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Dead Man Walking — Bully Gets Paid Back

CNN’s Rick Sanchez has a truly amazing video catch: video of President George Bush at the G20 weekend summit being treated in a greeting line as if he is the politically “Dead Man Walking” or Mr. Cellophane.

In this You Tube segment now featured on several websites (Greatscat, Tennessee Guerilla Women, Daily Kos and Poligazette) Sanchez shows a piece of captured-on-video history that is likely to be run in every video bio dealing with Bush’s last days. It is undeniable: he is there but makes others uneasy. Most other leaders avoid eye contact. They’re not warmly shaking his hand. Bush isn’t going out of his way to interact with them, either…

Sanchez likens it to the kid others avoid at high school. But actually, it’s more akin to what happens in a corporation when someone is either out favor, on probation, demoted or clearly on the verge of firing. It’s being shunned, but is also coupled with a feeling of “We had to be nice to you before but now we can show you how we really feel.”

I ‘almost’ feel sorry for the guy — NOT!

Note: He was most likely worried he’d miss the SPOT he was to end up at on stage — but it still made him appear like a little boy being shunned.