Photo: Bush stares down Haley Barbour. Bring...it...AWWWWWN!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/images/20050905-11_f1g6264-515h.html

President George W. Bush talks with Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, far left, and other state officials in Poplarville, Miss., during a visit Monday, Sept. 5, 2005 to the Gulf Coast region. White House photo by Eric Draper

[MADem]

1. Haley looks like he has been on the phone with Trent Lott

Gee, no smiles from the adoring throngs?? No one in that bunch seems very adoring, to me.

[Helga Scow Stern]

2. Great pic. Bush looks like a prickly porcupine. I wonder what

Barbour had said to elicit that display.

[yellowcanine]

6. What is amazing is that WH has that photo on website. Somebody

seriously screwed up communications-wise. Wasn't it his communications director that just got married? That would explain some of the tin ear communications foul ups this past week.

[Kerrytravelers]

3. CAPTION: I'm gonna tell my Daddy.

[Wilber_Stool]

18. Don't you mean Mommie?...n/t

[yellowcanine]

4. Bush body language says it all. He couldn't look more defensive unless

he crossed his arms across his chest. And Haley looks as if he would like to slug the chimpster.

[napi21]

5. Ooooh, would I love to have audio with that one!

Shrub rarely poses like that with his hands on his hips! Sure looks like somebody is getting reamed!

[eek]

8. Barbour is a total bushevik.

He's been on the defense for team aWol from the git-go (unless he's finally changed his tune as well?)

[zulchzulu]

7. Haley is gonna git his KKK buddies on the Chimp

This is gonna git good, y'all.

[jimshoes]

9. Bout time

somebody pops the chimp's bubble.

[barbaraann]

10. Those state officials are all white!

I know there are black people in Mississippi.

[sandnsea]

14. Poplarville - 75% White

Interesting choice of a location to visit.

[Toots]

11. Notice all the black faces..looks like a typical KKK ralley.

:shrug:

[underpants]

12. The really sad part-Barbour is more able than W to do most anything

I was going to say he has more power (as a HUGE Repub fundraiser) but I doubt that that is actually true....at least while W is in office.

[jean]

13. the puny man stands with arms akimbo, trying to take up more space

cuz he feels so small.

[whistle]

15. Haley Barbour website...warning racist symbols on display

C therationonum
Haley Barbour is the 63rd Governor of Mississippi. He was elected on November 4, 2003, in the largest turnout in a gubernatorial election in state history.

Since becoming Governor he has been focused on job creation. Governor Barbour led the fight against lawsuit abuse in Mississippi and helped pass the Tort Reform Act of 2004 – legislation The Wall Street Journal called “one of the most comprehensive legal reform bills in the nation.” He also initiated the largest overhaul of workforce development efforts in state history and significantly increased funding for job training.

Governor Barbour organized “Momentum Mississippi” – the state’s long-range economic development strategy group which is composed of state business and community leaders. In his first year, Mississippi had the largest increase in net new jobs since 1999 and the largest increase in personal income since 1998.

This year Governor Barbour introduced Mississippi’s most comprehensive education reform legislation in almost 25 years. His “Upgrade Education Reform” package rewards teacher and school performance, reduces state bureaucracy and strengthens discipline in Mississippi public schools.

In keeping with his pledge to clean up state budget problems he inherited, Governor Barbour introduced “Operation: Streamline”— the largest cost-saving plan in state history—and successfully opposed tax increases on Mississippi citizens.

Governor Barbour has re-focused Mississippi on the fight against drugs by pushing tougher crystal meth laws and reorganizing the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics. As a result, drug arrests are up 73% during his term.

Governor Barbour has also led the fight to save Mississippi’s struggling Medicaid program, encouraging preventative care for recipients and implementing the strongest anti-fraud plan in the history of Mississippi Medicaid.

Governor Barbour has worked to protect the unborn. He initiated and passed six Pro-Life laws during 2004 that make Mississippi “the safest place in America for an unborn child,” according to national right-to-life organization, Americans United for Life.

In the mid-‘80’s, Governor Barbour advised President Ronald Reagan for nearly two years as Director of the White House Office of Political Affairs.

From 1993 to January 1997, Governor Barbour served two terms as Chairman of the Republican National Committee, including the 1994 elections when Republicans won GOP control of both houses of Congress for the first time in forty years and increased the number of Republican governors rose from 17 to 32.

Governor Barbour founded and formerly served as Chair and CEO of Barbour Griffith and Rogers, which Fortune magazine ranked the nation’s top lobbying firm.

He is a native of Yazoo City where he lives with his wife, Marsha. They have two adult sons. Governor Barbour is a Deacon in the First Presbyterian Church of Yazoo City where he has also taught Sunday School.

Updated: 4/11/05

<link> http://www.governorbarbour.com/Governor.htm

Hummm, from his own website Barbour admits to everything that is indifferent and unresponsive to basic needs of most Americans.

- Tort Reform
- “Momentum Mississippi”
- “Upgrade Education Reform”
- “Operation: Streamline”

Barbour has lead Mississippi on the fight against drugs by pushing tougher crystal meth laws and reorganizing the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics. So what, more arrests and tougher penalties on drug use does not mean less drug use!

Barbour says he has saved Mississippi’s struggling Medicaid program by encouraging preventative care for recipients and implementing the strongest anti-fraud plan in the history of Mississippi Medicaid -- translation, more Medicaid patients have to pay more for the own health care.

Barbour has worked to protect the unborn and has initiated and passed six Pro-Life laws during 2004 that make Mississippi “the safest place in America for an unborn child,” according to national right-to-life organization, Americans United for Life -- once born however the baby as well as the young mothers are totally on their own especially in disaster situations like that which has followed Hurricane Katrina.

These are not policies which solve any social problems, these are the kinds of policies which are sociopath in nature, creating conditions ripe with all kinds of social problems.

[KansDem]

16. Hey! Where's George's "device?"

I guess when your not wired for answers, you spend a lot of time staring at people.

Oh, wait...he's not wearing his $3,000 suit. That's why he doesn't look all lumpy in the back...!

[spooky123]

17. photo

bush looks like he is saying how dare you challenge my good work here. when is someone going to get this guy. he has disroyed our country and given it away to his friend. The fema dude knows horses not people. he couldn't even get the flags to fly at half mass until renquest died. He can't say anything that is his own, Rove has to tell him what to say. Who voted for this smuck. God save us from the years that are left to his president. Impeach Him.:-(