Posted on 11/09/2008 10:40:08 AM PST by RepublitarianRoger2
President Bush and President-elect Barack Obama are probably hoping their meeting Monday goes better than their first get-together, which left a bad taste in the mouths of both men.
Four years ago, Obama and other newly elected members of the Senate were invited to the White House for a breakfast meeting with Bush, who pulled the young Chicagoan aside.
"Obama!" Bush exclaimed, according to Obama's account of the meeting in his second memoir, "The Audacity of Hope." "Come here and meet Laura. Laura, you remember Obama. We saw him on TV during election night. Beautiful family. And that wife of yours -- that's one impressive lady."
The two men shook hands and then, according to Obama, Bush turned to an aide, "who squirted a big dollop of hand sanitizer in the president's hand."
Bush then offered some to Obama, who recalled: "Not wanting to seem unhygienic, I took a squirt."
(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...
What’s up with this catty sh** from Fox lately ? I’m tired of it.
I hope Bush brings Barney along to the Monday meeting.
BO has got to try and ride ‘the blame the evil Bush admin’ for as long as possible.
I use BO out of respect for the president-elect, since he claims that using his middle name is divisive.
I would not believe anything in that comic book he calls his “memoirs” or whatever.
There won’t be a sanitizer strong enough to erase the Obama induced virus on our country.
I can believe it happened, as someone that meets lots of people know, sanitize your hands when finished shaking hands, and you will remain cold and flu free. He may have been the last person Bush met and greeted. Leave it to an “oppressed” minority to read everything that happens as a slight.
Remember when the Clinton gang removed the “W” keys from the computers? I doubt that the Bush team will remove the “H” keys. I doubt that the Bush team will steal things from the White House.
Fox done jumped the shark — quite a while ago.
The article said that this was for breakfast. Many people use hand-sanitizers before eating.
fox = cnn = abc = cbs = nbc = msnbc - I have not (for several years) and will not watch any other them, at all, ever, for any reason.
Prezactly!!!!! I use the stuff all the time! I make my kids, too. When a politician is ‘pressing the flesh’ all day.....and can’t afford to get sick, so be it! BO is such a cry baby!
Man, I thought this was parody. This is for real? Unreal.
Despite this display of bonhomie, Obama said the president's demeanor turned downright frightening when he laid out his agenda to the freshly minted lawmakers.
“Suddenly it felt as if somebody in a back room had flipped a switch,” Obama wrote. “The president's eyes became fixed; his voice took on the agitated, rapid tone of someone neither accustomed to nor welcoming interruption; his easy affability was replaced by an almost messianic certainty. As I watched my mostly Republican Senate colleagues hang on his every word, I was reminded of the dangerous isolation that power can bring, and appreciated the Founders’ wisdom in designating a system to keep power in check.”
When I quoted from this passage to Bush during an Oval Office interview, the president seemed irritated to learn he had been taken to task by the senator he once counseled.
I thought I was actually showing some kindness,” Bush said indignantly. “And out of that he came with this belief?”
The president added with a bit of a scowl: “He doesn't know me very well.”
Look how thin skinned this little devil is.
Barrack Hussein Obama is a think skinned paranoid liberal. He requires adulation. He is an A******.
That is why I have stopped watching Fox News. They are the problem. If anyone cares to recall and be honest, they are the ones who pushed the ghit with Senator Lott and the joke he made.
Fox has been losing it’s way for the last four to six years. I’m finished with them.
After reading about the Larry Sinclair saga, I can't blame President Bush.
“Bush then offered some to Obama...”
Yes, the heinousness of it all.
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