Bush Family Christmas Gifts 2003

[Mad_Dem_X]

From the Smoking Gun website:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0804041gifts1.html

Sickening...

[Bluebear]

1. Ho ho ho, Saudi Arabia VERY generous to the Bush's!

"It will probably come as no surprise that the most valuable gift came from Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdallah, who gave First Lady Laura Bush a matching set of diamond and sapphire jewelry valued by U.S. officials at $95,500.00

The Saudi royal also gave the president an $8500 mantel clock and the "first family" (that would be first daughters Jenna and Barbara) received Bulgari necklaces valued at $8500 and $8000 apiece. Other recipients of Saudi largesse were Chief of Staff Andrew Card and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, both of whom got small daggers priced at $1500. The foreign gifts are taken, the State Department report notes, since "non-acceptance would cause embarrassment to donor and U.S. Government."

[Bluebear]

2. P.S. Welcome to DU!

[Tardisian]

3. I betcha...

they're using the daggers to help stab all us working folk in the back!