You Know Bush is a Lame Duck President When... Posted by Adam Blickstein

..he goes to Europe and no one bothers to protest or pay attention:

Rome was braced for violent protests against President Bush, with 10,000 police mobilised and hundreds of prisoners being moved out of the Regina Coeli prison to make room for arrested demonstrators. Yesterday morning, however, their cells remained empty.

“Bush is not even popular in the role of the enemy any more,” wrote Berlin's Tagesspiegel newspaper. The closest that he came to controversy in Germany was when he attacked the country's media for suggesting that he did not like asparagus. “You're wrong,” he told a press conference. “The German asparagus are fabulous.”

I also had no idea the German's were obsessed with asparagus:

During its short season, asparagus features prominently on restaurant menus and café chalkboards across the country, reflecting Germans' obsession with the prized vegetable. In fact, they eat more white asparagus than anyone else in the world, chomping their way through 1.35 kilos (three pounds) per head.

 

It isn't difficult for gourmets to find fresh local asparagus, since with a production of some 82,000 tons, Germany is the biggest asparagus grower in Europe. The area under asparagus production in the country has doubled in the past 12 years to nearly 20,000 hectares, making asparagus the country's biggest vegetable crop in terms of area and value.

Now if only the Germans could eradicate that pernicious side effect asparagus produces...

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