Wow, what a leader Bush is, to be sure. He can even "spontaneously" lead an orchestra without any training! Anybody else reminded of Professor Harold Hill?
Please don't try to tell me this wasn't staged:
JoAnn Falletta was doing what a conductor should — concentrating on the orchestra in front of her. No wonder it took her a few seconds on Sunday to realize someone behind her was motioning for a try.
President Bush.
"Smiling at me kind of devilishly," Falletta said.
She gave him her baton and stepped aside.
Gesturing exuberantly, the president led [yeah, right] the orchestra during part of its performance of "Stars and Stripes Forever."
"We didn't expect him to know the score so well," Falletta said afterward. "He was not shy about conducting at all. He conducted with a great deal of panache."
No, Bush isn't shy. Sociopaths seldom are. But seriously, does anybody think that Bush was really doing anything other than waving the baton around? Does anybody believe the players actually allowed themselves to follow his lead?
And now comes the good part:
Just before the music ended, Bush turned to Falletta, who stood on a step below him, kissed the top of her head and left without saying a word.
Wow! Condescending, or what? Shades of the back rub Bush gave Angela Merkel....
You know, I'm not sure which would be worse:
Being kissed by Bush full on the lips, or being kissed "on top of the head." Readers?
NOTE Not like Bush has any problem with women in positions of authority--Giving Merkel a back rub, insulting the queen... Nice work, Babs!
UPDATE "Ladies and gentlemen, either you are closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge, or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster...."
UPDATE NPR, being teh suck, mentions that Bush took the baton, but neither mentions the head-kissing incident, nor plays a sample of what the orchestra actually sounded like...
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Kissed her on the top of the head, eh?
Was she bald? You know how he loves the shorn head.
*shudder*
If the shrub so much as touched me I'd probably barf. He is worse than a disaster.
BUSH IS BAD (like the musical of the same name)
I think we have entered a "halo and horns" era with Bush--- if he thanks her, it is only thanks--- if he kisses her head, it is strange---
I cannot think of a single thing I like about this misfit BUT i am beginning to believe that if he jumped off a bridge to save a nun, someone would remark that he poluted the water...
LETS NOT GET OFF TRACK...
his crimes are not the occasional "stupid" move, that is just a bonus....
KEEP THE FOCUS ON HIS REAL CRIMES...
THE MOTHERS WHO ARE NOT CELEBRATING TODAY BECAUSE THEIR CHILDREN HAVE DIED...
---- SOON TO INCLUDE MUCH OF MOTHER EARTH
by the way... in the news today...
CHENEY SHOOTS DC MADAM IN THE FACE... got some on her blue dress too
%^)
This kind of character
This kind of character activity by the president has been a part of the administration since day 1.
Reams and reams of paper can be written about his quirks and character misjudgements and personality
flaws.
Once all the books are written they can be disposed of at the Bush library. Since books are
his shortcoming there would be no shortage of books to place in his library and all are about him.
Make sense of it....
I haven't seen any mention of this
I watched a video of Bush and the queen sitting down to dinner, next to each other. He sat right down, while she was still standing and slowing getting into her chair. He didn't hold her chair or even wait for her to be seated first!
What a scoundrel. What lack of manners!
Full on the lips, or “on top of the head”?
Definitely on top of the head. Cutting off my hair would be a lot less painful than cutting off my lips.
More bizarre behavior from Bush
How does Condaleezza Rice avoid this?
You assume
You assume that she wants to avoid it. Remember, she signe don, and she's always had the option of signing off. But she stays. And she defends. And she deflects. Sounds like Battered Woman Syndrome to me. Ever wonder why Laura needs drugs?
brain damage
I am convinced he has brain damage: loss of inhibitions and social judgment caused by damage to the prefontal cortex; it is commmon in alcoholism.
And Hitler was an animal lover too.
It's these types of photo-ops that remind me of the Hitler moments when he played catch with his pet dog. It shows the playful side of the tyrant with the hopes that everyone will forget the reality.
Harold Hill
The big difference between Bush and Harold Hill is that Harold Hill was likeable.
At least he didn't play jazz flute
I'm sure he would've kissed Arthur Fiedler on the head, too.
Bizzare Bush Behavior...?
Come on!
Bizzare?
No way. Just the easily recognizable 'antics' of your common drunk.
It's SO obvious, at least to those of us with a history in F&B. Bush is so OFF the wagon!
Nothing 'bizzare' here, just a drunk making a fool of himself and of his 27%.
Wake up Amerika. Take the 'k' out. Put the 'c' back in and hold this criminal and his enableers accountable, finally!
A VERY pissed out Viet Vet
meanwhile, in bizarro USA
She happened to be a conductor of an orchestra and all he did was kiss her on the head but the country's right-wing media is having none of it. Freerepublic.com, a conservative site not affiliated with the more famous Republican militant group, slammed him on its front page for "indecency."
Me Am Bush-zarro
Off the wagon? Maybe. More likely he's "riding the rails" again. I remember way back in '99 seeing him for the first time on TV as he was just starting up his first Presidential campaign. My first comment was, "Who the hell would ever vote for this cokehead?" Unfortunately, it's easy to fool misinformed people.
re: Brain Damage
-- But it also sounds a lot like narcissistic personality disorder, so you gets your nature/nurture controversy thing going.
Um, Mr. Bizarro?
That's the Iranian President the freepers "slammed" for "indecency" [DCOW
].
Phew, for a moment I thought the authoritarian's authoritarians had given up on Dear Leader!
No such fear.
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Was’nt this Boris Yeltsin
Was'nt this Boris Yeltsin ?
Oh he's dead now isn't he.
Top of head is better
You know, I’m not sure which would be worse:
Being kissed by Bush full on the lips, or being kissed “on top of the head.”
You can always cut the hair off....
Dubya's Fifth
Unlike Beethoven, Dubya's is liquid in origin. Seriously, did he reach the age of thirteen and just think, "k, maturationed enough, heh heh"? Or is he just an evil genius:
Bush Sends Secret Signals To Troops Via Orchestra
http://www.crystalair.com/content.php?id...
He’s like a modern version of Caligula
Feel free to accuse me of hyperbole here but I think George Bush is our Caligula. He’s what happens when money and power stay in the same household too long, like Paris Hilton his life has been one extended giant ego inflation. Like Caligula he is a ultra-superstitious hedonist man-boy with no direction or ambition in life other than to seeing how big a buffoon he can be around the Adults. He was made king at the whim of a powerful yet decrepit and hated ruler. Incompetent and nasty, he believes the world is his to humiliate, and wants to see how far he can push the other leaders of the world before they conspire to do him in, only this time the role of the Roman senate is being replayed as various heads of state and industry. Strange stories like this don’t get much notice because they are drowned out by all the astonishingly f-ed up things he’s doing.