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Countdown: Bush Bolts After Photo Op At Middle East Peace Summit

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On Tuesday’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann talked with Newsweek’s Richard Wolffe about President Bush’s failed foreign policy and his awkward cameo appearance at today’s Middle East Peace Summit in Annapolis, Maryland. Looking confused and distracted, the president butchered the names of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas *shock* and even needed guidance on where to stand with the two leaders for a photo op — which was apparently the only reason he attended at all.

After all the hype and spin about how much President Bush cares about bringing peace to the Middle East, and how he’s worked the phones and listened in preparation, our Commander in Chief took off after spending less than three hours at the summit.

The Seminal has five questions about the Annapolis summit




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Jen Says:

Really, can bush be any more embarrassing to us and to himself!

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Snowball Says:

Hey, it’s “hard work” pronouncing all them foreign names.

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wisedup Says:

I’ve worked harder heating up my coffee than Bush has…ever.

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Angry One Says:

As Condoleezza Rice prepared to host the Middle East summit in Annapolis this week, her State Department has issued an updated historical timeline of American efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The timeline is a fascinating document both for what it reveals and what it leaves out. The rise of Hamas and its election victories are mentioned nowhere. That might just be because President Bush’s hands-off policy of malign neglect is in part responsible for it.

For the details, see:
“On Eve of Summit, State Dept Rewrites Middle East History.”

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Rest of the world Says:

first?

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Anony Says:

How insulting to President Vaclav Havel that he gets compared to this. ;p

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Liberal AND Proud Says:

Three hours is an eternity for a drunk.

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Anony Says:

I mean, Havel had two things going for him: 1) he wasn’t hoping to use Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa to help bring world peace and 2) English wasn’t his first language, as it is supposed to be for Dubya.

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Nick Says:

Really, can bush be any more embarrassing to us and to himself!

His pants could fall down.

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Pericles Says:

YOUTUBE has already posted some exclusive footage of when Olmert introduced Abbas to Bush before the start of the summit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aFUv2KO8So

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ThunderNutz Says:

How in the hell can the U.S. be taken seriously on foreign policy when “our” Commander and Theif can’t even pronounce the names of foreign leaders. What a tool. He is always looking for a photo op(California fires,Katrina) and anything else he thinks will make him look “presidential” My dick is more presidential looking than him.

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redjalapeno Says:

I thought Richard Wolffe’s assessment of Bush’s Mideast peace efforts was odd.

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Anony Says:

Nick @ 9:

Really, can bush be any more embarrassing to us and to himself!

His pants could fall down.

I’d laugh.

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Ahlyssah Says:

Maybe he was drunk?

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carol Says:

I’m so embarrassed after reading this article about the Chimp in Chief that I want to go live anywhere but in Amerika.

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CoIntelPro Says:

no one can tell me he’s not drinking. I bet boosh was even coached before going out and taking a machete to those names. we’re talking a total of eight syllables and he could not get it right. he’s drinking on top of his meds. I have absatively no doubt.

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Bush Bites Says:

Bush is an embarrassment.

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MargeAggedon Says:

I’m surprised they didn’t truck in some scrub for ‘ranch hand’ shrub to clear. You know. So he could show people how he pretends to work. Then they could show pictures of him pretending to read and let’s not forget all the pictures we have of him pretending to give a damn about homeless disaster victims and wounded veterans. That’ll impress the hell out of ‘em.

I think we know this “summit” had the all the chances of succeeding that a snow cone has in hell. The entire thing was a photo op for a bobble headed idiot. And an embarrassment for the rest of us.

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Ahlyssah Says:

MargeAggedon @ 18:

I think we know this “summit” had the all the chances of succeeding that a snow cone has in hell. The entire thing was a photo op for a bobble headed idiot. And an embarrassment for the rest of us.

Pity, too. Success in this summit would mean a lot less death and suffering for so many people, and would make the world safer, even for Americans. But, since Bush obviously isn’t taking it seriously, it has far less chance of getting past photo ops.

On Toody’s Clintdown, Keith Oldermen tawked wit Nooseweak’s Pichard Wolffie bout Presnit Boosh’s flaied fern poultry and his Aukland Camero and Pearce Arrow at toady’s Muddled Yeast Piece Sumbitch in Napolis, Merylin. Leaking, confounded and disdainful, the resident butt cheered the names of Israeli Prime Meater Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas aneven bleeted just once on where to pander for a photo op.

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Don Davis Says:
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Pericles Says:

I agree about the dramatic timing of the ‘glasses on, glasses off’ moments. It didn’t succeed in turning him in to Atticus Fitch. But then again, the Prop and Wardrobe Department is wasted on George. This is the guy who couldn’t even manage to put on a macho FLIGHT SUIT without giving himself an atomic wedgie.

