government by grimace

[sisyphusshrugged]

According to the New York Times, our foreign policy was based on George W. Bush's facial expression

He even gives lessons

The idea intrigued Mr. Bush, White House officials say, and on May 8, Ms. Rice met with him just hours before flying to New York for a meeting with her European counterparts.

She asked him what kind of body language to display at the United Nations meeting. Should she signal that the United States was considering negotiations with Iran? "Be careful," he said, according to officials familiar with the conversation. "I haven't made up my mind."

Which, to be fair, is at least more credible than this

Even after Mr. Bush edited the statement that Ms. Rice was scheduled to read Wednesday...

Comments

[wanderingaengus.livejournal.com]

In that ABC interview last week, Gore talked about how the thing that surprised him most about Bush is how incurious he is -- never asking questions about anything.

I can imagine his staff basing policies on King Log's every twitch. Kremlinology within the Kremlin.

(I just looked up the fable. Too bad he's King Stork to the rest of us -- in either the Aesop or Bierce version.)

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I thought I was shut of Elisabeth Bumiller, dammit, but there she was popping up like a chancre in the Monday edition.