Wasn' there another semi-candid moment once? Here we go again...
It was an old-fashioned Soviet-style military parade, complete with propagandist sights and sounds glorifying the Communist, totalitarian rule that terrorized citizens of Eastern Europe for so many decades.
And according to White House press secretary Scott McClellan, President Bush was quite taken with it.
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"Q Any squeamishness about the hammer and sickle flag, and goose-stepping soldiers and the symbols of that era?
"MR. McCLELLAN: No.
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"What Russians had never seen at a Victory Day celebration on Red Square until now, however, was an American president. . . .
"If Bush felt unease on the reviewing stand during tributes to the Red Army, he did not show it."
Now, what was my original question again? Well, I guess we have to go to the way-back machine to find the answer:
If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier... just so long as I'm the dictator - December 18th, 2000)
I guess there might be work fluffing stallions if that whole speaking circuit thing does not work out one day. That's another job where it's all about him (and the stallion).
posted by Jo Fish on 05.10.05 at 01:46 PM
Comments:
Boy george thinks a goose-step is something guckert performs. Hammer and sickle? Why, they're for clearin' brush, of course.
posted by: Pechorin on 05.13.05 at 06:54 PM [permalink]