I can imagine what Abbas said in the cloakroom on the way out:

Abbas: “Nobody in this country can pronounce my name right. ‘Nagh-ee-nanajar. NaghEEnanajar. It’s not that hard.”

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AbbeyHoffmansGhost Says:

I have absolutely no respect for this man at all. I am a Yankee (but I hate the Yankees, go Red Sox) who believes in hard work and earning his own way. I have worked with people like this lazy asshole and if he worked for me he wouldn’t last two days. Worthless.

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leslie Says:

Ahlyssah @ 19:

MargeAggedon @ 18:

I think we know this “summit” had the all the chances of succeeding that a snow cone has in hell. The entire thing was a photo op for a bobble headed idiot. And an embarrassment for the rest of us.

Pity, too. Success in this summit would mean a lot less death and suffering for so many people, and would make the world safer, even for Americans. But, since Bush obviously isn’t taking it seriously, it has far less chance of getting past photo ops.

Everything Bush has done and said in the past 7 years has put a lie to a “summit for peace” anywhere. This is the same person that ran around saying “I am a war president.” and “Bring ‘em on.” Where does he say anything about peace? Making the world safer and putting an end to “death and suffering for so many people” are meaningless to him. War and chaos make more money for Poppy and friends. This is what this administration has been about. Not peace.

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tr Says:

on a different subject, if i was jewish and employed by citicorp, i would be sweating my job.

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Razant Says:

I”ve seen Elton John, Billy Joel & Phil Collins sing 100 songs without a monitor, songs they first recorded 30 years ago………and not miss a note….yet, here is the Prez…making another extremely “gotta-convince-the-world-of-it’s-importance” speaches and he can’t even read from a monitor something he should be looking into the audience and speaking from the heart.

He’s like the imitator Prez in “Moon Over Peclador”…please tell us this man isn’t real!

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leslie Says:

xoites defends Constitution @ 20:

On Toody’s Clintdown, Keith Oldermen tawked wit Nooseweak’s Pichard Wolffie bout Presnit Boosh’s flaied fern poultry and his Aukland Camero and Pearce Arrow at toady’s Muddled Yeast Piece Sumbitch in Napolis, Merylin. Leaking, confounded and disdainful, the resident butt cheered the names of Israeli Prime Meater Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas aneven bleeted just once on where to pander for a photo op.

Tears are streaming down my face. Brilliant.

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SicofFknLiars Says:

OFF topic ATTN SITE MONITOR HAVE SOMEONE CHECK AND SEE IF THIS IS REAL!!!

120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week

By Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted November 26, 2007.

The military refuses to come clean, insisting the high rates are due to “personal problems,” not experience in combat.

Earlier this year, using the clout that only major broadcast networks seem capable of mustering, CBS News contacted the governments of all 50 states requesting their official records of death by suicide going back 12 years. They heard back from 45 of the 50. From the mountains of gathered information, they sifted out the suicides of those Americans who had served in the armed forces. What they discovered is that in 2005 alone — and remember, this is just in 45 states — there were at least 6,256 veteran suicides, 120 every week for a year and an average of 17 every day.

more in article
http://www.alternet.org/waroni.....age=entire

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Papamoka Says:

Has the magnetic field of the Earth switched poles or could it be that this is opposite month. Something isn’t right in the cosmos because Washington is suddenly full of Liberal acting Republican’s and it goes all the way up to the White House. It’s freaking me out personally because if this is the case then I might just be a closet Republican. YUCK! I’m heading for the shower while you read this full post from the Washington Post I‘m grabbing my rubber ducky, I need my safe place… Papamoka Straight Talk

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Ahlyssah Says:

I’m with you there, Abbey. I can’t believe how little effort could be put into a job like the freaking president of the United States! The guy doesn’t even bother to check facts. Most of his “work” seems to be photo ops like this one, and the occasional press conference (and he shirks his duty there, too; when was the last time this guy answered a drect question without weasling and trying to blame it on the terrorists or democrats?). This is why we need to stop electing these “old money” candidates. If they have had everything handed to them on a silver platter, chances are good they won’t empathize with people in need of food, shelter, or medical care for traumatic brain injuries.

Wait . . . Bush might be able to empathize with that last one.

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hope Says:

That was a handshake for posterity? Looks like he thought he had two little kids by the hand and was asking them how they liked Disneyland.

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mudshark Says:

I don’t think this clown has ever worked a full day in his life!Oh and here’s something off topic about Lott getting mixed up in the scandal that has snared Sen Ted Stevens…maybe-maybe not? http://www.spectator.org/dsp_a.....t_id=12353 there has to be a good explanation for Lotts early retirement….K Street is probably one of them….but all that money from Alaskan Oil men…hmmmm????

