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What is up here? George Bush is not shaking anybody’s hand, nobody’s shaking his hand, it is an international diplomatic crisis! It will be nice to have a President whom the leaders of other nations do not find so physically revolting they can’t stand to touch him briefly. [YouTube]
THIS IS SORT OF SAD
Maybe it’s his choice, because he forgot to bring his hand sanitizer.
I heard that at the G20 summit lunchroom he sat alone at at table off in the corner and hardly looked up from his plate as he ate his cheeseburger and tater tots.
What? No toungue action from Merkel?
“Yo Blair!” He’s an embarrassment and a criminal, and a fratboy, which is his biggest flaw.
*or tongue even*
I AM A SERIOUS JOURNALIST, I USED THE GOOGLE, LOOK WHAT I HAVE FOUND, ARE YOU READY
Holy shit, 2,500,000 results for Bush + Bully? Let’s see what else the google can tell us!
“Results 1 - 10 of about 2,490,000 for bush truck nuts.”
Bush is as much of a bully as he is a TRUCK NUTZ fan! CALL CNN!
Nobody wants failure cooties.
Serolf Divad: Bush is like that guy in high school that dropped an easy pass and lost the state championship. He should get used to his new pariah status. I guess he can always go to South America or Dubai.
His Mantle of Fail ™ may have finally penetrated his awareness — look at his slump shouldered posture.
Plus, no one wants to catch whatever contagion he has.
There will line up to rub Obama inappropriately.
“This may be a case of what goes around comes around. Or maybe not.”
This may be a case of filling a 24 hour news hole with ridiculous crap. Almost certainly.
Bush’s presidency lately has been like that last few days of school when you’ve already gotten your report card so there’s nothing to really strive for and all you do is goof off and play hooky.
C’mon peoples, he’s trying to figure out how many other things he can goof up in 60 days.
Welcome G20 Ladies & Germs- oh, looks like some of you I haven’t infected yet…
The best thing is Lula, right behind him, rubbing it in with double handed shakes, and just-short-of-a-hug arm touches. Even Burlusconi loves the Brazilian commie and hates George.
hes prolly lucky they didnt take him in the bathroom and beat the shit outta him
I wonder if CNN is encouraging their anchors to go slightly rogue in an effort to cut into the MSNBC/FOX base..figuring doing the news straight is too boring.
tacdab: I doubt it. The body language of all those people suggests they’re actually looking forward to greeting each other. Bush is politely being ignored and he’s doing the same. I don’t think he wanted to greet anybody–he’s probably sick of the whole thing–and the feeling seemed to be reciprocal.
Bush had already personally welcomed every one of these leaders earlier in the day, but it was the first time they met each other on this occasion. Let’s just hope they sanitized their hands after shaking W’s or we’ll have cooties pandemic on our hands!
monty: This _is_ the diplomatic equivalent of taking someone to the bathroom and beating the shit out of them.
Bush is the most popular person in the world, because there are over 82 million hits for “bush love”.
Damn CNN for ruining a perfectly delightful display of public awkwardness.
now that Barry is president elect, i.e., as popular as Michael Jackson and Fanta in Europe, George is just another dumb American in line to see the Mona Lisa.
http://www.charlietueats.com
They hurt Bush’s feelings when they said they didn’t trust him.
He’s going to send them all transcripts.
He’s like the loser brother-in-law that has over-stayed his welcome.
I dunno, maybe if CNN replayed it for a 14th time I would be able to tell how other world leaders hate our lil’ Bush.
They all know he didn’t wash his hands after his bathroom break. Merkel included.
I thought nothing would ever make me feel bad for the guy…
This fills me with a happy morning feeling. Much better than waking up w/o a hangover and a dry bed.
Lepers get more love and physical contact
He just came from a double-header with Dick Cheney…and he’s outta Stetson.
I thought that was very odd. It’s like all the other leaders had a private meeting prior and conspired to diss Bush. Even though I detest the man, to me that showed no class on the part of the other members.
Come here a minute: I am more of a breast man myself.
Bush is just afraid that one of the leaders is going to throw a hood over his head and hual him back to the Hague to try him for war crimes in the World Court.
I guess they got tired of the one too many vaguely racist nicknames. I think this might be blowback from the fact that Australia’s PM Rudd let slip that Bush didn’t even know there was a G20. If he can’t even remember their secret club, then he doesn’t get any high fives.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Two more months of this, and unless he’s doing bong rips every half hour, every waking moment a living nightmare. Behold W’s personal hell. How delicious.
Even that german broad wanted no part of W. After that swell neck rub last year she should at least gave him a little bit of lovin’.
I almost feel bad for the shrub, maybe if they lined up several thousand US citizens and all subjected him to the same treatment…
Naw! Fuck ‘im.
