Posted on 07/20/2006 9:07:21 PM PDT by notes2005
I don't think Bush looked too bad. He does it with men too. Rather, it looked like an over-reaction on her part. She looks hypersensitive to the point of bizarre. You know the type. The reaction makes one wonder if she would lose it in a crisis. People feel comfortable with a calm and steady leader. Her reaction did not demonstrate this.
Libs just can't stand for Bush to ever be shown in a favorable light.
Remember their hysteria over his landing on the Aircraft carrier and being photographed in the flightsuit?
~GCR~
Maybe the gesture was out of place, but it's unfortunate that we have not been able to see the president as a man in his presidency. We've had to view him as a warrior protecting this country.
He really does cause the images of those around him to become real. And not just unreachable leaders on a stage.
Liberals Are Just Jealous President Bush Is A Personable Man
President Bush congratulates Margaret Spellings on being nominated for Education Secretary in this photo taken on January 20, 2005.
I am not surprised by that. The left needs "primitiveness" to show someone is "human." It's like Clinton getting oral sex in the oval office from a lowly female intern half his age. It showed his humanity, how real he was, and therefore how qualified he was to hold his office.
This is the shallowest thinking you can imagine, but it animates the mind and feelings of a liberal.
I think this was just crossed wires, she wasn't expecting it and maybe she was lost in thought and it startled her.
I think the president is just a physical and protective guy who shows his affection in this manner.
I should know I am the same way, very rarely I might startle someone; especially women as they seem a little more jumpy then men. When I do I apologize and try to find out how I misjudged. This usually involves explicitly discussing the matter with the woman. Usually it is just a case of bad timing or she didn't care, it was just an unconcious reaction.
Often if I know her well and she has a good sense of humor I might do it again to break up the monotony or for fun.
I have encountered people who seem to think I am somehow trying to come onto the woman or girl, which I find odd because I treat everyone in a similar way (from my dog and my mother to my friends).
It seems like there are those who see any interaction between a man and woman as sexual. I have even had people imply that I was interested in women old enough to be my grandmother at times, which I found quite disturbing and odd.
I feel sad for people who can only relate to members of the opposite sex in a sexual manner. I can't envision a happy marriage for them at any rate.
Get out of that place. Our accounting woman have a sign in the office "Sexual Harassment Acceptable, and Encouraged"
Of course, these woman are both attractive and competent so they don't have to fall back on victimology.
But Gloria Steinem said Slick's groping of Kathleen Willey was okay because he stopped when Willey told him to.
Yer kidding?!?
So this 'grope' by W was better because he stopped before she told him to.
Our accounting woman have a sign in the office "Sexual Harassment Acceptable, and Encouraged"
LMAOROTF. Those are some great secure women!
"(Bush was actually in Delta Kappa Epsilon. Another Web 2.0 truism: Blogs are not always friendly with the facts.)
This isn't that much off. The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded in the mid-1800s at Miami (Ohio) University as a part of a schism of the Delta Kappa Epsilon (Deke) Fraternity.
LOL!
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