WP: For Many It's a Summit, For Bush* It's a Pique

[kskiska]

MONTERREY, Mexico, Jan. 13 -- President Bush sported heavy makeup on his right cheek Tuesday as he endured the pomp and circumstance of the closing day of the Summit of the Americas, leading some reporters to wonder if his South American critics might have finally gotten physical.

It turns out the mark is a battle scar, but Bush got it before he arrived for the two-day, 34-nation summit. Bush's aides say he was scratched by a branch as he cleared brush at his Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Tex.

The aides, who spin even blemishes, said calling it a "gash" would be overdoing it, but it seemed quite noticeable for a scratch.

Besides exercising, Bush's biggest release from his job is chain sawing branches into huge piles in the summer, with Secret Service agents hovering nearby to protect him from falling limbs as he trims. In the winter, Bush and his heartiest alpha aides burn the towering pyramids of cedar.

That may sound like a chore, but Bush would certainly rather be there than here. The early-rising president can get crabby and punchy if he doesn't hit the pillow by 10 or so at night. On Monday, Bush was not scheduled even to arrive at a dinner hosted by Mexican President Vicente Fox until 9:10 p.m. local time (10:10 Eastern).

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[Webster Green]

1. He looks like shit!

Maybe worse.

[revcarol]

2. Mrs. Bush is so concerned about women that she doesn't mind

having a permanent underclass of women immigrants, who have no labor rights.Kin I say "hypocrisy" here, kin I?

[Scurrilous]

3. Apparently...

...Bush enjoys bonfires. Somehow I'm not suprised.

[Terran]

17. Yes, the man's primary form of recreation

is using a chainsaw on bushes (some symbolism there, perhaps?) and then burning it. What do you suppose he's thinking while he does that?

I think Bush is Beavis brought to life..."Fire! Heh heh, yeah, fire's cool!"

[Say_What]

20. Beavis... LOL He's probably practicing for the book burning

Can they be serious?? Chainsaw trimming and fires??? The pResident of the world's only super power is actually a chain saw fanatic. :crazy:

[kskiska]

4. Lots of good stuff about his behavior during the summit

Bush sounded tired and bored at the few public appearances during his 28-hour visit. His remarks had unusually long pauses. Cutaway television shots captured Bush glowering into space as other heads of state talked about "economic growth with equity to reduce poverty," "investing in people" and "democratic governance."

One of the million great things about being president is that you rarely have to listen to people who bore you. Dignitaries who introduce Bush are asked to limit their remarks to one minute. Bush praises those who are quicker, and his aides have been known to scold those who run over.

[leftchick]

9. this actually is very consistant with...

O'Neill's remarks about dumbass's behavior. Disengaged? Yuh think?!?

[Bhaisahab]

5. whoa!

the aides, who spin even blemishes, said calling it a "gash" would be overdoing it, but it seemed quite noticeable for a scratch.

i was under the impression the washington post is the vanguard of bush's media harlot brigade. did i miss something??

[grasswire]

6. wow

Mike Allen has a burr under his blanket!

And how interesting that Jenna surfaced, dressed for once. No flip flops /ragged jeans. She sat in the press conference with Fox's step son, and glared at the reporter who asked a question about O'Neill.

Another typical Bush enforcer.

[burrowowl]

7. How many

leaders did Bu$h influence and win as friends?
Bu$hie nicked himself on a tree branch will chain-sawing?!?! Damn those liberal trees. Amazing the chain-saw didn't wallop him as well. Do they let him play with dangerous tools unsupervised?

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. You'll be relieved to know...

that the offending tree branch was immediately neutralized by alert SS agents, and is now on its way to Gitmo.

Besides exercising, Bush's biggest release from his job is chain sawing branches into huge piles in the summer, with Secret Service agents hovering nearby to protect him from falling limbs as he trims.

He needs "protection" from falling limbs. Ooooooooooooooooh, what a MANLY-MAN! (I'm not too worried about terraist chain saws, since the only ones he's allowed near have "Mattel" as the manufacturer.)

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. If you look closely you can see the gash

oh excuse me, I meant scratch on Bu$hler's face. He sure look lit up like a Christmas tree, doesn't he?



edit: found a better picture

[Occulus]

23. When I see red, splotchy noses like that

the very first thing I think of is that person tipping a bottle. Repeatedly.

That man looks just totally disengaged. Like the engine is on and the axle is turning, but the car is still going nowhere.

