Post #122,479
10/23/03 5:02:12 AM
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Bush address generally well received. But, two ...
greens senators called out whilst Pres Bush was speaking. They were eventually told to leave by the speaker of the house but they refused to go.
Sen Brown (Green party) tends to be greatly outspoken on all sorts of issues. Tomorrow (despite being banned from parliment for 24 hrs) he will turn up to hear Hu Jintau's address to parliment, wearing a Tibetan flag.
Doug M
(re Brown, He knows how to play to the peanut gallery whilst avoiding having to make hard diplomatic choices that govts in power are forced to face).
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Post #122,497
10/23/03 9:08:06 AM
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Heard this morning on the radio
As the Senate's Sgt-at-Arms lead the senator away, Bush quips, "I love free speach."
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Post #122,507
10/23/03 9:42:00 AM
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Wow, you're good.
I didn't realize you could hear typos like that...
gd&r ;-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #122,517
10/23/03 10:09:56 AM
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This *was* Bush speeking
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Post #122,531
10/23/03 11:03:18 AM
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I think somebody forgot the sign...
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Post #122,548
10/23/03 1:38:04 PM
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See speeling in my followup, ie: I knew the sign was implied
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Post #122,594
10/23/03 4:59:14 PM
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Radio fibbed a little
Bush made the quip ok & got applause but the senators never left their seats & weren't escorted out.
The Sgt-at-arms went to where they sat & asked them politely to leave - they each looked at him and said no.
Later Brown went up to Bush on the senate floor & spoke to him but then two govt senators kind of jostled him away.
Doug M
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Post #122,501
10/23/03 9:22:55 AM
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Interesting comment about that from the 7:30 report.
The Aussie media isn't allowed to film what they like in the house (why the hell not!?!), but CNN is. So the ABC had to resort to borrowed, down-converted footage of Senator Brown being, well, being Senator Brown.
I'm glad the ABC pointed that quirk out.
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
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Post #122,692
10/24/03 10:26:40 AM
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IIRC Keating introduced the 'film what I tell you to' law.
John. Busy lad.
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Post #122,642
10/23/03 11:52:19 PM
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Follow on to Bush's address (next day) ...
Radio talkback all seems to be about Senator Brown's 'bad behavior' in parliment. (Sen Brown is in his 50s & is no spring chicken, his green companion in the outburst is a woman in her mid 40s).
Community mostly against him & his companion's outbursts but about (from my listening) 25 % seem to think what he did was acceptable. The radio talkback hosts seem to be unanimously against Brown (as I am).
A good percentage of people have commented how they may not have agreed with issues related to pre-post Iraq, these people feel that Brown & sidekick had no right to behave as badly as they did.
Also today Sen Brown was stopped from entering parliment to hear Hu Jintao's address. He went quietly.
He also commeneted 'how disgraceful' it was that two Tibetans he had invited to sit in the members galley, had been redirected to the Children's gallery (where there is a glass wall between seating & the chamber). Coming from him after his grandstanding yesterday, it seems 'rich'.
Doug M
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