Bush "gropes" Germany's chancellor Merkel

Started by TehBorken, Jul 20 06 07:27

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TehBorken

  [span class="rss:item"][a name="028632"]Yesterday's news from the G8 summit [/a][a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/17/news/bush.php"]was all shit[/a]. Today, blogger Taylor Marsh posts photos of another "candid moment" in which President Bush gives an unsolicited, surprise neck-massage to German prime minister Angela Merkel. The [em]Los Angeles Times[/em] [a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-preen17jul17,1,2442410.story?coll=la-news-a_section&ctrack=1&cset=true"]reported[/a]:  [em]"Entering the meeting room, as relayed by a Russian television camera, Bush headed directly behind the chancellor, reached out and, placing both hands on the collar of her gold jacket, gave her a short massage just below the neck. She smiled."[/em][/p]
   [/p]I'm not a facial recognition expert, but that doesn't look like much of a smile to me, or a happy hand-gesture following. What odd manners the leader of the Western world has.
[/p][/span]Other readers have said Bush was trying to give Chancellor Merkel the famous Vulcan Nerve Pinch. See the resemblance?


[a href="http://www.washjeff.edu/capl/"]Michael Shaughnessy[/a] says,  "I can only imagine what Chancellor Merkel was thinking and it can't be positive. While 'personal space' is less than what you have in the US, Germans still have social tabus on touching, especially in such a public forum as the G8 summit. Germans may be obsessed with shaking hands, but it is a very brief shake. Even family members will shake hands with each other. Touching of this sort is for -very- close friends in private. At least this produced yet another cool German word: "Blitz-Massage."  Here is an excerpt from an etiquette guide for Germany, interesting and funny stuff: [a href="http://www.executiveplanet.com/business-culture-in/132163004477.html"]Link[/a]

 
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

Some Chick

You know, it's almost as bad as if the country had elected Dan Quayle.  They appear to share the same 1/4 of a brain.

Sportsdude

Bush is a fool. Even in redneck missouri the staunchest conservatives I know dispise him now.
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

kitten

Surely his handlers would know that this sort of thing is a no-no.  He must have slipped his leash again.  These charming displays only serve to illustrate the depths of his ignorance.  How embarrassing for all concerned!
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Gopher

Can anyone hazard a guess as to Laura's state of mental health and / or intelligence (or lack thereof)?
A fool's paradise is better than none.

kitten

She hasn't divorced him, so it must be on a par with his, which is to say, very little.  Nice Inukshuk, by the way.
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