Jack 'n' Meg

[poliphilo]

Jack Straw got bumped from the Foreign Office because he believes it would be "nuts" to go to war with Iran.

Bush rang Blair and asked him (queruously) what his boy Jack was on.

British Foreign Secretaries are appointed in the White House.

The new Foreign Secretary is Margaret Beckett- famous for having been around a long, long time and for having never said or done anything memorable (except call Neil Kinnock, a "Judas").

She used to be a leftie, but that was in another country; and besides, the wench is dead.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I suspect he says "nookular" because he thinks it sounds folksy.

People with private access to Bush say he's a lot less of a hick than he likes to appear.

Blair's career is probably shot. This latest cabinet reshuffle has a whiff of desperation about it. He's fast running out of allies.

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

People with private access to Bush say he's a lot less of a hick than he likes to appear.

well I would hope so, considering he was born AT YALE (his dad was at grad school at yale at the time and they lived in housing for married students), and educated at Phillips-Andover, then Yale, then Harvard. i know he got into all those places because daddy pulled the strings, but still, he's spent most of his life among the elites of the northeast, not the backwoods of texas as he likes to pretend (he was supposed to work one summer as a roughneck on an oil field, but he quit halfway through. it made ol' herbert walker pretty mad, i read.)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The truth about Bush- that he has a history of privilege, failure and wimping out- is a matter of open record, yet it has never done him any serious harm.

I don't get it.

I guess people believe what they want to believe.