
11-21-2003, 09:33 AM
As I'm very polite, i would welcome the visit of W in France, even if I dislike him and his politics.
Spence
11-21-2003, 09:34 AM
Skinz, do you actually follow the media in the UK. The biggest selling newspaper is a conservative rag called The Sun which backed Margaret Thatcher for years and then her successor John Major. It was also very pro-Iraq War. The Times of London is a conservative newspaper that was pro-Iraq War. The Daily Telegraph is a conservative newspaper that was pro-Iraq War. [I know the entire DC staff of the Telegraph personally and each and every one would happily vouch for their paper's unabashed conservatism.] The Times and The Sun are both Rupert Murdoch newspapers, who also owns the New York Post and FOX News, which seem to be conservative enough for you, Kevin.

Also note that Mr Bush gave his one and only exclusive U.K. interview to The Sun, a family values newspaper that features girls with bare breasts on page three. Hooray for Republican family values! Hooray!
Seebs
11-21-2003, 09:36 AM
uh oh... Spence knows very well the british newspapers...
RedskinsDave
11-21-2003, 09:44 AM
That's awesome. Somehow American Republicans are responsible for British family values. Man, we're more powerful than I thought.
GeneralDisorder
11-27-2003, 07:59 AM
Depends which Brits they asked.

Just about everyone I know (yeah, all three of us...) didn't want him over...
Spence
11-27-2003, 08:33 AM
Originally posted by RedskinsDave
That's awesome. Somehow American Republicans are responsible for British family values. Man, we're more powerful than I thought. Hey, Republicans think they're responsible for American family values. Why not British, too? [Of course, the fact that divorce and teenage pregnancy rates are far higher in states that voted for Bush in 2000 is one of those embarrassing facts no one is supposed to mention.]
Skinzaholic
11-27-2003, 09:35 AM
Originally posted by Spence
Hey, Republicans think they're responsible for American family values. Why not British, too? [Of course, the fact that divorce and teenage pregnancy rates are far higher in states that voted for Bush in 2000 is one of those embarrassing facts no one is supposed to mention.]


Come on Spence... your intelligence level is higher then that! It is a very small segment of the population that actually votes at all... so listing a state's moral atmosphere as linked in any way to the majority voting stance is a tad bit missing it.

Who knows... perhaps the individuals who are responsible for those divorces and teen pregnency's are the Democrats who couldnt read the ballot in order to cast their vote. That statement is just as crazy as the one you just made.
C-7
12-03-2003, 08:47 AM
Originally posted by RedskinsDave
The weird part is polls show more Brits welcome the visit than do not.

I doubt this.
RedskinsDave
12-03-2003, 08:52 AM
Doubt all you want, it's a fact.
C-7
12-03-2003, 09:53 AM
Originally posted by RedskinsDave
Doubt all you want, it's a fact.

I doubt your facts.
RedskinsDave
12-03-2003, 10:11 AM
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/world/7294635.htm
C-7
12-03-2003, 10:16 AM
OK