President Bush: We will not negotiate with ________.

I was watching TV news at a sandwhich shop, reading the news through closed captioning, the volume was muted, and the broadcaster started with this sentence:

“President Bush said today that he will not negotiate with…” -the closed captioning locked up- and the president looked serious, consternation.

I filled in the blank “terrorists!”, from behind the sandwhich counter a person yells “Syria, no… Iran!”, and another person, “North Korea!”, “Islamic radicals?”, “the UN”, -the closed captioning catches up with the broadcast- “Democrats”, “President Bush said today that he will not negotiate with Democrats on a bill…”— “Oohhhh, it was congress. He won’t negotiate with congress…”

So here’s the thread, everytime President Bush, or his proxy, says he will not negotiate with: Senate Republicans, the Department of Justice, the NY Fire Department, alien invaders, etc., post it here or predict the next negotiation that’s not going to happen.

George Bush will not negotiate with the electorate.

Maybe Mr. Bush is a little unsure about the meaning of the word “negotiate”, and feels it’s safer to never do something you don’t understand.
Sort of like the old joke about the young lady who was asked “Do you like Kipling?”, to which she replied “I don’t know; I’ve never kippled”.

Man to ditzy woman: “are you a native of these parts?”

Woman: “I ain’t no native, I was born here!”

From the movie The Great Race

Pulled out my shovel for this one

“U.S. Will Not Negotiate with Hamas”

Bush “has said repeatedly that he will not negotiate, or even discuss, terms for the handover of Mr. bin Laden.”

Bush says he will not negotiate with Iran

President Bush’s national security advisor says the United States will not negotiate with hostage-takers holding Americans in Iraq.

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:b9ELWedTUfgJ:frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx%3FGUID%3D53DED825-4542-4299-8BF7-7EDA673B98D7+President+Bush:+%22will+not+negotiate+%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=12&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Bush-Cheney communications director Nicolle Devenish said: “The campaign maintains its position that it will not negotiate the terms of the debates in the press.”

President Bush: We will not negotiate with those who ride the 1 wheel. For they are far superior then yours truly.

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