PHOTO: Bush in compassionate deep thought for tsunami victims

[Bluebear]

"In this photo released by the White House Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2005, President Bush talks with Secretary of State Colin Powell and Florida Governor Jeb Bush, while working in the Oval Office, during their trip to tsunami affected areas."

Of course, it probably took 70 shots to get that just-right pensive stare on film...note also how the White House also stresses that he was actually "working" instead of clearing brush for five minutes.

[purduejake]

1. Damn, they need MORE money?!?

That may explain the expression.

And on a side note, I think I have the exact same tie he is wearing. DAMN IT, I loved that one.

[Bluebear]

2. Nah, your tie is cool

If you zoomed in it is probably little white elephants or dollar signs.

[CottonBear]

3. Does * ever use a computer or read a book?

I always see him with a pen and a stupid pad of paper.

[beam me up scottie]

4. He can read My Pet Goat realllllllllllly well!

[BlueFlu]

5. Here is what he is writing on that pad...

http://www.basetree.com/articles/dubyas-doodles-the-uncensored-911-memo.html

[Sanity Claws]

6. The photo looks wrong

Doesn't his head look disproportionately small compared to the rest of him? The photo says it was released by the White House. I wouldn't put it past them to photoshop the photo.

[beam me up scottie]

7. My Dad has always been convinced he wears large shoulder

pads. Would a bullet-proof vest be that bulky?

[KurtNYC]

8. Is that a mushroom cloud in the pic behind him?

jeez I hope not

edit: actually could be an oil gusher

[uppityperson]

9. Tornado in Wizard of Oz

Note to self, use tornado to clear brush.

[Bluebear]

Only this sociopath would enjoy hanging a tornado portrait

Admiring death and destruction.

[brook]

21. I think it's...

an oil well coming in. He's probably convinced himself by now that he was a success in the oil 'bidness'. Delusional.

edited for spelling.

[peekaloo]

10. Dang executive decisions....thin or thick crust?....extra sauce?.....spicy

or bbq chicken wings?.........:shrug:

[Bluebear]

24. Good one! nt

[Solly Mack]

11. They want so badly to capture Bush looking other than an idiot

they fail so miserably. primary reason: the man simply looks like an idiot when he fakes being human for the camera.

his natural state is the smirk of "who cares what you think"

[Bluebear]

17. Absolutely. They make things worse releasing photos like this.

At least for those who he doesn't have a spell over. those folks probably would pay good money for a reprint of this photo, like the ones he sold of himself on 9/11.

[Solly Mack]

42. Ever notice how he juts his weak chin out during photo-ops?

[lectrobyte]

12. is that a shrunken head on the table in the background?

[TrustingDog]

18. and the painting... looks like a nuke.

ah, the boy just loves destruction. Bet he's asking bro how the body's smell.

[mcscajun]

33. Nope...that's a bust of Winston Churchill

To provide that certain "Statesman-like by association" subliminal effect.

[bobbyboucher]

13. Bush is a dick.

Who gives a fuck about their propaganda? He's Joe Isuzu for chrissakes.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

14. lol, is he writing with a sharpie? nt.

[tabasco]

16. Yes, but it's watercolor so mommy can wash him up ...

after he finishes drawing pictures.

[Sanity Claws]

22. You're right

Nice catch. No one does any serious writing with a Sharpie. He's just posing.

[Cronus Protagonist]

15. God Fails to Break His Own Record for Killing

On a related note and in completely bad taste...

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0105/asia.html

Freehold, Iowa - Not since the time of Noah has God used water so effectively to harass sinners and wreak havoc upon those who don't flatter Him with sufficient regularity. As unsaved, impoverished Hindus toiled in beachside shacks on Christmas instead of exchanging expensive gifts from American department stores to celebrate the Baby Jesus' Birthday, the Lord was plotting their horrific, briny demise. True Christians know from the Great Flood that one of God's favorite ways to indiscriminately kill enormous swaths of children is by drowning them and watching them gasp for air and then float like little discarded Styrofoam cups in the tide. Sometimes, He extends an enormous hand as if He is about to rescue the bobbing tot, only to retract it at the last minute to teach the drowning child a valuable lesson about the ineffable nature of God's love.

While American Christians have long delighted in the carnage that resulted from the Lord's irascibility as depicted in countless, grisly episodes in the Old Testament, the present-day flooding in Asia brought home the enormous power of their deity more vividly because of its immediacy.

[LittleClarkie]

19. No matter what they do

He still looks like Emmitt Otter to me.

No help for it I guess.

[Old Mouse]

20. Just like his famous 9/11 phone-man-in-charge pic

This will probably be for sale soon to good patriots(TM) everywhere.

[Vektor]

23. This BEGS for a "CAPTION CONTEST!"

"This "hold" music is simply riveting! I've always loved Chuck Mangione...Oh! Hello! Is this Domino's pizza?"

[Taxloss]

29. "... and extra anchovies!

Thank heavens Laura wrote down the order for me. I might never have remembered all three toppings."

[Vektor]

34. What would he do...

without Laura?

[Taxloss]

35. Very little?

[Vektor]

39. Maybe nothing at all...n/t

[Malva Zebrina]

25. I am so sick of this Potempkin photo ops

this one reminds me of the one on AF1, when he was running away from whatever he perceived the attack on 9-11 to be.

Then, suddenly, we see, he was not RUNNING away. He was doing hard work on AF1, by talking on the telephone on his way to a bunker somewhere in the west.

And, in all arrogance, sold those posed photos, for fifty dollars apiece.

Is the cap still on his pen? Looks like it to me. I am sick of his poorly acted, put on face.

[diamond14]

26. how can bush* be talking? he's got his fingers on top of the mouthpiece

or is he talking??....and NOBODY can hear him....

[Bluebear]

27. The time is...2:32...p.m.....BEEP!

[Taxloss]

28. Gosh, he really DOES look chimp-like!

I've never quite seen it before.

Such a staged-looking photo.

[Bluebear]

30. Here they are setting up the shot.............

[Taxloss]

31. LOL!

[myomy]

32. Damn, I thought Texas had more total yards than that.

Keepin up with football is HARD work.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

36. Wow.... Looks like "hard work" to me...

[Stinky The Clown]

37. Fraud! Fraud! Fraud!

He can't write. What the fuck's with the notepad? I call Bullshit!

[jhain]

38. at least the phone is right side up

unlike that shot of him using binos backwards.

[BringEmOn]

40. "Have you finished that investigation into who shot JR?"

[quiet.american]

41. Is the crooked photo in the background--

-- a subtle artistic dig at the subject in front of it?

[phusion]

43. ha!! n/t

n/t