Posted on 04/25/2005 11:24:28 AM PDT by Uncledave
It fazes me not at all. It's a cultural thing from that part of the world that he probably accomodated to just briefly. Whereas the photo freezes it in time. Which is a distortion of reality. Does that make me a "pansy" sympathizer? Good grief. Will you easily influenced types ever "get a grip"? (Honest, no pun intended...)
What? we are merely exchanging long chains of amino acids, if you know a better way of doing this, please feel free to tell us.
I guess it would look like a squaredance.
At least he's not holding hands with a White House intern.
Right.
"Good grief. They look like a couple of pansies. Why would our president do this?"
apparently nobody here saw the video. The prince faltered as he began climbing a series of steps at the ranch and reached out. The President took his hand to steady him. When they got to the top step the President let go. The MSM will no doubt play this to the hilt.
It's also an Arab custom to wipe your ass with your hand.
Hey, Mr. President!
When you're done with the handholding, tell him his government needs to stop jailing folks for the awful crime of being Christians and praying...
Why is George still being so sweet to these people? They are just people we buy oil from. Of course Americans don't relish (nor pickle , mayonaise or mustard) paying such ridiculous prices for gas and oil. But when dealing with the Saudis, it always seems to involve a whole lotta other crap than just plain business. If I hear one more time how cozy the Prez is with Prince Bandar that they call him Bandar Bush, cause they feel he's almost a member of the family------I'll gag on my baba ghannoush.
In HINDsight I suppose the Prez should have just let him fall and bust his ass on the sidewalk/s/
...and portions of the west coast of the U.S.
"We're men....we're men in tights, tights, tights...."
According to some here the only logical and proper response would be to topple the government of the city (say LA) and then let the gangs take control.
This of course only makes sense if LA controlled > 10% of world oil production.
/sarcasm
your point is eloquently stated. :)
your point is eloquently stated. :)
"Why is George still being so sweet to these people? They are just people we buy oil from"
the simple version would be that a) they are people we HAVE to buy oil from and b) not being supportive of that regime may result in it being replaced by something vastly worse, with tremendous geopolitical consequences, none of which are good.
No big deal. Done it many times during my five years in the Kingdom. Better than Russia where they kiss on the lips.
I watched this and Bush did pause at a step and sorta' pointed it out to the Prince and then they took a step up. Seemed to me that the Prince might have a bit of difficulty in walking.
And they did "kiss" each other on the cheek when meeting. Although it seemed to me Bush was more just sideswiping him rather than planting a wet one on the old guy. Kind of like when you have to kiss your aunt - the one with the mustache anyway!
>>>But Bush is using HIS left hand to do it! And the man doesn't seem to mind. Oh well. >>>
That's because he is educated enough to know that we don't have that same custom of using the left hand here.
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