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President Bush has an iPod. This isn't exactly breaking news here on TUAW, however, according to this Rueters story Bono gave President Bush an iPod. It isn't clear what model iPod it was, but I imagine it was one of the video enable iPods that the President wanted.Use Spotlight as a reference tool. Type any word in the Spotlight box and one of the top entries will be a definition. Click on it, and it will bring up the dictionary application to check the word in either the dictionary, thesaurus, Apple database, or Wikipedia.
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Ireland said 5:25PM on 5-16-2006
Fuck Bush!!
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Steven said 5:29PM on 5-16-2006
Wow, that's the most mature post I've ever seen. I'm glad Ireland has one star, he deserves it.
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Steven said 5:30PM on 5-16-2006
Aww it didn't put my "sarcasm" HTML code on there. Darn.
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ChillyWilly said 6:23PM on 5-16-2006
That's nice of Bono. One person that wants world peace giving a gift to someone that fights against world peace.
Maybe the chainsaw gift was hinting at what Bush will be doing on Jan 21, 2009.
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fra said 6:30PM on 5-16-2006
Ireland... you make your citizens cry... well this one at least!
I can add another thing I hate about Bush... he has a better iPod than me :(
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Stealth43 said 6:39PM on 5-16-2006
cmon people, I expect wittier than this....
oy vey
how bout "Dick and Bush make love, not war"? Kind of fits with Job's whole peacnik thing :D
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Scott F said 6:52PM on 5-16-2006
>how bout "Dick and Bush make love, not war"?
Best use for dick and bush I've ever seen. Too bad Bush don't know Dick.
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pygmalion said 7:19PM on 5-16-2006
A chainsaw ? Am I the only one who's thinking "Texas chainsaw massacre" ? :D
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Scott F said 7:45PM on 5-16-2006
>A chainsaw ? Am I the only one who's thinking "Texas chainsaw massacre"
Tell him it's a new-fangled gas-powered toothbrush.
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William Beem said 9:01PM on 5-16-2006
My god, what childish politics. Bush may not get to keep the iPod, anyway. Federal law requires that people in federal positions must turn over any gifts to the government, and not keep them for personal use. Maybe there's a dollar value limit that lets him keep small gifts, but I don't know if the iPod falls on one side or the other.
Still, it's a nice gesture and it would've been interesting to listen to their conversation - whether you agree with either of their politics or not.
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KT said 9:29PM on 5-16-2006
Buck Fush!!!!
Maybe he's wiretapping our iPods too. Should've given the iPod to some homeless New Orleans kid or to Valerie Plame.
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Sir Not Appearing in this Blog said 9:48PM on 5-16-2006
If this is the intellectual level of political commentary we can expect whenever Bush gets a mention, we just don't need to hear about him. Honestly guys, I heard more cogent political banter during recess in third grade.
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Nick said 11:30PM on 5-16-2006
Could be a red iPod of some sort, as part of the 'Red' campaign Bono is running as an AIDS awareness/findraising exercise (corporations made limited edition versions of their products in red, a chunk of the money goes to charity).
Apple has worked with Bono in the past, I imagine something like red iPods would be exactly what Bono is looking for.
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Steve M said 3:05AM on 5-17-2006
From the Article:
> Bush's ranch in Crawford was valued at more than $1 million to $5 million.
I normally assume that if something is worth more than $5 million it is more than $1 million. When I was studying Physics in College I had the feeling the Liberal Arts guys weren't very good in Math and Science, but journalists these days would fail remedial math.
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David said 12:26PM on 5-17-2006
When I listen to my iPod I get the munchies. I hope Bono gave him a bag of pretzels too.
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