unable to attend due to conflicting schedules and more busy seeing that thread two links down?

Why should we care what the Prime Minister of Britia thinks?

He's only existed as a figure head in the States for the past 7+ years.

/it's really not that much of a leap

MisterBill: Why should we care what the Prime Minister of Britia thinks?


Hmmmm, yes, you're right...Cowboy Diplomacy has worked out soooo well these past seven years. Why should we care what our greatest ally's Prime minister has to say?

keylock71: MisterBill: Why should we care what the Prime Minister of Britia thinks?


Hmmmm, yes, you're right...Cowboy Diplomacy has worked out soooo well these past seven years. Why should we care what our greatest ally's Prime minister has to say?

Ehud Olmert? Recep Tayyip Eerdogan? What do they have to do with England?

I caught a joint press conference with them yesterday on C-SPAN, (new window) {for the full effect, play the video, the transcript just doesn't do it justice) and I was never more mortified that Bush was our president. That he's a dumbass is a given , but it's particularly hard to hear when contrasted with and actual competent world leader.

Compare their answers to this question:


Q Mr. President, Prime Minister, Nick Robinson of BBC News. The Prime Minister has repeatedly said that Britain's economic difficulties started here in the United States. Do the solutions to them have to begin here as well?

And Prime Minister, if I could ask you, you've got a very important agenda here on this trip, and yet at home increasingly you're being criticized from within your own political party. What is going wrong in your party and government, and what are you going to do about it?


First the Brit:

PRIME MINISTER BROWN : I'm sticking to the job and I'm getting on with the job. And I think people understand that there is a difficult situation around the world. We did have a credit crunch. It did mean that there were problems that started in the financial institutions in America, but these are problems now in Europe. There are problems in Britain, there are problems in every country of the world. And one of the issues that we're dealing with is that the issues that brought about the credit crunch are combined to rising food prices around the world, rising oil prices, and the threat of inflation in certain areas as well.

And I'm satisfied that the discussions we've had today with President Bush, yesterday in Wall Street -- I'm meeting Ben Bernanke, the head of the Federal Reserve tomorrow -- show the common ground we have in dealing with the issues ahead, and in getting the economy to a position where markets are moving again, where growth is restored on an upward path, and where people can feel more safe and more secure about their jobs.

What matters to me is that people feel safe and secure about the future, about their prospects, and about their jobs. And that's why we will not hesitate to take any action that is necessary to keep the economy moving forward.

That's why I've outlined today measures that include what we can do in the housing market, what we can do to tackle food price rises, what we can do to tackle oil price rises. And that's why it's important that there is coordination across the Atlantic -- indeed, coordination between all the major industrial powers -- so that we can all contribute what each of us can in each continent to the process of restoring both confidence in the world economy, and stability and growth, and we will continue to do that.

And as far as the domestic situation back home, I will continue to do the right thing, and do what is right for the British economy and the British people.


As compared to :


PRESIDENT BUSH: We're in a rough patch right now. Had a pretty good run. Matter of fact, had the most consecutive months of job growth in the country's history. And our housing market went soft and it began to affect the financial markets.

So we've done a -- taken a variety of steps. First, we're trying to help credit-worthy people stay in their homes. I don't know what it's like in Britain, but here, the guy who gave you your mortgage generally doesn't own the paper anymore; they bundled it up and sold it somewhere else, and it's hard to find somebody to renegotiate with. So we put a system in place that helps credit-worthy homeowners renegotiate. In other words, we want to help people stay in their homes.

I'm not particularly interested in bailing out lenders or speculators. But I am interested in helping hard-working Americans be able to find a way to stay in their homes. And it's been effective -- effective program.

Secondly, we worked with Congress on a pro-growth package, over $150 billion of tax cuts, most of which will start hitting people's mailboxes and/or accounts in the second week of May. Some of the incentives in the pro-growth package are for small businesses and businesses with accelerated appreciation, incentives to invest. And it's beginning to kick in a little bit, but the program hasn't really taken effect. I mean, the consumers don't have their checks yet. And we feel good that this will help our economy.

And finally, the Fed -- which is independent from the White House, I might add -- has taken some strong actions to enhance liquidity in the system. And I'm -- we'll work with Congress on pieces of legislation that will actually help people and I'll take a dim view of legislation that will make it harder for the economy to correct.

Cornwell: keylock71: MisterBill: Why should we care what the Prime Minister of Britia thinks?


Hmmmm, yes, you're right...Cowboy Diplomacy has worked out soooo well these past seven years. Why should we care what our greatest ally's Prime minister has to say?

Ehud Olmert? Recep Tayyip Eerdogan? What do they have to do with England?

Touche...

Cornwell: keylock71: MisterBill: Why should we care what the Prime Minister of Britia thinks?


Hmmmm, yes, you're right...Cowboy Diplomacy has worked out soooo well these past seven years. Why should we care what our greatest ally's Prime minister has to say?

Ehud Olmert? Recep Tayyip Eerdogan? What do they have to do with England?

He's making fun of the misspelling in the headline. Good call.

Selector: He's making fun of the misspelling in the headline. Good call.

Missed the typo in the headline, suspected "Britia" to be an attempt at a Bushism, like thanking the Austrian troops for their efforts in Iraq.

Anybody up for a White Britian?

imashelcha
Anybody up for a White Britian?

Only if it's Kate Winslet!

"If it wasn't a personal relationship, I wouldn't be inviting the man to a nice hamburger or something,"
That's our president, saying something that's not intelligent.

Can we ask him to move out before his term is finished, so we can clean up the mess.

"If it wasn't a personal relationship, I wouldn't be inviting the man to a nice hamburger or something,"

What a moron.