Bush Plans 'Warm and Fuzzy' Visit to Canada

OTTAWA (Reuters) - President Bush's visit to Canada next week is shaping up as one intended to be a softer sell to soothe troubled relations and avoid flashpoints that could end up taking over the news.

The White House has turned down an invitation from Prime Minister Paul Martin for Bush to address Parliament lest he be heckled as he was in Australia last year and as President Ronald Reagan was in the Canadian Parliament in 1987.

And Bush will spend the second half of his two-day trip visiting the Atlantic port city of Halifax, where he will be able to express appreciation for the hospitality of that city in welcoming diverted airliners on Sept. 11, 2001.

``It's not just trying to make it warm and fuzzy, although that's clearly part of it, but it's also not wanting it to be tainted by something negative ... that that doesn't become the visit,'' one U.S. official said.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-bush-canada.html

I guess avoiding dissent at all costs HAS worked for him....DAMN! :mad:

to get a feel for the real hospitality towards *
from the usually wonderfully hospitable and kind Canadian people.

CBC PLEASE Don't let us down!

against him...in Ottawa and other cities....They'll all be showing them.

Thats neither Warm nor Fuzzy!!:grr: :thumbsdown: :grr: :spank:

Apparently he's heard about the demonstrations the good people of Halifax are planning for him!....This is hilarious to me...It's getting to the point where when he makes his visits to other countries, he will have to stay on Airforce one!....hahaha

Out of an Air Force One window as it flies by. :eyes:

Guess he hasn't pick up the clue phone yet. The World hates you Chimpy.

What would it take?

bushit the welcome he deserves for his crimes against humanity.

I know most of them are as sick as we are about the prospect of four fucking years from hell more.

we will owe them a great debt. Then we have to figure out how to impeach President Cheney.

I will also fly a Black Flag from my home.....All in Black!!!
Since I can not protest in front of the man..Wish I could...I will be showing my fellow Canadians that I am one who doesn't want this man in our Country...He can go back under his rock.!! Plymoth Rock in Iraq.!!
I want to wish all a Very Happy Holiday Thanksgiving...I am thankfull for the DU forums and all the people who speak their minds...LOVE IT!

Peace Out to All!!
:hi: :loveya:

That means a lot to me. I was in your lovely country over Labor Day ..visiting Niagara Falls, Canada.

I thought sure Kerry was going to win and I'm still in shock.

Sorry, the little coward is going to slime up your country for as long as he's there.

I had left work and the DU on the 2nd and was sure Kerry had it in the bag....I believe nothing has hit me in the gutt like that day did when all the MSM was saying George was in the lead...I knew he stole it again....KNEW IT! I do believe that it was possible for his Cronies to do it.!

No need to appologize for the slime trail left by the Dumbya slug..

Peace Out!!

nothing is real with these imposters

our nation is being raped

"being raped" and "nothing is real".

Way I feel, too!

media...The large protests which will be in the streets of Ottawa and other Canadian cities will no doubt be ignored by American media....He sure exists in a cocoon, doesn't he?

CNN will cover the $10,000-a-plate lobster dinner in Halifax consumed while listening to ethnic Scottish bagpipe music.

MSGOP will cover Laura's visits to libraries in Ottawa and Ontario.

And FOX will report on Bush's talks with officials from Alberta condemning gay marriage and how the rest of Canada should be drug back in line with "christian values."

P R O T E S T S ??? What protests?

Bush to avoid Parliament

WASHINGTON (CP) - President George W. Bush will avoid a potentially hostile reception in Parliament and travel to Halifax next week after his first official trip to Ottawa, White House sources said Wednesday.

...

American officials involved in planning the trip were worried about a cranky audience on Parliament Hill, sources said.

"We didn't see the need and, frankly, we didn't want to be booed. There are other, better venues," said one U.S. official.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/11/24/729087-cp.html

So, change of plans. Off to Halifax instead?

Lots of Bush haters out there too, boy-o.

He can run, but he can't etc...

Yell- "hey Mrl President, Your fly is down. MADE YOU LOOK"

You make me laugh!!
Needed it!

Wow. Just a wee tad insulting, eh? He's not even here yet!

The only thing warm and fuzzy about * is the teddy bear he sleeps with.

question but how does the Canadian Gov't justify letting someone with DUI convictions across the border, you and I would be stopped.

instead - hee hee

Dick Cheney is NOT warm and fuzzy.

!

he said something really odd and disturbing to a Canadian official a couple of years back, called him "pretty" or something...

