Anyone think Bush kissing New WH Spokesperson Dana Perino on her forehead is Innapporiate Touching?

[KoKo]

It made her look like a "little girl" whose poppy was kissing her on top of her head after she did something especially pleasing.

Should a President kiss any of his Cabinet or Advisers on the forehead? If Clinton had done this to his female Press Secretary would it have been appropriate?

Video is on C-Span of Today's Presser where Snow announces he's leaving.

:shrug:

[whistle]

1. Well, what does Laura think?

[Adsos Letter]

39. Laura is probably just relieved he is kissing someone else....

[hvn_nbr_2]

44. You mean someone else besides Condi? nt

[Adsos Letter]

47. LOL...

...well, yeah...the more gals he's kissin' the less likely he is to be kissin' her, i suppose...

[Poiuyt]

77. Bush spends plenty of time kissing his wife

Love Child

[zanne]

2. Eh--I'd say it's borderline, but I'd be pissed.

A peck on the cheek is fine, but the forehead thing is a little creepy.

[Occulus]

91. None of that is even CLOSE to appropriate

What the frak are you THINKING?

He is her superior, from an employment standpoint. If your boss kissed you on the head when you got hired, what would your reaction be?

This woman has a sexual harassment claim, and she hasn't even started the job.

[pwb]

3. She is cute, but her brain is mush.

Another one who claims iraq attacked us on 9/11. par for a bush pick.

[musette_sf]

4. i think it's patronizing and sexist

but then again, he didn't rub her head like he did to Nagin earlier in the week.

[Danieljay]

5. Yuck. Are you kidding me? He did that? Jeebus, she probably ran home and showered. Blechhh!

[KoKo]

26. Sadly...the Bush Females all seem to love him.....she might not have washed it for a Week

like a giddy tean who had the Football Star Quarterback kiss her on her forehead as he walked past her locker with his gang of frat boys that she'd thought would never notice her.

That's what was appalling to me. Perino did the "submissive female" stance after he did that. I could almost hear her thinking: "He Loves Me....HE REALLY LOVES ME!" (sorry for the Sally Field parody...because I liked Sally Field and thought she got a bum rap on that one). :-(

[liberaldemocrat7]

83. Women loved Hitler, so what does that prove.

For every mean dictator you do have a hard core of people that love him whether Hitler, Marcos or Bush.

[spanone]

6. he's the inappropriate president

[Botany]

7. Dana has signed up for the Titanic's trip?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. It's up to her.

:shrug:

[Lisa]

9. it's a little weird ...

I've never seen this at a formal public ceremony before. Men kissing grown-up women on the hand or cheek, yes -- but the forehead is rather unusual. (Perhaps if it were a celebratory/goodbye party, or a gathering of family and friends.)

Then again, the guy doing it is also known to rub complete strangers on the head.

[Danieljay]

11. a LITTLE weird? perhaps. A LOT disgusting. Absolutely. Its like being slimed. Yuck.

[Lisa]

86. speaking in general terms, of course!

If it's any random guy doing it -- weird.

If it's George W. Bush -- especially when he is supposed to be performing his duties as America's head of state -- I totally agree. Disgusting, disturbing, and it sends the wrong message. I can't ever recall seeing a woman who's accepting a high-ranking government or corporate post, or getting a professional degree at a college or university, being smooched on the forehead as part of the ceremony ... if anyone has, I would like to hear about it!

[Ino]

10. He's the kissy feely prez

Can't stand seeing Pelosi kiss everyone either.

[DemGa]

12. If the recipient can't do it back

then I think it is inappropriate. Can you imagine the stir if Perino kissed the King on his forehead? What if Nagin grabbed the King's head with two hands like Chimpy grabbed him? People who do this sort of thing bug me. So yeah, it's condescending as hell.

[RandiFan1290]

13. Brains!!

[mikelgb]

18. omg

:puke:

[kenny blankenship]

20. Is he trying to tongue her eyeball?

That looks like a pretty firm grip he has on her carotid artery.

"There you go Dana,... little lower... little lower... little bit lower... that's it."

[kath]

33. Oh. My. God. My appetite might not come back for a week!

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[htuttle]

35. That would get someone fired around my workplace

No question about it.

[Lisa]

87. indeed -- and possible criminal charges at mine (it's a school)

If my colleagues or I tried that on any of the students -- we'd be taken away in squad cars.

[AlCzervik]

14. she haz a flava?

[musette_sf]

34. ROFL

:rofl:

[mudesi]

15. Absolutely inappropriate

It's shockingly rude. Remember when he gave Angela Merkel the back rub? This man is a buffoon.

[KansDem]

36. "This man is a buffoon."

Yeah, but wouldn't you like to have a beer with him?

That's what was important to the corporate media back in 2000...

[kenny blankenship]

16. Very patronizing. Imagine that in any other professional context

I can't imagine it. It would draw gasps from others in the room.

Well he is a megalomaniac, so what's next? He gets a letter from his doctor explaining that he's allowed/compelled to do this kind of thing?

[rodeodance]

22. bush likes his ladies around him. condi, laura, mom, Karen hughes.

[Ilsa]

60. They are all there to mother him, I bet. nt

[bdamomma]

72. oh should I say it, most gay men like having women around them.

they can relate better to women. Hi Ilsa!!:hi:

[Chemical Bill]

74. I hear you...

she might be upset if it was a straight man coming on to her. I bet those women all love Jeff Gannon too.

Bill

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

17. Just bad taste by Bush.

Not inappropriate, just stupid.

[napi21]

19. I'd say it's Dana's decision. If she has that father/daughter relationship

and feels happy he did that, that's fine. If she feels confronted or offended, then it's NOT!

I can't think of ANY boss I've ever had that I woulod feel comfortable with huggung, or kissing me ANYWHERE! But I think it should be her decision to make.

BTW, you should be aable to tell very quick how she felt. Just watch her reaction at the time.

[wryter2000]

40. The boss I loved the most hugged me one day

I adore the man, and it was his last day, and he gave me a big hug. I knew where he was coming from with it, so I didn't find it inappropriate, but it was kind of creepy, nevertheless. If he had tried to follow-up in any way, I would have made an issue of it.

That kiss looks like slobbering, especially with the head grab. It's totally gross and disgusting. It's hard to tell in a snapshot, but it doesn't look to me as if she's enjoying it.

[Bluestar]

21. Any type of touching by Bush is "inappropriate" n/t

[PATRICK]

23. Wow, I have an idea-

Surround Bush with bald women. Maximum temptation, maximum results. I wonder if Condi is wearing a wig in public?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

24. Sounds Harmless Enough.

[JuniperLea]

25. Just once I'd like to see him behave in a professional manner

He is devoid of etiquette and professional demeanor... he has zero social skills.

[KoKo]

30. I know...and remember how they vilified Clinton...saying he left WH Dirty and Disgraced

and how they felt they needed to fumigate it?

Well....I'm thinking that a whole fumigation team armed with bleach and fungicides and whatever Emergency Methods could be used will never erase the "Stench of Corruption" of this P-Resident!

To say nothing for the stains from all those Taco's and Texas Bean dishes they ate after they fired the White House Chef because he was to "French or Healthy" in his cooking or some such idiocy.

[JuniperLea]

37. All of Washington DC

would have to be burned to the ground, and the Earth salted... and much sage burned...

No, it will never be clean again.

[KoKo]

42. You know...what you say is important: "it will never be clean again."

Sad Statement but the filt of the Repugs and their crimes against humanity with killing innocents will infect that place long after the "taco's and beans" and whatever other delicacies our Presidents since JFK have enjoyed.

It's truly a "Temple of Doom." The walls we would hope would echo Lincoln and Roosevelt's I & II and JFK and even Johnson's War on Poverty and Continuance of the Civil Rights Movement and Carter who was misguided but did SO MUCH FOR GREEN ENERGY and to get us on a SUSTAINABLE ROAD.

But, those who have resided there since those GIANT FIGURES have trashed and sullied the place so bad that I think that WICCAN METHODS are the only way to clean that place!

GAH....it's so terrible...

[JuniperLea]

51. Sad but true...

The one thing that all Americans before us fought so hard for was our good name. Every good nation in the world looked up to us. Talk about a good name being drug through the mud.

[KoKo]

63. Notice how Bush in his Psychopathy used "drug through Mud for Gonzo" while we

know it applies to HIMSELF who "drug America through the Mud!" With all thing's Bush/Repug...always know that what they SAY is the OPPOSITE of what they are saying ...AND, their Policies.

"Drug Through Mud" in Bush Speak (speach about Gonzo Leaving and how pissed he is) translates to how Bush and his Filth Repugs DRUG AMERICANS through the MUD.

What's Up is Down what's Truth is Fiction under the BUSH REGIME! The most skillful LIARS with a COMPLIANT PRESS that AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE EVER SUFFERED UNDER!

[Jack Rabbit]

27. I wouldn't impeach him over it.

Besides, if it was OK with Dana, it's OK with me.

If it wasn't OK with Dana, she should have smacked him across the chops.

[rzemanfl]

28. I am sure that dumbass Perrino would have a "Won-Ton"

disregard for anyone suggesting that. The woman actually pronounced "wanton" like the soup on CNN a while back. She is a bubble head.

[AlCzervik]

29. did she say "Yes pResident Bush does have a Won-Ton disregard for the law'?

[WinkyDink]

31. Bush has kissed men, women, children, soldiers, federal workers, disaster survivors---ALL types----

on the head/forehead.

WHY? Because:

1.) His NPD makes him think people WANT IT;

2.) His NPD makes him think he has the "healing touch", a la Edward the Confessor;

3.) His psychopathy makes him intrude into others' personal physical space to include un-asked-for touching (kissing; massaging; hugging; grabbing at clothing; head-rubbing; shoving aside; etc.);

4.) He has a head-skin (foreheads; bald pates) fetish.

5.) He is majorly creepy and revolting.

[KoKo]

45. Everytime he does this...I think of Pacino kissing Fredo on Head as he sent him to

Death. Poor innocent Fredo...sent to go out "fishing" and he's "offed."

Bush operates just like that... It's what the "Powers that BE" do and have DONE to the rest of us for century after century. Bush has just made it more obvious. We have to hope that we will enter a more "enlightened Era" after he is gone.

But, most of us here won't be around to see it...

[WinkyDink]

61. Except Fredo wasn't innocent; he worked with Johnny Olah/Hyman Roth against Michael.

"I didn't know it was going to be a hit!" Tell it to the marine life, Freddy.

[KoKo]

73. Fredo was kind of stupid...too. Used...sad..but innocent in it..

because he wasn't as evil as the rest. Well...that's what i though about it, anyway. Fredo is the tragedy character...he went along to try to be like the "Big Boys" and in the end...the "Big Boys" his BROTHER ATE HIM ALIVE...:-(

[RB TexLa]

32. Most people think it's harmless. I think anything outside of a handshake in a business environment

is not appropriate.

There can be very emotional times when a hug could be, saving a company or jobs, or landing a big account, but even then if a man wouldn't hug another man over it there is no reason to hug a woman instead of shaking her hand. But day to day, you should treat members of the opposite sex no different. I've had many times where a woman has walked toward me with both arms out and I have to quickly reach out to grasp her hand before she hugs me.

[Lisa]

88. a big company celebration, or a goodbye party ...

... is one thing, but a formal ceremony where the media are present -- as you say, hugging and kissing seem out of place in a business context. Even in my line of work, the students who are getting their degrees receive a handshake and compliment from the bigwigs, not a kiss on the forehead! If there is any hugging, back-patting, or smooching -- that happens at the post-graduation parties.

[wryter2000]

38. It's intimidation

Much as he makes staff run around in 100 degree heat. Because of her sex, he chose something sexual.

