You know how Nero fiddled while Rome burned...

[Mega]

What do you think Bush is playing with right now?
Mike

[don]

Re: You know how Nero fiddled while Rome burned...

His stationary bicycle.

Lots of horn play....

[D-Mack]

Re: You know how Nero fiddled while Rome burned...

I guess not with pretzels

The American president has always had enemies in these hallways and offices at the UN building on First Avenue in Manhattan. The Iranians and Syrians despise the eternal American-Israeli coalition, while many others are tired of Bush's Americans telling the world about the blessings of deregulated markets and establishing rules "that only apply to others," says the diplomat from Berlin.

But the ridicule was a new thing. It marked the end of respect.

"Well," Brazilian President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva began, standing outside the General Assembly Hall. Then he looked out the window and said: "He decided to talk about terrorism, but the issue that has the world concerned is the economic crisis." Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the president of Argentina, said that the schoolmasters from Washington had dubbed the 1994 Mexican crisis the "tequila effect" and Brazil's 1999 crisis the "Caipirinha effect."

Are we now experiencing the "whiskey effect?" But President Kirchner was gracious and, with a smile, called it the "jazz effect."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...581502,00.html

[don]

Re: You know how Nero fiddled while Rome burned...

That reminds me. We haven't heard any reports of the Prez praying for financial guidance, as per previous foreign military adventures.

Perhaps economic calamities, an integral part of his personal business legacy (remember what top financial people who had shared board space with Bush said when he was a candidate in 2000? A shake of the head and a subdued, "Not the most qualified man for the job") put the kibosh on asking his Man Upstairs.

Credit where credit is due. If he had skippered the Titanic and addressed the passengers on the calamity at hand, I'm sure I would have wandered back into the bar. A genius in the art of the wandering attention span.

[nathanhulick]

Re: You know how Nero fiddled while Rome burned...

He plays the shoehorn, but only gets footnotes.

[D-Mack]

Re: You know how Nero fiddled while Rome burned...

Ok, Bush still in lala land

Meanwhile, new details emerged of a remarkably tumultuous White House meeting on Thursday. With the session breaking up in disarray, according to two participants, President Bush issued an appeal, saying, "Can't we just all go out and say things are OK?" The group around the table, congressional leaders as well as McCain and Obama, spurned the presidential request for a publicly united front.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_129715.html

[don]

Re: You know how Nero fiddled while Rome burned...

He plays the shoehorn, but only gets footnotes.

For years I've been saying the Prez's business acumen was at the level of an assistant manager of a shoe store He'd be a great guy to work with. What a party animal! The one unbreakable rule in the store? Whenever a real honey comes through the door, call Georgie, he will wait on her personally. A firing offense to ignore.

I kid the president....