Bush prematurely cuts off press conference.
Bush prematurely cuts off press conference.
Today, President Bush held a press conference in Romania with the country’s president, Traian Basescu. The AP notes that typically, “as a matter of courtesy and protocol, the host decides when such an event is over. But Bush has been known to ignore that practice.” Today, Bush “figured the question-and-answer session was done” and “strolled over to Basescu and asked if he was ready to take a walk by the water.” Basescu “politely” finished the press conference, however, and Bush had to head “back to his podium” until the event was over:
BUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.
Oh, you want to go over here?
BASESCU: Just a moment.
BUSH: Oh, you got –
BASESCU: Just a moment.
BUSH: He’s not through.
BASESCU: The information I would like to add to refer to two delicate issues, issues that are visible for the Romanian public. …
After the event was really over, the two men strolled by the water.
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http://www.dependablerenegade.com/ he is notably, clearly and obviously, smashed on his current favorite pastime, what ever the hell it might be. Considering how red he is, and is supposedly in shape, one might guess demon rum?
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:50 pmI think Bush has always suffered from agoraphobia which is why he does so many stupid things. So awkward!
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:50 pmAmericans must be dying of embarrassment and wanting the ground to open up and swallow them. To see the “leader” of the free world conduct himself repeatedly in this manner is simply appalling. He has no decorum whatsoever let alone manners in the public arena.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:53 pmPainfully embarrassing…
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:53 pmBush could torch the original Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights on the White House lawn, tell those in Congress to go Cheney themselves, rip the head off of a bunny rabbit and go to war with Iran and Russia and it would STILL not lead to impeachment.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:54 pmjdc Says
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:56 pmNo this reaffirms that shrubs brain is fried from booze and coke.
“clearly and obviously, smashed on his current favorite pastime . . . demon rum?”
I think GDumbya sticks to Jack Daniels and Jim Beam. LaLa might like the rum but only if you could make a martini with it.
Rum is probably more Darth Cheney’s speed.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:57 pmWhat kind of idiot voted for this clown? JDC? Progessisgood?
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:57 pmGannon loves Bush’s yummy butt!!progressisgood
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:58 pmThere fixed it for you! And your flagged again for being a low brow troll!
Bush has always suffered from agoraphobia
Well, GDumbya certainly doesn’t suffer from f’ingstupidaphobia. He has no fear of acting like an idiot.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:59 pmHow do you say “Control Freak” in Romanian
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 pmtom Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Rum is probably more Darth Cheney’s speed.
rum is too fun a drink for darth… that man probably drinks pure antifreeze… on the rocks
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:07 pmThe Ugly American lives.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 pmjdc Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
This is the smoking gun that finally rises to the level of impeachment.
Slow day, I guess.
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Nonsense — nobody here is saying this is an impeachable offense. If you want a list of impeachable offenses, you can find that here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/ discuss/ duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2570183&mesg_id=2570183
No — Bush’s faux pas here is one that could easily be excused if he was a newly-inaugurated President. But the fact that he can’t (or won’t) follow even the simplest protocol abroad after over seven years in office paints him as either a complete moron or incredibly arrogant (or possibly both). That’s the point being made here.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:11 pmToo many OB/GYNs aren’t able to practice their… their love with women all across this country.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:15 pmMiss Molly - Bush is both a moron and incredibly arrogant…a very bad combination in any human being, but especially horrifying in someone who is supposed to be “the most powerful man in the world.” The man cannot even speak proper English, let alone behave himself in a dignified way!
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:18 pmCan’t take Bush anywhere. Blame the bottle [that Bush yearns for] for his stupid behavior.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:20 pmIf we’re lucky the Romanians will give Dubya a 21-gun salute, Ceausescu-style.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:21 pmherr dubyah continues to shame his position and embarrass our country.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:22 pmAfter the event was really over, the two men strolled by the water.
With all due respect Amanda, Junior is not a man.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:27 pmThat’s not to imply that he is the opposite, just not . . . human.
I thought each President and First Lady were given memos on what is protocal for each country. But this isn’t even protocal it is common courtesy when you are visiting in someone elses home.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:29 pmI guess the only way it could be worse, is if someone finds another blue dress.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:30 pmThat’s OK. Bush was wearing his flag pin, so everything he does is totally appropriate.
/snark off **gag**gag**
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:30 pmSo much water…
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:32 pmIf we’re lucky the Romanians will give Dubya a 21-gun salute, Ceausescu-style
If that doesn’t work out, I understand that China has surreptitiously entered GDumbya in the javelin-catching competition during this summers Olympics.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:32 pmbackup Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I guess the only way it could be worse, is if someone finds another blue dress.