He didn't leave it at that, either. It went something like this:

"You got a pretty face. Yeah; you're a good looking fella. You got a real pretty face. Not like my Scott."

And I found this interesting about the meeting:

Prime Minister Martin confided later, as reported by The Globe and Mail's Lawrence Martin, that he was embarrassed and stunned at Bush's language: shifting in an instant between religious jargon and gross vulgarity.

"Weeeeeeee!"

Hey, where's that banjo music coming from?

"Go Home You Fucking Simean Asshole" .... but I could be mistaken.

from the ole This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

To this day I can't get the image of her combing Jean Charest's hair out of my mind.

ala the 22 mins sketch, except more real.Parrish for PM. This Canadian does not endorse this visit!

He's already tainted US-Canadian relations, plus the good name of the United States!

"it's also not wanting it to be tainted by something negative ... that that doesn't become the visit,''

Warping the news, altering reality, lying and propagandizing... the media only showing only what HE wants them to...it is frightening as hell.

was interviewed by a Canadian prime time comedy show, and * thought Poutine was the name of the current Canadian Prime Minister. I hope the Canadians remember that when * comes to town.

poutine, IIRC is a French-Canadian potato dish.

...give him the welcome he deserves.

Negative it's gonna be. BIG time. :)

Hmmmmmmmmm...

Hey Canada, do us all a favor and arrest AWOLbush for War Crimes!! you can do it!!

The world would thank you too!!

America's Fishiest First Family

by Maureen Farrell

"These people are overly reaching, overly aggressive,
overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these
people." - Ronald Reagan Jr., on the current Bush
administration

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/04/14/
ron_reagan/index_np.html

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/03/05/06.html

Gulfstream (crash Houston) to carry Bush to Ecuador
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Is it just me or was this wierd news.

please do that so that we are rid of his malevolence.

the wrongful deaths of two Nova Scotia soldiers bombed by flying cowboys? maybe he is coming to apologize?

I think it is far away from the activist cores in BC, Ontario & Quebec that he thinks it would be safe.

ironically an NS redneck MLA recently wrote George congratulating him on his win and asked him nicely to reopen the border to cattle. Maybe he is coming to meet this like minded soul Brook Taylor, hehheh

George, kindly stay the fuck out of my province
:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

I can always revert to my short lived virgin Mary on a grilled cheese avatar, or my beaver in a mosh hoodie.

It may be more useful to you, at least until the strike is over (2006-7,8???)

Seriously,
go ahead and use it if you want.
after all I just absconded a eb image and played with it in Photoshop.

If you can believe it I don't have a computer at home...wish I did..only then I would never get off of the DU...LOVE IT HERE!
I only have access when at work(6-3:00 pst) or someones home. Then I feel like a freak askin to use their computer to see whats up here..I would change the avatar if I knew how...just learned how to put the Canucks one on the other day...Boy I need help...but at least I am trying..

Peace Out!!

I would have paid too!!! I am so gullable...Geeese!

just click on the beaver avatar, drag it to your desktop (or right click save file as)

you will get a 133951.gif on your desktop

then
in your options for choosing an avatar click on upload custom avatar (your own)
then select gif file format and in the browse menu find the 11351.gif file on your desktop.

upload it and save changes, real easy

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I'm gonna give it a try...:toast:

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you have the gif so whenever your star appears, you can change it

I am sending out the money order tomorrow....Can't wait to see the star....I will feel like I am able to help...Hey and with the american dollar down...I can donate more....

that we can talk the Canadians into keeping him?

You got 'im you own 'im...Sorry!

it is a great place to visit, indeed.

I have so many pictures of it that they fill a shoebox.

Wonderful glass buildings with all sorts of reflections.

Bush will get scared out of his wits and become very confused as he sees all those reflections coming at him. May he have a visual hallucination and see evil portents in them all.

even Bush's dog knows his master is an a**hole!

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Com'on, what kind of a 'leader' is afraid of an occainsional heckler?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7297.htm
Should Canada indict Bush?
*I think the author is wrong about U.S, having current exemptions for war crimes. That ran out, and it wasn't extended.
I'm sure we could help out with the list.

Think half the nation would get the picture if it's impossible for this administration to leave the country for fear of arrest?

Arrest him! Lock him up! We'll give you a state. And when the rest of his Reich show up, lock them up, too.

It gets colder, not warm and fuzzy. Unless fuzzy is for the layers of clothing needed. Or the Bushco thinking.

Let's sick the grizzlies on him!!!