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[partylessinOhio]

PRESIDENT BUSH: Mr. Secretary General, distinguished members of the United Nations community, Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. We're proud to welcome you here to our country.

I'm pleased to be with you at the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly, this year under the President -- under the leadership of President Shaikh Khalifa from Bahrain, the first woman from the Middle East to serve in this position. We welcome her presence on the podium. (Applause.)

Mr. Secretary General, it is appropriate that we offer you a toast today -- a toast based upon our gratitude for your 10 years of service to this important body. We need to toast your compassion when the world saw the United Nations respond to natural disasters. We need to toast your desire for peace. We need to toast the fact that you're a hard worker. For those of you who have had the honor of taking phone calls from Kofi Annan, you know that he's not always calling from the same address. I've talked to him a lot of times during my time as President, and a lot of times my discussions with him came from when he was in far away places, because he cares deeply about the world.

We need to toast the fact that he loves his wife, and his wife loves him. We need to toast the fact that he is a decent, honorable man. We need to raise our glasses to 10 years of extraordinary service and be thankful that a man such as Kofi Annan was willing to stand up and serve the cause of justice and peace.

And so now if you'll join me in a toast to a good man and a good friend, and we ask for God's blessings on you.

(A toast is offered.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060919-6.html

I heard this toast and there was a very long pause after * stopped speaking. Nobody applauded what he had to say.

After a notibly long pause, those gathered applauded for Kofi - not *.

In all the years I have watched Kofi I never knew he had a wife. I feel it was very inappropriate for * to speak of her and the love he and she had for each other. Kofi kept his public and private life separate. I doubt he shared anything personal with *. * is a boob.

[Swede]

1. I find the white wine goes very good with the red wine.

nt

[LSparkle]

4. Yeah, what's in that glass?

When he said he didn't "drink" anymore, he probably meant he just doesn't drink JIM BEAM anymore. Even his "sobriety" is fake ...

[SeattleVet]

14. Did he really say he didn't drink 'anymore', or was it 'any more', as

in "But I'm not drinkin' any LESS, either".

Or is it more along the lines, "I stopped drinkin'; bought myself a funnel...heh, heh, heh.".

[Monkeyman]

2. That all the proof we need he drinking again explains a lot

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. *hic* "Jeers ever'body!"

[Xipe Totec]

5. Condi, help me get this glass to my mouth

I don't want to embarras myself.

[partylessinOhio]

6. He looks more like a sick rabbit more often these days:

Is he having visions of being put on trial soon by these same guys?

[lapfog_1]

7. Every time Bush talks about ANYONE...

he always sounds like a 2nd grader doing a book report.

For cripes sake, he has speech writers for this crap... this is the best they can do?

[Eurobabe]

8. Who put the Jaegermeister in here?

Asshat is a total, socially inept moron.

[Janice325]

9. The caption:

Theerz reely nuthing alkuholick in this heer glass, hic.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

10. "What's this fly doing in my Grigio?"

"the backstroke" is of course the badaboom answer, but in this case....

"making like your foreign policy sir, he's drowning in it!"

[grilled onions]

11. Who Turned The Water Into WIne?

My compfliments tootha cheffffff.

[Catchawave]

12. "Who do I give my urine sample too?"

[singingbiscuit]

13. Shaikh who?

Shaikh Khalifa from Bahrain = His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, head of state of Abu Dhabi, and president of the United Arab Emirates

<http://www.abudhabienergy.com/>

Shaikha Haya Bint Rashid Al Khalifa = the first woman to hold the position of UN Secretary General

<http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/09/12/10066760.html>

Memo to * : Might look like a minor difference to you, but calling an Arab Emir a woman might not be the best way to make friends, toast or no toast.

[Totally Committed]

15. Nane Annan (Kofi's Wife) is Swedish, and

from what I have heard, comes from a family of diplomats and scholars. I heard an interview with her once on NPR and she was so gracious, intelligent, and lovely. She seems a great match for him in every way!



Nane is the woman in the red suit with her hair pulled back.

TC

[Stinky The Clown]

16. "Hoo's got da blow?"

[windbreeze]

17. shust one mor little glass...pleeeezze......n/t

[lisainmilo]

18. I thought he was a friggin alcoholic!!??

He is drinking again....oh my!