"He was wearing the expression that some critics call a smirk"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&e=2&u=/washpost/20041122/ts_washpost/a2550_2004nov21

In the fracas that ensued, amid a flurry of half nelsons, one Secret Service agent wound up jammed against a wall. "You're not stopping me! You're not stopping me! I'm with the president!" an unidentified agent can be heard yelling on videotape of the mayhem. It took Bush several minutes to realize what was happening. The president and the first lady walked on through the door onto a big red carpet, looking relaxed. They greeted Lagos and his wife, Luisa Duran. "You want us to pose here?" Bush asked Lagos with a grin, and they turned to face a wall of flashes.

Then Bush either realized he was missing something, or he heard the commotion. The president, who is rarely alone, even in his own house, turned and walked back to the front door unaccompanied, facing the backs of a sea of dark suits. Bush, with his right hand, reached over the suits and pointed insistently at Trotta. At first the officials, with their backs to him and their heads in the rumble, did not realize it was the president intervening. Bush then braced himself against someone and lunged to retrieve the agent, who was still arguing with the Chileans. The shocked Chilean officials then released Trotta.

Trotta walked in behind Bush, who looked enormously pleased with himself. He was wearing the expression that some critics call a smirk, and his eyebrows shot up as if to wink at bystanders. Bush adjusted his right cufflink and muttered something to Lagos, took the first lady's arm and headed into the dinner of grilled fish.

Chilean journalists were critical of Bush's actions. Marcelo Romero, a reporter with Santiago's newspaper La Cuarta, said: "All of us journalists agree that President Bush looked like a cowboy. It was total breach of protocol. I've seen a lot of John Wayne movies, and President Bush was definitely acting like a cowboy."

[VivaKerry]

1. Geeze, and uncle dick is going to break it to bushboy

that the whole thing made him look like a total asswipe. But for now, Bush thinks he made a GREAT impression. Oh yeah, watch me, daddy,

[greenbriar]

6. Hannity sure thought the prez was a hero

he was practically creaming his jeans talking about it

[Cadence]

17. Hannity is such a little

f*cking dweeb muncher!

[chicagojoe]

33. I'm always trying to pick a fight w/Hammity...

...but (s)he's too much of a BushButt Licker to take me up on it.
What a DORK. Just like his King.

[MaineDem]

35. Insinuating someone is female as a form of insult is not very smart

:mad:

[chicagojoe]

38. Sorry, but the PC gloves are off. No quarter for the enemy.

People like the Radical Right are hurt by such things, so I shall use any tactic that will hurt them.
Wait until you see what I've got in store for the likes of Ingraham
and Coulter. The next four years are going to be brutal.

[MaineDem]

42. Self deleted

It's not worth it. Sorry.

[chicagojoe]

44. Take my views any way you want. Sorry if your sensibilities are offended.

The truth is, I'm going to be saying and doing a lot of things I never would have imagined, just to maximize the damage I'm going to be laying on the Radical Right. We are in a social war, and I plan on causing many casualty along the way.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

21. Why am I not surprised...

I haven't watched Hannity since about a week before the election. Too much damned arrogance. Janeane Garafalo was on his show recently and she said on her own program that he had a map of the USA with the red states filled in and that he kept waving it back and forth while she spoke throughout the entire interview.

[Cadence]

36. Figures he'd be up for really intelligent debate

I hope he feels like the biggest shmuck when the election fraud is finally uncovered.

She should have had the same map printed in red and blue but by county it doesn't look as impressive.

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[DoBotherMe]

12. Ask Jim Rassman

if John Kerry would "have gone back to get that guy."

[sundancekid]

18. aren't you lost?? it's all in a name and a choice of posting solution!

[DulceDecorum]

24. But at least Kerry keeps his fly closed in photo ops.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1383282

What use is that guy anyway,
letting his boss go out looking like that?
And with a hump
as well.

[charlie]

26. Yeah, he'd have really made a good impression

if an assassin had grabbed his scrawny ass and snapped his neck. The dumbass needs to get it through his tiny head that his safety is a larger concern than his desire to be a swaggering bigshot. He's the fucking president and has an obligation to stay out of harm's way.

