Cherie [Blair] said Bush 'stole' power and tackled him on executions

London Times | January 24, 2003 | London Times

[jla]

Laura Bush had made it clear that her views on abortion were a great deal more liberal than his.

It's not a secret that Mrs. Bush is pro-choice and she hasn't been hesitant about saying it.

[ambrose]

Another bitch from hell who doesn't realize that not a single person cast a vote for her.

[GeronL]

the hypocrisy is amazing. Like Mike Moore saying the war in Kosovo was a war on innocent women and children and then he endorses the General who ran that war for President.

[GeronL]

"those people"

notice how liberals love to look down on others??

[cameo1440]

Mrs. Blair is voicing an opinion that betrays a lack of understanding of the American system of voting, the checks and balances with the electoral college and so on. As to the death penalty in Texas, that is a mandated thing by Texas law that those whose level of capitol crime reaches a certain point, i.e. serial killers, etc., are executed. Just because a man is governor does not mean he can reverse those decisions. From a practical standpoint, the death penalty is a very expensive proposition because of legal stays of execution, and delaying tactics built into our legal system. DNA evidence is something new which can correct the system of justice.

[GeronL]

are we not allowed to disagree with her?? don't we have free speech too??

quit whining

[ambrose]

Never argue with a DU troll that just signed up today.

[cameo1440]

I wonder what Cherie Blair makes of the war in Iraq. Should Saddam Hussein have justice by the Iraqis?

[CorranH96]

Amazing that nick_davis happened to join on 1-24-04 and happened to post on the very article that is on the drudgereport.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Yes. The only body who can stop an execution in Texas is The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. It seems some people have been watching too many movies or listening to too many liberals.

[ambrose]

What I find interesting is the Rats never seemed to have a problem with the Texas penal system while Ma Richards was governor.

What lying scumbag hypocrites they are. All of them.

[kingu]

Woah.. I thought Drudge didn't want to link to FreeRepublic anymore. Could it be that things are finally thawing?

[mmorgan21]

Please excuse my disjointed thoughts, but the morals this country were founded upon did allow the death of capital offenders according to article V of the Constitution. An abhorrence does not constitute uneducation, and Mrs. Blair's act of disagreement does not make her the possesser of a valid argument. I disagree with President Bush on plenty, but I have no problem executing the absolute worst of humanity.

[Eagle in NYC]

Well, the uncouth, big mouthed, lawyer wife (I wonder if she has huge thighs like Hillary too?) certainly knows nothing about the U.S. Electoral College nor about criminal justice - the crime rates in the UK have skyrocketed past those in the U.S.

So take your pompous disdain for our criminal system and shove it up your bulbous, cellulite buttocks you thick twit. I say, jolly good, that.

I mean did ANYONE actually ASK what this ill-mannered woman thought about the subjects? I know I didn't.

And look at the picture, at her jutting jaw. A previous poster wrote: "Screw you and the horse you rode in on!" But I think it more likely that she rode in on a broom. Again, the parallels with Hillary are staggering.

And look at the Prime Minister. He might be embarassed by her lack of manners, but look at his right hand. He's supporting his wife.

[fr_freak]

It is absolutely terrible that so many people could post responses to this story which are so uneducated and benign.

Before you go accusing others of being uneducated, I suggest you look the word "benign" up in the dictionary and then rethink whether it made sense in your context.

[RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS]

She reminds me of the Canadian border agent I was asked to speak to travelling from Seattle to BC., by car.

I was asked by the asian/canadian crossing guard if me, as an American, left my guns and dogs home. I was driving my car which had AZ. plates. (I won't explain which state issued(az))

After 2 hours of bull&^ap from the ice guys, I was allowed to leave.

All the while I was ridiculed, I looked at this canuck with a large photo of the queen behind him. I kept my cool.

I wanted to ask him who was in the photo behind him.

my question to the rice/canuck

IS THAT THE CANADIAN VERSION OF AUNT JEMIMA?:):):)

[RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS]

hey cherie, the Irish wil make you bend over for zimbabwe!

:)

[bernie_g]

You might also want to consider this from a domestic UK point of view. Mr Blair is facing a very tough couple of weeks, culminating with the report of the Hutton enquiry. While Hutton is likely to share blame for Dr Kelly's death equally between Gilligan, his management and the Government, it's still very bad news coming on top of e.g. David Kay's resignation and other lack-of-WMD stories.

His very clever PR people are perfectly capable of leaking this story to manufacture a fake controversy that will tend to suggest that he's not a total poodle of Mr Bush. This right now, is something that he desperately needs to do.

In the US, I get the idea that nobody is too bothered about the lack of credible evidence of WMD. Here in the UK, the only way Blair could get support for war was making very strong claims about it, which have turned out to be false and now his own party are seriously wondering if it's time to scrag him and replace him with e.g. Gordon Brown.

The left here are already building a 'story' about this in our media. Both BBC's Panorama and C4's Dispatches have just produced very critical (of Gilligan also) programmes which are suggesting that our intelligence gathering systems were subverted for political ends. Blair also looks like he's going to try to blame his intelligence people and I doubt that they are going to take that lying down either.

So he desperately needs anything that will distract the media and distance him from Mr Bush's policies to help him survive the next few weeks. My guess is that this was leaked as part of a 10 Downing Street spin campaign to do just that.

[Miss Marple]

Find me a source on your statement that Laura is pro-choice. I don't believe you will find one.

This is an author's account of a private dinner conversation. Four people were present. Since I am quite sure the author was not one of the four, he is getting his information either from one of the principals directly or is inferring things from gossip and others' conjecture.

I know for certain that the President and Mrs. Bush would never disclose a private conversation. I am also certain that Tony Blair would not.

Therefore, we are left with Cherie as the only person who could possibly have spoken to the author. Somehow, I don't think this is an accurate accounting of the conversation, myself.