Bush had to settle a little confrontation today down in Chile:
President Bush stepped into the middle of a confrontation and pulled his lead Secret Service agent away from Chilean security officials who barred his bodyguards from entering an elegant dinner for 21 world leaders Saturday night.
Several Chilean and American agents got into a pushing and shoving match outside the cultural center where the dinner was held. The incident happened after Bush and his wife, Laura, had just posed for pictures on a red carpet with the host of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos and his wife, Luisa Duran.
As Bush stepped inside, Chilean agents closed ranks at the door, blocking the president’s agents from following. Stopping for more pictures, Bush noticed the fracas and turned back. He reached through the dispute and pulled his agent from the scrum and into the building.
And of course, we love it at Blogs For Bush too…
UPDATE: Wizbang has a list of what other presidents would have done.
Dear Friends,
This election has been a great triumph for noral Americans, our nation has raffirmed its core values and are returning to what’s right in this world. These two quotes really sum up the difference between us and them, we have vision, we have a plan, and we aren’t afraid of the tough choices and to make the decisions that make this country great. The first one is by Karen Hughes communications strategist for W, both when he was Governor of Texas and in the last two elections. The second one I can’t attribute properly but it about sums it up, I’ll look up the source and try to post it later.
“That’s not the way the world really works anymore, we’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
“I am studying the conception of the world…. We refuse to think and to be; we refuse to stand by helplessly under the determinism of the so-called laws of matter. What we want is inside, an inner structure…. We shall not let anyone stop us from building before God and before men that which must be built!”