B*sh to skip all UN meetings on Global Warming Monday; will attend dinner!

[npincus]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/world/24warming.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin


Our National Embarrassment speaking to World Leaders with a mouthful of cud at prior G7 luncheon

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — Dozens of world leaders are to gather at the United Nations on Monday for a full agenda of talks on how to fight global warming, and President Bush is skipping all the day’s events but the dinner.

Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, is hoping to jump-start negotiations on replacing the Kyoto Protocol.
His focus instead is on his own gathering of leaders in Washington later this week, a meeting with the same stated goal, a reduction in the emissions blamed for climate change, but a fundamentally different idea of how to achieve it.

Mr. Bush’s aides say that the parallel meeting does not compete against the United Nations’ process — hijacking it, as his critics charge. They say that Mr. Bush hopes to persuade the nations that produce 90 percent of the world’s emissions to come to a consensus that would allow each, including the United States, to set its own policies rather than having limits imposed by binding international treaty.

“It’s our philosophy that each nation has the sovereign capacity to decide for itself what its own portfolio of policies should be,” said James L. Connaughton, the president’s chief environmental adviser.

[bryant69]

1. If we decide to pollute the hell out of the planet, that's our choice

It's not like it effects anybody else. Assuming this Global Warming stuff is a bunch of hoo haw, which I'm sure it is cause it was cool all last week.

Bryant
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[SoCalDem]

2. First in line for the grub..not present for the "work".. That's our president

:grr:

[npincus]

8. with more scintillating dinner banter like this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/the-ugly-truth-our-presi_b_25257.html


The camera is focused elsewhere and it is not clear whom Bush is talking to, but possibly Chinese President Hu Jintao, a guest at the summit.

Bush: "Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight. Go to the airport, get on the airplane and go home. How about you? Where are you going? Home?

Bush: "This is your neighborhood. It doesn't take you long to get home. How long does it take you to get home?"

Reply is inaudible.

Bush: "Eight hours? Me too. Russia's a big country and you're a big country."

At this point, the president seems to bring someone else into the conversation.

Bush: "It takes him eight hours to fly home."

He turns his attention to a server.

Bush: "No, Diet Coke, Diet Coke."

He turns back to whomever he was talking with.

Bush: "It takes him eight hours to fly home. Eight hours. Russia's big and so is China."

[SoCalDem]

10. Every time he speaks, I flash back to 5th grade

he talks like the kid who didn't read the book, yet has to stand in front of the class and read his book report aloud :)

[bdamomma]

3. what a fucking a$$hole he is, he is getting more defiant and

belligerent.

he should not attend the dinner if he is not going attend the meeting. what a despicable man.

[jojo54]

7. Exactly.

It' like he's silently saying that none of these other world leaders are deserving of his presence. Asswipe!

[RevCheesehead]

4. Don't you mean "a mouthful of crow?"

"What global warming?"

Poor chimpy - still afraid of the big bad oil companies, yet needs to acknowledge that pesky environment. :nopity:

[BuelahWitch]

5. Is Gore speaking today?

Maybe that's one reason why. Despite "losing" the 2000 election, Gore is lauded world over and Bush is despised...

[jwirr]

6. Actually, they may make more progress without him. This country

would have been better off if he and his buddies had all gone hunting on the ranch for the entire 6 years.

[AndyA]

9. Chimpy is going to walk in to dinner thinking he's Mr. Big Hot Shot.

Leader of the free world.

The most powerful man in the world.

And everyone else at the dinner is thinking, "There's that arrogant idiot asshole. He's done the absolute worst job representing the United States during his tenure, and he's too stupid to realize it."

The rest of the guests are no doubt checking the seating assignments, hoping they aren't anywhere close to him.

[bdamomma]

13. and he will probably talk with his mouth full to

even with that new book that was written about him Dead Certain, even the author said he was talking with his mouth full and the author even called him scruffy.

[npincus]

14. LOL- is that right?

Babs raised herself a little piggie.

[AndyA]

18. Bush is nothing if he's not rude, crude, and arrogant.

I've also heard he also likes to pass gas in the presence of others. He thinks it's funny. :eyes:

[npincus]

20. B*sh to present proposal to combat greenhouse gases:

[MissDeeds]

11. Oh goody

Another chance for him to speak with his mouth full and say "sh!t" into an open mike.

[peekaloo]

12. Being seated at the Kiddie table. He can have all the p-nut butter & honey sammiches

he wants, plus there'll be cheeseburger pizza!

[sakabatou]

15. "What? Global Warmin?"

"I don't care about that dooo-hickey, just give me some steak! Yee-haw!"

[bdamomma]

16. you know I can hear him say something like that.

what a POS he is. he is so arrogant, and cocky.

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. Demonstrating to the World once again what an arrogant self absorbed

little man? he is.

[Ino]

19. "I thought you were going to ask about the pig."

The chow is all he cares about. He's sitting on top of the world. No one will make him do anything he doesn't want to do. No one will stop him. No one will get rid of him.

[Eurobabe]

21. He heard they were serving hot dogs n/t

[BuelahWitch]

22. Bush didn't go, but our REAL President did...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1897632