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Euclid Says:

Ever listen to a recording of yourself doing Kareoke and realize, jeezus I’m terrible? Hasn’t Bush ever seen a bit of tape of himself and ask Laura…”am I the fuck up I appear to be Laura Poo?”

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SicofFknLiars Says:

SicofFknLiars @ 28:

OFF topic ATTN SITE MONITOR HAVE SOMEONE CHECK AND SEE IF THIS IS REAL!!!

120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week

By Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted November 26, 2007.

The military refuses to come clean, insisting the high rates are due to “personal problems,” not experience in combat.

Earlier this year, using the clout that only major broadcast networks seem capable of mustering, CBS News contacted the governments of all 50 states requesting their official records of death by suicide going back 12 years. They heard back from 45 of the 50. From the mountains of gathered information, they sifted out the suicides of those Americans who had served in the armed forces. What they discovered is that in 2005 alone — and remember, this is just in 45 states — there were at least 6,256 veteran suicides, 120 every week for a year and an average of 17 every day.

more in article
http://www.alternet.org/waroni.....age=entire

its true

And what it revealed was stunning.

In 2005, for example, in just those 45 states, there were at least 6,256 suicides among those who served in the armed forces. That’s 120 each and every week, in just one year

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories.....6471.shtml

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Mike Meyer Says:

Call Nancy Pelosi @ 1-202-225-0100 and DEMEAND IMPEACHMENT.
WE embarrass OURSELVES as long as THIS administration is in office. (the world SEES that WE are doing NOTHING to stop this travisty and tragedy)

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seevee Says:

Dain Bramage.

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tr Says:

with hamas frozen out, i suspect this group of crooks have cooked up some internationally binding agreement that abbas will sign, and then spend the rest of his life counting his money.

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D Cider Says:

Boris Yeltsin.

Alfred E. Neuman.

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soothsayer Says:

“[O]ur Commander in Chief took off after spending less than three hours at the summit.”

Hey - that mountain bike ain’t gonna ride itself! :D

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PinkyLeftBrain Says:

Bush: ‘Worth It to Try’ on Mideast Peace

The words of Yoda, a great American (A hell of a lot greater than the imposter in chief) said: Try not! Do! Or do not! There is no ‘try’!

Sometimes reality IS stranger than fiction…

But, if Bush bolted from the photo op, one has to wonder if even HE grasps the magnitude of his newest total fuck up… You know how much Bush loves the land of make believe (photo ops)…

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muck Says:

Couldnt wait to get back home to the sauce, Mr President?

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ray Says:

In this case Bush’s lack of interest is appropriate. I have witnessed Presidents standing between middle eastern leaders shaking and smiling all my life…big promises that peace will come soon and that bygones will be bygones…and to what end? Nothing. The killing and fighting has not stopped. Don’t get me wrong, I wish they would stop and make peace….but I am tired of these nations bullshitting us and acting as though our President, (and particulary this one) is somehow critical to the process. Horseshit.

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ldzppln Says:

I’m surprised he didn’t take the opportunity to tell everyone to “go shopping”.

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Dirty Hippie Blogger Says:

Bush is the greatest argument for why we as a nation should legalize drugs.

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truthfinder Says:

7 years into the job and he looks like an amateur at the podium. Bush has no interest in details or “hard work”. We can do better!

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chris Says:

If there is anyone checking out this site who lives in another country, I just want to say I am sorry. I didn’t vote for this man but he is the President of my country and believe me I know how big of an embarrassment he is. It pains me that my fellow Americans in Congress allow this idiot to remain in power; but hey there is always next year. Again I want to apologize for our Ass Clown in Chief- George W. Bush. He probably can’t pronounce his own name so what do you expect.

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Mike Meyer Says:

chris: Why wait? Lets join together and IMPEACH.

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Sany Says:

What a fucking loser you are Bush. You are an embarassmant to our whole country. I curse all Republicans who put you in charge of our once beautiful country for the last 7 years!

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jwf Says:

redjalapeno @ 12:

I thought Richard Wolffe’s assessment of Bush’s Mideast peace efforts was odd.

Newsweek has drifted pretty far right of center and Wolfe was chosen because he’s a softball (apologies to Jim/Jeff Gannon/Guckert) interviewer. Bush is far from bright, but he didn’t flub those names because he’s stupid; He misprounounces things he doesn’t care about. Peace, or pleasant ideas are foreign to him. As Mark Crispin-Miller said, Bush has no trouble with language when he’s talking about death or destruction. It’s because he’s a sadistic sociopath.

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Mike Meyer Says:

70% OF THE NATION WANTS IMPEACHMENT, all WE need do is get them to SHOUT IT.