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No, that would be BETTER! Then he can finally be impeached!
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:33 pmNobody ever accused Bush of being a sophisticate. He thought the guy was done. The guy spoke up and Bush let him finish. If that’s the most embarrassing thing you can think of, consider allegations of date rape, lying under oath, ransacking the white house and air force one on your way out.
If Bush would have cut off the Romanian President and not let him finish, that would have been a story.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm‘Bush is in Romania for the NATO summit, where security officials are on watch for intruders: wild foxes and stray dogs.
While Bush and Basescu met at resort in Neptun, professional hunters scoured nearby forests teeming with foxes.
A local mayor, Traian Cristea, said the foxes often venture onto the roads where Bush’s convoy passed, so hunters were trying to frighten the animals deeper into the woods.’
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/917/story/144771.html
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:38 pmbackup Says: April 2nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
If that’s the most embarrassing thing you can think of…
Not the most embarrasing. Just the most recent one.
But hey, he’s not falling off bikes and Segways this time!
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:39 pmI wonder if he and Bush held hands. Georgie seem to like that.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:40 pmIronically after Bush arrogantly tried to finish the pressconference Basescu shortly addressed the death of Romanian musician Teo Peter. Peter was killed in Romania in 2004 by a DUI American marine. Despite a blood alcohol level of 0.09 milligrams the marine was freed by a US court martial from charges of negligent homicide.
Lesson learned: Americans do whatever the hell they please in Romania
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:48 pmI see backed up is here to loudly proclaim…”CLINTON DID IT,CLINTON DID IT! He’s like some real life Eric Cartman,but dumber.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:50 pm#7 Joanne - What’s your point? He’s already done all those things, and more.
But, he’s got all those tape recordings, see, from wiretapping everyone who might try to stand up to him - and those recordings must be far more embarrassing to congress people than rolling over and playing deaf, dumb and dead to all Bush’s atrocities. (Why else would our congressional representatives be willing to sell the entire country down the river?)
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:51 pmRomania, and apparently Chapaquitic.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:52 pmSo, Bush was drunk again.
So?
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:53 pmspecialistF, you’d better damn well respect backup’s authoritah!
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:54 pmDid he get asked a question that he doesn’t get asked here by our press suck-ups?
Or did he forget to wear his Cheney earphone?
Was he wearing a lapel flag?
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:54 pmMoronic troll can’t even spell, let alone dis a Senator for a 30+ year old scandal.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:55 pmI give, what’s the spelling error?
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:58 pmI didn’t think so.
RU. you should probably take your own advice back in #38.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:01 pmChappaquiddick dumbfu(k.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:01 pmI’m beginning to think that decades from now nursing homes will have populations of dementia patients wandering around muttering, “Clinton, Clinton, Clinton”.
No-one will want to work in those wards (those patients will be segregated for obvious reasons) and those that agree to do so will be paid extra Dealing-With-Idiots-Pay.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:04 pmbackup Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Nobody ever accused Bush of being a sophisticate. He thought the guy was done. The guy spoke up and Bush let him finish. If that’s the most embarrassing thing you can think of, consider allegations of date rape, lying under oath, ransacking the white house and air force one on your way out.
If Bush would have cut off the Romanian President and not let him finish, that would have been a story.
Does being reponsible for over a million deaths qualify as embarrassing in your mind?
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:06 pmI stand corrected.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:08 pmbackup Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Despite a blood alcohol level of 0.09 milligrams the marine was freed by a US court martial from charges of negligent homicide.
Lesson learned: Americans do whatever the hell they please in Romania
Romania, and apparently Chapaquitic.
Got spelling?
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:08 pmRUCerious Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Moronic troll can’t even spell, let alone dis a Senator for a 30+ year old scandal.
Sorry, RU. I scrolled ahead and stepped on your line. Funny how three of us caught that immediately. What a moron.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:11 pmWhat an embarrassing boob! Did he try to massage his host’s shoulders?
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:11 pmDoc Rock Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
What an embarrassing boob! Did he try to massage his host’s shoulders?
No, but he did beat up the truth…Again.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:13 pmThe war in Iraq is a real issue. This thread is not.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:13 pmbackup Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Does being reponsible for over a million deaths qualify as embarrassing in your mind?
The war in Iraq is a real issue. This thread is not.
Obama will be a real President. Shrub is not.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:15 pmtom@27: Did I mention that I throw a mean javelin? Thanks for giving me a good laugh in these grim times.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:23 pmspecialistF, you’d better damn well respect backup’s authoritah!RUCerious Says
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:26 pmYea,I know I’m just one of those “dam smelly hippies”.
