Who says high school antics end?

[darthcrank]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Y_ncOVlDw

President Bush is ignored at an international summit. Like he has a disease, noone shakes his hand.

Comments

[iamthepoison]

He shook their hands earlier.

Oh Scott...

[tricstmr]

I find your perception of events so interesting at times.

"No one shakes his hand" you say... and yet, I urge you to look at everyone else around him in the line as he walks in..

What are they doing with their hands? Let's see.. I watch them extend their hands out and then others shake them.

Does Bush extend his hands out?

Nope.

So who is ignoring whom, Scott?

I'm willing to bet that it's mutual.. but I find it oh so hilarious how the "so-called libertarian" keeps finding ways to defend someone who believes he has the right to have you kidnapped and tortured and denied any constitutional rights, merely by calling you an enemy combatant.

Your Republican heart is showing on your sleave, Mr. Crank.

It's possible...

[tricstmr]

.. but I would think that that strategy--in this world that values "the victim" so much more--would be kinda stupid...

If Bush extends his hand, and no one takes it--then maybe in the "Macho" world, he loses face because no one will be nice to him.. but he scores MAJOR SUPER BONUS POINTS at home where he can say "Look, I was just trying to be polite, and all them evil snooty foreigners were being the self-righteous French Pricks that they've always been... "

In any case.. If it is a calculated snub.. maybe it's in return for the incident a few months ago where Bush all but declared on climate warming that he doesn't give a flying fuck what anyone else thinks, the US will do whatever they want...

Either way.. I think that if it was a calculated snub.. it was probably justified.. and if it was mutual.. then it just goes to show how horrid the Bush administration has been in terms of foreign affairs..

Re: Oh Scott...

[darthcrank]

I thought it was funny. Did you think I was upset?

Keep trying to put me in that box...

[manufracture]

i watched the video before reading tricstmr's comment, and it was apparent to me it was Bush who wasn't extending a hand to shake. watch his body language. he's trying to rush through the line and keeps a further distance away from the row of diplomats.

[darthcrank]

It would make more sense to me that he just can't wait to get the hell out of office...and this kind of attitude might come across this way.

Iamthepoison's link isn't working for me here, but it would make even *more* sense if Bush had already done the glad-handing earlier on, and doing more on stage would just be unnatural and contrived.

If *that* is the case, then we have media outlets that are just making shit up.

[manufracture]

"If *that* is the case, then we have media outlets that are just making shit up."

yeah pretty much. nothing new there! :)

[reignwaterburns]

i completely agree with the douchebag cnn reporter, i'm sorry... bush is clearly attempting to make eye contact with them but they aren't even looking his way. he looks like a kid trying to find a seat on a bus, it's really pathetic. even if they all shook hands previously, bush is apparently not worth shaking hands with again.

[shangchi]

He does have a disease. It's called his mouth.

[suckpump]

iawtc :)