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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 04:20 PM
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“Do you have blacks, too?”
Remember this one?
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Washington (Der Spiegel) – It was Condoleezza Rice, national security advisor, who helped her boss out of the embarassing situation. During a conversation between the presidents of the U.S. and Brazil, George W. Bush, 55, and Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 71, Bush bewildered his colleague with the question, “Do you have blacks, too?”

Rice, 47, noticing how astonished the Brazilian was, saved the day by telling Bush, “Mr. President, Brazil probably has more blacks than the USA. Some say it’s the country with the most blacks outside Africa.” Later, Brazilian President Cardoso said, regarding Latin America, Bush was still in his “learning phase.”

http://www.sfbayview.com/061202/haveblacks061202.html
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 05:15 PM
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1. Was that at the time he still thought poutine
was prime minister of Canada?

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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 05:34 PM
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2. I'll bet he still does
Edited on Fri Sep-30-05 05:36 PM by miss_kitty
Edited to add: woo hoo post #10,000!

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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 05:43 PM
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3. Sneaky way of starting another Brazilian thread
Way to go, underpants :bounce:
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