… and it didn’t require 16,000 riot police this time around.
Citizen Bush was in town on a ticket paid for by a Korean businessman and pontificated a little on the hopelessly stalled KORUS FTA.
Dubya Visits Andong
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Hey Korean dudes on the left and right, I’ll give you 20,000 won if you punch him in the balls. Come on, do it. Please do it. He’s a private citizen now so what is the worse that can happen?
OK. Better yet. Give him a wedgie. I’ll pay 30,000 won to see that! Come on. Do it. DO IT. Grab the decidererer’s underwear and yank them over his head. Please. He’s probably wearing a thong with the presidential seal.
OK. How about a titty twister. Come on. I’m willing to pay 25,000 won PER NIPPLE to see that. Come on. TITTY TWISTER! Do it.
Think of all those Iraqi widows and orphans. Come on. Do it for them. They deserve a wedgie and two titty twisters at the very least. DO IT!!!
It will make you famous.
He’s a natural for the yangban hat, don’t ya reckon?
If I had Photoshop…..
i wonder if the girl’s trying to hide from the cameras or she just get out of surgery.
She’s avoiding the sun. lrn2asianculture
yeah if she was hiding from the cameras she’d be pulling her shirt over her head and staring at the floor like police suspects. and if she was just out of surgery she would be wearing a face mask in addition to the other stuff.
Activists plan candlelight vigil to protest Bush / American beef ? And the point is ?
Do they all get a warm wet feeling after the protest ? Is anything really served ?
Do the auto workers at Ssangyong Motors think that throwing nuts and bolts at the riot police will keep the plant open ?
All these things just seem to point to Korea as a 5th world country. When they show up on International TV or in International papers, they just look so foolish.
Korea seems to spend inordinate amounts of time worrying about what the world thinks of them, and then this stuff keeps happening.
Does the average Korean feel so powerless to effect change in their own life, that they must cluster together and basically throw a hissy fit ?
Nothing ever changes. And I suspect that nothing will, given the way the culture operates.
That’s weird how he can be in Korea when I just saw him last night on TV at his ranch in Texas. He was meeting with some guy named and Harold and another guy named Kumar.
Never knew Bush had such a looooong left arm! Huh…
The best example of too much money shelled out for the worst spokesperson to sell the worst piece of legislation the US could conceive of now. I hope President Bush soaked the fools for the junket.
Hey Paul Hewson & Joesph Steinberg, you can bashing Bush all you want, but I tell you he looks good now compared to your beloved President Obama who keeps going downhill every single day. We Americans are now finally waking up to what this man’s sinister motives are to destroy our way of life. If you don’t believe me then please read this article. Even in liberal blue state New Jersey, Obama is fatal.
http://www.examiner.com/x-15188-North-Jersey-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m8d3-Obama-appearance-hurt-Corzines-chances
Please let me add that I have never seen President Bush look so happy in many years. He deserves to enjoy life in peace.
Let’s hope The One keeps making campaign appearances for Democrats.
hollymaine – “destroy our way of life” ? pardon ? Could it be that 8 years of Bush and Company brought us to this fine “way of life” ?
Please elucidate “our way of life”, so I will know which way of life you’re speaking of.
Do you notice just how happy the Dow Jones people are today ? Stock market is UP UP UP, Mr and Mrs average American are just hanging on by their boot-straps, and some aren’t even doing that. The Dow Jones is so divorced from reality. But as long as the market is up, and the brokers / bag men are making $$$$, everything is all right with America. YOU have paid zillions of $$$ so they can be happy happy happy, and believe me, they don’t give a fig about YOU. I’m sure they are laying awake at night, figuring out the next derivative, or shady deal to help you with your 401-K.
Is President Bush’s sportscoat alive? It’s making me woozy.
Holly Maine is trolling for visceral reaction to her nearly-completely-ignorant statement. Her first sentence in #11 is almost spot on (he’s not President any longer, Holly), so what she’s posted is not entirely ignorant, just almost so.
WOW … Bush in South Korea and Bill Clinton in North Korea … will wonders ever cease?
that guy behind the lady is US Secret Service.
Odd that they would happen to get in the photo.
KORUS FTA is a good treaty.
How is it bad? US gets to sell agriculture, pharma, music and video arts to a top 20 world economy in free trade style. The only loser in America is American manufacturers, but how much are they losing? Hyundai and Kia combined takes up 7% at best, with zero production of light trucks or heavy duty trucks for the average consumer end. GM eats about 25%, Ford about 20%, and Chrysler around 15%. Toyota Honda combo eats about 35%. There is no real loss in auto either.
Detroit will always be in the hole, because the govt saved them from bankruptcy recently while leaving all that union shit intact despite declaring bankruptcy meant they could void those deals. Stupidity at its zenith.
gyopos voted for the wrong socialist, and most of the economic recovery is due to Bush’s rescuing of banks. The Obama stuff simply baloonned spending.
There’s the Kim Dae Jung mimic from America in Pyong Yang today, and a Lee Myung Bak mimic in Andong today. What great timing.
# 16,
Hahaha… good point. Two of the remaining living ex-U.S. Presidents visiting the Koreas at around the same time. Someone might think Korea is the hub of something!
# 16,
wjk, it’s not unusual to have ex-Presidents with continued secret service protection. It’s actually normal. All ex-U.S. Presidents have continued secret service support until the day they die.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen–I’m talking about those Koreans around Dubya.
He had to travel all the way to Korea to find someone who would take a picture with him.
# 20,
I have a better one for ya.
Koreans willing to take a picture w/Dubya! Proof that Korea is still generally pro-American…
Not anymore. A law passed in the 90s limited Secret Service protection to ten years after the president leaves office. The Clintons will receive lifetime protection, but Junior and Laura won’t.
Sonagi impresses again! A 1997 revision to the Secret Service Protection Law altered Title 18 of the U.S. Code, section 3056(a)(3), to provide protection to former presidents and their spouses for a period not more than ten years from the date that president leave office. After that, they are on their own.
For fun, check out section 3056(b)(1) for a list of crimes for which the SS is specifically empowered to arrest anyone to violates them. Bedtime reading!
DLB
#22,
How do you figure?
@Cactus:
Bush Jr. is a fomer US president. If he lives longer than ten years, he will not continue to receive Secret Service protection.
CM,
Under the 1997 amendment, individuals who are in office as of January 1, 1997, will continue to receive Secret Service protection for their lifetime. Anyone elected to office after that date will only receive protection for 10 years after leaving office. President Clinton will be the last president to receive lifetime SS protection.
Cheers,
DLB
Let’s have a race to see which ex-President’s thread ends up longer! As of 3:15 pm Eastern Standard Time U.S. Dubya at 27 comments and Bubba at 28!
Sonagi and DLB,
Thanks for the explanations.
Just a quibble but Bush 43 is not “Bush Jr.” He and his father have similar but not the same names.
“After that, they are on their own.”
Bush can afford protection. A elite branch of the Korean police offers protection to all visiting VIP.
Correction…
An elite branch…also offers…
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