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| London Mayor "Red" Ken Livingstone attacks President Bush |
| 2003-05-08 |
| London Mayor Ken Livingstone has launched an astonishing attack on US President George W Bush, calling him "corrupt". Mr Livingstone made his attack during an address to schoolchildren in a debate on the Iraq war. How unusual. A leftie preaching hate to The Children(TM). He said he would get as much pleasure from Mr Bush being forced out of office as he had done from the downfall of former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein. Aww poor Ken, missing your buddy Greasy Galloway already? The outburst was immediately criticised by London politicians who fear a negative effect on the mayor's efforts to attract American tourists here. They won't never hear, will they, Ken? Mr Livingstone was answering questions on the Iraq war and other subjects during a two-hour meeting with 200 schoolchildren at City Hall on Thursday morning. After making a pointed reference to Mr Bush, he was asked by Channel 4 broadcaster Krishnan Guru-Murthy, who was chairing the meeting, to explain his making a personal attack on the US president when he disliked answering personal questions himself. The mayor said: "I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president." He later added: "This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown." Considering Livingstone attended anti-war rallies protesting against Saddam's forced removal, maybe he doesn't dislike Bush as much as it might seem. Conservative mayoral candidate Steve Norris described Mr Livingstone's attack on President Bush as "utterly irresponsible". "The red mist comes down and his judgement flies out of the window. He has no right whatever to insult President Bush," he said. "He has every right to his own view but not to express it when he is mayor of this city." Asked about Mr Livingstone's comments, White House Press Secretary, Ari Fleischer, said: "First of all, I've never heard of the fellow. Second, I'm not going to dignify it with a response." And in a statement, officials from the US embassy in London, said: "Mayor Livingstone's opinions about the United States are a matter of complete indifference to the American embassy, the American government and the American people." And just about everyone else for that matter. |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #8 Funny how now that the war is over, and the coalition won to cheering crowds, that all the lefties SWEAR that they wanted Saddam out just as musch as those who supported the war. Hypocritical liars all. What did Kennedy say: Victory has many fathers, but defeat is an orphan. |
| Posted by: R. McLeod 2003-05-09 00:54:03 |
| #7 Mr. Big Man is so brave, he rants against the evil Now that Mr. Mayor has stepped out from behind his curtain in OZ, somebody quick get him a brain, a heart and some courage. He needs all three. |
| Posted by: Becky 2003-05-09 00:30:01 |
| #6 Verrrry interesting! How to play to your base (they didn't call him "Red Ken" for nothing) by saying one thing that actually means something else: "...I look forward to it being overthrown..."[cheers from the assembled idiots] "...as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown."[that is, not at all, see g wiz's post above]. However, I don't think he'll be out MARCHING against the overthrow of the Bush administration... that might give the game away! ;-) |
| Posted by: Old Grouch 2003-05-08 20:12:01 |
| #5 :And the fact that he isn't the brightest president we've had in a while says even MORE about the left and their stale old ideas if they can't even beat him." Fact? I don't recall that being a fact? Seems to be doing all right with an MBA from Harvard, successful Governor of Texas, Major-League Baseball team co-owner, yadda yadda...but if the Dems wanna believe that, like Ronald Reagan, he's just a lovable (to some 70%) dunce...well then I'll just have to gracefully accept the consequences - will they do the same? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-05-08 19:16:48 |
| #4 oh ya there's such a moral equivalence between the rule of saddam and the rule of President Bush.... oh, where are the underground child prisons in america by the way? you know the ones your kid is forced to live in if they refuse to join the republican party? |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-05-08 19:03:02 |
| #3 Overthrown? You mean Red is anti-democratic? What an idea to pass onto 200 kids. Any way to hear an audio of his speech? He must have been screaming at the top of his lungs and foaming at the mouth when he said this. |
| Posted by: Michael 2003-05-08 17:28:36 |
| #2 How about that another pompous out of touch lefty spewing invective at a man of his word, what a shocker! This will only get funnier and Wackier as Bush keeps power and the left spins further and further out of orbit. |
| Posted by: Wills 2003-05-08 17:07:54 |
| #1 He is not the legitimate president. Hehehe. ^ This is pretty much all they got left. I look forward to it being overthrown... I wonder, do a lot of people in Europe think he's going to be voted out in a landslide next year? Because it's going to be the other way around - there's no doubt about it. And the fact that he isn't the brightest president we've had in a while says even MORE about the left and their stale old ideas if they can't even beat him. I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown Just how short does he think our attention spans are?? If you wanted Saddam overthrow then for god's sake why the f#%ck did you march AGAINST the effort to do exactly that?? Could you be the most retarded man on the planet?? |
| Posted by: g wiz 2003-05-08 16:54:38 |