This is the Danish birthday cake (made typically for kids). It's a
bear and it tastes like a cinnamin roll and it is always
decorated with gummi candies and little flags. This bear is wearing a cowboy hat.
Posted on 07/06/2005 1:19:19 AM PDT by phoenix_004
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - President Bush, awaking on his 59th birthday at a sprawling royal palace here, thanked Denmark Wednesday for sending troops to Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush's motorcade took him down an empty highway from the palace to breakfast and meetings at the official summer residence of Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. At the white mansion on the outskirts of the city, an eight-member Danish pipe and drum corps welcomed the president with a rendition of "Happy Birthday."
Bush, here with wife Laura and daughter, Jenna, is visiting to express appreciation for the several hundred troops the Scandinavian nation has contributed to the U.S.-led fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
After lunch with Queen Margrethe, he was heading for a summit of rich nations in Scotland where the world's changing climate and aid to Africa top the agenda.
The president spent the night at Fredensborg Palace, which officially opened on the 51st birthday of a king who had it built in the 18th century.
Palaces and poverty, global warming and trans-Atlantic ties are competing for Bush's attention on the fourth trip to Europe of his second term. But the president is shadowed by pressing concerns at home: The stalled nomination of John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and picking a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
During the flight to Denmark, Bush spent a few hours perusing material on more than a half dozen potential replacements for O'Connor.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters aboard Air Force One that the president would focus "on a handful of nominees" over the next few weeks.
"Then he would look forward to sitting down with those potential nominees at that point," the spokesman said.
As the Senate prepares to turn to what is expected to be a contentious fight over a Supreme Court vacancy, the chamber remains deadlocked over Bolton's nomination, two weeks after Republicans failed for a second time to end a Democratic filibuster against the blunt conservative.
Landing on a rain-slick tarmac Tuesday evening and boarding a helicopter to the palace, not all Danes were happy Bush was here - or that several hundred Danish troops remain in Iraq.
Just hours before Bush's arrival, hundreds of people demonstrated across Denmark. About 200 protesters marched to the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, chanting anti-American slogans and burning Danish and U.S. flags.
In Gleneagles, Scotland, the president and the other leaders will hold three days of talks at the Group of Eight summit. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who set the agenda as this year's host, wants to achieve breakthroughs not only on Africa aid but also on climate change.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESIDENT BUSH!!!
Happy 59th Birthday to President George W. Bush!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIR AND GODSPEED!
Happy B-Day to me as well.....
Cool that I share a birthday with the Prez.
This is the Danish birthday cake (made typically for kids). It's a
bear and it tastes like a cinnamin roll and it is always
decorated with gummi candies and little flags. This bear is wearing a cowboy hat.
They gave him a big fancy cake at the dinner last night. There appeared to be at least 50 candles on it, and he blew them out.
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