Bush snubbed at G20 Summit
Rick Sanchez on CNN showed this video of world leaders at the G20 Summit refusing to shake hands with President Bush. Sanchez says "It's almost sad." (Via The Fire Wire)
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I would like to believe Bush is being snubbed but it looks more like he is snubbing them.
good for them. awesome.
Maybe he was out of Purell.
Yea, get out your electron microscope and watch as I cry the world's smallest tear for poor Geroge W.
Yes, it's almost sad. Not quite though.
You know what is sad? Armless Iraqi children.
Ha ha! (Nelson laugh)
i heard he'd already met them all just previously, and wasn't appropriate to shake all their hands again. which makes sense, actually. ps i hate bush.
"I googled Bush and Bully together. You ready? Two million five hundred thousand hits!"
Well, mister news reporter man, I googled "Bush" and "disco" together. You ready? Nineteen million eight hundred thousand hits!
Also, talk to Rick "at" Twitter, Facebook, Myspace!
CNN: Dumber than YouTube?
Bush wasn't snubbed. He never offers his hand. If anything, he is the one doing the snubbing. Watch the video again. He's chatting with them all, but not offering his hand. Maybe he already shook their hands before the photo op, and it didn't occur to him to do it again.
The kid with cooties would at least get called names and shoved down stairs.
Bush is the weird pale kid who lives with his grandmother, eats liverwurst sandwiches for lunch every day, and that no one pays any attention to at all.
I believe that the reason this is sad, and that some of us may feel a modicum of empathy for Bush during this cruel global-school-yard-moment is that he has been nothing but vacant figurehead these past 8 years. He controls nothing. He's just the public face for an agenda for which he doesn't believe in or care about. I believe he's just an average, small minded, insecure guy who was tapped to do press conferences while his family (both political and blood family) carried out their agenda. So, yeah, of course, an alcoholic, middle aged man desperately looking for approval one last time is indeed sad to any human eye.
Hey, I like liverwurst!
haha well since bush is one of the shittiest leaders we ever had i dont blame them
He shook hands with everybody before: http://cspanjunkie.org/?p=1095
To those commentators who say that Bush is instead snubbing the other leaders, look again. Several of them clasp their hands together or put them at their sides or behind their backs to make them unavailable for Pres. Shrub.
They probably didn't serve him a dish of sand and ashes at their luncheon, but I'll bet that whatever they did serve tasted like that to him.
I'll be heading right over the the labs at MIT to pick up a nano-violin.
its called cooties.. and its an epidemic.
h, gv m brk.
Just as much as the next guy, I think Bush has been an awful President and I'm always eager to see the latest, best, most entertaining criticism of him.
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As has been pointed out, not once did Bush even try to offer his hand for a shake. To be snubbed, you have to first extend your own hand.
Even more to the point, Bush already went through an overly elaborate greeting ceremony with each G20 representative, in which he exited the building (the White House I think, but don't hold me to that) to shake their hand and then lead them in.
Other than the blatant misrepresentation engaged in by Sanchez, I think the most noteworthy thing about this video is that everyone else apparently hadn't had a chance to greet each other yet. The first time they get that chance is the photo op.? I suppose that's just "how things are done", but it seems odd to me.
There are plenty of opportunities to rake Bush over the coals. Don't cheapen them by making crap up.
He is not offering his hand to shake nor is anyone offering their hand to him and therefore there is no shaking of hands. There is almost no awkwardness about it except he seems ready to do whatever - take the picture?
Two words: Hell. Yes!
But yay Rick Sanchez for somehow still being a popular media personality!
I remember watching him on Channel Seven Action News on WSVN 7 in South Florida. He's mostly lost his "media guy" alliteration, that's sad.
If you saw the Daily Show Cuckoo Clock piece, you would see Bush come out and shake everyone's hand for photo ops before and after event. Not that he doesn't deserve snubbing, but I think it was just a time saver/protocol thing. I'm anti-Bush but pro-FACTS!
I would like to believe Bush is being snubbed but it looks more like he is snubbing them.
I would say if you know deep inside you're worthy of rejection, you don't go up to someone expecting to be greeted and received.
