Let's have a vote: Thumb or Finger. I vote finger.

[KarenInMA]

[ohio_liberal]

1. It's a finger

edited to add second pic:

[pointblank]

6. If I had to bet money...

I'd go thumb.

After looking more carefully at the picture ( I HAVE NOT seen the video), but solely by the picture it looks like it is a thumb and the part of the hand to the left of the raised digit is his other four fingers curled down.

IF it is a thumb, he has one WHOPPER of a thumb, because looking at my hand in the position I described above, my thumb looks tiny compared to his, and I am not small by any means, not big either though.

Personally, I HOPE it is the finger!

[nyhuskyfan]

30. Thumb

What you see to the right of his extended digit is the third knuckle of his index finger -- what you see to the left of his extended digit is the second knuckle of his index finger. His four fingers are tucked into his palm and the thumb happens to be sticking up in the middle so that it appears to be a middle finger.

The still shot is deceiving, but if you go frame-by-frame in the video, the last frame when he lowers his hand shows that it is his thumb.

He flips the American people the bird every day with his policy decisions -- but in this case, alas, I think its just a thumb.

[Bumblebee]

2. unless he is all thumbs

[MindPilot]

3. Finger.

yep, finger.

[kansasblue]

4. could be the thumb.... this is going to be like " is bush wired?" again

[Guckert]

5. He could be deformed??? it's his BIG TOE !!!!! I am morally outraged

:sarcasm: i am sure Sean and Rush will have a reasonable explanation for this. :puke:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. Thumb...

Try it yourself - thumb up, hand pointed slightly downwards.

[Jara sang]

15. you can see his knuckle

the way you describe you can't see any knuckle

[WeRQ4U]

8. IT'S A THUMB!!!

Are we in the fucking twilight zone or something. It's not a middle finger. Watch the video clip.

[Booster]

21. You really have to watch the clip AND hear the audio because of

the question the reporter asked, although I don't remember what the question was, a thumbs up would make more sense than a finger. I vote it's a thumb, although I wish it was his finger.

[no_to_war_economy]

9. thumb

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[Kathy in Cambridge]

11. Finger, or pen

it's too long to be a thumb...

[Stirk]

12. It's a thumb.

Viewed frame-by-frame as he puts his arm back down, you can pretty clearly see that it's a thumb.

The still frame is deceptive.

[pointblank]

17. Anyone have a link to a windows media version of the vid??

[Stirk]

25. I only found the Quicktime version I'm afraid.

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[Cessna Invesco Palin]

20. I agree, but Jesus, kid...

You need to relax.

[ck4829]

22. Hey Diebold Jr., multi-votes don't count!

:)

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

27. Who knows, maybe he was attacked by an angry middle finger...

...at some point during his youth.

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[KarenInMA]

26. Vote early vote often??

[kansasblue]

23. rawstory.com has link to vid. nt

[Beetwasher]

24. Gee, Someone In This Thread Is Trying REALLY Hard To Cover For Chimpy

A little too hard perhaps? :eyes:

Good grief. Not too transparent.

[ck4829]

28. This thread is invalid

Diebold obviously hacked this thread.

:)

[Algorem]

29. middle finger

[DemBeans]

31. finger

If you look at the knuckles, it's clearly his middle finger. And NO thumb is that length, from any angle.

[Mizmoon]

32. thumb

!

[kansasblue]

33. Try this!

go to rawstory.com and pull up the vid.

use you left arrow / right arrow to advance frame by frame and reverse it. There are 19 frames that his hand is up with the gesture.

I say thumb and I'm done with this, we have other work to do.

[goclark]

40. I say FINGER! Are they going to send me to Fitzgerald?

Hell NO! I can say what ever I think about it and I choose to do so.

I am sick of trying to be Columbo for the American public.

The large % of the American Public now believes it is the finger!

So , if Bush tells them it was not his finger but his thumb, some won't believe him. It still gets him out in public being his arrogant self and THAT IS WHAT WE WANT TO SHOW THE WORLD.

And even if some did THINK IT WAS HIS THUMB, so what? Many will BELIEVE THAT IT WAS HIS finger!!!!

Why do we always have to be perfect!

Remember the Swift Boat LIARS? Were they wrong, sure.
Did the repubs care, NO!

Should we care about the FINGER/THUMB - hell NO!
Let it hang out there and be another DRIP for these criminals.

[Buns_of_Fire]

34. It's his wee-wee

Yes, it detaches. Just like the tails on those little lizards I used to chase in Florida.

[Straight Shooter]

35. OMG, who would have guessed ...

bush is a pencil d*ck

FWIW, I vote finger.

[Zenlitened]

36. Finger or pen. Definitely not a thumb. Too vertical, too straight,

Based on this picture, there is NO WAY that's a thumb. A pen, maybe. I have no idea what all this vehement "it's a thumb!" stuff is all about. :crazy:

[sabra]

37. pez dispenser

[On the Road]

38. Middle Finger

or possibly a pen. The key is the position on the hand. It looks to me like there's exactly enough space for an index finger on the left and the two smaller digits on the right.

I'm still not seeing the thumb at all.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

39. Any video available of Bush as he faces the camera - to see his hands?

Is there a full video available on the Internet like the one they showed on Leno? On Leno last night, they showed the video clip of Bush arriving in a hallway, walking towards and then past the press and the cameras. It was as he walked past and turned down a hallway with his back to the cameras that he appeared to flip the bird. I only saw it once last night on Leno and didn't notice if you could see his hands or whether he had anything in them as he walked past the cameras. Anyone notice? If his hands were empty, then it has to be a finger.

[mopaul]

41. middle finger

[Champion Jack]

42. middle finger

Just like on CSI!

[booksenkatz]

43. It ultimately doesn't matter, and here's why:

because all that matters is SPIN, not facts, not reasoned analysis. Just spin. Therefore, regardless of what I think it is (I think it's a thumb or a pen), I'm going to make sure I spread it far and wide that the president (gasp) flipped us off. Let those fucks be on the defense for a change. "Oh my God, I can't believe we have a president that would flip us off" is going to be my spin. Plenty of folks won't even have heard about it or seen it, much less read the analysis over it. They'll only hear the spin. My spin.

[bj2110]

44. It's a thumb, but I agree with patsified.

[earth mom]

46. You know it...

time for the dems to play the spin game! :evilgrin:

[Pathwalker]

45. Finger.

[rman]

47. thumb or pen

[alfredo]

48. Finger. That is not the first time he has shot the bird to the

American people.

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