[PurityOfEssence]

10. I especially liked the line about supporting a recall in Venezuela

What a truly despicable little nobody Junior is. He had to bring up, at the end of his joint event with Fox, that we supported a recall election in Venezuela. Of course, he did this at the end of his last remark, after Fox had spoken for the last time, thus inferring complicity.

His villainy knows no bounds.

[Zech Marquis]

11. he's falling apart

when Big Dpg was POTUS, you had countries lining up around the block to have him, Hillary, and Chelsea pay a visit. Clinton even made 2-2!--tv specials in Japan on TBS, one was after the Lewinsky scandal (and a housewife asked him straight up how he could look Hillary in the face again).

This piece of shit we have now, he can't stay up past 10pm :eyes: He has no understanding or desire to deal with diplomacy, has no sense of cooperation--unless YOu agree with EVERYTHING he wants and say--and NOW he is so goddamn insecure, he's making his own DAUGHTER act as a "minder" during his ecounters with the press down in Mexico.

Bottom line--that's FUCKED UP!!!

[DoYouEverWonder]

19. He's training her

just like his daddy trained him to be the one to take care of the family business. I bet she'll be a real joy in 10 -15 years.

[susu369]

12. bu$h* - hit(s) the pillow by 10 or so at night

I'd bet he hits the bottle by 10....closet drinker.

[DrBB]

13. I'm sick of these lies! We all know what it was

It was a BADGER attack! And they've tried to cover up for him! But the evidence is there in his recent statement about the O'Neill allegations. How else can you explain how Our Noble President could have said anything so incoherent and rambling as this: "And in the initial stages of the administration, as you might remember, we were dealing with desert badger or fly-overs and fly-betweens and looks, and so we were fashioning policy along those lines."

Obviously he was suffering from the aftermath of a violent badger attack--trying to keep a brave face on it, but some of the trauma of those horrific moments when the badger came at him out of the brush pile just slipped through. In fact it was a whole herd of badgers. Green ones with huge fangs and horrible red eyes. The same ones that always attack him--ever since that first time, back in 1982 when... Dick? Dick? Get 'em off a me, Dick! Unca Dick, please!!! Oh god the eyes....

[MetaTrope]

14. Complete the phrase: 'Texas Chainsaw ...'

:nopity:

[0007]

16. Shame shame shame on this Washington Post reporter....

as big a liar as junior. Junior would surely love this article.

Bush and his heartiest alpha aides burn the towering pyramids of cedar. (Cedar trees is brush?)

Jenna's sister, Barbara, did not attend the summit. (First time that ever happened)

First lady Laura Bush is becoming an increasingly prominent fundraiser and campaigner for her husband, and the White House inner circle views her as such an appealing messenger that she is also taking on a higher-profile diplomatic role. (This is news?)

"The first lady attended several seminars put on by her Mexican counterpart, Martha Sahagun, that focused on women and democracy and women's rights. (particularly black women's voting rights)

"Education and health care are better in countries where women are equal participants in the political process than in countries that do not include women wholeheartedly, and that is a message that Mrs. Bush brings to this summit." (like in the U.S.)

The first lady is planning to travel to Afghanistan later this year. (Thanks for the warning)

[DeepModem Mom]

18. kicking for DUers who might have missed during slowdown --

[Timefortruth]

21. A scathing report from the Washington Post?

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Has Woodward lost his influence?

[Say_What]

22. 33 thinking leaders from Latin America and 1 MORON from the US

I'd paid money to be a fly on the wall in the meetings with Bush and Lula and then Kirchner. }(

Hardly a complimentary article for the *leader of the free world*. Brazil gets Lula and we get a PretzelBoy who appears to be drinking heavily these days.

From the article:

...Bush, who returned to the White House on Tuesday night, sounded tired and bored at the few public appearances during his 28-hour visit. His remarks had unusually long pauses. Cutaway television shots captured Bush glowering into space as other heads of state talked about "economic growth with equity to reduce poverty," "investing in people" and "democratic governance."

One of the million great things about being president is that you rarely have to listen to people who bore you. Dignitaries who introduce Bush are asked to limit their remarks to one minute. Bush praises those who are quicker, and his aides have been known to scold those who run over.

...One of the first signs that Bush was already over the summit came Monday night, when he was scheduled to pose for pictures and take a few questions from reporters toward the end of his 20-minute meeting with one of his most vociferous critics at the summit, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The meeting ran late and the media session turned into a handshake and a back pat for Lula. The whole thing lasted less than 20 seconds. Then Bush's staff began shooing the press corps out of the room.