Sincerely, a German girl

And don’t get me started on the openly misandrist NOW or US style feminism. We’re talking about a country where basically any woman can destroy a man’s life by false domestic violence or rape accusations as well as restraining orders that are generally issued no matter how frivolous they are (remember the recent incident with David Letterman? How many men can afford the lawyers he’s got?). All that with usually no charges whatsoever for false testimony as well as no help for real victims that either don’t know how to play the system or especially have the wrong gender.

it needs a lot of sick fantasy to blow up Bushs behaviour to a case of sexual harassment, at least for a german european. GWB tried to be buddy with Merkel in a way that might not be appropiate at this level and in front of the world press. He obviously likes her and tried to show it.
This happens a million times a day in the world. Between friends, collegues etc. and hardly nobody outside the US would run to court for that.

Probably, the public in the US is so obsessed with sexuality, because is so widely supressed in your country. Old Europe will never understand why your society thinks that showing any form of bloody violence on TV, even for kids, is ok, while one blank nipple causes an public uproar.

GWB and his right-wing religious gang have damaged the reputation of the US in world. But the reason for that is called Guantamo, Iraq, Kyoto, Oil, etc. and not the redneck manners of your president.
However, you can be sure that the discussion about this case will damage US reputation more than the poorly noticed incident itself.

however, i suppose, neither fits this footage and, honestly, a public exhibition of such is just purly unprofessional..

i agree the reaction in the states are indeed middle-aged. nobody here would right away dismiss this as sexual advancement. but then again in your country even looking at a woman twice gets you to court. not to speak about all the inter-personal hypercriticism.

if it comes to european mentality this can only be described as a guy displaying bad manners.. and maybe it can be seen as a bush’ish attempt to show a cosmoplitan athmosphere. then again, as usual, i don’t think he was thinking anything..

greetz & take it eassier

@40 pcmasters: “Our president Ms Merkel” *cough* Our president actually is Mr Koehler.

Before meeting the G8 in St.Petersburg Bush visited Merkel to support her party while elections in the German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Merkel was the one going for intimity with the president there, caressing his arm in front of her own husband to get a kiss for welcome instead of a handshake and she was quite pleased to get this easy effort.

Merkel did this also to snub the German peace-movement and to do dirt on former chancelor Gerhard Schröder’s resistance against War on Iraq.

Everybody knows that Bush is too dumb to make a distinction between BBQ and G8. His behaviour is ridiculous anyway – but so is Mrs Merkel’s. She’s the one coquetishly sexualizing politics to supress substantial discussions. And Bush is only the idiot who thaught this was friendship.