# Bush the skeeze lays his hands on German Chancellor...ew.

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**Created:** [July 19, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-the-skeeze-lays-his-hands-on-german-chancellor-ew/365198 "2006-07-19T17:36:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-the-skeeze-lays-his-hands-on-german-chancellor-ew/365198/1 "2006-07-19T17:36:54Z")

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[What a creep!](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/07/19/MNG3HK1MDI1.DTL)

Scroll down for more photos [here](http://www.docstrangelove.com/tag/angela_merkel).

What a total asshole idiot freak. How in the hell did he get the idea in his little pea-brain that this was OK? Is he back on the sauce or what? Is Laura not putting out?

Maybe this is my inner feminist coming out, but I find this horribly insulting to the German Chancellor (Angela Merkel) and to women in general. She was the only woman there, and Bush acts like a drunken fratboy trying to put the moves on. It was disrespectful and totally inappropriate. I bet nearly every woman who sees these photos is going to shudder in disgust. I think most of us have been victims of this kind of crap and it makes you feel very creeped out. I admire her for keeping her cool. I certainly wouldn’t have played it off that smoothly.

And the response of the Fox News Republican-bot was laughable:

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> GOP commentator and Fox News political analyst Karen Hanretty said the outraged reaction shows how “President Bush just can’t win.”  
> “Aren’t these the same women who have been angry about cowboy diplomacy?” she asked. “Do they want a kinder, more sensitive Bush – or a cowboy? Once again, there’s no pleasing women,” she said. "Give them the cowboy and they want Alan Alda.‘’

What a load of crap. Asserting that Bush must either be a “Cowboy” (i.e. obnoxious arrogant asshole) or a “kinder, more sensitive Bush” (i.e. creepy groping lech) is totally ridiculous. A kinder, more sensitive Bush would have sat the fuck down and actually listened to what the Chancellor was saying.

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**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-the-skeeze-lays-his-hands-on-german-chancellor-ew/365198/2 "2006-07-19T17:38:06Z")

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There’s already an [active thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=380227) on this, so I’m going to close this one.