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Hors contrôle

par Jerome ITU ~ 07/04/2006, 16:57 . Classé dans : Politique US .

Harry Taylor(photo de Think Progess – info de USA Today)

“‘I feel like despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration,’ Taylor said, standing in a balcony seat and looking down at Bush on stage. ‘And I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and grace to be ashamed of yourself.’”

“‘Je ressens, en dépit de votre rhétorique, que cette compassion et ce bon sens ont été laissés loin derrière, pendant votre administration, ‘ dit Taylor, en se tenant sur un siège de balcon et regardant Bush, en bas sur la scène. ‘Et j’aimerais que, de temps en temps, vous ayez l’humilité et la grâce d’avoir honte de vous-même.’”

Harry Taylor, s’adressant au président, pendant une sortie publique à Charlotte, jeudi dernier. Ou comment un événement pourtant bien scripté à l’avance – le public étant toujours soigneusement filtré, se devant d’être supporter inconditionnel du président- peut toujours déraper. Tant mieux.

D’ailleurs Bush multiplie ce genre d’apparition depuis peu, dans l’espoir d’apparaitre plus proche de l’américain lambda. Comme le révèle Reuters, l’équipe de communication du président pense qu’il est tellement bas dans les sondages, qu’il vaut mieux “laisser Bush être Bush” :

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) – George W. Bush is taking time to explain himself, open up to the public in new ways and court the U.S. Congress as he tries to breathe life into a presidency beset by sagging ratings and influence.

With a job-approval rating under 40 percent, Bush, who went to his Crawford ranch for a quiet weekend, has a long way to go. Aides acknowledge it will take a while to rebuild his image, and much will depend on the outcome of the Iraq war.

White House staffers, who have long limited the president’s appearances to speeches and photo opportunities with little contact with regular people, are now inclined to let Bush be Bush.

En attendant, si la foule a hué le brave Harry, rien ne vaut la mine des deux dames sur la photo, sur la gauche au premier plan. Surtout celle à l’extrême gauche (!). Elle regarde Harry Taylor avec un de ces airs… Comme s’il sortait tout droit de l’asile. Priceless.

Hé bien oui, chère madame, il y a plein de gens qui pensent comme lui aux Etats-Unis !
Sortez de votre bulle.
Et emmenez votre président avec vous.

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6 Réponses sur Hors contrôle

  1. KaM
    07/04/06 à 21:19

    Un vrai Judas, ce Taylor.

    Enfin, dans 2000 ans, on trouvera un vieux fax dans lequel il apparait que c’est Bush qui le lui a demandé.

    De sacrés amis, en somme.

  2. btvs27
    07/04/06 à 23:37

    Belle démonstration de la Démocratie.

  3. Jérôme
    08/04/06 à 15:24

    Voilà le transcript complet de l’échange – finalement très intéressant :

    Q I’ve got the mike.

    THE PRESIDENT: Okay, yes, very good. (Laughter and applause.) Good move.

    Q You never stop talking about freedom, and I appreciate that. But while I listen to you talk about freedom, I see you assert your right to tap my telephone, to arrest me and hold me without charges, to try to preclude me from breathing clean air and drinking clean water and eating safe food. If I were a woman, you’d like to restrict my opportunity to make a choice and decision about whether I can abort a pregnancy on my own behalf. You are –

    THE PRESIDENT: I’m not your favorite guy. Go ahead. (Laughter and applause.) Go on, what’s your question?

    Q Okay, I don’t have a question. What I wanted to say to you is that I — in my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of, nor more frightened by my leadership in Washington, including the presidency, by the Senate, and –

    AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Booo!

    THE PRESIDENT: No, wait a sec — let him speak.

    Q And I would hope — I feel like despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration, and I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and the grace to be ashamed of yourself inside yourself. And I also want to say I really appreciate the courtesy of allowing me to speak what I’m saying to you right now. That is part of what this country is about.

    THE PRESIDENT: It is, yes. (Applause.)

    Q And I know that this doesn’t come welcome to most of the people in this room, but I do appreciate that.

    THE PRESIDENT: Appreciate –

    Q I don’t have a question, but I just wanted to make that comment to you.

    THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate it, thank you. Let me –

    Q Can I ask a question?

    THE PRESIDENT: I’m going to start off with what you first said, if you don’t mind, you said that I tap your phones — I think that’s what you said. You tapped your phone — I tapped your phones. Yes. No, that’s right. Yes, no, let me finish.

    I’d like to describe that decision I made about protecting this country. You can come to whatever conclusion you want. The conclusion is I’m not going to apologize for what I did on the terrorist surveillance program, and I’ll tell you why. We were accused in Washington, D.C. of not connecting the dots, that we didn’t do everything we could to protect you or others from the attack. And so I called in the people responsible for helping to protect the American people and the homeland. I said, is there anything more we could do.

