It Wouldn’t’ve Happened in Baghdad
Because the First Dingbats aren’t there – rather than fighting Daddy’s futile war for him, they’re partying in Buenos Aires and getting too frisky to realise they’ve been robbed of the First Handbag and First Cellphone:
First Daughter Barbara Robbed in Argentina
November 21, 2006 3:14 PMFrom Our Sources:
First Daughter Barbara Bush had her purse and cell phone stolen as she had dinner in a restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, even though she was being guarded by a detail of Secret Service agents, according to law enforcement reports made available to ABC News.
It was not the only mishap on the two-week trip to Argentina by Barbara (right) and her twin sister Jenna (left).
A Secret Service agent on the advance detail got into an “altercation” with someone after a night out and was badly beaten, according to the law enforcement reports. The Secret Service said today the incident was an attempted mugging that occurred while the agent was on his own time. The agent is doing fine.
The purse snatching took place on Barbara’s first night in town while she was dining in the picturesque San Telmo neighborhood. According to the reports, the Secret Service agents failed to notice the incident.
Doesn’t say an awful lot for the efficiency of the much-vaunted Secret Service, does it?
I suspect the contents of that cell-phone is a pretty marketable product. I wonder if the thief realises exactly what they’ve got? (I also wonder what interesting subtsances were in the handbag, given the girls’ reputation for hard partying.)
Buenos Aires is pretty near Paraguay too, that notorious haven of Nazis , where the Chimperor’s just bought a ranch – so is the twins’ presence in neighbouring Argentina’s capital more evidence that the Bush tribe are getting ready to do a runner?
I bet Poppy feels like doing just that right now, after the pasting he took in Abu Dhabi about his son’s ineptitude and stupidity:
After delivering a speech at a leadership conference in Abu Dhabi, former President George Herbert Walker Bush was forced to defend his son from verbal attacks by the “hostile audience,” on the same day that a new poll reveals that more Americans preferred the first Bush president.
“We do not respect your son,” a woman in the audience told Bush. “We do not respect what he’s doing all over the world.”
The Associated Press reported that “Bush appeared stunned as the audience of young business leaders whooped and whistled in approval” at the woman’s comments, coming after the “retired president had just finished a folksy address on leadership by telling the audience how deeply hurt he feels when his son the president is criticized.”
According to the AP, Bush’s voice “quivered” in response.
Awwww, diddums. I have two adult sons myself and though I love them to bits, I’m not blind to their faults. Did Bush really not know that the world knows his son’s a fuckup?
I have no fucking sympathy whatsoever for Bush Sr., he made Junior what he is and what’s worse, he made him President. He’s made a rod for his own back and I hope it hurts.
It’s not been a good week for la famiglia Bush. But never mind- there’ll be plenty of time for family recriminations in the long, increasingly warm evenings down on the old Paraguayan estancia.
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