No one is going to say if Trotta was carrying the football or not, I see...
Posted on 11/22/2004 1:30:55 PM PST by GretchenM
The [APEC] summit in ... Chile, was the site of a ... kerfuffle... over the weekend, as the Chileans picked fights with the U.S. Secret Service and lost. The first ... involved Nick Trotta ... in President Bush's security detail. As the president ... entered ..., "Chilean officers, who appeared to be waiting for the moment, stepped in front of Trotta, blocking him from entering," ...
U.S. officials said Chilean police had been chafing for a week about a demand by Secret Service agents that they control the president's space...
... amid a flurry of half nelsons, one Secret Service agent wound up jammed against a wall. "You're not stopping me! ...I'm with the president!" an unidentified agent can be heard yelling on videotape...
... The president, who is rarely alone ...turned and walked back to the front door unaccompanied, facing the backs of a sea of dark suits. Bush, with his right hand, reached over the suits and pointed insistently at Trotta. At first the officials ... did not realize it was the president intervening. Bush then braced himself against someone and lunged to retrieve the agent, who was still arguing with the Chileans. The shocked Chilean officials then released Trotta.
Trotta walked in behind Bush, who looked enormously pleased with himself. He was wearing the expression that some critics call a smirk, and his eyebrows shot up as if to wink at bystanders.
The Post quotes Marcelo Romero, a Chilean reporter: "All of us journalists agree that President Bush looked like a cowboy. It was total breach of protocol. I've seen a lot of John Wayne movies, and President Bush was definitely acting like a cowboy." Apparently some journalists think that's a bad thing.
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It just gets better! What a month! Thank God.
Thought you might like to see the story behind the headlines, in which a Chilean reporter says,"All of us journalists agree that President Bush looked like a cowboy. It was total breach of protocol. I've seen a lot of John Wayne movies, and President Bush was definitely acting like a cowboy."
I like the fact that he acts like a Cowboy.
And that is why we love him!!!
Should he choose the cranial or the rectal surgeon?
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Let's hear it for Cowboys!! YAY!
Sorry Marcelo, watching John Wayne movies does not make you an expert on this. If he was acting like a John Wayne movie you'ld either have a sore jaw or a smoking hole in you, Pilgrim.
No one is going to say if Trotta was carrying the football or not, I see...
I am not sure. What do you suggest?
And I am enormously pleased with our President!!!!
That reporter's whining about a breach of protocol makes all chilean men come across and weakling sissy boys.
Those Columbian fellows are lucky they didn't get shot.
Uhhhh... Hey Chilean Journalist - The Breach of Protocol was by Chilean Security, not President Bush, so get over yourself.
Ditto on the Cowboy!
Maybe its the first time they met a politician who acted as a man first.
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