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Video: Bush Politically “Dead Man Walking” At G20 Summit

Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief in At TMV.
Nov 20th, 2008 | Comments

CNN’s Rick Sanchez has a truly amazing video catch: video of President George Bush at the G20 weekend summit being treated in a greeting line as if he is the politically “Dead Man Walking” or Mr. Cellophane.

In this You Tube segment now featured on several websites (Greatscat, Tennessee Guerilla Women, Daily Kos and Poligazette) Sanchez shows a piece of captured-on-video history that is likely to be run in every video bio dealing with Bush’s last days. It is undeniable: he is there but makes others uneasy. Most other leaders avoid eye contact. They’re not warmly shaking his hand. Bush isn’t going out of his way to interact with them, either…

Sanchez likens it to the kid others avoid at high school. But actually, it’s more akin to what happens in a corporation when someone is either out favor, on probation, demoted or clearly on the verge of firing. It’s being shunned, but is also coupled with a feeling of “We had to be nice to you before but now we can show you how we really feel.”

Footnote: Sanchez mentions the huge number of Google hits to the words “Bush bully.” A quick link search of “Bush bully” finds there are 330 on Google News and approximately 6,040,000 on Google Web. And Sanchez may indeed have a point: remember how bullies who were beat up were treated afterwords by students who used to be afraid of them?

Watch the video:

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JSpencer

It's sad and rather shocking to see this video. But why would anyone expect him to be treated otherwise given his presidential history? He brought this on himself and he brought much worse on our country. When this is over he can go back to Crawford Co. and live a life of luxury while the rest of us will be working to dig our way out of various messes. His experiment with playing at being president is over... thank god.

SteveK

For some reason a Paul Simon song came to mind after watching this video...

♫♫ now i sit by my window and i watch the cars
i fear i'll do some damage one fine day
but i would not be convicted by a jury of my peers
still crazy after all these years... ♫♫

And still there will be those who see this as everyone except Bush being 'out of step'... 'out of touch'... 'out of line'.

kritt11

Bush is not done with his damage yet. See the post discussing his decision to enact "midnight rules" that will hold the Obama administration hostage. His selfishness and hubris knows no bounds- as he must realize that 87% of the country wants a dramatic change from his policies.

For a while, I was lulled into thinking this was a decent man who was merely overwhelmed by the office----but these rules are purposefully conceived and harmful to the next generation.

SmoothJazz

I saw this earlier at Huff Po. F...ing hilarious. Laughed my ass off. This is totally awesome! :D

vza

I am posting this as a public service, knowing that you would never,ever want to have publicly posted something that was patently false about Bush.
It is hysterical that the "snub" video and its sophomoric, unprofessional commentary by Rick Sanchez went viral. I see now why some like to say Americans are dumb. A certain segment of the American public certainly proved that to be true with this story! I know, I know, it COULD be true, "If wishes were horse...etc."

The snub that wasn't. CNN's Jeanne Moos reveals why world leaders weren't shaking President Bush's hand.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?JSONLINK=/video/polit...

adelinesdad

vza,

I don't think it's hysterical. I think it's sad that so many people have lost their sense of skepticism. And this is just the latest symptom of a much larger problem.

vza

And still no update to this story even after Moos' report on CNN.
Oh yes, Mr. Gandelman, it is undeniable!

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