Bush aids Secret Service agent

SANTIAGO, Chile (CNN) -- It was a rare moment of role reversal -- U.S. President George W. Bush coming to the aid of a man paid to protect him.

Upon arriving for an official dinner with world leaders gathered for the annual APEC summit on Saturday night, the president stopped after hearing commotion at the door of the Estacion Mapocho Cultural Center.

According to a videotape of the incident, Bush turned around and saw that one of his Secret Service agents was being forcefully restrained from entering by Chilean Chilean security guards.

The president dove into the crowd, where people were arguing and pushing one another, and pulled the agent through the door of center.

I thought this was great for whatever obscure reason.

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I saw that. I'll bet the SS was a bit nervous once they realized what the president had done.

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

Thats pretty cool. Yeah, I bet the ss agent felt a little weird being grabbed by the president.

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is the 4th of July, while the Democrats wish everyday was April 15th" - Ronald Reagan

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

I could interject a fairly comic reply here, but if I did the secret service would show up at my door in a couple of weeks, which I'm not up for, and they probably aren't either.

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Didn't Tenet already do that?

I don't have the self-control that MICcheck does.

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"George W. Bush surrounds himself with smart people the way a hole surrounds itself with a donut." —Dennis Miller

I think the contrast between Bush intervening for his people, and showing loyalty to them, versus Kerry blaming the SS for "tripping" him while skiing/biking, is pretty clear to many of us.

He thinks about other people as real people, not simply extensions of himself or servants, as Kerry did.

Further, Tenet was part of the problem at CIA, and needed to (metaphorically, of course), take a bullet for it.

The ways of doing business which were implemented during the cold war no longer work to address our nation's current risks from the islamofascists.

Catz

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I saw the clip of that. You call that diving in? He was standing up. In fact it was fairely leisurely. He walked back and stuck his hand out for the agent to grab. Then he pulled the guy through the security guards. It was hardly a dive. He didn't even go into the crowd.

...the author.

I don't think they post here.

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Bush has something that a lot of Presidents simply did not have: and that is character.