Reply #18: More on the head-kissing

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http://www.aasfe.org/2004contest/division3.pdf

President Bush must have a soft spot for a bald spot. He’s been exhibiting a lot of embrace-the-baldness behavior lately — on three recent occasions, he reached out and bussed a bald belfry.

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Last month in Dallas, an Associated Press photographer at a political fund-raiser captured Bush grabbing the chrome dome of an unidentified supporter so forcefully you can see indentation marks.

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And People magazine’s July 28 issue reported the president’s effusive reaction when his then-press secretary, Ari Fleischer, announced he was engaged to be married. “From his boss, Fleischer got a big kiss on his hairless pate.”

That was not the first time Bush couldn’t pass up Fleischer’s non-mop top. News accounts also noted the president had an emotional reaction in May when Fleischer met with him in the Oval Office to announce he was leaving the White House. Bush kissed Fleischer you-know-where then, too.