Hero's Welcome For Bush After Violent Demo

[maddezmom]

Source: SkyNews

Hero's Welcome For Bush After Violent Demo
By borlandh_news SkyNews - 1 hour 47 minutes agoGeorge Bush is visiting US ally Albania a day after angry demonstrations during his visit with the Pope in Rome.

The Albanian capital Tirana has been festooned with US flags, welcome banners and huge posters of the American President smiling.

On the penultimate stop in his eight-day European tour, there were be none of the protests that marred his visits to Germany and Italy.

Yesterday, around 12,000 anti-globalisation activists protested in the Italian capital about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as President Bush's environment policies.

Police in riot gear charged and fired tear gas at demonstrators who had thrown bottles at them in the city's historic centre.


Read more: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20070610/twl-hero-s-welcome-for-bush-after-violen-3fd0ae9.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. I guess they're bemused

never having seen a chimp before.

[Lerkfish]

2. you know, stuff like this reminds me of bizarre things in history...

when universally hated leaders are given "heroes" parades

[dipsydoodle]

3. I've got that same picture

but it's a moving gif whatever and he's playing a banjo. :rofl:

edit - I foud it : http://hitlerblackbettybanjo.ytmnd.com/

[Lerkfish]

4. LOL! hey, whatever works!

[dipsydoodle]

5. I've added the link to it

.

[Judi Lynn]

52. Didn't know he picked a banjo! Bush and Berlusconi both have been immortalized

picking their noses.



YouTube Berlusconi. Very sorry to do it, but no one would believe it without seeing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsTGScquEA8

[dipsydoodle]

57. Excellent comparison !

I found the one with sound later on today :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-UYmc69GI :rofl:

[calimary]

62. Oh My Holy GOD...

EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwwwwwwwww-ah!

I haven't seen that since I volunteered at my kids' pre-school.

[MidwestTransplant]

6. It's pro US not pro Bush. If anything he can thank BC for his heros welcome because of Kosovo.

[seatless-in-seattle]

7. thank you for pointing that out!

They love Bush, Clinton, Hillary, Wesley Clark and pretty much anyone from America.
Kosovo has a lot to do with it, but also President Wilson's decision to keep Albania a nation in early 20th century. It's called loyalty.

[ShortnFiery]

51. It's too bad that if the vast majority were not living in abject poverty and they were made aware

of Dear Leader's blood lust for Arab and Persian countries, just perhaps, Albanians would not WORSHIP what is *A War Criminal* to the rest of The World Community. :shrug:

Although we are STILL COMFORTABLE, please hesitate keep silent fellow Americans, if we lose our middle class and must live from hand to mouth, we too would WORSHIP whomever promised to provide food and shelter for our families. :scared:

[Joe Chi Minh]

56. You nailed it, imo. It's the poorest country in Europe.

[many a good man]

8. Bush greeted as hero in Albania

Source: BBC

President George W Bush has become the first US leader to visit Albania, where he has enjoyed a hero's welcome.

<snip>

The Albanian capital, Tirana, is celebrating Mr Bush's visit, although he is spending just seven hours in the city, says the BBC's Jonathan Beale, who is travelling with the US president.

The city's streets have been cleaned, US flags draped over buildings and a commemorative set of stamps issued for the occasion.

This welcome is in stark contrast to the protests that have followed Mr Bush elsewhere in Europe, our correspondent says.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6738055.stm

[MindPilot]

9. We got ICBMs aimed at Albania?

Or didn't they get the memo that Clinton isn't president any more?

[DemKR]

10. What's Albania again? nt

[alfredo]

48. Here's as good an explanation as you can get

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_tT-q8EF0

[goclark]

50. That about wraps it up LOL nt

[alfredo]

53. We can always rely on Coach.

[ck4829]

11. Every US President since Truman has been adored by Albania

Bush is not any more special than them.

[Joe Bacon]

49. Really?

Google Enver Hoxha and see what you find!

[Nictuku]

12. Is there a Free Press in Albania?

[seatless-in-seattle]

16. Press

yes, there is a vibrant free press in Albania and they do rip the government apart.
The enthusiasm is NOT manufactured; Albanian people truly love America (regardless of who the President is).

[ShortnFiery]

39. OMG, Albania's press ranks BELOW even our pathetic excuse for *Freedom*

This is going to crack you up in a bizarro way but The USA ranks 32nd in "Freedom of the Press" ... among WORLD NATIONS ... but guess which TWO countries rate immediately below us?!?

