This picture of * stunned me

[Not a robought]

From

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1172179,00.html

The Mission: Find a Way to Stay Relevant

I can't reconcile the gall it takes to carry out a staged photo like this amidst the Katrina aftermath rebuild.

It wouldn't surprise me if spychimp nailed in 2 then took off for a rib dinner. Speechless.

[formercia]

1. He thought they were pretzel stix.

I'm so mad I could chew nails.....lol

[niallmac]

2. Maybe he'll be a regular Jimmy Carter as Ex President.

Lets find out now!:bounce:

[Quakerfriend]

3. The nail between the teeth is what really kills me!

I seem to remember having seen him do this with a twig 'wilst cuttin brush'.

American are NOT buying any of it anymore.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

8. You don't just put one in there...

You put several so you can get to them easily - if you just have one, you hold it in your other hand and nail the damn thing in. As someone who has never worked in his life, * just knows that you look like you're working hard when you do that.

[formercia]

13. I'm down to my last nail.

Squire, hand me some more of those things.

[astroBspacedog]

29. He's Going to Fall !!!

Look at the deep concentration on his face, the way he is holding the hammer, the size of the hammer, the nail in his mouth and the way the person has to hand him the next nail. I'm a carpenter and this picture is absolutely hilarious !!
I doubt they let him swing that hammer, but we should look for bruised fingernails in the near future.:rofl:

[astroBspacedog]

34. Where is the board that he's, --

allegedly supposed to nail? Thanks for posting this Robought, I needed a good laugh this morning.

[A Simple Game]

47. Not anymore I don't,

Ever since my grandson tried to emulate me by putting nails in his mouth!

Got to watch the young ones.

[KoKo]

4. He can't stop pretending he is "St. Ronnie Reagan."

And his "handlers" keep it going for fear that the reality of his idiocy would break the man...then they would have to call in the "white coats."

Better to keep him busy with his delusions than to have him taken away.

[babylonsister]

5. Well, you KNOW he didn't stay for any longer than

necessary. He's busy, he's werkin' hard, dammit, and those folks on the gulf coast are just a
detail that has to be acknowledged every once in awhile.
It's hard werk! :(

[SalmonChantedEvening]

6. "Now, do I hit the hammer with the nail, or is it the other way 'round?"

Whatta sad sad joke. :puke:

[formercia]

14. Peckerwoods use their own head. n/t

[Demit]

7. What a pissant little man. Look at the blankness behind his eyes. n/t

[Wickerman]

9. Why does he need someone to hand him nails

when he so manly like chews on them?

:puke:

[Lin]

16. omg! the DISEMBODIED extremity HANDING him what he needs speaks symbolic

volumes doesn't it? lol

[riona]

22. He needs his hands free to hold on to the ladder

[Frustratedlady]

10. Well, it looks to me as if....

George is listening to someone say, "Look, you put the sharp end of the nail at the point where you want it to enter the wood. Then, you poise the hammer with the round part facing forward and..."

[Stephanie]

11. that is what he did - he spent about 20 minutes at each photo-op

go to www.nola.com to find the local coverage of it

[boobooday]

12. I get CNN pipeline

And they had unedited footage of this. It's amazing to watch Dubya in this setting.

He was really into the construction thing. He wanted to climb the ladder. He got a little bored after he hammered in one nail, but he liked socializing with all the other men on ladders -- reaching out to shake the hand of a cameraman, for example.

Now I think he feels he has truly done something for the Katrina victims. He sweated a little, and climbed a ladder. And they were installing some very nice recessed lighting in what was obviously not a 9th Ward home, it was more comparable to Trent Lott's house.

When you see him in action, there is only one conclusion. He is a simpleton, a boy king. Every little thing he does is important, see, even if it is only symbolic, and everyone who is allowed to get near him must reinforce this view of his highness.

It's the disease of privilege, and he's got it bad. Some who are born to privilege manage to escape the disase, but Bush embraces it. He is the poster boy for what the founding fathers wanted to prevent: a bunch of selfish brats who inherited power through wealth running around tyrannizing the rest of the world.

Fratzilla Boys.

[Batgirl]

19. insightful, and explains in a nutshell

why so many of us had a visceral negative reaction to him from day one:

"It's the disease of privilege, and he's got it bad. Some who are born to privilege manage to escape the disase, but Bush embraces it. He is the poster boy for what the founding fathers wanted to prevent: a bunch of selfish brats who inherited power through wealth running around tyrannizing the rest of the world."

[boobooday]

24. Yes. That visceral reaction is a kind of radar

For those who are tuned in to it. How people can tolerate being patronized by this smug fool is amazing to me. :puke:

I think a lot of Clinton's brilliance is in his ability to send the opposite message. I admire that, and I think that is exactly the quality we need to look for in our next candidate.

:hi:

[Lisa]

40. I've seen some other candid footage -- he seems obsessed with posing

He takes an artificial photo-op situation, and makes it seem even more contrived. Like at the infamous "plastic turkey" dinner, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation showed him heading for the turkey, picking up the platter (being sure to face the cameras), then plunking it down a few seconds later. It was painfully obvious that he was very proud of himself for making such a pretty picture! And during that trip to India, there was a display of vegetables at a farm -- Bush simply could not resist going over and picking up one of the large tubers ("see how strong I am!").

