At the G-8 summit, President Bush grabs German Chancellor Angela Merkel from behind and gives her a quick massage before rushing off. Chancellor Merkel is not amused.
This has been an awful trip for Bush to say the least on so many levels.
Taylor Marsh: This is why Iraq and the Middle East are in flames, and we have no credibility around the world. We have a prepubescent president in charge. It is an outrage.
Darrel wrote:Taylor Marsh: This is why Iraq and the Middle East are in flames, and we have no credibility around the world. We have a prepubescent president in charge. It is an outrage.
DOUG
Bush is an embarassment. The Dixie Chicks were ahead of their time.
"We could have done something important Max. We could have fought child abuse or Republicans!" --Oona Hart (played by Victoria Foyt), in the 1995 movie "Last Summer in the Hamptons."
My guess is that any woman can look at those pictures and know exactly what’s going on. The German chancellor got an unwelcome grope from our frat-boy-in-chief. And I’m willing to bet money that most of the women I know would have socked the guy with one of those balled up fists Merkel is displaying in the pictures above.
It’s not funny or flattering. At best it’s assuming a familiarity that doesn’t exist between two people. At worst it’s a way of dehumanizing someone reducing them to a body part to be groped, and it’s a way of asserting dominance; an unspoken way of saying “I can put my hands on you any time I want, and there’s not much you can do about it.”
The difference between the president and most gropers, though, is that the rest are usually smart enough not to do it when there are cameras rolling.
This - like the quicky visit to Iraq to drop in uninvited upon a newly designated leader of a supposedly sovreign nation - is more evidence of W's unholy combination of self-centeredness and total disconnect from reality as far as other people are concerned. He is worse than an embarrassment to the US. He truly does not see other people as being anything but paper dolls and supporting players in "The W Show". Meanwhile, he has taken our eyes off his performance as a leader of a G-8 country (we have an energy crisis, so let's drill our way out of it) with this little gaucherie.
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