Can I use the bathroom, Condi?

Cúchulainn · Thu, 15th Sep '05, 11:39am

For any fellow SP Spanish speakers here:

Quote:

Bush: ¿Puedo ir al baño?
"Creo que necesito ir al baño, ¿es posible?" Ésta es la frase que Bush escribió la pasada noche a su secretaria de Estado, Condoleezza Rice, durante la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas.

Taken from El Mundo

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[ September 16, 2005, 00:06: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

chevalier · Thu, 15th Sep '05, 12:58pm

Perhaps it was an important meeting and he didn't know if it required his constant presence or not? I doubt he would be so dependent on Condi as to ask her if he can go to bathroom.

kuemper · Thu, 15th Sep '05, 4:30pm

Very much like how defendants act while in the courtroom. Was this at someplace where Bush couldn't just 'pop out' for a few minutes? If so, it explains the note and I'm pretty sure he doesn't speak spanish that well.

jaded empath · Thu, 15th Sep '05, 4:33pm

Aye, as much as I love to slight Dubya, he probably wanted to 'organize' things - if he had to briefly leave, he'd have Condi cover for him while absent (if she was *speaking* at the time, she could work in a 'please excuse my...') Or perhaps the meeting would require a recess if he were to depart, as chev posed.

But that makes me think of something; how would she refer to the president in a formal address or speech? "my boss" just doesn't feel right, for some reason.

Cúchulainn · Thu, 15th Sep '05, 4:55pm

Your supposed to take care of these things before class (or in Bush's case, meetings)! Just like my primary school teacher used to say.

@Kuemper, he did not write it in Spanish (photo has his note in English), thats just the Spanish translation for El Mundo. Though I did read that he can speak some Spanish.

kuemper · Thu, 15th Sep '05, 5:36pm

I saw the note and I didn't claim he wrote it in spanish. I was merely trying to come up with a plausible idea of why he would be writing a note about needing to use the toilet in an important (?) meeting. Feels like I took a wrong turn somewhere.

Nakia · Thu, 15th Sep '05, 5:54pm

Quote:

Feels like I took a wrong turn somewhere.

Missed the bathroom, kuemper? Tough luck.

Actually your post makes sense to me.

Bush being from Texas his 'spanish' is problem spanglish, iirc the term correctly.

This reminds me of a story of my Aunt Hilda's third cousin twice removed. Oops, sorry wrong forum!

Sydax · Thu, 15th Sep '05, 11:38pm

It was at the UN meeting, as I said to my girfriend: by the time when he was speaking there where no empty chair, when Zapatero (Spanish President) there was just 30 or so people and they were talking eachother about who knows, when Bush was caught writting that when another 'I don't know who is he' was talking.

Dice · Fri, 16th Sep '05, 5:24am

Hasn't Bush heard of Depends?

Kitrax · Fri, 16th Sep '05, 7:09am

Quote:

Hasn't Bush heard of Depends?

He isn't *that* old...

The dude was probably stuck in a hellishly long and boring meeting, and natured called. I've been in a 4 hour long meeting that had no breaks. It's hell if nature calls because you literally can't leave, or the rest of the meeting is meaningless once you get back.

But I'm overlooking the thing that's really important here: Why the hell is this being discussed? Is Bush's life and note taking *that* interesting? No? Then why bother?

Cúchulainn · Fri, 16th Sep '05, 10:24am

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