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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OMG
Almost fell off my chair!
A voice of reason...
Happens all the time in the real world.
I never said it was a big deal. I just said it was inappropriate. We can agree to disagree, but that doesn't make me a basher or you a bot, now does it?
Nope - just makes you - IF you watched the VIDEO - obtuse to make such a judgment...or, one of the "so blinded by hate" you see what you want to ...or maybe just a really, really uptight guy/gal.
Take three deep breaths before you post for the 20th ? time...
Exactamundo, macamadamia!
"Personally, my head would explode if I had to try to find so many ways to justify his behavior."
You don't seem to have any head explosion problems when it comes to 'so many ways' of slaming President Bush. Maybe you should try hating a little less and laughing a little more.
Remember BC's juvenile comments regarding the mummy? That didn't seem to upset anyone on the left. Talk about undignified.
Would be news to the Hate Bush lefties...
Yeah, they think he's God.
He controls everything!
You just talk to hear yourself talking, don't you?
Good point. You know slick Willie could shake his willie at women that didn't want it--this is with the cameras off, but President Bush can't touch someone in a jovial manner in public with the cameras rolling. The left is so upside down on every issue.
LOL!! It IS funny!
Especially knowing what the kookburgers are probably going to say about it.
It was fun, nothing more or less. It´s also a proof of the good relations he has with her.
At least I don't use 'private reply' to call people nasty names that would otherwise get one banned -
I've never done that either, but thanks for the smear attempt.
Now this was a gaffe...
Hilarious. I'm still chuckling about it . . . .
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