Whether they're shaking hands or not, it looks to me like he's now excluded from that group, based on body language. Except for the gentleman to the left of Angela Merkel -- is that Gordon Brown? -- not a smile, not a nod, nothing.
Ow ow ow, painful to watch.
@keith: You know what is sad? Armless Iraqi children.
Yeah, even more painful. Makes me think of a recent communique from Pakistan, I think: "Our position is simple: STOP KILLING CIVILIANS."
Harvyboing @ #16 said
In my world it doesn't cheapen them, it enhances them.
Let's see:
But, asking for a break, and making a factual statement about the pro-left bias in this particular CNN report, and I get disemvoweled?
Hey, Antinous...inconsistent much?
Harvey,
If you haven't figured it out yet, I doubt that you ever will.
He's just tuned out (imagine that). Nobody's snubbing him. Look at how he's practically running over the guy in front of him.
Sanchez, I hope you read this. Y r dck! This is still the president of our country. Whether you like him or not, give him that respect. If we have no respect for our presidency, why should anyone else? I didn't vote for Obama, but he won the race. He will be my president and my allegiance and support will be with him. Class up your act!
I understand the explanation, but not why he is going through the receiving line if he isn't shaking hands. Why wouldn't he just stand to the side with his hands clasped in front of him with a smile on his face?
Maybe he's just looking to beat the rest of them to the men's room.
Harvey - when you malign the hosts or the other guests, you get dsmvwld. It's not rocket surgery.
HarveyB, Bush is one of the shittiest leaders we've ever had. It's an actual, quantifiable fact.
Man, this ought to justify a website for bush along the lines of that hot chicks with douchebags thing posted yesterday.
CNN: 'We Just Discovered Google Yesterday!'
I'm watching at work with the sound off, so this is a limited perspective. But it really looks like he didn't make an effort to engage anyone in the receiving line. Little eye contact and W. didn't even break his stride. He just charged through the line.
He exudes bad body language.
Who could even tell he wants to talk to them?
It's sad that Boing Boing is propagating this obvious mischaracterization of what's really going on. Bush had already shaken their hands.
In his own country he's ranked among the top three worst presidents, ever. Nobody wants to be seen with him because he might make them look bad by association and there's no need to curry any favours.
For what he's done in the last 8 years, at the very least, I hope he wakes up every night in cold sweats for the rest of his miserable life.
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Whether you like him or not, give him that respect. If we have no respect for our presidency, why should anyone else?
Better I think is to respect not the man, not the uniform, and not the office, but the ideas embodied in the man, or woman.
If the people will lead ...
A User@36:
In his own country he's ranked among the top three worst presidents, ever.
Who would you say are the other two?
aww, that does make me sad. despite how much i fucking hate the bush administration; i can't help but feel a bit sad, a little bit of human tenderness. T________________________T
controlbroke,
Read the Moderation Policy.
#31 GrimC, citation please? I'm not challenging your statement (I hold no love or respect for W); I just want the quantification scale for "shitty" so I can combine it with the legal definition of "douchebag." Then I can defensibly and provably call someone a shitty douchebag.
RE: douchebag definition http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/19/gentleman-insists-he.html#comment-334153
Anyone who feels sorry for Bush can make him feel better by visiting his presidential library.
I hear it will be in its own suite above the Midland, TX Rexall drugs, across from the notary public's office.
Sign the guest book and buy a postcard in case he's not manning the souvenir nook when you visit.
Bush doesn't shake hands with the help.
haha thanks antinous. :-)
i shall lower my expectations then.
We have such short term memory. To claim Bush is among the worst ever just shows that Americans have no sense of history.
It is ambiguous. I can't really tell what the reason for not shaking hands is.
#27
i have never understood the premise that we should respect and support the president because he's the president "our president" regardless of what he does.
(but fyi, i am still glad you aren't planning to gun down Obama)
Temptation, are you about to post your shortlist? I used to think Reagan was the worst possible after Nixon. Who you got?
Disappointingly enough it looks as if Bush has generally forgotten to shake hands and the G20 leaders are socially intelligent enough to not force a handshake at someone in aloof, Bush-like state of mind.
And yes the is often more knowledge and insight in one Youtube comments page than an entire CNN report.
Hey, Nixon got us out of Vietnam.
with all candour and total honesty, the only walk I need to see George W Bush do is up thirteen steps.
