I cannot believe that people....

[BlueJac]

think that is GW's hand on a note......people just want to believe so badly it hurts...looks like a hoax........the hand looks like a 30 year old.....get real..it even hit the greatest (hoax) get real

[MissB]

1. Blame Reuters if you feel the need.

:rofl:

[OrlandoGator]

2. It's a real Reuters photo.

What more can I say? It's real.

[deadparrot]

3. Well, it must have fooled the captioners at Yahoo and Reuters...

because they were the ones who published it.

[justiceischeap]

4. So you think the Reuters photographer Photoshopped it? n/t

[Hamlette]

5. if we'd made it up we'd of come up with something more damning. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. The chain of custody of the image can be trusted. It is real.

[Rex]

7. Yell hoax all you want to

but we didn't make the picture up. Take it up with the owners. :eyes:

[Individualist]

8. I can't believe you think Reuters would photoshop

[TomInTib]

9. Your hands would look young too, if you'd never done an honest

days' work (even tho' he spends half his time in Crawford, it's not like he's clearing brush EVERY DAY).

This is just too in character for * not to be true.

[BlueJac]

10. As fools rush in!

got ya

[K-W]

11. Seems you want to be smarter than everyone so bad it hurts.

The picture is from reuters.

What you probably don't realize is that there is nothing abnormal about Bush informing his entourage about needing a break, its just funny thats all.

[etherealtruth]

12. I understand .

It defies reason to believe that the POTUS would be jotting notes about his potty problems while at the UN; unfortunately it appears to be true.

[K-W]

14. In reality its not that strange. The president does need to inform people

of even his most mundane movements in advance. Its not like hes in the white house.

[etherealtruth]

16. Yes, he does

I guess my attempt at being "cute" was not.

[jim3775]

13. I'm one of the fist people to call bullshit if something

is improbable, unless someone at reuters is playing a joke on us I believe this is real.

And I doubt that is is a joke because surely reuters knows about this and has investigated, if they found out it was a hoax they would have issued a retraction.

[berni_mccoy]

15. Rueters originally published a different version here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4771968&mesg_id=4772047

But after people read the note, they published a zoom in with higher contrast. The over-exposure softens the lines on the hand which were a small detail of the original photo. That's why it looks like younger skin.

[unless]

17. The writing looks odd too...

(he wrote the "let freedom reign")

Does anyone have a sample of his printing?