    And there — out of this national — NSA came the recommendation that it would make sense for us to listen to a call outside the country, inside the country from al Qaeda or suspected al Qaeda in order to have real-time information from which to possibly prevent an attack. I thought that made sense, so long as it was constitutional. Now, you may not agree with the constitutional assessment given to me by lawyers — and we’ve got plenty of them in Washington — but they made this assessment that it was constitutional for me to make that decision.

    I then, sir, took that decision to members of the United States Congress from both political parties and briefed them on the decision that was made in order to protect the American people. And so members of both parties, both chambers, were fully aware of a program intended to know whether or not al Qaeda was calling in or calling out of the country. It seems like — to make sense, if we’re at war, we ought to be using tools necessary within the Constitution, on a very limited basis, a program that’s reviewed constantly to protect us.

    Now, you and I have a different — of agreement on what is needed to be protected. But you said, would I apologize for that? The answer — answer is, absolutely not. (Applause.)

    Q Mr. President, I was raised on a ranch in New Mexico. And my heroes have always been cowboys.

    THE PRESIDENT: There you go. Thank you, yes. (Laughter.) I’m not sure I qualify as a cowboy. (Laughter.)

    Q Thinking about our children’s children, if the all-powerful granter of the presidential request were to visit you this evening and give you one of these three, of ongoing economic growth and security for America, ridding the world of the security threat now posed by North Korea and Iran, or establishing peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, which one –

    THE PRESIDENT: Whew. (Laughter.) Back to back, you know? (Laughter.) I don’t — that’s not the way life works. You can do more than one thing at one time. We can achieve peace with the — we can win this war on terror if we’re steadfast and strong. It’s not going to happen on my watch. It’s going to take awhile. We can spread liberty and freedom to create peace. And we can work on the Palestinian-Israeli issue at the same time. I am the first President to have articulated two states living side-by-side in peace.

    And I’m also a President who believed that the Palestinians needed to have elections. There’s an interesting debate in Washington, is do you wait for the conditions to be perfect before elections, that the institutions be in place before there are elections, or do you have elections as a step toward a civil society and a democratic society? As you know, I’ve taken the latter rather than the former, and encouraged the Palestinian elections.

    And what was interesting about those elections is that — and since then, by the way, the Israelis have had elections. The Palestinian elections — let me just step back. I think the Palestinians have been a long-suffering people that deserve better government. The former leadership turned out to be corrupt, like, stole money. And as a result of his leadership, we never got very close to peace. There wasn’t a lasting — there weren’t lasting institutions in place. I believe democracies don’t war.

    And so the election was really an interesting one, I think, recently. Guess what the election — was based on? Corruption. This is the Palestinian elections. Anti-corruption campaigns; vote for me, we’re not going to steal your money; vote for me, we’ll help educate your kids and provide health care. The dilemma we’re in — it’s not a dilemma. I made the decision that if you believe in two states living side-by-side in peace, then one of the parties in the state — one of the parties cannot declare their intentions to destroy the other party. That’s not peaceful. That is war-like.

    And so our posture at this point in time is to say to the Palestinians, Hamas, get rid of it; get rid of that platform. It’s not a peaceful platform. It’s a war-like platform. We want there to be two states side-by-side in peace.

    We’ve also said, we’ll help the people, but not the government. You know, somebody said, well, you support elections. I said, yes, I do. I don’t necessarily have to like who wins. But I do think it was a necessary part of the evolution of the state to have the Palestinian people be able to say, we’re sick of it. We’re sick of the status quo. We want something differently. We want a government that’s honest, and we want a government that listens to our demands. I thought it was a positive development. And now, I would strongly urge the Hamas government to change their tune and their rhetoric about Israel and advocate the peace and work toward a civil society that will yield to lasting peace.

    Again, this is an issue where I’m — progress is being made, but it requires a steadfast support of our belief that democracies will yield to peace.

    I’ve got to go. I appreciate you. Yes, one last question. Yes, ma’am, I promised you. I’m sorry.

    Voir la totalité du transcript de l’intervention sur le site de la Maison Blanche :
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  4. miss lulu
    08/04/06 à 15:31

    tout à fait d’actualité quand on a vu le film Good Night and Good Luck…

  5. btvs27
    08/04/06 à 17:54

    Tout à fait. Très bon film par ailleurs ;-)

  6. Dorothée
    09/04/06 à 17:15

    Merci Jerome…
    Impressionant de mauvaise foi ce Dubiah… Ahhhhh Harry Taylor a eu un courage monstre, mais il a interet d’etre clair avec l’IRS… Parce que quelques controles here and there ne seraient pas etonnant..

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