Well, folks, George W. Bush made it to Germany this past week. The goal? To discuss current world issues* and foster the US-Germany relationship over barbeque. And as far as I know, he neither embarassed himself (or the US) or spilled barbeque sauce on his clothes. *breathes a sigh of relief* Progress is being made.In order to give a nice impression and keep rabid protesters from attacking, they met in a little town called Stralsund, where approximately 12,000 police were on duty. There were less protestors than expected, though, which was a nice surprise.
It's interesting... several German people I've talked with think that Angela Merkel's** beliefs and actions don't accurately reflect what the majority of German citizens think or would do. For example, they think she's too soft and permissive when it comes to Bush and US foreign policy and behaviour.
Anyway. He was only in Germany for a couple of days... so the whole thing was more of a political show than anything else. And an expensive one at that - the whole thing cost Germany between 14 and 20 million Euros.
I was invited to the Grill Party with him and Angie, but was unfortunately unable to make it cause my driver's license is invalid.
*or the World Soccer Cup, that is
**the German Chancellor
3 comments:
You were invited to grill with the asshat of the universe? You could have squirted him with catsup!
Actually, unfortunately, no. Maybe by the time he's here again, I'll be an influential, world-renowned writer, with a hand-written-sealed-and-stamped personal invitation from W himself. You never know.
Robyn is on her way home from Waco for the weekend. She is doing a photography internship for the Waco Tribune this summer.
Today they sent her out to "shoot" Dubya. (With her camera, of course, she is not an assassin).
The interesting thing is that they are told to have their camera trained on the plane as it is coming in. If it exploded or something, they need that on film..er or on whatever is in cameras. Next they take pictures as he departs and waves to the crowd. He walks maybe 50 feet to get into a helicopter. Again the camera needs to be trained on the helicopter just in case something horrible would happen.
This is the second time Robyn had been able to "shoot" (photograph) the president with her Canon. He visited Baylor last fall with President Vicente Fox, and Prime Minister Paul Martin.
I don't think she was invited to a BBQ. It's a shame. They're practically neighbors.
Karen
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