Why I don't think Bush "groped" PM Merkel, or "massaged" her.

[WinkyDink]

I think he was performing the "laying on of hands". I mentioned this briefly on the huge thread. Here's some support for this theory:

"He summoned to the governor's mansion all the leading pastors of the region to carry out a ritual of "laying on of hands," a practice that corresponds above all to ministerial ordination."
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20031222/stam

His family:
Jeb Bush praised Scientologists for "delivering controversial “touch assist” healings that supposedly help victims through the laying on of hands."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7384923/

His Administration:
"To tie down the religious conservatives, they nudged John Ashcroft out of the race and conducted a literal laying on of hands at the governor’s mansion with leaders such as James Dobson."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9651882

I think this behavior also explains Bush's bizarre need to place his hands on bald heads as well as on children's heads.

IOW: What Bush did wasn't---to him---sexual or joking; it was his delusional Messiah Complex at work. I can't reconcile his determined yet affectless expression with any other interpretation.

[Spazito]

1. ROFL, sorry but ROFL

bush is the most obvious faux christian I have seen, he has absolutely no respect for real Christians or anyone else other than those he calls his base, you know, "the haves and the have mores".

[WinkyDink]

3. Well, the sources I've cited would beg to differ. He very well might be

a Dominionist Christian, their oxymoron, not mine.

[Spazito]

7. One has only to look at a REAL Christian like former President

Jimmy Carter who is too busy practicing his beliefs to be preaching about them as opposed to bush who pretends to be Christian when it is politically expedient. I have not found the US media to be reporters of fact but rather regurgitators of propaganda so citing those sources don't do much for me, I prefer to use my own eyes and ears and judge based on the old saw "actions speak louder than words" and bush's actions are the most unchristian actions I could contemplate.

[madrchsod]

2. dam you are right!

the lord works in mysterious ways!
praise jesus!

[WinkyDink]

5. It's only funny until he starts a ME Crusade. Oh, wait...

[Catherine Vincent]

4. I think he has to do such things because there was not a bald guy

around to rub their head.

[Crankie Avalon]

6. I think it's more likely he was trying out his "Vulcan nerve pinch" on her

...maybe that's why he ran away so fast when she didn't instantly fall unconscious. "Dang, but it always worked when ol' Dr. Spock did it!"

[AlCzervik]

8. i don't think so but i also don't think it was sexual harassment

what i think is that he has no idea how a president should conduct himself nor does he care. He is a total embarrassment.

[Warpy]

9. Can you see him doing that to Putin?

Come off it, if Merkel had been a male, she would have been unmolested.

He was acting like a drunken frat boy at a mixer, one who thought he was entitled to put his hands on any woman in the room.

[AlCzervik]

11. now that i would love to see, just to see "Putey Putes" reaction.

i bet Dimson does that all the time to other people, woman and men, this time there happened to be a camera in the room.

[OzarkDem]

18. Men touching women intimately or casually in a business setting

can sometimes be seen as a way of establishing dominance or making women submissive. In this case a chimp using body language to show its dominance over the female members of the group. Its not uncommon in the business world.

I'm surprised he didn't jump up on the table and thump his chest.

[AlCzervik]

19. or fling poo?

:+

[Tinksrival]

21. I agree OzarkDem

I posted this in the mega thread and it still has me thinking about his motives.

Georgie giving Angela a little shake down? Wonder what he wants?
This is from the transcript of the Bush and Blair show when he was stuffing his face....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

Blair, standing over Bush as the president eats, tries to engage on the stalled global trade negotiations.

Blair : On this trade thing . . .

Some of the ensuing conversation is inaudible. Blair evidently wants Bush to make a statement on the talks.

Bush : If you want me to. I just want some movement. Yesterday, I didn't see much movement. The desire's to move.

Blair : No, no there's not. It may be that it's impossible.

Bush : I'll be glad to say it. Who's introducing me?

Blair : Angela.

Bush : Tell her to call on me. Tell her to put me on the spot.

[OzarkDem]

22. He's not even interested

in hearing anyone else's POV. He has his way and no other, its obvious from what he's saying. He has no boundaries, no restraint - just pure unfettered ego, greed and aggression.

[bdamomma]

28. I would like to put him on the spot

stupid man he is.

[benddem]

15. agree

he didn't grope any of the males sitting around the table. Anybody have any idea how the freeps are handling this? I so miss the Dauo Report.

[Warpy]

17. No clue, but I know the German press

was highly offended by it.

Expect to see diplomatic fallout from this one.

Stupid is making the US even more of a pariah every day.

[etherealtruth]

24. I'm not tolerant of sexual harrassment ...

... and I agree with you completely; his act was simply idiocy.

[yurbud]

10. I would agree, but I don't think Bush knows that much about born again

stuff.

Just what they put in the script and what God tells him directly.

[patrice]

12. He confused Merkel with Rice because both are female. n/t

[redqueen]

13. This is a joke, right? n/t

[WinkyDink]

25. I didn't say I THINK he's the Messiah; I said HE THINKS

he is!
I'm calling him crazy.

[Fermezlabush]

14. Not sexual as he forgot the meaning of that (sorry, Condi, I don't buy it)

It seems to me like crass assertion of power - "I own you"

[dazzlerazzle]

16. could it be that

he had some spread left on his fingers?

[Tinksrival]

20. IMHO There is not a christian bone in his asshole body.

Not even the crazy Christan kind. Dubya's christianity is as faux as fox.

[Spirochete]

23. Maybe he was

just trying out a new sneaky way of wiping his glasses off on her. He tends to do that, doesn't he?

[WinkyDink]

26. I haven't called Bush a TRUE Christian,

as in the Sermon on the Mount. OF COURSE he's not a TRUE one! Yes, he is phony in regards to MORALITY. But in regards to the doctrine of Militant, End-times, Dominionist "Christianity", I think that is a reasonable and documented way to view HIS views and concomitant behaviors. HE IS DELUSIONAL.

Maybe a 4-second touch IS a "massage", or a blank look IS "flirting" or "domineering". I don't agree.

[bdamomma]

27. this jerk knows nothing about respecting

other world leaders, he is just a stupid yale frat boy. he is a stupid man

[datasuspect]

29. he did this while he was drunk on the holy ghost

if you look really close at the video, it's really bill clinton and not dubya at all.