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Tour diary: Bush in Europe (Beeb of course)
Some amazement at the warm-up act for the President at his US airbase visit before he left Germany. Cheerleaders - scantily-dressed and provocatively choreographed - charged around the stage, shaking their assets at the assembled troops. The trouble was, the troops had brought their wives. The audience wore the fixed expressions of people who were aware they were witnessing a bad idea in action. | I've been to these, the wives are peeved about the cheerleaders and the husbands have their stone faces on cuz the little woman is right next to them just waiting to catch them drooling. |
Admittedly, this was an all-American affair, and cheerleading is an all-American, wholesome sport. But these pictures were available to any TV station in the world - including the Muslim world.| And we don't want to upset them by showing a little flesh now, do we? Should have beheaded a infidel just to please them. |
Also warming up for the president was Condoleezza Rice, wearing a skimpy... only kidding. | Ha hah, the WP beat you too it |
But she was there, and in the very interesting new role of American superstar in her own right. Sure, she is already a well known figure. But national security advisers are not - I'm talking politically now - sexy. Secretaries of state, on the other hand, project real power. I noticed Condi afterwards posing for photos for soldiers. If she can do the touchy-feely stuff as well as she does the clever stuff, then she is surely a contender for the presidency in 2008. I noticed, incidentally, that many of the soldiers wanting to have their photos taken with her were black. | Many of them were white, too. |
A Republican who gets the religious vote and the conservative vote, the wealthy vote AND the black vote, now that would be something...
Posted by: tipper 2005-02-25 |
