Chimp avoids Canadian Parliament

He's coming to Halifax instead! I must get my placard ready:)

"U.S. President George W. Bush will not address Parliament when he visits Canada next week to avoid possible negative reception or heckling, White House sources said.

The sources confirmed to The Globe and Mail Wednesday that Mr. Bush would not be speaking to Parliament.

The U.S. President had been invited by the Canadian government to address a joint session of the House of Commons and Senate during his visit to Ottawa, scheduled for Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.

But sources said Mr. Bush wants to avoid a potentially hostile reaction in Parliament, despite the fact that Liberal MPs who are not pro-Bush had promised Prime Minister Paul Martin last week that they would behave.

The President and Prime Minister will, however, hold a joint news conference after a lunch on Tuesday.

Mr. Bush will then travel to Halifax to give a speech after what is his first official trip to Ottawa, White House sources said..."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041124.wbush1124/BNStory/Front/

What a fraidy cat. Can't handle a little heckling?

of keeping tight security. The G7 in '97...and then again a couple of years ago for an econimic summit.

he's already won the Presidency, and has nothing to gain.

I mean, conceding that he is evil, incompetent, and will probably destroy of the world, either through war of environmental catastrophe, he's still got feelings, Right?

So what is his incentive to take it? So we can blow off a little steam?

I think one reason that we were not listened to in the election was that we tried to take everything that bush did and turn it into a deliberate betrayal. Including the most picayune. I got e-mails every day for the daily misleader. Most of what they said would not even be noticed in any other politician. We cried "wolf" too often, and when we had a legitimate, and serious, criticism of *, we were not listened too. There were plenty of them, too. Not only from a left perspective, but from a right perspective, too, Bush was a far from perfect candidate. But we had trouble selling him as Hitler, the anti-Christ, whatever, because the American people looked at him, and didn't see it. The criticisms they heard seemed minor to them, and the big ones rolled right off their backs along with them.

This is what happens when emotion trumps reason. The hatred that the left bore for * did us in. IMO

had for Kerry did him in. You can argue this either way.

I don't believe we had or will ever again have an honest election in this country, so it's a moot point anyhow to me.

because all it would get him is bad press. Paul Martin is having a hard time keeping control of his caucus, and I'm sure some opposition members would have spoken up, but that's exactly what I wanted to see:)

but that doesn't obligate * to make it easy for us.

that the Globe went on a tangent about 4:20. That's pretty funny.

:smoke:

and I have every confidence Nova Scotians will do us proud when the lowest scum on earth puts his cloven hooves on the soil of the Maritimes.

where he is welcomed? the president-our president-can not go anywhere because he is so loathed?

video of him and he can't avoid any negative response there might be...The USA media will no doubt ignore the large anti-Bush demonstrations in the streets of Ottawa and other cities....He did the same thing when he visited England....What a coward!

My hometown! true that security for the G7 summit was tight, but Halifax isn't all that big, so it was a relatively easy thing to secure. Besides, Clinton was president then, so massive protests weren't exactly expected.*

Halifax does have a number of universities and colleges in it, so there may well be a lot of people in the streets. My hope is that they take him on a tour of the harbour on the Bluenose and that it sinks.

* Bill Clinton story from the G7 summit: I saw Clinton leaving my university after giving a speech and answering a few questions from the press. He was in the back of a limousine, and looked positively bored as he waved at me without even looking in my direction, while at the same time shoving a McDonald's cheesburger in his mouth.