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gawkimo
12/23/08

In reply to Arab Leaders Shower Condoleeza Rice With Gifts, Have Obvious Crush
I like that Jaques Chirac was the cheapest: he gave Bush an after-shave kit!

I love the French.

From 2004:

According to the State Department's records, Abdullah also gave the Bush family two sets of diamond and white-gold jewelry by the exclusive Italian jeweler Bulgari and an $8,500 mantel clock "elaborately detailed in silver and gold vermeil."

Abdullah's gifts also included ornamental daggers with ivory handles, worth $1,500, for chief of staff Andrew Card and national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice; a miniature silver sword for Secretary of State Colin Powell, worth $1,500; and a small golden statue of a horse for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, worth $700.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave Bush the second-largest single gift: a book of original watercolor portraits of the 43 U.S. presidents, bound in red velvet studded with precious gems. It was valued at $45,000.

French President Jacques Chirac, an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, nonetheless gave Bush $1,900 in gifts, including a set of Christian Dior cologne, after-shave lotion and soap ($133).

[seattletimes.nwsource.com]
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gawkimo
12/23/08

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And she wasn't even expected to be a prince's sex slave for the summer!
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SinisterRouge
12/23/08

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A virtuous woman has a price far above rubies.

Except Condi isn't virtuous. Just sorta Satanically evil.

How is this allowed?
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
12/23/08

@SinisterRouge:

" A virtuous woman has a price far above rubies."

Uhmm.. Of COURSE. She got DIAMONDS and EMERALDS as well. The total package price was raised significantly above that of just the rubies.
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BookishLookish
12/23/08

@oyvehisyou: I would do just about anything for emeralds, save for studying war.
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
12/23/08

@BookishLookish: Good to know ones own price.
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
12/23/08

@oyvehisyou
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
12/23/08

@BookishLookish: One more time.. I've always said that I'm not virtuous-just over priced.
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BookishLookish
12/23/08

@oyvehisyou: And adorable!
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Pope John Peeps II
12/23/08

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It's pretty perfect actually. Rice gets beautiful "gifts" because the primitive patriarchal nature of a country that the relatively corrupt and hypocritical American government tacitly endorses sees her as weak and materialistic, able to be bought for a couple of shiny things "like all women". Then after having received these gifts from the dictatorial rulers of these countries that the US tacitly endorses, she has to return them to the federal government, who will then perhaps sell them back to those same rulers for a sum of money that might go towards staffing a hospital that takes care of America soldiers wounded in a fight against terrorist militias receiving full aid and support from the OTHER side of these governments.
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skahammer
12/23/08

@Pope John Peeps II: Peeps, wow.

Give the rest of us a chance at some Commies, sometime.
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Omitofo
12/23/08

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Every kiss begins with.... Condolezza?

BARF, is anyone else sick of those Jane Seymour commercials featuring the ugly "open heart" necklaces?
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forwardmotion
12/23/08

@Omitofo: They look more like a heart blown apart. A tacky overpriced break up gift after the wife finds out you've been schtupping the secretary?
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MisterHippity
12/23/08

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"Flower petal motif"?

Oh Abdullah, you sly dog!
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dharm12
12/23/08

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i hope she got to wear them on a couple of occasions before handing them over to the GSA. such a shame...
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Xylo
12/23/08

@dharm12: Everything I know about public officials accepting gifts from foreign rulers, I learned from watching "No Way Out".
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