[partylessinOhio]

41. Ewwwwwww. That made her look very small. Sexual harassment.

Wanna bet he's screwing her? She'll have her "own" home at the ranch just like Condoho.

[KoKo]

48. Thanks for Pic's...but it was WORSE THAN THIS...HE KISSED HER

after the HUG...I hope that the "KISS" was captured by our Good Liberal Web Viewers. The KISS and not the "HUG" was why I posted.

But...your pic's are good showing the "Foreplay" he did before the "Fredo Kiss!"


THANKS! :hug: to you...and not an illicit one. :D

[partylessinOhio]

52. I couldn't find a shot of the kiss - so posted what I could find.

Even a hug is a big no no. All can see * is invading her space.

[KoKo]

62. Again...Many Thanks...it captures the "THE KISS" in the "Set Up!"

so...folks at least can see the "submissive" stand of Perino before the "Fredo" thingy.

Thanks..

[dipsydoodle]

58. 3rd picture looks like he trying to figure

whether she's a 34C or a 36B.

[Redstone]

43. Yes.

Redstone

[Blaze Diem]

46. God-George Gives his blessing..

this is nauseating.

[Supersedeas]

49. whatever it takes to get the job, i guess -- so goes the thinking of a RepublisKank

[H2O Man]

50. Bush lacks social

graces and healthy boundries.

[KoKo]

66. I wonder sometimes if the way "they've used him" is that HE THINKS

everyone is his friend and enjoys the nicknames he gives them, the bald head rubbings, the innapropriate hugs and kisses he gives out.

It all seems so touching and friendly. Doesn't it?

Yet, the shallow, calculating aspects of the man..show he's "gotten by" all his life as what his own Poppy calls him..."the kid," as if he's a "Peter Pan" the guy who "never grows up" and yet unlike Peter who had a sense of ethics...the BUSH II get's a pass for charm that is so sinister that webs sites had to spring up and folks had to march in the MILLIONS IN THE STREETS to try to WAKE FOLKS UP to the REAL BUSH...not Peter Pan and not INNOCENT "Compassionate Conservative" .....but another EVIL the WORLD has had to Deal With and Work to RID ITSELF OF since the BEGINNING OF TIME!

But...that we in this Grand Age of Communictions (the furthest Step Forward we here on Earth have Accomplished) and enlightenment could tolerate an EVIL from another time...says more about the flow of history than our great communications skills (with I-Pod's, Plasma/Digital, Satellites and all the GIZMOS of our time) could ever say.

If this is the culmination of what Englightenment, Education and Communications only Dreamed Of..have WROUGHT...then it confirms than MANKIND/FEMALEKIND is DOOMED TO REPEAT THE MISTAKES OF THEIR OWN...going BACK to the Neaderthal's and before.

WE NEVER LEARN...to see the TYRANTS...the DICTATORS...THE FASISTS...THE CONTROLLERS!

They will always sprout up no matter how much we evolve...and how SMART and TECH SAVVY we THINK WE ARE.

:-(

[in_cog_ni_to]

53. The bimbo will never wash her forehead again! Are you kidding? Repuke women love that shit.

Remember when he kissed Spelling ON THE LIPS? It really doesn't matter what we think. If Perino likes to be slobbered on by a sociopath, it's her forehead.:puke:

I think it's inappropriate, but I think this entire administration should be in JAIL, so I may be a little biased.:)

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

54. Yes. I thought it was inappropriate. She is a grown woman and he demeaned her. n/t

[Jed Dilligan]

55. That's for her to decide

If she felt uncomfortable it's grounds to complain, but we don't make that decision for her.

However, I reserve my right to say bleccchhhh....

