Refreshing to see Bush's head rubbed for a change.
It looks to me like the watch was just knocked off. If you watch the video about the time the watch disappears Bush suddenly looks down at the ground - my guess is that's at his fallen watch. What I find to be more odd is all the hand grabbing and hair rubbing going on.
I'm enjoying having Albania as our only European ally. It's about time we had a president who followed the example of Mao Zedong and Kim Il-sung in matters like this.
We're also closely allied with Mongolia, meaning that we have a virtual lock on "countries best known for being obscure and out of the way."
From Kieran's post:
The Zapruder film of this Administration.
Nice.
The watch may have dropped to the ground, but the guy who grabbed Bush's arm at :55 is clearly trying to take it off. He may have dropped it accidentally afterwards, but the guy at least had the balls to try to steal it.
I don't blame the administration for lying about this one. They have to do it, just to be diplomatic to their hosts.
There's an old Iranian joke about an American, a Frenchman and an Iranian sitting around talking about how they can know they're home: the American can reach out and touch the Empire State Builidng, and the Frenchman can reach out and touch the Eiffel Tower, and the Iranian reaches out and has his watch stolen.
Man, there's no way he took the watch off himself. The crowd is clawing at his wrist the whole time.
How come he gets to get all lovey-dovey with the damn Albanians and yet here in America he's set up like some sort of Ken doll?
That reminds me:
Albania, Albania, you border on, the, Ay--driatic.
Everyone knows those Aryans are thieves.
The Albanians love America because of the Kosovo war.
9, the crowd could have loosened it but failed to steal it, causing it to fall on the ground.
If only John Belushi were alive. He could explain this.
John Belushi is Albanian?
Time to send in Sgt Willie Schumann and the rest of the fighting men of the 303.
Was.
The most famous surviving Albanian-American is Bob Avakian of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
I thought Jack Kevorkian was Albanian? Surely he is more of a celebrity than Avakian.
Surely Kevorkian is Armenian?
I was wrong about Avakian. His Hoxha worship threw me off.
Regis Philbin is the most famous surviving Albanian America.
sure, but is philbin a gheg or a tosk? you gotta keep an eye on those wily ghegs. or tosks. maybe they're both wily.
According to Wikithingia, he might also be Labs, which raises some interesting questions.
The Tosks are considered stereotypically more open-minded, imaginative, and less violent than Gegs....
Labs wuld probably be a Geg, one would say.