Watch this video then join me with your comments:
Is there any question that the guy is a pariah? I feel a little bit sorry for him. He’s been in way over his head for nearly a decade and his legacy is in tatters. I actually do believe that he’s thought he was doing the right thing all this time, but he’s been so egregiously, tragically wrong.
That’s not to say I won’t be grinning ear to ear on January 20th. I pray that Obama will be the inspirational leader we need. We’re hurtling down a dangerous track here, and it’s high time we had some real leadership. I just hope that Pelosi and Reid (ugh, I really hate those two) will get their heads out of their asses and allow the grownups to get some serious work done.
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Pretty glaring, isn’t it?
Oh, come on……so CNN finds a way to blur the line of what’s news yet again, and take something completely out of context, yet still trying to beat the dead horse of Bush Is Not Well Liked By Many. So he meets with these exact people all freakin’ day, shakes hands probably oh, say, when he got there in the morning, then goes looking for his mark on where to stand for the big group photo, and suddenly he’s the “unpopular kid” with “cooties”?? Seriously, do these people call themselves journalists? If Bush actually had his hand out and no one shook it, hey , show us that.
So “bully” is used to describe Bush, because Sanchez Googled it and got 2.5 million hits? Nice bias deniability. I Googled “President Bush is a Hero” and got 2.4 million hits. So clearly Bush is a hero. The journalism schools must be so proud.
I’ll leave the anti-CNN ranting aside.
Seriously. Did you watch the same clip? Did you notice that he was barely acknowledged as he made his way to his seat, while the rest of the crowd was greeting one another? Explain that for me. Was he just tired, or uninterested in being diplomatic with other world leaders? Or is it really that Bush couldn’t figure out how to shake hands and find his mark at the same time? Because that’s what you’re implying.
Maybe he had a cold and forgot his Purell? He once offered some to Barack when he came to the Whitehouse as a freshman senator. Or, maybe, just maybe, those foreign leaders simply do think he’s a jerk.
I’m sure that it doesn’t have anything to do with this:
That’s not the kind of thing a jerk would do, is it?
See the thing is, not only did he not make an effort to shake hands, THE OTHER PEOPLE made no effort to shake Bush’s hand. If W. shook everybody’s hand in the morning then everybody else presumably did the same. So why would everybody else go through the formality of shaking again? Body language speaks volumes, even at world leader level.
Next up on the G20 Summit: Cooties, the global epidemic.