[HuskerDem]

30. I'm sure Bushie made a GREAT impression with the illogical and uneducated

who never bothered to ask why this "great leader"........... who was too cowardly to set a TOE into Vietnam........ was lauded so profusely for simply bullying the most accomplished security of his host nation when he KNEW that his SORRY ASS was NEVER in any real danger?


You know, I understand the reluctance to understand that the person who owns your life is a total asshole. But he is.

[bobbyboucher]

32. A good impression with monkeys in the trees too.

You didn't really register at DU to come here with posts like that did you? I mean come on, you've got to be kidding. Do you really expect anyone to buy into that insane bullshit you are spewing?

Send me an email with your addy and I'll send you some cash, then go buy a fucking clue.

[Cha]

2. I'm refining that

look to Stupid "Smirk"!

[Eureka]

3. More proof he wears a wire!

I mean, if there were a general fracas going on anywhere near a president, or anyone of 'importance', would they just walk over to find out what was going on?

Even if they saw their own security guys there, would they walk over and find out what was going on? Or would they take off to somewhere out of the way and leave it to the guys who's job that is?

I doubt he would go and sort it out unless he knew exactly what the situation was.

My bet is, he was wearing a wire, and someone told him to go over and sort it out.

Or, alternatively, he's as thick as pigshit and didn't think before doing it.

Now that I think of it, it's the second one.

[Sparkly]

10. I think you've got a point

Isn't the purpose of the Secret Service to protect the Chimp from "general fracas?"

This whole thing doesn't smell right.

There've been a lot of "news" stories that don't smell right lately. The "rebellious Republicans" in the House who stalled the 9/11 commission's recommendations "against the president's wishes" is another. Not to change the subject -- I just think we have to treat every news story with extreme suspicion. These clowns are masters of theatre.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Ok not only breach of protocol but.... breach of

security.... geezus, age....

[PDittie]

5. the freepers were orgasmic over the show of bravado

in a thread linked yesterday.

"My heroes have always been cowboys" was the gist of it.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

23. They were pulling that crap when Reagan died

A lot of their posts carried a bumper sticker that was being sold as soon as Ronnie went cold: "My heroes have always been cowboys" with a photo of Reagan on the left and the "cowboy hat in the pickup truck" photo of Bush.

The freepers don't think Bush acts like John Wayne...they think he IS John Wayne.

And the tragic thing about that was that John Wayne wasn't even "John Wayne" in reality...his real name was Marion Michael Morrison, he was an ACTOR, he WAS NOT a cowboy, and he WAS NOT a war hero.

Just like our president. Just an actor.

[flordehinojos]

7. Oh, and the world is safer according to Bush?

Why then is,"The president, who is rarely alone, even in his own house, " as stated in the above article.

Is he paranoid?
Does he know that his invasion & occupation of Iraq have made us less safe?
Is he even allowed to go to the bathroom alone?

Would, "Bush, who looked enormously pleased with himself.", Have had the courage to rescue his detail from a brawl out in the open street or was he emboldened by the fact that he was in a secure place where he knew no harm could come to him?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. It just doesn't get any better than that.... my my what would the Pope

say... oh we already know what he said... as well as the Methodists.... and most of the rest of the "civilized" world... oooooh... then there is all of ussins.

http://www.peacebuildersinitiative.org/adults/readAboutPeace/Ebert.php
The pope sent a cardinal from the Vatican to have an hour's discussion with Bush--not about politics, but about theology. The cardinal told the president that the pope disagrees that God supports an invasion of Iraq. ''God does not intervene in the affairs of man,'' the papal emissary said.

http://www.majorityreportradio.com/weblog/archives/000087.php
Let's see what Bush's church had to say about him:

April 24, 2003

A one-page advertisement in The Christian Century magazine, signed by more than 100 United Methodists, has called on U.S. President George Bush to "repent" of certain domestic and foreign policies, including the use of violence in dealing with Iraq.

The ad, titled, "A Prophetic Epistle from United Methodists Calling Our Brother George W. Bush to Repent," appeared in the magazine's April 5 issue.

The message was written and signed before U.S.-led forces began military action against Iraq on March 19, explained the Rev. Jennifer Kimball Casto, a signer and pastor of New Life United Methodist Church in Columbus, Ohio.

[Lex]

11. A cowboy!! LOL!! Smirky McCokespoon is afraid of horses.

.
He's never been on a horse in his adult life.

He has a 'ranch' (it was a pig farm) but not one horse--not even for photo-ops.

