Bush To Filipino President: "I Am Reminded Of The Great Talent Of Our Philippine Americans..."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: The Huffington Post

Bush To Filipino President: "I Am Reminded Of The Great Talent Of Our Philippine Americans When I Eat Dinner At The White House"

President Bush met with Filipino President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo today at the White House. Arroyo was in Washington while her country tries to recover from a typhoon that devastated coastal areas and flipped a ferry carrying over 800 passengers last week. Before discussing aide for the Philippines, Bush couldn't resist beginning the sober meeting with a quip about a Filipino member of his kitchen staff. Read part of the transcript from the meeting and click here to read more about one of the "Philippine-Americans" Bush is referring to. See the excerpt below:

PRESIDENT BUSH: Madam President, it is a pleasure to welcome you back to the Oval Office. We have just had a very constructive dialogue. First, I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that -- in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the -- of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House. (Laughter.)

PRESIDENT ARROYO: Yes.

PRESIDENT BUSH: And the chef is a great person and a really good cook, by the way, Madam President.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/24/bush-to-filipino-presiden_n_108985.html

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. ... A credit to his race Madam President.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. "And Phili, yer doin' a heck of a job."

209 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes, 5 seconds.

:patriot:

http://www.backwardsbush.com/

[raebrek]

19. I thought his chef was a woman. n/t

[Speck Tater]

2. What a moron!

Ranks right up there with telling Nelson Mandela what a great African-American shoeshine boy he has.

Utterly contemptible, and completely lacking in basic human respect.

[Submariner]

3. Just when you think he can't go lower, he out does himself

What a clueless moron.

[hlthe2b]

5. That chest thump is among the most nauseatingly embarrassing

photos of the moron, I ever saw....

[MaineDem]

6. Is that a photoshop?

Did he really do this chest bumping? What an arsehole!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. He really did it.

I posted the series of photos from Yahoo News the day that he did it.

He really, really did it.

Is it 2009 yet?

:patriot:

[Bush_MUST_Go]

9. I'd love to hear what people say about Dub when they leave. Probably NSFW

[MaineDem]

13. I totally missed that.

Good lord!

[frickaline]

31. In his defense

it was at the request of the graduate.

[Submariner]

8. No photoshop.......just pure living embarrassment

[MaineDem]

15. I go to Canada often

I have never gone up there without a bumper sticker indicating that he was not our choice. I am so totally embarrassed by him constantly.

This is so juvenile - at a graduation no less.

[MidwestTransplant]

25. The patriot chest bump...not to be confused with the terraist fist bump

[Demit]

10. Again, world: We are really sorry. We are better than this.

[mod mom]

11. He is such a FUCKING embarrassment!

[TBF]

12. Please tell me he was drunk at the time he said this.

Actually, his being continually drunk for 8 years could explain alot of things.

[Doctor_J]

14. He's also reminded of the great talent of Vietnamese-Americans when he gets his manicure,

and of Jewish-Americans when he goes to the movies.

:eyes:

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with him? Early onset Alzheimers? Parkinson's from all the drugs?

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

18. "Seriously.."

Boggles the mind.

[L0oniX]

16. G0d ...what a sick fuck. n/t

[tomg]

17. I think the very first thing that the new Ambassador

to the United Nations should do is to stand up and publicly apologize - in the name of the United States - for all of the sheer asshole things this guy did - (Not the war crimes or the lies or the complete destruction of the world because that is for the Hague) - just for all of the embarassingly idiotic stuff. Like this.

I think we will all feel a lot better. And then we can have the Hague try him.

[tblue37]

29. Like destroying the Queen of England's historic gardens,

grabbing the Chancellor Angel Merkel of Germany, to give her an impromptu and clearly unwelcome shoulder massage, chomping loudly and talking (and cursing) to Tony Blair with his mouth full at a dinner, while mikes and video cams were running, rudely grabbing Chinese President Hu Jintao by the jacket to keep him from walking down the stairs, making a grotesque face while trying to walk out of a fake door following a presser in China, being caught on camera writing a note to ask Condi for a pee-pee break at a UN meeting. . . . I really could go on and on and on.

You've heard the old saying "You can dress him up, but you can't take him out"? Well, Bush is precisely the sort of person that saying refers to.

[Botany]

34. You forgot showing up drunk in Slovenia

or riding into a policeman in Scotland

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/02/26/831/90801

It was "about 1800 hours on Wednesday, 6 July, 2005" that a detachment of Strathclyde police constables, in "Level 2 public order dress ," formed a protective line at the gate at the hotel's rear entrance, in case demonstrators penetrated the biggest-ever security operation on Scottish soil.

