I hate these wimpy-@ssed living room presidential summits

In My Humble Opinion
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You know what I mean. The prez sits in an easy chair. Some foriegn big shot sits across from him in another easy chair. They chat in front of the press and maybe answer a few questions.

Bleahh! They look like two old DAR ladies having tea. This is America flexing its might before the world?

I want to go back to the “old school” of summit diplomacy: two gruff, bulldoglike leaders (they get points if they chomp on cigars) flanked by a cloud of doting underlings emerge from a columnfronted building with a signed document which they hold high in the air as they shake their fists at the sky and announce the ultimate demise of their enemies. They curtly answer one or two questions from the press, but only as they race down the stairs to their waiting limos which whisk them off to some other earthshatteringly important meeting.

That’s the way to do it.

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Oh, and no offense to tea-drinking DAR old ladies.

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:rolleyes:

I suppose you miss all the speeches by McCain, Powell, et al who just about say “Fuck with us and we’ll kick your ass.”

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Oh, chill out Spoofe. I’m being tongue in cheek.

How come when Ukulele Ike does it everybody gets it?

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Because he always sneaks in some weirdly apt, wonky literary reference or sophisticated cultural thing he purely discombobulates people.

::chews hay stem, spits, scratches::
Boy sure has a GIFT for it, don’t he?

Veb

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Well, then mentally change my :rolleyes: to a :smiley: and move it to the end of the post.

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Ah, but the secret, as I think Veb was also saying, is that when Ukulele Ike does it, nobody gets it. We just all laugh so we can look smart.

FTR, I agree with the OP. I like to see Important Men (or Women) doing Important Things (or Sheep).

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You know, I realize that I bolded Uke’s name in that last post, but not TVeblen’s. No slight was implied, I assure you.

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Suuuure. :smiley:

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My mom is in the DAR and she smokes cigars!

:wink: