(* meets) World Leaders First, Then Cookie Monster ( and Elmo)

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Leaders from Iraq (news - web sites), Jordan and Senegal paraded through the White House Monday morning. By afternoon, President Bush (news - web sites) was hosting Elmo and the Cookie Monster at a children's holiday party.


About 120 second- and third-graders sat on the floor of the East Room for the annual children's Christmas reception, which featured Sesame Street characters and singers from the PBS children's show "Zoom."


"This morning I met with the interim president of Iraq," Bush told the children. "Pretty exciting, isn't it? And then I met with the King of Jordan. And then I just met with the president of Senegal. And now I'm meeting you."


More: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=1&u=/ap/20041206/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_children_s_christmas

He has time for this crap?!?! :eyes: Mods, please move to the lounge if you deem appropriate.

[SmokingJacket]

1. With all this free time, shouldn't he get his PHYSICAL???? n/t

[Obviousman]

2. Lousy sellout muppets...

lol

[peterh]

3. headline should really say…

in over his head in the morning…then back to parity in the afternoon….

[renegade000]

4. i think thats an insult to the puppets...

eom

[Lisa]

5. I'm sure he could relate to a bunch of puppets!

After all, he's one himself (though not as cute).

p.s. is that a security pass he's wearing? You'd think the guards would recognize him by now.

[genieroze]

8. Where is Rove or Cheney's hand? eom

[Thor_MN]

9. That raises an interesting point.. NEVER shake Rove or Cheney's hand

You don't want to know where it's been......

[flygal]

14. Wow does Laura look like robot or what?

She looks so detached from the child she's sitting next to - there's no warmth at all **brrrrrr**

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. Bush has a lot in common with a Muppet

They both have someone else's hand stuck up their ass, controlling their every action.

Dick Cheney, The Puppetmaster

[Menshevik]

7. whoa, you're in PS?

I guess I would be the last liberal in Palm Desert, then

:hi:

(although temporarily abroad for a year...back in the desert for a short Christmas break, though)

[Ian David]

10. Did he read "My Pet Goat"?

[Garbo 2004]

11. The muppets were slumming. ;-) n/t

[importDavid]

12. Now if Elmo would have just...

...pointed at * and started screaming "Impeach!" "Impeach!"

or

"Are you still here?"

;)

[knitter4democracy]

13. As a parent who watches Sesame Street daily,

I think Elmo should've gone into a really interesting version of his song, "Elmo's World," with it changed to "Bush's World." Any takers?

[SoCalDem]

15. He likes having his picture taken with celebs..

[maddezmom]

16. and today he enjoyed dressing like Captain Kirk

or was it Charleston Heston from Planet of the Apes??? :shrug: