We're D00Med.

[erastes]

I've only just got around to reading the conversation between Blair and Bush at the G8.

Yeah. Right. Reading this transcript REALLY instils a sense of confidence into me. I really feel the world is safe in their hands. NOT. I mean.... have you read the level of intellect?

Seriously worried. If these two aren't in charge.. Who is? And are they rimming each other in public, or am I reading it wrong? Honestly, if you wrote this in novel you'd be laughed off the planet.

Bush: Yo, Blair. How are you doing? (Yo?)

Blair: I'm just...

Bush: You're leaving?

Blair: No, no, no not yet. On this trade thingy...[indistinct]

Bush: Yeah, I told that to the man.

Blair: Are you planning to say that here or not?

Bush: If you want me to.

Blair: Well, it's just that if the discussion arises...

Bush: I just want some movement.

Blair: Yeah.

Bush: Yesterday we didn't see much movement..

Blair: No, no, it may be that it's not, it may be that it's impossible.

Bush: I am prepared to say it.

Blair: But it's just I think that we need to be an opposition...

Bush: Who is introducing the trade?

Blair: Angela [Merkel, the German Chancellor]

Bush: Tell her to call 'em.

Blair: Yes

Bush: Tell her to put him on, them on the spot. Thanks for the sweater - it's awfully thoughtful of you.

Blair: It's a pleasure.

Bush: I know you picked it out yourself.

Blair: Oh absolutely - in fact I knitted it!!!

(laughter)

Bush: What about Kofi? [Annan] - he seems all right. I don't like his ceasefire plan. His attitude is basically ceasefire and everything sorts out.... But I think...

Blair: Yeah, no I think the [indistinct] is really difficult. We can't stop this unless you get this international business agreed.

Bush: Yeah.

Blair: I don't know what you guys have talked about, but as I say I am perfectly happy to try and see what the lie of the land is, but you need that done quickly because otherwise it will spiral.

Bush: I think Condi [US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice] is going to go pretty soon.

Blair: But that's, that's, that's all that matters. But if you... you see it will take some time to get that together.

Bush: Yeah, yeah.

Blair: But at least it gives people...

Bush: It's a process, I agree. I told her your offer to...

Blair: Well... it's only if I mean... you know. If she's got a..., or if she needs the ground prepared as it were... Because obviously if she goes out she's got to succeed, if it were, whereas I can go out and just talk.

Bush: You see the irony is what they need to do is get Syria, to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's all over...

Blair: [indistinct]

Bush: [indistinct]

Blair: Dunno... Syria....

Bush: Why?

Blair: Because I think this is all part of the same thing...

Bush: (with mouth full of bread) Yeah

Blair: Look - what does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine. If you get a solution in Israel and Palestine, Iraq goes in the right way

Bush: Yeah, yeah, he is struggling.

Blair: He's had it. And that's what the whole thing is about. It's the same with Iraq.

Bush: I felt like telling Kofi to call, to get on the phone to Assad and make something happen.

Blair: Yeah

Bush: [indistinct]

Blair: [indistinct]

Bush: We are not blaming the Lebanese government.

Blair: Is this...? [Blair taps the microphone in front of him and the sound is cut.]

Comments

[rwday.livejournal.com]

No, the RDE's are way more articulate than these two.

I'm surprised Bush didn't start out with 'Yo, Blair, how's it hanging?'

Terrifying. These jokers have nuclear weapons.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Someone take the countries away from them - PLEASE!

Even the Beeb headline harps on it.

[andsaca369.livejournal.com]

I've read here and there what people make of all this, and most people seem to be jumping on the fact that the man said "shit" in what he thought was a private conversation.

People are missing the damned point.

Who cares? Just about every last one of the people shrieking and pointing fingers for "shit" use the word themselves at least twenty times a day. I'd lay good money on that and there isn't a person in this earth that could convince me otherwise. The thing is commonplace now. It's basic vocabulary.

What people ought to be focussing on is the fact that the man is inept. He's a C-average near-dropout playing cowboy politics in an increasingly unstable world that demands a finer touch than the usual MO of simply going in, all guns blazing. I seriously doubt he'd ever have been elected at all (although I still contend he wasn't) if he didn't have daddy-hired handlers, managers and yes-men at every corner.

But it's a typical head-in-the-sand reaction. OMG A CUSS WORD OMG OMG OMG! Never mind the fact that the two ostensibly most powerful men in the world are stumbling their way through a conversation about volatile foriegn policy, making it look like a rejected Laurel and Hardy sketch.

Re: Even the Beeb headline harps on it.

[rwday.livejournal.com]

People care that W. said shit? Like, real people who aren't fundamentalist televangelists? That's just bizarre. It's like complaining that the Titanic's band is out of tune as the ship goes down.

Re: Even the Beeb headline harps on it.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i know. Over here the press are having a field day, not for the "shit" - we think that's just as funny as the rest of it (if it wasn't so bloody terrifying) shows such a lack of vocabularly - and BLAIR... Omg! Without a speech to read, the man turns into a gibbering idiot.

What am I saying. "Turns into?"

He's already a gibbering idiot!

And who's this "man" they refer to? *worries*

Re: Even the Beeb headline harps on it.

[dementedsiren.livejournal.com]

Best guess, via slate.com collating of interpretations, was Bashar al-Assad, the current Syrian president.

Re: Even the Beeb headline harps on it.

[dementedsiren.livejournal.com]

Or, rather, that's the "he" they're talking about later (some people thought it was Kofi Annan, but the argument goes that it's Assad they're talking about because Annan doesn't fit the bill, per se).

With regards to "the man"

It must be Samuel L. Jackson.

[liriaen.livejournal.com]

Fret not. The world is in safe hands, indeed. I am currently considering hanging myself with a sock from the door handle.

Best bit, imho: Bush: Yeah, I told that to the man. Because, clearly, none of these two is THE man to make decisions around here. Akhh!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

yes, that's the scary bit. Who is this shadowy man? Deepthroat? *dies of the giggles*

[angrboda]

*blink*

*blink blink*

*hides under bed with cat*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*grabs Lili, joins you*

[alafairnadia.livejournal.com]

Bush: Tell her to put him on, them on the spot. Thanks for the sweater - it's awfully thoughtful of you.

Blair: It's a pleasure.

Bush: I know you picked it out yourself.

Blair: Oh absolutely - in fact I knitted it!!!


that's the best part. is there a part of the UK that is the equivalent of Texas?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

What, full of idiots?

Yep. Parliament.

[xrated13.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahahaha. Yup, The Sweater says it all.

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

I was just talking to my husband about this in the car and said that "I'm going to be absolutely PISSED if the world ends before I get to read the end of Harry Potter." Yes, I know, terribly trivial of me, but I'm figuring if we can get both Bush and Blair worrying about this, it might keep their minds out of politics long enough NOT to blow up t he world, you know?

/end sarcasm

[erastes.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. Although I don't think Bush would understand it.

JKR is NOT to go on any planes.

[lyras.livejournal.com]

God, they sound so...noncommittal and miserable, as if they're trying to say everything between the lines.

But yes, I think Bush's opener is the pick of the conversation!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

it was the gaps that worried me. Like they were doing something else!

*sporked*

[iulia_linnea.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's horrifying, all right---add to that the neck-rubbing incident and my humiliation at having such a fuck up as president is complete.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

and mine with our president prime minister...

*hides in a cupboard until they go away*

I mean, Maggie was a war monger and Regan was a nitwit, but - gah! At least they could hold a conversation!

[iulia_linnea.livejournal.com]

Without fondling one another.

[ariadneelda.livejournal.com]

OMG. That sounds like a parody. Only - it's not.

Scary isn't it? Not that I'm surprised. Not really.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

as I say, if you wrote it down, it would be funny.

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

Holy fuck, that's erotic.

Also, if they're going to be male DE, does that mean we can cast Jordan as Narcissa and Jodie Marsh as Bella?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

They'd be perfect.

Blair: I think... i think.... I. .. I ... should invade Syria

Jodie: Whatever!

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Moo-ommy, that twanscwipt is scawey!
Vewy scawey.
I just hope the nice Marine with the suitcase handcuffed to his wrist is stubborn about inventing new things like, "Umm, no, Mister Prezzie, we don't hit that button when we're pissed at Mister Assad's rude answers, that would make your desk and your fancy pen burn down and we wouldn't want that, would we?"
By all accounts, it's gonna take somebody pretty clever to keep the temper tantrums under control.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I just hope they are NOT really in charge and that there is someone else.

*worries*

[maidenform.livejournal.com]

OMFGWHAT!!!

Bush and Blair, plztobe dying sometime soon? Kthnx.

Argh, I hate them.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping!!

[spacetweenears.livejournal.com]

Funny thing is, I thought the cursing was a more appropriate description coming from him. Probably the most honest, at least.

And yes, OMG so scary on the fact they are our leaders.

*sigh*

hiding

[pwookie.livejournal.com]

Ill be hiding under the bed with Moreteadk and the cat and praying

sigh
Pwookie

Re: hiding

[erastes.livejournal.com]

me too!

*cowers*

[ejab62.livejournal.com]

Thought that microphones in the chimps cage were forbidden???

[bloodrebel333.livejournal.com]

Went back looking for this to link it to someone else, and my God, what are people talking about? They ONLY mention Bush's use of the word shit and not their obvious incompetence. How can people be so stupid?