Caption: The smell of fear.

[seafan]

[hippiechick]

1. Wow, he ... just ... looks ... really bad.

:puke: I'd swear he's on the sauce again.

[lectrobyte]

3. for someone who has supposedly quit drinking 15 years ago, he

has the erythema, papules, and rhinophyma of someone who is still a heavy drinker.

[flordehinojos]

2. WHERE ARE HIS TEETH???? Does he gum his food?

[Sal Minella]

4. I think this is an old pic from when he was campaigning in Iowa

I remember seeing this shirt and thinking, "Oh, we're supposed to think Laura whipped that up for him from a tablecloth she bought in the Podunk Center Ben Franklin." That shirt is Karl's idea of what Iowans wear.

I think he looks so bad because he'd been on the campaign trail 23 hours a day for weeks when this pic was taken.

[seafan]

7. This pic was in Knight-Ridder piece on Soc. Security overhaul.

But could be from another time, you're right.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10820193.htm

[hippiechick]

8. '23 hours a day' ? I do hope you're being sarcastic.

Ummm, the Boy King flies in and out of his events, and is usually tucked in nite-nite by 10 pm every evening.

There's no way in HELL he pulled a whistle stop of any kind in 2004 - or 2000 for that matter.

That would be hard work, and Bush's just don't seem to know what that is.

[mattclearing]

5. Was this the day after that first debate?

He looks desperate, you're right.

[UTUSN]

6. Words Fail