Bully In Chief

by digby

Here’s a wonderful lesson for the children from our president:

The informal Bush enjoyed the formality so much that he even took time out to torment an underdressed photographer. After his walk with the queen after lunch, Bush got the photographer, Newsweek’s Charles Ommanney, to agree that it was “a special day” at the White House. “Then why,” the president asked, “didn’t you wear something other than hand-me-down clothes?”

It’s not quite as rude as when he told the blind reporter to take off his sunglasses when he talked to him, but it’s actually worse because he’s going out of his way to humiliate this person on purpose.

I know this towel slapping form of “humor” is supposed to be some harmless macho bonding thing but I have always found it very, very creepy when powerful types, in the locker room or in the white house, find it necessary to reaffirm their position by publicly humiliating others. I think it betrays a lack of character, maturity and class. I look forward to having a president who does not behave like a junior high school bully — and I have to say that I don’t think there is one candidate, Democrat or Republican, who does that in quite the juvenile and embarrassing manner as this one.

What a jerk.

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