Fred Thompson President of the US 2008-12 visits the Lady Dame Jane Neville Jones Fan Club
"Disruptions in energy supplies, sharp price increases and thuggish behavior by energy suppliers are threats to all democracies with growing economies."
Fred Thompson the Republican Presidential (nearly) candidate was in London yesterdayat the invitation of the Policy Exchange, home territory of the Lady Dame Jane Pauline Neville Jones Fan club. He met Conservative leader the Boy David Cameron and Lady Thatcher, whose estranged grandchildren of her terrorist funding son live in America.
Policy Exchange was the venue for a speech for journalists "Building a Transatlantic Alliance for Tomorrow". (Click for video and transcript of the speech - Video of his views on abortion, cell stem research here)
Wit and Wisdom of Fred at the Policy Exchange....
I’ve thought that America needed a weekly question and answer period between the President and Congress. But in the past few months I’ve decided it isn’t such a good idea.Evidently a man of deep thought our Fred.
Rupe's rag of record, the Times gives him a glowing report after he was interviewed by Gerard Baker (United States Editor and an Assistant Editor of The Times.) - billed as an exclusive - well at least, his first with a non-US news organization, - excluding the ones he gave in Israel when he met Olmerde and Tzipi recently.
He told The Times that "his presidential bid would be based on his belief that Americans wanted change and that he was uniquely placed to provide it."
“I think they perceive the reality and the reality is that perhaps this is the occasion where the man meets the times..." he continued rather modestly.
Apparently he was strongly critical of the conduct of the Iraq war, (who isn't these days ?) and said America would proceed with a greater “dose of realism” in the future, whatever that means.
Nevertheless the original decision to launch an illegal invasion based on a tissue of lies was OK and “just” and claims that the US was right to try to promote democracy around the world.
No mention of him meeting Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Menzies Cambell or any other leading political figures.
Reuters report Fred was 1% ahead of Guiliani in a Rasmussen poll of Republican Presidential hopefuls over last weekend.
2 comments:
Stick to what you know. I am not sure what that is but it's not politics, it's not history, and it's not foreign policy.
Thank you for taking the time to provide such a penetrating apercu.
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*** For example the persistent support of Israel at the UN by the Marshall islands .. or why the CIA run prisons in Mauretania .. or the nature of the contracts recently made for the Myanmar offshore Shwe and Shwe-Phyu gas fields which are said to contain 10 trillion cubic feet of LNG and which the gas Authority of India (GAIL) appear ti have a very substantial stake... historically of course Burma (the old name for the state of Myanmar) was exploited for oil by the Brits and one of the world's first oilcos, the British based Burmah (of which Mrs Thatchers husband Denis was a Director held a virtual monopoly at one tme.
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