33 Poland
34 Albania
35 Bulgaria


Free Press? .. :P my lily white European descended ass! :rofl:

[seatless-in-seattle]

43. I guess I was wrong

but what do I know, I just read albanian newspappers everyday. I will look at a poll next time to decide. Easy on the laughing icons, you may get a hernia.

[ShortnFiery]

45. I would encourage you to become acquainted with what a disaster Dear Leader has

done to OUR beloved country and at least CONSIDER that those within the Albanian Press, being ranked lower than our pathetic media whores in the USA MSM, are motivated to show everything about the USA in a more positive light.

Yes, if you think that Albanian people should HONOR this bloodthirsty leader in any way, shape or form, I must admit that I believe you 100% in error. :shrug:

[formercia]

13. Albania is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to the EU.

No wonder Junior wants to keep them happy.

[seatless-in-seattle]

17. nice of you

how nice of you to trash a nation just because they showed respect to the President of a nation they love. Clinton would have been greeted probably even better had he not cancelled. Would you have made the same comment if Clinton was there instead of Bush?

Following your logic: America has been the world's largest consumer of drugs for decades...what does that tell you about America?

[ShortnFiery]

25. Hey, I concur ---> Keep him and move all the delusional Americans who also love him to ALBANIA.

Oh, if the above would come to fruition, I'd say with my heart and soul, "May God have mercy on ALBANIA for taking-in the present day world's most bloodthirsty terrorist!" :patriot: Enjoy you delusional MFs! The only sympathy I can hold for Albania is that their M$M must be *even more* corrupt than than the USA's clutch of corporate media TRAITORS. :shrug:

But no, we're stuck with the evil man and his cohorts who are unleashing terror (FEAR-MONGERING, TREATS, guns, bombs, invasions, air strikes) on THE ENTIRE WORLD. :scared:

All the while our "less than worthless" representatives hem and haw.

The long term answer is ---> Vote out Incumbents Democracy: http://voidnow.org

[seatless-in-seattle]

26. not all

not all are as smart as you of course. Some simply see him as the US President and respect him as such.

[formercia]

27. He should retire there and change his name to Hoxha

Make the Albanians feel it's the good old days again.

[seatless-in-seattle]

28. :-)

if you had lived under Hoxha you would laugh at this comment.

[formercia]

35. A little dark humor.

:hi:

Glad you could appreciate it.

[ShortnFiery]

29. Well, the vast majority of DEMOCRATICALLY inclined (hint hint) Americans respect "the position"

but are able to see that this particular TRAITOR occupying the office (person) has shredded our Bill of Rights.

True, many will not cross the line to call Dear Leader "a traitor" outright but what he and his cronies have done to OUR Constitution is nothing less than horrific. It will take years to recover our rights ... if it has not gone too far already, i.e., those from the Military Industrial Complex are not presently making all the decisions. :shrug:

I feel sad for you and those like you if you are unable to discern between "the person" and "the position." Just because many of our representatives and the USA Corporate M$M have been FULLY intimidated, blackmailed or bought off, does not change *The REALTY* of this present criminal Unitary Executive's blood lust and complete disregard for Our beloved Constitution.

Dear Leader and his cohorts truly embrace the Machiavellian tenet: The ends justify the means. :scared:

[seatless-in-seattle]

38. funny

the same thing freepers say when Albanians show respect to Clinton or Wesley Clark

[ShortnFiery]

42. You're barking up the wrong democratic tree, I don't like Clinton - especially after NAFTA.

That and his traipsing around with the former Head of the Spooks (Bush Senior) has made me take a HARD and not so bright look upon our once lauded "big dog."

What's up with you defending Dear Leader? I'm cool with you defending "The Position of the President" and hope that we snag at least a more intelligent and "Bill of Rights" respecting one ... but why you are defending Albanians behaving "clueless" and "against their best interests" = just like FREEPERS? Hum? :wow:

[seatless-in-seattle]

46. don't carried away

who cares what do you like? They are people who think Castro is too conservative or that Reagan is too liberal so one need not please everyone.
I was merely pointing out that the party doesn't matter, and I was not defending or slamming the "Dear Leader."
Now on the Bill of Rights thing, one can make ANY President seem like a "traitor," so it's best for other nations to stay out of that interpretation. Oh, and how exactly are Albanians acting against their best interests? Facts please, no need for empty rhetoric

[ShortnFiery]

47. You have NOT been reading the content of my posts: Those living in abject poverty are easily led ...

and the only "opinion" I gave is after I was attacked - that is "not every democrat is pure through and through."

Now I don't know what your MO is but continuing to personally attack me will get you absolutely nowhere.

That is, my arguments are sound and counter them with FACTS if you don't agree. However, you are NOT going to win any allies here if you think it's A OK for another country to be so damn misled that they WORSHIP a truly evil man ... by almost any standard of "a free press." :shrug:

On edit: Let's see? Those living in abject poverty should worship an Oil-Man striving for "an American Union" and realization of a One World Order. Yes, where they would be the "lowest of the low." :eyes:

[davekriss]

55. On what grounds does GWB deserve respect?

The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 1912

I find zero, nothing, as a basis to praise George Bush, but plenty to rightly blame him for. If you feel differently I ask you to exercise your patriotic duty and list those things you believe Bush has done right.

[LynnTheDem]

14. George "Nacho Man" lost...

"I do need somebody to tell me where Kosovo is. I know how to ask,"

The stupidest MFing idiot in American history.

[truthisfreedom]

15. Keep him! We don't want him back!

He's yours, Albania!

[koopie57]

31. sung to the tune of "she's too fat polka"

You can have him
We don't want him
He's too dumb for us

yes

He's too dumb for us

[StudentsMustUniteNow]

18. I wish Bush would just nominate himself President of Albania and leave the rest of us alone

At least there he has high approval ratings.

[kurth]

19. 25% of the population live below $2 a day

Albania is one of the poorest countries in Europe.

[seatless-in-seattle]

21. ..

assuming that what you said is true, what does your statement really mean? Are you suggesting that poor people are dumber thus the welcome?

If so, how much did you make last year?

[ShortnFiery]

36. No, speaking only for myself is that the poor do NOT have access to education and TRUE quality Media

information. On Maslow's Hierarchy of needs we are all equally LED regardless of our IQs.

Simply put: The lion's share of Albanians are dirt poor and MUCH MORE easily led, i.e., offer them food and shelter for their families and they'll adore any DAMN body. Even men as evil a Dear Leader and Darth Cheney. :scared:

[seatless-in-seattle]

40. led by who????

and led to what exactly what? This goes to wayyyyyy before Bush decided to run for office.

[ShortnFiery]

44. Stick a fork in it? They rank BELOW us on rankings for Freedom of the press (see above) n/t

[many a good man]

20. "...rash of babies named George"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/world/europe/09albania.html?incamp=article_popular_5

Thousands of young Albanians have been named Bill or Hillary thanks to the Clinton administration’s role in rescuing ethnic Albanians from the Kosovo war. After the visit on Sunday, some people expect to see a rash of babies named George.


Are they calling him a diaper rash?

[FarCenter]

22. If you liked Enver Hoxa you'll love George Bush

[formercia]

30. Google Hoxa and get this:

http://www.ghettodriveby.com/hoxa/

EEKK!!

[LostInAnomie]

23. Are we sure they know who he is?

eom

[nealmhughes]

24. Bush=USA=Kosovo champion. Bush=not Italy, not Turkey, not Yugoslavia, and not Greece.

The USA also equals rights for all in Albania, not the nomenclatura alone, as was the case under Hoxha, or the feudalists under Zog and the Turks before him.
The sad part of recent Albanian history was its decision to follow the giagantic rapid industrialization promoted by Lenin and perfected by Stalin, and then bankrolled by China after the great Hoxha rift between the two major then Communist states, the USSR and China.
Evidently, Albanian pride was at odds with being the "lemon growing colony" for anywhere in Eurasia. What is striking is that its near neighbor Bulgaria, has had not a whit of a problem with being a bread basket and hog butcher to the East, as someone has to provide the food!
Albania was snatched out of a tribal/ethnically divided slumber by the Second World War and has before that had been a pawn of the Great Powers, whether they were Italy or Austria or Turkey or Russia or the ex-Yugoslavia. When they were deprived by the Great Game's demise of any sponsorship and went it alone, only one country stood ready to agitate for a fully independent, free, open society Albania, and for their cousins over the line in Kosovo, and that was the US, hence, the admiration of the US.

[many a good man]

37. Thanks. Excellent summation.

I'm sure they adore him for pushing for Kosovar independence. But should we worry about contributing to a greater chill in US-Russian relations? Why is everyone else so skittish about supporting independence?

[gulliver]

32. So he's got THAT going for him. n/t

[ShortnFiery]

33. What about Poland? You forgot Poland. :P

:rofl:

Two countries where their Mass Media is even more Corrupt than our Military Industrial Led USA M$M. ;)

p.s. and Cameroon! :rofl:

[chelsea0011]

34. Another nation I'll bet he can't find on a map

[liberalpragmatist]

41. Bush: "I Said What?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/world/europe/10cnd-prexy.html?hp

On Saturday in Rome, the president agreed there should be a deadline to end the United Nations talks, saying, “In terms of a deadline, there needs to be one, it needs to happen.”