He is in company with Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler and those like him. Even as an organ grinder's monkey, his complicity is beyond any pale.
@WallyB
Sean Wilentz, History professor, Princeton:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_in_history
Rating by 109 professional historians, History News Network
http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html
CNN/Opinion Research poll: Bush gets largest disapproval rating in history
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/bush.poll/
@Temptation
Yeah, those darn historians with their no sense of history.
As much as we would like to believe that Bush is being snubbed, that probably is not what's happening here.
What Takuan said. Meine geige spiele.
"This is still the president of our country. Whether you like him or not, give him that respect."
Lemme think about that.
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Um, nope. Can't personally agree. I've never believed anyone is automatically deserving of respect, simply by virtue of...nothing. It is earned, not a type of automatic entitlement that came as part of the employment bonus package. You start at neutral. Your actions from that point forward, determine whether or not you deserve more (or less). Mr. Bush has done nothing to earn more from me than - at best - a contemptuous lip curl. If someone's actions brand them as a contemptible person, why would I pretend otherwise? It's a waste of effort that might well mislead others. In effect, it would be a blatant falsehood on my part.
I thought Johnson did. Or was it Ike? I guess I do have a short memory.
To the morons who say, "but he already shoot their hands off camera", this is a political press event, what you do on camera shows your views. He's not some podunk mayor, he's the President of the United States, and he doesn't have the common sense to use this as a positive press opportunity? Come on... His body is doing all the talking that his lips have trouble doing.
Yeah, nobody seems to be able to explain why, if he isn't being snubbed, or he isn't doing the snubbing, just exactly what the hell is he doing?
Stuffing your face with buffalo wings would be more appropriate - anything would be more appropriate than shuffling through a receiving line looking like you've been rifling through people's coats in the other room.
Works better with a soundtrack :) - http://www.piranhamagazine.com/video/diplomacy-fail/
Bush is a global disgrace. I wouldn't shake his hand either.
@WallyB
Basically, I guess you need to find a bunch of professors of douchebaggery. :)
a) just because there's video (offered as if indisputable proof), this is not journalism, this is biased commentary. I don't like dubya either.
b) I'd guess most in the US don't even recognize this key distinction. Don't like dubya either.
c) You have establish eye contact before a handshake. Doesn't look like there's much to begin with for whatever reason. Don't like dubya.
d) The man behind Bush doesn't shake with the man that's 4th along. Don't like.
e) If it were me I'd probably try to give the dude in front of me a flat tire. Don't.
f) You should've moved on to the kitchen by now to make some corn bread.
Explorer21@27: Regardless of his numerous crimes against humanity and presiding over the most blatant kleptocracy in modern times, the fact that the man had to steal his way into office TWICE shows he was always unworthy of the office he holds for another 60 days, and unworthy of even having his name capitalized in my book. (See my posting history here and you will find I have been consistent on this. It's a very small protest, I know, but one I will always observe when referring to king george IV.)
I respected Reagan and Bush Sr. though I didn't like to see them hold office or the path they led our country down, because they at least played by the rules in their elections. You don't get my respect when you prove yourself so completely inept at holding the office you defile and the principles this country was founded upon with every single thing you say and action you take.
Temptation@45: Maybe we are just better informed about the events of the past 8 years than you.
Gareth Stack@59: Yeah. Can has Yakkity Sax?
Grimc@61: I attended a major state university. Somehow I don't think these would be too hard to find. ;D
Don't blame me, I voted for Bush.
Anon@57: FTMFW!
Amazing.
Handshakes before nothing. It's clear from the body language this was a direct (if not pre-planned!) snub.
Half-way through he starts to realize what's gong on... the shame sets in as he passes the lady in grey (Finland's president?)... And he looks up at the next guy like a sad puppy dog... "You going to ignore me too?" A question answered with averted gazes and uncomfortable foot adjusting.
The only way it could be more embarrassing for Bush would be if they had turned their backs on him.
