i'll take that t-shirt...

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" Bill Hangley, Jr. " <A

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His Gift To Us

Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:05:38 -0400

So when the President was here on July 4, I had the opportunity to shake his

hand. I wasn't sure if that was a good idea or not but I did it anyway, and

said to him, " Mr President, I hope you only serve four years. I'm very

disappointed in your work so far. "

He kept smiling and shaking my hand but answered, " who cares what you think? "

His face stayed photo-op perfect but his eyes gave me a look that said, if

we'd been drinking in some frathouse in Texas, he'd've happily answered,

" let's take it outside. " A nasty little gleam. But he was (fortunately)

constrained by Presidential propriety.

But that was the end of it, until I turned away and started scribbling the

quote down in my notepad, so as to remember The Gift forever. When he saw me

do that he got excited and craned his neck over the rubberneckers to shout at

me, " who are you with? Who are you with? " People started looking so he made a

joke: " make sure you get it right. " But he kept at it: " Who do you write

for? " I told him I wasn't " with " anybody and pointed to one of his staff

people, who knows me a little, and said, " ask him, he'll tell you. "

Then I split.

Half an hour later, my boss (who had helped organize the event we were at)

came up to me and said, " did you really tell the President that he was doing

a 'lousy f***ing job'? " No way, I said, I was very polite, I just told him

what I thought. Fortunately, he believed me. He wasn't happy with me, but he

believed me.

But anyway, if you ever wondered if the Prez really was kind of a jerk, I'm

here to tell you, he is, and I got The Gift to prove it. I'm thinking of

making up t-shirts so we can share The Gift with everyone:

" Who cares what you think? " President George W. Bush, July 4, 2001

- - - - - - bh

(And by the way, if you think that the Prez needn't give the time of day to

long-hairs, tree huggers, Democrats or anybody else, then The Gift works for

you too. Hell, so would the t-shirt)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Oooh! Oooh! I'll take one of those t-shirts, definately

EBbrewpunx wrote:

 

"Bill Hangley, Jr." billhang

Subject:

His Gift To Us

Date:

Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:05:38 -0400

So

when the President was here on July 4, I had the opportunity to shake his

hand.

I wasn't sure if that was a good idea or not but I did it anyway, and

said

to him, "Mr President, I hope you only serve four years. I'm very

disappointed

in your work so far."

He

kept smiling and shaking my hand but answered, "who cares what you think?"

His

face stayed photo-op perfect but his eyes gave me a look that said, if

we'd

been drinking in some frathouse in Texas, he'd've happily answered,

"let's

take it outside." A nasty little gleam. But he was (fortunately)

constrained

by Presidential propriety.

But

that was the end of it, until I turned away and started scribbling the

quote

down in my notepad, so as to remember The Gift forever. When he saw me

do

that he got excited and craned his neck over the rubberneckers to shout

at

me,

"who are you with? Who are you with?" People started looking so he made

a

joke:

"make sure you get it right." But he kept at it: "Who do you write

for?"

I told him I wasn't "with" anybody and pointed to one of his staff

people,

who knows me a little, and said, "ask him, he'll tell you."

Then

I split.

Half

an hour later, my boss (who had helped organize the event we were at)

came

up to me and said, "did you really tell the President that he was doing

a

'lousy f***ing job'?" No way, I said, I was very polite, I just told him

what

I thought. Fortunately, he believed me. He wasn't happy with me, but he

believed

me.

But

anyway, if you ever wondered if the Prez really was kind of a jerk, I'm

here

to tell you, he is, and I got The Gift to prove it. I'm thinking of

making

up t-shirts so we can share The Gift with everyone:

"Who

cares what you think?" President George W. Bush, July 4, 2001

-

- - - - - bh

(And

by the way, if you think that the Prez needn't give the time of day to

long-hairs,

tree huggers, Democrats or anybody else, then The Gift works for

you

too. Hell, so would the t-shirt)

 

 

 

 

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