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 ...
Of course not, we already know that Bush probably had a latex glove on...... /sar.
You got that right.
When you're shaking thousands of hands every day, and illness can be a major issue, it's prudent to do exactly what Bush did. In fact, beofre I eat I use hand sanitizer as well, it's smart! It's no insult, just basic common sense which is now reinterpreted as some insult by someone who refers to his grandmother as a “typical white woman” but is himself a “typical self victimizing black man.”
Any twisting and reinterpretation of this seems like more “I'm a victim, I'm shocked, you're mean spirited,” nonsense.
From the beginning and through his ENTIRE campaign, all one heard was rhetorical defenses calling anyone questioning anything he ever said or did racist, xenophobic, or mean spirited. I imagine his Presidency will be marked by more of the same. Look at him funny and you're a “racist.”
Worse lately. I watch Brit Hume and some O’Reilly
...and I hope Barney invites some of his neighborhood homies, the pitbulls he hangs with.
True. I'll change my opinion to: It might indeed have happened, but Zero put it in his book as a slight, an insult.
"Not wanting to seem unhygienic, I took a squirt."
Did Obama get his watch?
This isn't news. It's BS intended for mass consumption by idiots.
When you're shaking thousands of hands every day, and before you eat, it might be a good idea to sanitize your hands. But of course in America when you do this in front Obama it has a racist, mean spirited, and xenophobic undertone.
I use hand sanitizer after I touch ANYONE!! It’s the first thing that politicians learn to do....shake a lot of hands, but if you don’t want to catch a cold or pass a cold on, you use Hand Sanitizer. Geesh.
ONe thing I can say about Barack, I don’t think he is the kind of “trailer trash” like the Clinton staff to steal things. Barack may be a Solicialist, but he’s got some class.
BTW I don’t mean to disparage all people who live in trailers!
November sweeps.
Bill Sammon is not into making things up. What I find interesting is how Barak Obama has commanded projection. He called Bush messianic according to Barak in his book. I guess if you want to know what he is going to do, just see what he is accusing others of doing.
So did America on Tuesday night.
Me too...and this is from Bill Sammon?! It’s going to be a looooong 4 years. I think I’ll go back to being apolitical.
I don’t view Fox anymore. They are no longer a spokesperson for my views.
I’m not getting what happened here. Did Sammon interview President Bush about this? Is that the reaction he’s recounting now? What’s the point? If he’s trying to make President Bush look bad I think he might be accomplishing just the opposite. Why would BO put this in a book anyway? I’d think he would have important ideas to write about.....oh, wait.....
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