And, even if Antinous was unable to correctly interpret what I wrote, this post was left unmolested:
So, apparently one is not allowed to criticize CNN for their mischaracterization, but it's fine to criticize Boing Boing for posting that mischaracterization. Sometimes.As for Antinous's own statement:
That's basically a cop-out, the sort of thing you say when you have no idea why you did what you did and so have no way of actually explaining it.I'm surprised this information is not more widely known. Cribbed from the comments at Cynical-C, thanks Yure:
"as a diplomat I have to say that usually you don´t shake hands with the main host of a summit (specially when you just meet with him in private, as it is custumary)."
Harveyboing@67: Dude! Please take it to the moderation thread. No one else here wants to hear you whine.
Time out for your account in 3... 2...
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Bush had just 2 minutes before this MET and WELCOMED everyone of these folks in another room. As the host always does.
I just googled "bush" and "superman" and got 6,780,000 hits. Does that somehow count as evidence that he can fly and bend bars of steel?
Anyway, thanks for the video link. You feel that he's really just given up since the election.
sad?? more like AWESOME.
I'm no fan of littering a single comment section with relatively unrelated meta-discussion, but so far no one has offered a suitable alternative. If there were such an alternative, you'd think a Boing Boing moderator would suggest that rather than continuing the discussion in the comments for the original post.
Are you absolutely sure about that? You've checked with every person reading the comments? And are you absolutely sure that anyone here wants to hear you whine?The moderation thread can be found under "Don't Miss" on this page.
Harveyboing@73: I'm not the one arguing with the moderators for all to peruse. Go ahead and continue to prove yourself a total douchebag for all I care.
Bush is obviously not being snubbed, nor snubbing. The scene is for a staged photo op. He most likely has already gone through the meet and greets and is ready to get down to business.
The real snubbing will come in the next ten to thirty years as he will not be called upon by the Republican party to campaign, consult, or to reflect publicly. Like Truman, who was dismayed that Dean Acheson was called upon by the Democratic party for political/strategic advice while Harry S. was ignored, Bush will likely spend the rest of his life sulking and confused by a retirement in which he'll be left out of the loop.
It's what happens when you spend your political life being used a tool for an agenda not your own. I suppose if we had been treated to his agenda, we would have had eight years of dithering, inaction, a couple of photos of him in sombreros to appeal to potential Mexican-American voters, and an otherwise lackluster presidency. Unfortunately, the dunce's office was captured by the most selfish, malicious, overreaching bunch of bastards this country has ever seen and suffered from.
harvey, the moderation thread is here: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/27/boing-boings-moderat.html . i really don't wish to hear ANYONE whine. bricko, you sound kinda angry, need a hug? as Tak says above, the only walk i would like to see these asshats take is up the gallows steps, and the only dancin i want to see them do would be at the end of a rope. fukkin traitors. worst president EVAR.
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Bricko,
Your value to noise ratio is below standard. You can write Teresa if you want to be reinstated.
He was tired as this was usually his nap time.
D3, I looked at your comment history, because usually those who complain about dving are first-time posters or one-note trolls. So your first comment was about Naomi Wolf in 2007, and it was disemvowelled, and you've complained about it at intervals ever since.
Other than that, you seem like an OK guy. Is it really worth getting hot under the collar and flinging poo about?
men, offices, flags; the ship is holed in the bilges. One snatches the flag down, balls it up and jams it in the filth to stop the leak. Another swarms the mast and struggles to hold it above the waves,even drowning beneath it at the last moment.
Which is the patriot? The idiot?
Any who think a bad, bad man deserves the respect of his office belongs in North Korea with his very own Dear Leader portrait.
A bad man in high office deserves all the opprobrium possible for defiling a trust.
Leaders die for their people. Fools die for their leaders.
Respect and trust are like having a savings account. You need to make some deposits before you can make withdrawals!
@8
"Well, mister news reporter man, I googled "Bush" and "disco" together. You ready? Nineteen million eight hundred thousand hits!"
I'm so pleased someone else caught that. C'mon, I hate Bush as much as everyone else here, but let's not act like idiots in the process. A modicum of discretion? Or a teaspoon of intelligence?
We're about to get the backlash - when the unwashed majority is suddenly on our side, what will we do? Intelligent elitism suddenly becomes the epic fail.
ehhh. . . there was a time when I really disliked Bush, perhaps even hated him, but by this point I don't hate him, and I'm not 100% convinced that what we are seeing in that clip is exactly what the CNN blabbering skull is describing. I do feel sorry for Bush, he had as much hubris as any the protagonist of Greek tragedy, and similarly he got his comeuppance. He's not evil, just a kid playing a man's game (sometimes I feel the same). Unfortunately we were essentially forced to play along.
