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Good for you! You'll always remember that and smile when you do!

 

Jane

 

 

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Monday, July 16, 2001 3:39 PM

[100% veg*n ] i'll take that t-shirt...

 

 

> " Bill Hangley, Jr. " <A

HREF= " billhang " >billhang</A>

> 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)

>