Posted on 07/19/2006 2:18:19 PM PDT by pissant
It's not exactly "Presidents Gone Wild!" but for the normally staid Group of Eight Summit, a video of President George W. Bush sidling behind German Chancellor Angela Merkel and delivering an impromptu neck rub is, well, as wild as it gets.
The scene, captured by a Russian TV camera, hit the Internet like a summer wildfire Tuesday, and it may be most memorable for the German chancellor's reaction. Bush applies his hands to Merkel's shoulders and neck while she's speaking with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi; the chancellor hunches her shoulders, then throws her hands up to stop the unexpected massage with a wan smile -- and an expression which can best be translated as "Ewwww."
While the incident didn't get a lot of play on major TV media, it was just one of the Bush G-8 gaffes that garnered considerable space in the blogosphere from London to Los Angeles.
Bloggers on sites like truthdig.com expounded at length on the U.S. president's now-famed open mike incident in which Bush let slip the "s-word" while talking with British Prime Minister Tony Blair; it wasn't so much the potty mouth as the president speaking with his mouth full that horrified many international critics.
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Looks like she's stretching.
Screw the leftists. Their entire existence is devoted to criticizing Bush. They know nothing, contribute nothing, have no ideas, have no vision, cannot debate in the arena of ideas, and only see socialism as the agenda of the day. I guess when you are just flat-out useless to human-kind, not much else you can do....
So being friendly is a "gaffe?" What other "gaffes" are they referring to? The media listening in to a private conversation is Bush's mistake?
I'm sorry. But it does look funny (as in it is making me laugh funny) in these pictures. There have to be some shots missing.
Looks like he goosed her, by her reaction.
Especially the first one.
Jacque is better looking...well almost.
The writer, Carla Marunnuci, probably goes "Ewwww!" whenever she thinks about being touched by a man.
The Left in America has already established that the POTUS always gets one free grope.
When Condi's pres we will be angry at the ass pinches.
Well said. They think Bush's "off mike" comments to Blair were just awful. The American people know better.
Uh, sorry, but by the looks on both their faces it's more likely she had a cramped muscle. He looks worried as he heads for her.
No gaffes in my book. They communist media just has their dander up because Bush forced through a unified, responsible statement from the G8 saying that Hezbollah is responsible for the fighting in the ME.
She doesn't look offended in the last shot. More like a smile on her face. (This is coming from a woman's point of view). I'm sure there was some kind of conversation going on at the same time. But something about the pictures has me laughing. Maybe because I just don't expect to see W doing this?
It is funny. Her reaction is priceless
News Alert...Bush is Human...I repeat is a Human Being.
Would be news to the Hate Bush lefties...
I usually pinch their arses, myself.
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