Bush looks to boost standing with Asia trip (he "escapes" from "bad news")

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Bush looks to boost standing with Asia trip
13 Nov 2005 13:27:18 GMT

Source: Reuters

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11264388.htm

WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Beset with woes at home, U.S. President George W. Bush looks to boost his image on the world stage this week on a trip to Asia expected to focus on festering issues like North Korea, trade and bird flu.

Bush's stops in Japan, South Korea, China and Mongolia are aimed mostly at advancing U.S. interests and maintaining friendships without reaching specific agreements, except in the case of steps to address the bird flu threat that may come out of an Asia-Pacific summit in South Korea.

Bush leaves on Monday for talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Kyoto, the first stop on a weeklong tour that will take him to the Nov. 18-19 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Pusan, South Korea, as well as to Beijing for talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao.

His trip starts with a pep talk to U.S. troops at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, and ends with a brief visit to Mongolia to thank Mongolians for supporting the Iraq war and maintaining 160 troops there. The trip provides Bush an escape from a backdrop of bad news -- Hurricane Katrina, rising U.S. casualties in Iraq and a CIA leak probe -- that have contributed to his plunging poll numbers. He is scrambling to find a way to rebound.

[napi21]

1. Gee, I wonder if they'll protest him in all those Countries?

Somehow, I doubt he'll escape all the bad news!

[Mend]

2. Like father, like son....whose lap will he throw up on?

can we ever forget the great vomit scene of bushit 1?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. I consider it to be Pappy Bush's "Greatest Hit"...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3200032.stm

When Mr Bush's father attended a state visit in Japan in January 1992, he responded to the arrival of Japanese beef steak (French-style) with a projectile vomit into the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa.

Suffering from flu at the time, George Bush Senior then slumped under the table before getting up a few minutes later and announcing he felt great.



"An ashen-faced George Bush Senior, after vomiting in Japan"

[Mend]

7. great link, however there were rumors that it was the Halcion

sleeping pill or pills he took, and added some alcohol....as we say, like father, like son. Course it could have been the "flu".

[HereSince1628]

3. It's traditionaly among President's with beltway woes.

Escape town and go make a distraction somewhere.

Merely evidence that Bush's got problems.

Why isn't he campaigning for Tax reform? or Social Security reform?
cuz Georgie's got no more magoo.

[peekaloo]

4. Mongo in Mongolia to lay a wreath for Attila the Hun.

:o

[Bob3]

6. But all these trips do is upset his routines and make him cross

so he ends up acting like a 15 year old at an elks banquet and will no doubt end up doing something stunningly rude.

Maybe it's just time he quit and went back to texas. For good.

[Mend]

8. how does he leave functions at two pm to go to bed, what with

the time change and all?

[dogday]

9. The Shrubster has more stones that I thought

if he plans on taking off overseas again. Anywhere he goes, he is not liked. Lot of people in China, let's hope the police can keep all those people back....

[radfringe]

10. the head line says it all

Bush looks to boost standing with Asia trip

so it's another political "STUNT", right? :wink: