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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (7849)	4/5/2003 1:43:13 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

Those seem to be the only kind of audiences he addresses these days. Is this because of the applause meter? For Dubya, it's always been the applause meter. In fact, he wants guaranteed applause before he deigns to speak. GEORGE Bush pulled out of a speech to the European Parliament when MEPs wouldn't guarantee a standing ovation. Senior White House officials said the President would only go to Strasbourg to talk about Iraq if he had a stage-managed welcome mirror.co.uk So much for the freedom to applause. "There Ought to be Limits to Freedom!" --George W Bush (at a Press conference at the Texas State House, May 21, 1999)