Imperial? Maybe. Bacterial? No Way.

November 10, 2008 by Frank Gannon | Filed Under Bush Administration, Lifestyle 

The reports indicate that today’s meeting between the President and the President-Elect went well.

Bill Sammon reported on their first meeting four years ago. Is it just me, or is this truly, deeply weird?  (And maybe even, in equal parts, offensive?)  Or should I just rush to the store and get me some of that Purell in a pump?

Four years ago, Obama and other newly elected members of the Senate were invited to the White House for a breakfast meeting with Bush, who pulled the young Chicagoan aside.

“Obama!” Bush exclaimed, according to Obama’s account of the meeting in his second memoir, The Audacity of Hope. “Come here and meet Laura. Laura, you remember Obama. We saw him on TV during election night. Beautiful family. And that wife of yours — that’s one impressive lady.”

The two men shook hands and then, according to Obama, Bush turned to an aide, “who squirted a big dollop of hand sanitizer in the president’s hand.”

Bush then offered some to Obama, who recalled: “Not wanting to seem unhygienic, I took a squirt.”

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