President Bush & Family
2006-11-24 22:50:48 · 3 answers · asked by aliajao 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Presidency falling apart at the seams for Bush and his entourage
His foreign policy is in tatters. He has just suffered a sweeping electoral defeat. And now - from Buenos Aires to Hawaii and Vietnam - even the clockwork-like operation to protect and ferry around George Bush and the rest of America's first family seems to be coming apart at the seams.
In the first of four incidents in the space of 48 hours this week, the President's 24-year-old daughter Barbara had her handbag stolen while out in the Argentine capital on Sunday, despite the round-the-clock protection she and her twin sister Jenna are provided by the US Secret Service.
According to La Nacion newspaper, the two were having dinner in San Telmo, a cobblestone district of cafés, old houses and steakhouses, when thieves took the handbag from under their table. Agents in their secret service detail stood at a distance, completely unaware of the incident.
There has been no comment from the White House or a doubtless
2006-11-24 23:24:37 · update #1
Hours after that incident, three local motorcycle officers in the motorcade taking Mr Bush to a military air base for his return to Washington were involved in a crash which left two of them seriously injured, after their bikes skidded on a rain-drenched road as they were about to enter the base area.
The final entry in this catalogue of mishaps were the unspecified mechanical difficulties encountered by his Air Force One Boeing 747 during the summit trip, as it was scheduled to leave Vietnam to ferry Mr Bush to Indonesia (where he spent six hours in talks at a resort near Jakarta before heading to Hawaii). The problem forced Mr Bush to take a smaller Boeing 757 back-up plane, obliging many in the White House delegation to switch to the accompanying press plane.
2006-11-24 23:25:23 · update #2
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2007476.ece
2006-11-24 23:30:24 · update #3
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2007476.ece
2006-11-24 23:30:42 · update #4