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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LOL!!! I love it.
Makes me nervous as all get out, but I love it.
LOL--great pic! A cowboy, enormously pleased with himself. A superb recipe for getting lefties in a lather!
Not so. The culture of the Appalachian Highlands and the frontier, including cowboys, derives from the Scotch-Irish immigrant culture, not the Puritan.
Between 1715 and 1775 perhaps 250,000 people from the northern parts of the British Isles came to British America. Most were Scotch-Irish (Scots settled in Northern Ireland--Ulster--after 1603), but there also were Irish as well as people on both sides of the Scottish- English border. They shared a heritage of living in disputed, unstable regions wracked by violence that bred warrior cultures. Not welcomed in eastern settlements, they hurried on their way west and began settling the Shenandoah Valley after 1740. Theirs became the dominant culture of the Appalachians from Pennsylvania to Georgia, partly by weight of numbers, but mostly because Old World border culture was exceptionally well suited to New World frontier conditions.
Much of what Americans today regard as frontier culture is really Scotch-Irish culture. Their dialect survives in the speech of country and western singers and cinematic cowboys. Their field services (which mixed preaching with fighting and drinking) were precursors of the American camp meeting. Sports emphasized martial arts. Social order focused on retribution.
At least the Chilean journalist's ridiculous bias is in FAVOR of his country. Wish I could say the same about the ridiculous bias of our Journos.
"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."
I used "pilgrim" in the broader term of immigrants -- either persecuted refugees or simply people who are brave enough to leave their homelands and try a new life against great dangers and poor odds of success.
I was hoping someone would post that.
BTTT
Cowboy Ping!
I like the way you think. Wouldn't it be great if true? Wait until the lurkers from the dark side read your post.
Dubya... F**K YEAH!!!
I think we all do.
Sounds like a plan to me.
All of what you say is true..They wanted to be the security for the President...We do not allow that ..If you want the President of the US in your country..you must accept the Secret Service.
Americans had a choice between a guy that winsurfs in flowered shorts or a guy that clears brush from his Texas ranchland. We picked the cowboy.
Sitzpinklers.
The Chilean security team must be proud bunch. they were being pushed around by the USSS prior to the meetings and this was their chance to show them who's boss chilean style.
Too bad it backfired on them. The news from the summit wasn't that Chile was a great host, it was Bush takes charge; Chile graceless host.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese stoked their pride just to see how tight Bush's security was.
Yippee-kayay, you Chilean di**heads, and it better not happen again.
I love the sound of piss ants when they whine.
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