Informality a reflection of Bush's style (or lack there of)

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Stepping outside the boundaries of strict political and diplomatic protocol gets no more attention than when the president of the United States does it. And President Bush has been doing a lot of it recently.

He called Canada's prime minister by his first name, massaged German Chancellor Angela Merkel's shoulders and played tour guide to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at Graceland, the Memphis home of Elvis Presley.

His biggest gaffe was that caught-on-tape moment at the G-8 Summit last month with British Prime Minister Tony Blair — the one that featured Bush cursing and talking with his mouth full before a microphone that was supposed to be off. That set off tut-tuts around the globe.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060822/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_etiquette

:puffpiece: They pretty much give him another pass :eyes:

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Informality my ass.

This is a classic dog-fu__er who never did an honest day's work in his life.

"It's hard work." Yeah, to these guys, it feels like "hard work".

[MichiganVote]

2. He's a slacker

[progdonkey]

3. "informal" is not the same as "uncouth"...

Bush's "informality" isn't based on a desire to express a kinship with the other world leaders ("Hey, we're all friends, let's skip the formalities."), but rather on your typical five-year-old brat's hatred of being told he shouldn't belch at the table, or chew with his mouth open, etc.

Forni believes that when world leaders — who, try as they might, are not seen as ordinary people — interact in a very ordinary manner, it jars people.

Giving women unwanted massages is not "ordinary," neither is gabbing while your mouth is stuffed full of rolls, anymore than coming to a meeting in a wife-beater and boxers, holding a half-empty beer can and letting huge burps and farts rip is "ordinary." It's being a slob and embarrassing ass.

[patricia92243]

7. Bingo! He also said "yo - Blair." The tv showed clips of Blair's other

government leaders teasing him saying "Yo - Blair" over and over to him. He smiled sheepishly. You could tell by that smile what he thought of that statement.

Bush is a redneck - pure and simple. How a man raised in his circumstances could be that redneck and uncouth is beside me.

[pazuzu]

4. Chris Matthews said that's what Americans want for president

"Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, a guy who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton, or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president."

[Benhurst]

5. Informal: FDR having a picnic,complete with hot dogs and baked

beans, for the king and queen of England on the grounds of the White House.

Uncouth: George Walker Bush

[Arkansas Granny]

6. What Bush shows is not informality, it is rudeness.

There is a lot of difference between a lack of formality and a lack of manners. Even in an informal situation you use manners. Bush shows a lack of respect for others that implies lack of breeding and lack of good raising here in the south.

[Stuckinthebush]

8. Actually, I disagree

I do agree that he is rude, but I think that his "informality" reflects that he thinks that he can play by his own rules. First, he always hated the upper class snobbery that he saw with his family. Mainly because they looked down on him. He is the fool of the family, and they have always treated him as such. So, as a classic narcissist, he reacts against that by being the opposite. But I think that he truly believes that he is world citizen number 1, and that whatever he does should be the standard. If he wants to call the Prime Minister of Canada Steve, then by god, he'll call him Steve! But don't you know that if "Steve" called him "George", then all hell would break lose. You see, Bush thinks of himself as the boss. It soothes his narcissism.

He knows what protocol is and what manners are...hell, he grew up in a upper class Northeastern family with high society connections. His mother, I'm sure, drilled it into him every day. But he is reacting against his mother, and those that made fun of him for being a buffoon. He is now the Leader! What he says goes!

He's such a putz.