Ewwww!

[Gemini Cricket]

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It's not exactly "Presidents Gone Wild!" but for the normally staid Group of Eight Summit, a video of President George W. Bush sidling behind German Chancellor Angela Merkel and delivering an impromptu neck rub is, well, as wild as it gets. The scene, captured by a Russian TV camera, hit the Internet like a summer wildfire Tuesday, and it may be most memorable for the German chancellor's reaction. Bush applies his hands to Merkel's shoulders and neck while she's speaking with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi; the chancellor hunches her shoulders, then throws her hands up to stop the unexpected massage with a wan smile -- and an expression which can best be translated as "Ewwww."
Source (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/19/BUSH.TMP)

That's just creepy. :D

[Stan4dSteph]

He's such an idiot.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Maybe it wasn't supposed to be a neckrub.

[scaeagles]

Let's see....he refers to Tony Blair as "Yo, Blair", call Putin "Pootie-poot"....I wonder what his nickname for her is?

[Gemini Cricket]

Let's see....he refers to Tony Blair as "Yo, Blair", call Putin "Pootie-poot"....
Is that for real? Pootie-Poot?
:D

I call him Rootie Tootie Putin.

Brownie?
Scooter?
Stretch?
Where's Cubby and Annette?
:D

[Not Afraid]

That's just soooo in appropriate. What a doofus.

[scaeagles]

I don't think the nicknames are inappropriate at all if they have a relationship that allows for it. I can't imagine him referring to Kim Jong Il as "Long Jong Il-ver" or anything like that.

[JWBear]

...I can't imagine him referring to Kim Jong Il as "Long Jong Il-ver" or anything like that.
I can.

[wendybeth]

It might help our relations with N Korea if he did give him such a nickname- Kim has a bit of an ego thing going on.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I don't think the nicknames are inappropriate at all if they have a relationship that allows for it. I can't imagine him referring to Kim Jong Il as "Long Jong Il-ver" or anything like that.I think Lisa was referring to the backrub, not the nicknames.

[Gemini Cricket]

Ghoulie's right, Not Afraidie was talking about the back rub, scaeaglie.
:D

[alphabassettgrrl]

Can't say I'd want him touching me, either.

[scaeagles]

Backrub certainly inappropriate. And I prefer the ML dubbed nicknames of "shingles".

[SacTown Chronic]

Why wasn't he tasered by the German security detail? I'd buy that video for a dollar.

[JWBear]

Why wasn't he tasered by the German security detail? I'd buy that video for a dollar.
Oh, I'd pay a lot more for that!

[Gn2Dlnd]

Creepiest preznit ever.

What's so sad, after seeing Blair's poodle act, Pootie-poot's belly kissing bit, and Long Jong Il-ver's (thanks, Shingles) impressive drowning of half his arsenal, is that Bush's idiocy seems to fit right in with the rest of the world's leaders. This man has squandered the prestige of the American presidency and reduced our country to equal (and in some cases, irrelevant) standing in the rest of the world.

[Gemini Cricket]

Jon Stewart is a god. (http://www3.youtube.com/watch?v=oE3QDQI4NBo&feature=TopRated&page=1&t=t&f=b)

[Gn2Dlnd]

Jon Stewart is a god.


So I have said.