Obama will be a real President. Shrub is not.
Bears repeating. I can hardly wait until the day comes when we have a President who I can admire and look forward to hearing speak. I truly believe that Obama can heal this fractured nation. McBush sure as $hit won’t and neither would Hillary.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:32 pmFunny, if you consider that sometimes spellchecking is the best defense you can mount.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:34 pmFunny, if you consider that sometimes spellchecking is the best defense you can mount.
An inability to construct a complete sentence and to master the use of a spell checker is usually an indication of a lack of intelligence. You prove that every day you post here troll.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:37 pmBilbo. At least I fess up when I make a mistake, you conveniently disappear.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:40 pmI wonder if, by the end of Chimpy’s reign, I will finally just assume that as a matter of course, our president will be rude to everyone he meets, instead of clinging to my lifelong belief that a person who has been elevated to that position would have some sense of decorum and courtesy.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:41 pmI admit to not being the grammar expert, but don’t you need a comma before troll?
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:43 pmWhy is it that so many wingnut trolls embrace Chappaquiddick as some sort of anti-liberal neutron bomb, yet so few of them care to learn how it’s correctly spelled?
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:44 pmI admit to not being the grammar expert, but don’t you need a comma before troll?
No. Look it up in a book on grammar. It might do you some good.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:47 pmBACKUP, please don’t make me pull out the Nixon was almost impeached argument. Has about as much merit as the Kennedy drowns mistress stale one.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:48 pmBilbo. At least I fess up when I make a mistake, you conveniently disappear.
I don’t disappear, I have a life other than this forum. I am not paid to hang out here, I do it because I like the discourse with other intelligent progressive people. And, occasionally I like playing a good game of Whack-a-Troll. But not with you. You are no challenge.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:48 pmbackup Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Bilbo. At least I fess up when I make a mistake, you conveniently disappear.
Want to “fess up” to voting for Shrub. Or do you not consider that a mistake?
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:57 pmBilbo. Good. Here’s a link of a discussion from a month ago:
http://thinkprogress.org/ 2008/ 03/ 20/ thinkfast-march-20-2008/
Go to #67 (where you advocate banning people from TP) and read through my link of you over at redstate where you complain that conservatives ban people for disagreeing and that doesn’t happen on liberal blogs.
You skipped out on me then and someone towards the end agrees that that’s typical for you.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:01 pmbackdoor,
Waiting for an answer #65.
…crickets..
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:04 pmI’m outta here.
Another day, another barrel of bullet-riddled fish.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:07 pmwoodguy. I’ve got to split, too. But, no, Bush is doing the best job he can under difficult circumstances. He has made plenty of mistakes. And I disagree with many of his policies.
But, just like history views Truman more favorably than his low approval ratings during his presidency, Bush’s efforts may be viewed more favorably, when they are viewed without the haze of today’s bitter partisan atmosphere.
We will see.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:19 pmand bilbo. I’ll check back for your response later. I’m sure you wouldn’t skip out on me again.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:21 pmjdc Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
This is the smoking gun that finally rises to the level of impeachment.
Slow day, I guess.
Slow brain , I guess………
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:28 pmbackup Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:19 pm
woodguy. I’ve got to split, too. But, no, Bush is doing the best job he can under difficult circumstances. He has made plenty of mistakes. And I disagree with many of his policies.
But, just like history views Truman more favorably than his low approval ratings during his presidency, Bush’s efforts may be viewed more favorably, when they are viewed without the haze of today’s bitter partisan atmosphere.
We will see.
Who created today’s “bitter partisan atmosphere” ?
It’s the same grinning , braying jackass that you Goopers still stupidly support , and whom you yo-yos inevitably excuse-make and apologize for while trying at the same time to compare the ignorant clod with some of history’s greatest and most influential politicians……..
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:33 pmThis man perfectly represents America as it is now.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:34 pmMCM, it’s not even a question of the “bitter partisan atmosphere”. How is the invasion of Iraq ever gonna look like a wise move? How is the trashing of the economy ever gonna look like an achievement? How is the debasement of the Constitution ever gonna look like an enlightened strategy?
Bush has low approval ratings, not because difficult decisions have taken longer to pay off than expected, but because stupid decisions have had utterly predictable (and predicted) results.
That kind of shit doesn’t get better with age.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:06 pmWhat an A$$
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:42 pmOur grandchildren will find a picture of Bush in their dictionaries next to the word jackass.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:43 pm…and later Basescu waterboarded our beloved Nazi Chimp on live Romanian TV…
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:46 amDid Basescu push the shrub in the water? *sigh* I can dream can’t I?
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:28 am