In article <
b2447ec6-a881-4343...@googlegroups.com>,
kcpjun...@gmail.com wrote:
> > >>Commentators gleefully pointed out that the garment was hardly in
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> > >>keeping with Mr Brown's usual sober attire of business suit and tie".
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> > >I suppose you'd rather see him get a Stetson?
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> > Damn you're an idiot. I don't care one way or another. This came
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> > from The Daily Mail, a British newspaper.
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> You don't care that Hussein insulted all of Great Britain by sending that
> bust of Churchill back?
>
> You're a bigger idiot than I thought.
The only idiot here is you:
"Update:
Since my post on the fact that the bust of Winston Churchill has
remained on display in the White House, despite assertions to the
contrary, I have received a bunch of questions -- so let me provide some
additional info. The White House has had a bust of Winston Churchill
since the 1960零. At the start of the Bush administration Prime Minister
Blair lent President Bush a bust that matched the one in the White
House, which was being worked on at the time and was later returned to
the residence. The version lent by Prime Minister Blair was displayed
by President Bush until the end of his Presidency. On January 20, 2009
-- Inauguration Day -- all of the art lent specifically for President
Bush零 Oval Office was removed by the curator零 office, as is common
practice at the end of every presidency. The original Churchill bust
remained on display in the residence. The idea put forward by Charles
Krauthammer and others that President Obama returned the Churchill bust
or refused to display the bust because of antipathy towards the British
is completely false and an urban legend that continues to circulate to
this day. "
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/07/27/fact-check-bust-winston-church
ill>
'Like a plot twist in a sitcom, IT TURNS OUT THERE ARE TWO CHURCHILL
BUSTS!!!!!
The one in the White House residence was a gift to the White House from
the British Embassy during the Johnson administration.
The other one was loaned to President George W. Bush by British Prime
Minister Tony Blair.
Says James Barbour, press secretary and head of communications for the
British Embassy, "The bust of Sir Winston Churchill, by Sir Jacob
Epstein, was lent to the George W. Bush administration from the U.K.'s
government art collection, for the duration of the presidency. When that
administration came to an end so did the loan; the bust now resides in
the British Ambassador's Residence in Washington D.C. The White House
collection has its own Epstein bust of Churchill, which President Obama
showed to Prime Minister Cameron when he visited the White House in
March."'
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/is-the-churchill-bust-contr
oversy-a-total-bust/>
Read it again:
'Says James Barbour, press secretary and head of communications for the
British Embassy, 袍he bust of Sir Winston Churchill, by Sir Jacob
Epstein, was lent to the George W. Bush administration from the U.K.'s
government art collection, for the duration of the presidency. When that
administration came to an end so did the loan;'
Now I'm sure you want to do some whining about how mean I'm being to an
old man by using such unfair tactics as knowing the facts.
Please commence.