{"id":168,"date":"2008-07-10T15:35:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2008\/07\/there-are-no-words.html"},"modified":"2008-07-10T15:35:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T15:35:05","slug":"there-are-no-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/07\/there-are-no-words.html","title":{"rendered":"There Are No Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the interruption, but I had to post this. Here&#8217;s how our President left the G-8 summit today, according to Telegraph, a UK paper:<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: &#8220;Goodbye from the world&#8217;s biggest polluter.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mr Bush, whose second and final term as President ends at the end of the year, then left the meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Hokkaido where the leaders of the world&#8217;s richest nations had been discussing new targets to cut carbon emissions.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nFull article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/2277298\/President-George-Bush-'Goodbye-from-the-world's-biggest-polluter'.html\">Here<\/a>.<br \/>\nI Have No Words For This. Do You?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onecity.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/george-w-bush.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-310\" src=\"https:\/\/onecity.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/george-w-bush.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the interruption, but I had to post this. Here&#8217;s how our President left the G-8 summit today, according to Telegraph, a UK paper: &#8220;The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: &#8220;Goodbye from the world&#8217;s biggest polluter.&#8221; He&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>There Are No Words - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/07\/there-are-no-words.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"There Are No Words - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sorry for the interruption, but I had to post this. 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