It's not a receiving line, they are filing out for a picture of the leaders. It looks to me like he is concentrating on finding the mark on the stage where he is supposed to stand instead of greeting people.
how many did Lipwig Moist kill?
The excuse of "Well, he shook their hands already!" seems incredibly lame: you can't shake someone's hand twice? Is their like a Half-Life 2 cooling off period for the weapon?
And do we really think that W. could remember "Done him, done him, not done him, done her..."?
Life would be so much more entertaining if world leaders were expected to rub noses.
" #8 posted by frazbin , November 20, 2008 1:45 PM
"I googled Bush and Bully together. You ready? Two million five hundred thousand hits!"
Well, mister news reporter man, I googled "Bush" and "disco" together. You ready? Nineteen million eight hundred thousand hits!"
O.k., I had to check you, and you're right. 19,800,000 hits for "Bush"+"disco"! Oddly though I get 6,250,000 hits for the "Bush"+"bully" that he was excited about a mere 2.5 million for (though disco still wins by a landslide). I had to try a few other combos...
Bush + bully 6,250,000
Bush + disco 19,800,000
Bush + lover 508,000 (perhaps THIS one tells something...)
Bush + pizza 16,200,000
Bush + naked 22,500,000 (and moderate filtering was on, so this was about the Bush family...)
I googled 'Takuan' and 'Cthulhu' and got 780 hits.
the bastard! he said he'd never tell!
Antinous and Palin: 21,600
Antinous and Palin hurricane style: 706
googlesmearing? googlesliming? googleslander?
'Takuan Cthulhu Dirty Sanchez' - 12 hits
"Takuan Cheney Reach Around" - 285 hits
The whole topic reeks to me of cheapshottery regardless of whose hand he might've shaken beforehand. After eight years of idiot knife fight tactics from the current administration and its fan club, I'd like to think the opposition in their hour of victory is capable of just a tad more decorum than this.
All the poor man did was start a war and shred the Constitution. Leave Britney alone!
What, nobody googled 'Bush' and 'Douchebag'?
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ill lich, bush got his comeuppance? when did this happen? was i asleep? i think they woulda said something about it on the news. was it a good hard slap on the wrist? a spanking with a hairbrush? sent to bed without supper? antinous, starting a war and using the constitution as if it were a roll of charmin are really only scratching the surface of the damage these crooked bastards ( and i include condi in that) have done to our country. and don't get me started on the whole bailout feeding trough. oy! the mess will take years to untangle. by then mr. hangdog-face and crew will be long gone. sipping mango margaritas on a mountain in belize. and probably presidentially pardoned.
The White House has released video they say shows him shaking everyone's hands ... er ... beforehand.
White house media consultant
http://anonymousopinion.com/media/KimJongIl_teamamerica_01.jpg
Rick Sanchez is a goofball with a limited grasp of the google, but the video speaks for itself. Additionally, the GWB Concern Trolls in this thread are really something else! Fascinating.
More G20 Summit madness: Russian president Medvedev makes fun of Nicolas Sarkozy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACflMRlvQ3w
Or here with english subtitles (begins at 3:30):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8z8ows9IB8
That's the same CNN that brought us the Great Baghdad Fireworks Show of 2003? They must be trying to control damage while moving into the Obama years.
The "he already shook hands" thing doesn't ring true for me (even if he did) because not shaking hands at the event looks really odd. They would surely have thought of that. Plus, Bush looks angry to me.
OTOH, he's not holding out his hand.
Here's a possible scenario: in order to avoid making Bush look like a *total* dick, they told him beforehand that they wouldn't shake. I have no evidence for that, obviously. Just an idea.
FWIW, I think it makes BoingBoing look petty and vindictive when the moderator disemvowels a post purely because it complains about disemvowelling.
#78 for example. I don't see any offensive opinions or rude words there.
This is so stupid.
If you are hosting a party and greet all the assistants on arrival, would you greet them again later?
