Anybody notice Bush looked unusually barrel-chested...

[UdoKier]

as he walked in simian gait down the parade route? He looked unnaturally bigger all round the torso, back and shoulders. I'm 100% sure he had on a bulletproof vest.

And poor pickles appeared to not have anything on under her garments...



Doesn't show up well in this photo, but I thought so from the TV coverage...

[name not needed]

1. That would be his Interceptor bulletproof vest

You know, the one the troops in Iraq don't have?

[niyad]

2. don't you know, it's just his superb tailoring

[benburch]

3. Yes, I identify that as a full set of kevlar and ceramic body armor.

He is afraid of his own people.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. All Presidents since Carter wear

Bullet proof material

[Vincardog]

7. Yeah but W insisted on TWO LAYERS

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Here is the question that must be asked

Is he paranoid?

We know he is not....(Hi boys at the SS... we know that, I mean the stenography corp has reported on increased threats ok... hell we even had somebody with a car bomb just the other day in DC)

So that tells you exactly who he fears and it is not them damn fore'niers... but us the People.

[AlCzervik]

5. Thats why the troops don't have enough protection

it's used for Chimpoleon.

[niyad]

6. or, perhaps he has choked down one too many pretzels

[AlCzervik]

9. more likely it was Jack D.

[snippy]

8. Well . . . he is the single most hated person in the history of the world.

If you were in charge of his safety would you let him play outside without protection?

[niyad]

10. the pretzel incident shows he can't even be left alone inside

[uppityperson]

11. I noticed it during his walk, very obvious. Fear freedom *!

[illflem]

13. He's so full of shit

that when it isn't coming out his mouth it causes him to expand

[charlie]

14. He's wearing his lucky parachute

and still hasn't undone the crotch harness, makes him walk funny.

[Spinzonner]

15. Well, you know, he does have

an Auxiliary Wife/Secretary of State in case something happens to Pickles

[cornermouse]

16. Maybe Pickles isn't afraid.

[soup]

17. Of course she's not afraid.

lunch was served with a side of liquid bravery.


U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) sits between Patricia Lott (L) and his wife Laura Bush at Inaugural luncheon at the National Statuary Hall after being sworn-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 20, 2005. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/POOL


First Lady Laura Bush clinks glasses with President Bush (news - web sites) after Sen. Trent Lott (news, bio, voting record), R-Miss., chairman of the Congressional Inauguratiion Committee, rear, proposed a toast at the Capitol in Washington Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, after Bush was sworn in for a second term. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

[cornermouse]

18. I just figured that having been married to him for so long

she knows what a liar he is and decided she wasn't going to live like that.

By the way, don't former alcoholics like Bush have to become teetotalers when they quit?

[Contrary1]

22. ***Fashion Rant*** What is it with this

woman and her satin ribbon belts? ***End of fashion rant***

[theboss]

19. He wore one at Yankee Stadium in 2001

On the HBO documentary about the 2001 Yankees, they show Bush putting on the bullet proof vest before throwing out the first pitch at the World Series. He was complaining that it would interfere with his delivery.

[karlrschneider]

20. They interfere with delivery? Damn shame Babs wasn't wearing one

54 years ago (or whenever the POS was born...)

[Lisa]

23. indeed. He whined about how it would cramp his style ...

... already making excuses for himself.

[Lisa]

21. I'm sure he was armoured to the gills!

He was when he threw out the ball at the World Series -- and this time, he probably wanted to wear his "lucky" USS Abraham Lincoln souvenir flying helmet as well!


To be fair -- not that I'm in the mood for it today, though -- the Secret Service wants its protectees wearing vests when they're out in the open like that. But Clinton and Gore had the same gear (18-20 lbs of body armour) and they didn't waddle the way W does.

I rejoice in the fact that it makes "super-jock Bush" look plumper than he already is! If this were in July, he'd be hot and sweaty too, because those things can be uncomfortable to wear. (Unfortunately it probably kept him warm, while the protesters and homeless people were out there in the cold ... but I hope that the vest pinched him a little since he's been fibbing about how he's watching his weight.)