The official police incident report states: " was requested to cover the road junction on the Auchterarder to Braco Road as the President of the USA, George Bush, was cycling through." The report goes on: " about 1800 hours the President approached the junction at speed on the bicycle. The road was damp at the time. As the President passed the junction at speed he raised his left arm from the handlebars to wave to the police officers present while shouting 'thanks, you guys, for coming'.


"As he did this he lost control of the cycle, falling to the ground, causing both himself and his bicycle to strike on the lower legs. fell to the ground, striking his head. The President continued along the ground for approximately five metres, causing himself a number of abrasions. The officers... then assisted both injured parties."

The injured officer, who was not named, was whisked to Perth Royal Infirmary. The report adds: "While en-route President Bush phoned , enquiring after his wellbeing and apologising for the accident." At hospital, a doctor examined the constable and diagnosed damage to his ankle ligaments and issued him with crutches. The cause was officially recorded as: "Hit by moving/falling object."

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I could go on .... :cry:

[tblue37]

36. Exactly. No matter how many we name, there are always some

others that we have forgotten to list.

[tomg]

37. That's exactly why, I think, a kind of UN general

assembly apology is really the only way to go under the circumstances. Maybe it can be televised with some of the highlights run -

From Bush's wrecking of the Queens Gardens:

"The Queen's own flock of flamingoes, which security staff insisted should be moved in case they flew into the helicopter rotors, are thought to be so traumatised after being taken to a "place of safety" that they might never return home."

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/content_objectid=13652625_method=full_siteid=106694_headline=-GROUND-FARCE-1-name_page.html

[Botany]

39. or using a women's jacket as a wipe for his glasses

[scarface2004]

20. them filipino maids are great!!

my sheets are perfect...and they give good head!!! president chucklenuts chuckled during the encounter with the ambassador or whoever!!!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

21. Yes, President Arroyo, he really is that stupid.

Rest assured, you may expect the usual form letter of apology, bearing the official presidential seal, along with a lovely fruit basket expressing our sincere humiliation for his stupidity.

[MilesColtrane]

22. "Yup...you should see him. He's like a little brown whirlwind in that kitchen."

"He's great. He always wears gloves so's his hands don't touch my food, an' he's never tried to serve me none of them Filipino Monkey Brains er nothin' like that."

[Marrah_G]

43. It is a she and SHE is a very talented chef.

The first woman. First minority. Well educated. Professional. Accomplished.

100k a year plus book deals, endorsements and speaking engagements, to do the job she trained for on three continents.

This is a pretty damn prestigious job.

[susu369]

23. bu$h* MUST have thought about that special assistant

Susan Ralston and what "great talent" she had doing slick work for Abramoff and Rove.

Note: I do not intend to disparage any Philippine-Americans with my comment - Susan Ralston was dishonorable in her associations and what she did, IMHO.

[tblue37]

30. Like Michelle Malkin. n/t

[KT2000]

24. Are there any countries

he has not been a total embarrassment?

[newscott]

26. GWB the gift that keeps on giving

:eyes:

[Politicalboi]

27. It's nice to see

That Bush took someone serious in his life but I don't know if Archie Bunker was the right one.

[KamaAina]

28. Much, much more in GD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3513616&mesg_id=3513616

So Michelle Malkin's gonna blow a gasket over this, right?

Right??

[PfcHammer]

32. fucking inarticulate turd

be gone !

[provis99]

33. did he also state that Filipino women make great mail-order brides?

What a clueless turd.

[Fridays Child]

35. What a patronizing little puke of an idiot.

He reminds me of a tourist I once saw in a silver shop at San Xavier Mission, which is part of the Tohono O'odham Nation, south of Tucson. The guy just fell all over himself to make sure he spoke in the clipped speech patterns that actors portraying Native Americans used to deliver their lines in the old-time cowboy and Indian movies. And he peppered his dialog with expressions like "wampum," "How," and "heap big Injun." The thing is that he seriously believed he was not only extremely clever but very well-received by the tribe members running the shop. His utter cluelessness was exceeded only by his astounding obnoxiousness.

Just like Bush. :puke:

[winston61]

38. Why yes, don't those Flips make great little service workers?

I don't where I'd be without my little Flip servants!

[Marrah_G]

42. Do you know anything about the position of WH chef?

[LynnTheDem]

40. And yet another deeply offensive incredibly ignorant remark by that MFer.

The world yet agains shudders in revulsion.

[Marrah_G]

41. Being the WH chef is a damn prestigious job- pays very well, great benefits.

Although the President is indeed a fucking tool, this talented woman should not be compared to a hotel maid.

She beat out alot of other people to become the first female and first minority to hold the position.

This is not a position one would classify as your typical "servant" type job. She is a talented, well educated, professional who has excelled in her chosen career.

100K a year plus book deals, endorsements and speaking engagements.