[frogcycle]

56. beyond inappropriate

but what else is new

the guy is a mental defective

[KoKo]

65. I thought it was "inappropriate" too...But in today's BUSH WORLD...what standards apply, anymore?

That's the worry. The Press (whore media) gives him a pass on EVERYTHING! If there were pic's of Bush and Rove and Rummy in a love triangle with DC Madam and a Pedophile Priest...they'd find SOME WAY of excusing it. Kate OBeirn and Matthews would talk about "family values" and how they were set up and invite Jeff Gannon as the person to Comment on the Lewd Actions!

It's Alice "Through the Looking Glass" and it grows worse the longer these psychopaths and sociopaths are there inhabiting and squatting in the Nation's (WE THE PEOPLES') WHITE HOUSE AND CONGRESS!!!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! we don't have much time left...:-(

[frogcycle]

76. one day we'll awake and learn it was all a bad dream

there is no way this could actually be real

[Cha]

57. buSHIT touching

anyone is inappropriate spreading of cooties.

[CatWoman]

59. I think him kissing ANYONE

is inappropriate. :puke:

[Forkboy]

64. He went over the deep end awhile ago.

Before he just pissed me off.Now he just scares the shit out of me.

[Raejeanowl]

67. Yes, It's Inappropriate

Sexist, controlling, and humiliating too. Lets everyone know he considers you his inferior. Reminds me of the discussion just a few days ago about the way he grabbed Mayor Nagin's face in New Orleans


Wonder what the SS would do if one of these days someone puts their hand/arm up to block an unwanted touch?

[Colobo]

68. If it doesn't bother her, it's not inappropiate. I've kissed female friends on the forehead before.

No biggie.

[KoKo]

69. But...You FORGOT! You aren't holding the Highest Office in America...

What YOU DO is miniscule...compared to the actions of "Herr Dictator" in DC... the man who "squats" in the office that he stole...

Can you see the difference?

[sandnsea]

78. She's an employee

I highly recommend if you have female employees you do not kiss them anywhere. You will end up in big trouble, sooner or later.

[bdamomma]

70. ugh, another loyal dog taking Tony's place, and Tony

does not hold it back that he is looking for more money. Geez, yea, good luck Tony. and get ready for too much cappuccino perino!! she is a liar too.

[BlooInBloo]

71. If I was a girl, an unsolicited kiss from a man would be pre-empted by a punch....

EDIT: I guess I wouldn't make a good republican.

[JerseygirlCT]

75. Oh he didn't. Please tell me he didn't

You know, just once. Just once, I'd like to see one of those staff members he's demeaned like that slap him on the butt or something.

Or in this case, a sharp knee to the groin might have been more appropriate.

Geez, his parents sure raised a class act, didn't they?

[tom_paine]

79. Unequestionably, this is the Imperial Double Standard. But he abuses all his Inferiors this way

He rubbed Rod Paige's bald black dome in public, and one wonders what physical abuses Bushler's Inferiors must put up with in private.

(I looked for a link but couldn't find it...it's out there, though, 100% certainty)

The Madness of King George...we'll never know.

[Warren Stupidity]

80. Did he tap her foot first?

What is the secret heterosexual ritual for this sort of sexual solicitation in public?

[Solly Mack]

81. anyone know of a single time Bush ever acted in an appropriate manner?

toward another person?

[KoKo]

92. can't think of any....and yet he gets away with it over and over.

[Scout1071]

82. It is a completely condescending and insulting.

As if he is some kind of messiah blessing his follower. Incredibly arrogant. And he doesn't just do it to women. It is belittling and totally inappropriate for a professional situation.

[NastyRiffraff]

84. Kissing by a boss is ALWAYS inappropriate

It's a power play. (What are you gonna do about it?) ESPECIALLY when it's done in public, which is a statement of power.

[Snazzy]

85. was still getting over this one

...must rub bald and black people's heads...



:wtf:

[Kool Kitty]

89. Ick.

But would someone please ask Ms. Perino why a lot of the e-mails in the fired attorneys' matter were also sent to her? Her name was often listed in the TO: portion. I want to know, if she got so many of them, why when she was asked she acted like it was the first time that she had heard of the matter. I don't remember ever seeing one of them addressed to Tony Snow.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

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