I'm sort of busy today, but if some other enterprising blogger wants to collect pictures of George W. Bush meeting with leaders "who put [their] people in prison because of their political beliefs," I'll certainly link to it. The idea that Bush -- who regularly hangs out with, and thus "lends the status of the office and the status of our country" to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Russia, China, and Egypt -- would ever try and take a strong, principled stand against meeting with, much less supporting, repressive autocrats...well, it's what my grandmother would call chutzpah, and what the rest of us would call "nonsense on stilts." It's like Ike Turner filming a PSA on domestic violence, and when questioned, telling the reporter that he only does it sometimes.Update: Stephen comes through with some really touching photographs. CHUTZPAH.
I'm sort of busy today, but if some other enterprising blogger wants to collect pictures of George W. Bush meeting with leaders "who put [their] people in prison because of their political beliefs," I'll certainly link to it. The idea that Bush -- who regularly hangs out with, and thus "lends the status of the office and the status of our country" to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Russia, China, and Egypt -- would ever try and take a strong, principled stand against meeting with, much less supporting, repressive autocrats...well, it's what my grandmother would call chutzpah, and what the rest of us would call "nonsense on stilts." It's like Ike Turner filming a PSA on domestic violence, and when questioned, telling the reporter that he only does it sometimes.Update: Stephen comes through with some really touching photographs. 
