General: January 2004 Archives

This is just too bizarre. After all this talk about President Bush pushing a constitutional amendment against gay marriage, I read this bizarre story.

It took place at a meeting involving President Bush and Scott Reid, a senior aide to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. After small talk with Reid, President Bush said to a surprised Reid, "Well, you got a pretty face."

And, the president wasn't done. "You got a pretty face," he said again. "You're a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott anyway."

The other Scott is Scott McClellan, Bush's press secretary.

The Canadian Scott is 35 and ruggedly handsome. The American version is balding and chubby.

"I didn't know what to say," Reid later told reporters.

"When a Texas Republican says you've got a pretty face, then I guess there is just no way around it."

Another Canadian in the room suggested that if Reid had been a woman Bush might have found himself in a sex discrimination suit and the subject of a Congressional inquiry. (story)