It's so funny that the freakin' freeptards (or anyone else) thinks he is a "cowboy."

[AspenRose]

13. I saw another DUer refer to him as "Barney Badass"

For some reason that seems to fit.....

[Ken Burch]

15. Just Wondering

Has there been any explanation of why the Chilean caribinero wouldn't let Bush's Secret Service guy in?

[FormerOstrich]

40. I'm not sure it gives a better explanation....

but it certainly feeds the imagination (from the article)

Bush and the first lady walked into the beaux-arts banquet hall, and Chilean officers, who appeared to be waiting for the moment, stepped in front of Trotta, blocking him from entering.

U.S. officials said Chilean police had been chafing for a week about a demand by Secret Service agents that they control the president's space, even when he was on sovereign turf. Now, it was payback time.

In the fracas that ensued, amid a flurry of half nelsons, one Secret Service agent wound up jammed against a wall. "You're not stopping me! You're not stopping me! I'm with the president!" an unidentified agent can be heard yelling on videotape of the mayhem.

Other gems from the article:

In the hall afterward, a couple of pairs of journalists went at each other like a locker-room fight.

White House officials did not say much about the Chilean hospitality, but one aide ventured a prediction: Lagos need not watch his mail for an invitation to Bush's ranch.

[kiki]

37. How about Dudley Dumbass? n/t

[leetrisck]

14. He's a horse's * - a cowboy he isn't

I can't stand to hear cowboy's insulted all the time and bush loves to be called a cowboy - it's as close to macho as he's going to get.

[signmike]

16. Remember when Elvis punched out some guy?

I must have been about 12 and I thought it was a set-up. Sure improved his image.

Doesn't seem to have worked as well for Sean Penn.

Didn't John Kerry actually 'go in after' one of his guys who was REALLY in trouble - in Nam?

How times change.

[Ken Burch]

19. Elvis punched a guy out?

What, was the guy standing between the King and his deep fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

25. No, this was "Young Elvis"

It was one of those "I saw him wink at my girlfriend" things, or something similar, so some redneck took a swing at Elvis, and Elvis swung back.

I've forgotten the details, but this happened in the 50s.

And yeah, of course...it could have been staged, but it did give his image a "macho" boost. Soon the photos of Elvis lying on the bed in his pink bedroom talking on his pink telephone were replaced by new ones of Elvis in black leather riding his Harley around Graceland.

It's all in the marketing.

[arewenotdemo]

27. Elvis had a pink telephone in his pink bedroom?

God is in the details. Let's hear them.

[signmike]

28. Hey - remember when people 'wondered' about Liberace?

...as if!

Elvis had long hair, for the time, and he was called 'Elvis the Pelvis' by detractors,
and they said he had a brother named 'Enos'...
My dad was one of those who hated him and took every possible stupid shot at him. OK, it caused me to make sure I bought ALL of his records, hah!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

29. There is a book by Dave Marsh called "Elvis"...

...which may or may not still be in print.



Caption: "In the first flush of his success, Elvis bought his parents a new home on Audubon Drive, a fifties modern one-story home in the fashionable section of Memphis. It had three bedrooms, including Elvis' pink bedroom, a game room, a double car port, and they added a swimming pool soon after coming in."

Sorry for the crap scan. It's a 2-page spread measuring 12 x 14 inches.

Anyway, it was right around the time that this photo was taken that Elvis had the fight, so draw your own conclusions.

[arewenotdemo]

31. Confident straight men could wear pink, or purple

for that matter.

[A Simple Game]

22. I don't recall Elvis doing this, he may have, but.

Elvis had character, compassion, talent, and cared for his fellow humans. The only thing he may have had in common with this idiot was his drug addiction.

[Skittles]

20. a cowboy who is afraid of horses

Bush is as phony a cowboy as he is a president

[chicagojoe]

34. Bush is our enemy.

[Sukie1941]

39. Definitely not a Texas cowboy

Here in Oregon we call cowboys "buckaroos." There is different terminology in other parts of the country. No matter where Bush goes, he doesn't qualify!

[Catchawave]

41. Is the "bulge" back on his back?

Second photo, I swear I see it? Anyone else? Do we know if he's wired for translations?

[robbedvoter]

43. It sure ain't in his pants - he made it pathetically clear to the world