What’s even worse: we’re the goddam HOST COUNTRY for this thing! Man, is he that much of a pariah that super-polite Europeans won’t even shake their host’s hand? Wow.
Dave J.: They are all in the tank for Obama.
It’s like when you are in the grocery store, and out of the corner of your eye you see the lady whose cat you ran over or the Girl Scout whose cookies you stole — or maybe the guy whose son you accidentally water-boarded.
I think those other kids are mean! My mom taught me to be nice even to the class dummy. Also, HOW DARE YOU DISRESPECT AMERICA, you terrorist bastards?
If they hate our President, maybe we should just nuke ‘em. No, wait, then we would have to nuke ourselves because we hate him…what to do, what to do? Maybe just a nice quiet war crimes trial.
Deepthroat: I wish Merkel would punch W in the face. Just once. For old times’ sake.
NoWireHangers: Do you think his head would pop like a balloon? Or maybe there’s confetti and candy inside like a pinata?
mattbolt: Yay trucknutz! I googled “Bush” and “kitten” and got 3.9 million hits. So apparently Bush is/loves [a] kitten[s], even more than he is a bully.
Then again, I googled “Bush” and “bully” and got over 6 million hits, so I don’t know what off-brand Shitty Google Rick Sanchez is using.
Maybe he’s worried about all the handbuzzers that were included in the G20 Summit swag bag.
Bush is a miserable motherfucker and I wish the G19 had pants him during the photo shoot.
Cesar does not allow the underlings to touch him except upon penalty of death.
Deepthroat: A pinata filled with shredded bits of the Constitution. Or maybe he’d just pop back up like one of these:
http://www.newpassage.com/products/img/bush_bushbop.jpg
A Geek Tragedy: Watching the video a couple of times–Lula is really into it. Not only the big double handshake, pawing a few people but he is so geeked to be there that he almost pulls Merkel off her perch.
Harper would have shook Bush’s hand cause he lurves him. Too bad Steve was stuck at the end of the second row because nobody cares about Canada.
What a miserable prick. I just hope he doesn’t pull a Martin Sheen at the end of “The Dead Zone” on January 19.
When a bunch of heads of state, all of whom know the taste of shoe polish, won’t shake someone’s hand, you know he’s got the cooties.
Shunning is perfectly appropriate here. Of course, it would work if Bush actually had any shame or self-awareness. Also.
That’s funny on so many levels.
2 more months, 2 more months, 2 more months…………..
What can W do to rehabilitate his image? He’s already a born-aginner. Maybe now he’ll become a liberal. Write a new-age book or something. Join Al Gore’s traveling show.
I heard that he used to have the best blow, but now its just all stepped on.
I would have stink palmed that motherfucker.
It’s because he used to use “the french tickle” during diplomatic handshakes, and they’re wise to it, and do not like it.
He never offered his hand and they never even acknowledged his presence. Total ice-out. Unbelievable. I could watch that clip all day!
Google the term ‘Failing Upward’ and Bush’s name always comes up first. It’s pretty amazing how this boob has failed at EVERYTHING and yet… there he is again! What WILL he fail at next?
What must it be like, looking like an idiot over and over and over, in print, radio, TV, the intertubes? How do you do it? How does it happen? Does Poppy really hate him that much? Or is it more like minions flocking around him because you can make a bunch of coin off telling him how great he is? Then you cut-and-run just before it gets too ugly?
Any more of these meetings any time soon? Because if somebody stuck a leg out and sent him sprawling and they all laughed, it would be the bestest Christmas ever.
UR DRUKN!
I just watched the news channel CNN and the journalist Jeanne Moos debunked your little liberal propaganda. Dubya shook hands before this apparition.
Apology accepted - leftards.
asoko: “Apology accepted - leftards.”
I am sorry you have a large, obvious chip on your shoulder?
Get over it.
Well, I myself am one of these so-called “leftards,” and proudly so.
However, being the host, Bush had already shaken hands with all the other 19 people as they arrived. As is customary, heads of state only shake hands once– bush had already greeted the other 19– they were simply greeting themselves.
This video was taken out of context, and if you look closely you can see he does indeed interact with a couple people.
Though that doesn’t take away the fact that he still is a much hated, ignorant douchebag.
Silly me, I thought it was part of the No Bully Zone they implemented at the summit.
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/
asoko: Oh, ho ho. Quite the craft devils they are over at CNN!
Thanks, for the important update that completely sheds 8 years of serious douchery on the part of the president in a completely new light!
Another example of media manipulation.Watch the whole video at CNN.HE had already greeted everyone earlier at the opening of the meeting with open arms from everyone.Just another example of not getting the whole story and sorry to say I voted for the douchbag.