But today, less than 24 hours later, Mr. Bush tried to backtrack when asked when that deadline might be.

“First of all, I don’t think I called for a deadline,” Mr. Bush said, during a press appearance with Prime Minister Berisha in the courtyard of a government ministry building. He was reminded that he had.

“I did?” he asked, sounding surprised. “What exactly did I say? I said ‘deadline’? Okay, yes, then I meant what I said.”

[IndianaGreen]

54. Those Albanians were well trained by Enver Hoxha to cheer dictators

I see they are putting their training to good use by welcoming the American dictator.

[muriel_volestrangler]

58. I don't think the protests 'mar' his visits; they 'decorate' them

or maybe 'punctuate' them.

[Doctor_J]

59. I wonder if stupid will thank Wes Clark when he gets back home

I am 100% certain that he doesn't know where Albania or Kosovo are, or that Clinton and Clark liberated Kosovo, but when he gets back someone might tell him.

[hollowdweller]

60. Albania Liberated by Democratic Admin. They still like us.

The GOP could fuck up a wet dream. They dont' know shit about how to fight a war or win the peace.

[seatless-in-seattle]

61. Clark = God in Albania

http://securingamerica.com/node/1019


"Clark, who made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination in the U.S. presidential elections, is considered a hero by the province's ethnic Albanians who want the province to become independent. He was reviled by many Serbs for his role during the bombing campaign.

Ahead of his visit, billboards were placed around the province's capital, Pristina, and local authorities in the western town of Djakovica named a road after him."
http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2006/05/former-nato-commander-retired-gen.html

From Freeperville:
"Bill Clinton bulevard and Wesley Clark Street."

[northamericancitizen]

63. Please Occupy Us

Source: Time

....snip......

But nowhere will Bush receive as warm a welcome as in Albania, where he is scheduled to land on Sunday morning. Bush will be the first sitting President to visit the remote Balkan country, the poorest in Europe, and Albanians have outdone themselves in preparations: tens of thousands have thronged to the run down capital, Tirana, to get a glimpse of the American first couple. The parliament recently passed a bill authorizing the U.S. to do anything necessary, "including the use of force," to secure the President. One headline declared: "Please Occupy Us!"

snip

Many ordinary eastern Europeans have begun to chafe at the apparent lack of return on their investments of troops and resources in U.S.-led, far off wars. And the failure of the U.S. to grant visa-free travel to eastern Europeans—their fellow E.U.-members in France and Germany can enter American borders freely—is another sore point. Bush has used his eastern European visits to trumpet a "freedom agenda," correctly asserting that, with their recent experiences under communist tyranny, eastern Europeans share his goal of spreading democracy around the world. But for now, the Albanians are the only ones supporting it in the streets.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1631294,00.html

[kurth]

64. The name ``George Bush'' could open doors in Albania. Even prison gates.

NOTEBOOK: Bush Name May Have Helped Teen
Sunday June 10, 2007 6:16 PM
By LLAZAR SEMINI

TIRANA, Albania (AP) - The name ``George Bush'' could open doors in Albania. Even prison gates.

An appeals court showed clemency last week and released a 15-year-old boy who had been charged with stealing scrap metal from a copper factory in the northern town of Lac.

His name? Xhorxh Bushi - the way Albanians spell the president's last name.

After Albania emerged from decades of communist isolation in 1990, it became fashionable for families to name their children ``Bill,'' ``George'' and even ``Hilary'' to show appreciation to the U.S. during the difficult transition to democracy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6698670,00.html

[formercia]

65. Indicted along with his brothers Nhandxh and Ahndxh.

:evilgrin:

[Nihil]

70. *snigger*

:toast:

[formercia]

71. I knew someone would see the logic behind that comment.

:evilgrin:

:hi:

[Doctor_J]

67. "name their children Bill and George..."

that must chap Little Boots. Kids named after two of the men he most despises - Big Dog and Poppy.

[tanyev]

66. I propose that the Bush Library be put in Albania.

Put some luxo residential quarters in there, and he can live out the rest of his life basking in the adoration.

[stanwyck]

68. Now we know who that 30% is that still

supports Bush. They're Albanian.

[BigDDem]

69. They love him in Albania....

and parts of Utah. Way to go!

[classysassy]

72. $$$$$$$

the check is in the mail.