Bush would deserve such snubbing (which would be horribly humiliating in diplomatic terms) but it is not what we are witnessing.
Much more telling is that the President of the Spanish government, Mr Zapatero, attended the summit when it is a well known fact that Bush did not want him there (Zapatero withdrew Spanish forces from Iraq as soon as he won the Spanish elections, sending into the wilderness Bush's warmongering buddy, Mr Aznar).
Now that is a snubbing from France and the EU (which France is presiding and on which name allowed Spain to join the summit) to the hideous US president (which btw did not earn anybody's respect, anybody that thinks a President is a patriotic symbol to be respected automatically frankly needs a reality check or to move to North Korea).
If the CNN newsreader, and CNN in general would have followed that history, well, it would have shown some degree of journalistic curiosity, concentrating in this non issue tells us a lot about CNN and how if operates (or not actually).
As for people using Google searches as affirmation of a point of view, it is frankly lame beyond belief.
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he's lucky they didn't spit on him or try to trip him up.
Anyway, it's an open secret now. The entire world hates bush apart from the 40-odd million people who like him because they've been trained to obey their religious leaders.
@88 Dimmer,
I have been told that in some cultures, (French for example), shaking someone's hand twice in one meeting implies "You're so dull, I don't even remember you from a few minutes ago."
I see everyone's point that they aren't snubbing him because he isn't offering them a handshake either, but take a look at how he is almost hanging his head in shame during the entire photo session. I think the "most unpopular kid in high school" anecdote sums this video and his presidency up fairly well.
Damn cable news networks. I'm starting to feel sorry for that man but my memory isn't that short.
gumshoe, i hope history will recall the anger and frustration we ( thinking people) have incurred over the last 8 years as we screamed ( to deaf ears like your own) about this crooked sumbitch and his equally crooked cronies, and their plan to pillage our economy. now that it's as plain as the nose on your face, you are mad at us? go flame out elsewhere. i will dance on their graves.
Eh, who cares. At this point you'd be hard pressed to surprise me with any news related to Bush. He could devour a room full of kittens and I'd probably just ask how long until he's out of office.
Snubbed, not snubbed. Meh.
#103 MINTPHRESH
. . . yeah I guess in the strict sense of the word he did NOT get any comeuppance. I was thinking along the lines of "the long view of history", and how it will view Bush (and this most recent breed of conservatives who asked at the top of their voices that the media be unbiased while they themselves remained completely and unashamedly biased.) In other words, Bush and the neo-cons have very convincingly discredited conservatism, and that is something of a comeuppance from my point of view.
The Secret Service prevents anyone not cleared from shaking hands with the President as a standard security procedure. My guess is that due to lack of timely logistical opportunity it was not possible to clear everyone so no one was permitted to shake his hand.
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I don't believe the White House cover story. So Bush shook their hands earlier that day? So what? They've all been at the conference together, so presumably the rest of the world leaders have been greeting each other as they've gone along; yet all the rest of them are shaking hands again as they file in. Why? Because it's a photo op. They're making a show of international amity. They're just not making it with Bush.
Ned613, do you really imagine foreign heads of state at a major conference aren't cleared for just about anything? And if by some unimaginable circumstance they weren't cleared to shake hands with him, do you imagine that they'd be allowed to stand that close to him?
meh. For whatever reason they blew him off, and he blew them off. There's not nearly enough context to decide, Maybe it was diplomatic protocol that he only greet the head of their delegation, which he had done.
But, that said, nobody was especially happy to see (or bother to acknowledge) the President. I've noticed Americans stopped taking their hats off for him sometime in 2004, which is why I think he's often shown with military just behind him (they will always take their hats off for an officer, period). my 2c.
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CNN: Bush Not Snubbed After All. Jeanne Moos reports:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeFEZ6fg_h0
@114 Are you suggesting GWB is French? Those are fighting words mon aime.
(40 years later and I still suck at French.)
credit to CNN for not being above correcting themselves.
@1
Im going to have to agree with... I think he is actually snubbing them. The other men are looking to them and putting out their hand. Bush is neither looking or putting out his hand.
gumshoe, you may want to increase your fiber intake. you seem to be having some vowel trouble...
evict him now!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/opinion/22collins.html?_r=2
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