A still photo or carefully-edited news clip makes it look spontaneous, but as you say, the raw footage shows how trivial and shallow he is.

[Poppyseedman]

15. Wow, I thought the title of the picture was your dig at bush

It Time's online title!!!!

[karlrschneider]

17. "Uh, gimme another one, this nail goes on the other side"

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[NMDemDist2]

20. oh? do tell us what fish you have on the menu today n/t

[mtnsnake]

35. I'll bet it's "fillet of democrat"!

Judging by his trivialization of the OP, I wouldn't be surprised if he's parboiling it before sticking it on the barbecue grill!

[Zomby Woof]

38. No, we don't

Bush is the biggest fish there is, and he smells like one rotting in the sun. So we should fry him, although a pan is not the method I have in mind...

His staged response to Katrina is one phony photo-op after another, and deserves to be mocked for what it is. A DISGRACE.

And the fact that a pro-business, pro-GOP rag like Time magazine mocks Bush, is all the more reason the OP is relevant.

"Always Proud of America", indeed. Hope you're proud of your Bold and Fearless Leader and his raping of our civil liberties. :hurts:

[Bridget Burke]

48. So let's have a banquet....

In fact, the bigger fish are better poached. Let's fry the little ones while we wait.

[Arugula Latte]

50. Welcome to DU, Bite --

Judging from your posts here and elsewhere, you'll have a short stay. :hi:

[Lefty48197]

21. Remember Mr. President, the POINTY end of the nail goes into the wood

you're supposed to hit the FLAT end.

[rustydad]

23. Just think.....

....how much time this stunt took away from the efforts of the real workers. Shameful. Bob

[The Backlash Cometh]

25. Well, there's the problem. The man sucks on galvanized nails.

[hfojvt]

26. The way he is holding that hammer - in the middle of the handle

reminds me of what Letterman said when he saw Bush hammering a nail. He said Bush "hammers like a little girl". Then he had somebody bring out some boards, hammer and nails, and pounded a couple nails in.

It is good to see, though, that they wisely do not trust Bush with an air hammer.

[lpbk2713]

27. Not even a full size hammer.

Looks more like a tack hammer. Inappropriate for the size nails in the pic.

[DoYouEverWonder]

28. Not to mention

He's holding the hammer in the wrong direction.

Maybe he intends to turn it around when he figures out how the nail thing works?

[AngryOldDem]

30. Who said he nailed anything?

Probably just stood on the ladder with the nails in his mouth and then left after the pic was taken.

In any event, he looks like he doesn't have the faintest idea of what he's doing. Big surprise.

[EFerrari]

31. Everything he does is make believe. This is as real as he gets. nt

[earth mom]

32. I can hear him whine, "It's HAAARRRRDDDDD work...."

Give me a break. The guy's never worked a day in his life. :eyes:

[opihimoimoi]

33. The video of this shows he whacked at an 8 penny nail for 15 times and

they cut off the vid...He took gurly man hits at the nail holding the hammer in a 5 year old grip...he cannot build furniture much less cut wood for a frame...he cannot read the Tape for gods sake...

[Generic Other]

36. He cinches up so high with that hammer that it wouldn't drive a tack

What a phony ass. Let's face it, who would let Bush work on a house they wanted to live in? You have to build to code in most areas. Nothing Bush nailed up would be safe. Good grief.

Give him a toolbelt and he thinks he's a man. Let him ride a bike as fast as he can and he thinks he's an athlete.

Give him a flightsuit and he thinks he's a warrior.

Steal him an office and he thinks he's a leader.

In fact, he's a stupid little monkey trying to fit in his daddy's stinking shoes. UGH.

[Rob H.]

37. Wow. With that blank expression he looks *even dumber* than usual. nt

[Minstrel Boy]

39. fucking asshole. here's what real work looks like:

[Greeby]

41. "Why do you work harder than our actual President?"

Jon Stewart to Jimmy Carter on the Daily Show :patriot:

[Lisa]

43. interesting -- Pres. Carter is wearing his belt with the pouches in front

Where he can actually reach the tools. As someone on this other thread remarked, it looks like Pres. Bush is wearing his belt the wrong way around (with the pouches in back). There's a reason why they make it a quick-release buckle, Dubya! (Or maybe he just felt that he needed to cover his ass, what with the Katrina debacle.)





http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=606922

[Neil Lisst]

42. he is such a poseur

he loves to play dress up, too

[maveric]

44. Why is he still trying to sell that "Hard Worker" image?

Everyone knows he's a spoiled and pampered little rich kid who never broke an honest days sweat in his pathetic life.

"This is a nail Mr. President. You hit this end with the hammer. Yeah, that thing in your hand".

[0007]

45. What a stupid photo!

[Lisa]

46. The Three Stooges were more competent homebuilders than Bush!

Seriously. Here's a picture of some houses they constructed in Brooklyn.




http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/moeshouse/moehouse.html

[SammyWinstonJack]

49. !

:spray: spychimp :rofl: He looks out of it in that pic. Daydreaming again.

[KansDem]

51. Wait! Isn't that a picture of Trent Lott's front porch? (eom)