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Video: Bush Shakes Haitian's Hand, Wipes on Clinton
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Jaya Saxena
Published Mar 24, 2010
Modified Mar 24, 2010
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Hooo boy. Former President's Bill Clinton and George W. Bush made their first joint visit to Haiti this week to help with the relief effort in Port-Au-Prince. But while the two of them shook hands with a local crowd, Bush looks at his hand, wipes it on Clinton's shirt and then turns away from the crowd (money shot at around 0:13). Clinton doesn't seem to notice, and continues shaking hands and taking pictures with the crowd while Bush presumably runs back to his convoy to administer a cootie shot. [Via Mediaite]
The former president is known for his germaphobia, to take the charitable view. During his first meeting with then-Senator Obama, Bush immediately had an aide squirt "a big dollop of hand sanitizer" into his hands after the two men shook.
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