Worst Backdrop Yet? ---pix--->>>

[Stephanie]

Flanked by a pair of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, President George W. Bush talks about reducing the country's dependence on oil after touring the California Fuel Cell Partnership facility in West Sacramento, Calif., Saturday, April 22, 2006. The President toured the facility were several car manufacturers are working to perfect hydrogen fuel cell technology for automobiles. The stop in West Sacramento is part of Bush's weekend trip to California.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060422/480/carp10604222257

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. How much fuel

did W burn to go across the country and pose with fake backdrops?

[pacalo]

11. *applause, applause*

[gatorboy]

13. No kidding!

Lead by example, Mr. Bush. I'm sure you showed up in a hydrogen fueled, stretched limo...Right? :eyes:

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Is that a bigfoot getting on that plane?

Or just a regular chimp?

Dictators and their backdrops are the same the world over...Propaganda...A dog and pony show, for the faithful fools!

[A HERETIC I AM]

19. See my post below - # 17 about that photo.

n/t

[partylessinOhio]

36. I seem to remember it costs $75,000 to fill AF1.

USA Today reported this on 6/01/2004:

$56,800-per-hour the Air Force estimates it costs to run Air Force One.

Here is another estimate in 2005 from
KVIA.com – The El Paso News Leader:

Every Bush flight is costly

WASHINGTON President Bush is on his seventh trip to the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina hit a month ago. The visit comes even as he encourages Americans to save gas, and to cut out unnecessary travel. He says federal employees will do the same. The president's spokesman says this trip is, in fact, essential -- so the president can get a look at recovery efforts.

Spokesman Scott McClellan says the president's motorcade of gas-guzzling vans and S-U-Vs is being shortened. But it's hard to make similar savings on Air Force One. The Air Force recently estimated that fuel costs on the presidential aircraft have risen past six-thousand-dollars an hour, up from just under four-thousand in the last budget year.

:think:

What is the cost now at over $75 a barrel?

[janx]

2. YES.

It's more game show than ever! Who is in love with blue and gold, anyway?

[MisterP]

20. if he wants to be a Boy Scout, he can sell popcorn outside of Vons

[HughBeaumont]

3. Personally, THIS is my favorite Backdropaganda -

[tabasco]

6. Good one!

Those backdrops are so 1984-ish.

[Cronus Protagonist]

31. I like this one

http://bushspeaks.com/home.asp?did=218

[soup]

4. A used car salesman with a podium?

Hold onto your wallet and Run for it!

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Top pic - " Ya'll wanna throw me under the bus, dontcha?"

[AlCzervik]

7. hmm, the backdrop---AEI, coincidence--i don't think so.

[arcane1]

12. good catch

[timtom]

28. I'm really stupid right now.

What's AEI?

[bleever]

29. American Enterprise Institute

Right wing think tank, friendly audiences for * and Deadeye Dick.

[timtom]

30. Thanks for the heads up.

These assholes just can't stop slapping us in the face with their evil.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

8. .....

:banghead:

[babylonsister]

9. While we're faced with this:

I went into the gas station today and asked for five dollars worth of gas.
The clerk farted and gave me a receipt.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Good one!

[MADem]

14. That backdrop makes me think ....

See that bus, ya fucker? GET ON IT!!!!!

[shenmue]

16. Wouldn't you love to know...

what Cheney's 'energy initiative' was?

[A HERETIC I AM]

17. On CNN a little while ago, Chimpy was walking toward a podium

and in the background was one of the Marine Blackhawk Helicopters they take with them to fly him around. Now, you have to understand the logistics of this. HE flys on a 747 from DC to take a BIKE ride in California. Along with the 747 are at least 2 Air Force C-17 cargo planes, one of which carries at least one of those Blackhawks, Rotors folded, of course, so that he can fly around to the various places too close to bother flying the 747. Usually, if i am not mistaken, the other C-17 carries the Secret Service detachment with all the limos and black suburbans to tote him around as well.

So - the real irony here is that he went to have photo ops about fuel saving vehicles and the entourage that followed him burned HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF JET FUEL TO GET HIM THERE?


Can you say "Hypocrisy"?


I knew you could

This giant horses ass has used Air Force one more than the previous 3 presidents combined. (I'm guessing here but i bet i'm not far off)

[Hubert Flottz]

24. I know what you're sayin' is true.

At least 2 planes fly in when Dumbya comes here too. Hell it's only our money! Dumbya is the king right?

[A HERETIC I AM]

27. I've tried numerous times to find a site mentioning how much he flys AF1

and info about the airborne logistics of even his shortest hops. I can't find one. Not through Google, anyway. I know he doesnt always fly on the 747. Many places the president might go have airfields too small for that big plane. In fact, you folks might remember there was an incident during Clintons Admin where Clinton went somewhere in the Midwest in one of the older 707 airframes they still used and the pilot accidentally drove it off the taxiway and got it stuck (a career ending move, i'm sure)

The point here is that it is hardly EVER just one plane.


This dick uses more jet fuel in one week than you and i will use gasoline in a lifetime.

[applegrove]

18. Blue is cold. Yellow anxiety causing. They used blue as backdrop

after katrina.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

21. So hungover he forgot his tie.

Or he couldn't remember how to tie it. Again. :eyes:

[MADem]

22. He should just give up and go with a clip on! n/t

[politicasista]

23. Blinky pretends to look presidental as usual. n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

25. And of course he's frigging color coordinated to it! Shameless! Meanwhile

I have said it before..what are the costs for them to push their propaganda?

Also, as I understand, hydrogen fuel takes more energy to produce than what you will get out of it.

[Jeanette in FL]

26. This is "Spinal Tap"

For anyone who has never seen the movie, it is about a Rock Group, that has played all the major venues, has had major success and then starts tumbling downward.

At the end, they are performing for Supermarket Openings, High Schools, anywhere to make a buck, but they still believe that they are on top and that they will be able to turn the whole thing around.

One of my favorite movies.

[jokerman93]

32. Looks like the President of the United States

...has been reduced to selling old Popular Science back issues to the rotary club. Gee-Wiz Beav!

Soon no doubt, flying cars will appear in one of his new and improved, chemically-induced speeches. Ah...life in America, 2006 c.e.. Sure is weird these days. :crazy:

[Chomp]

33. What

a fukken embarrassment. Again.

[goclark]

34. I love the designer of the Phony Drop Ops

They get more laughable everyday.

Can't they see that it is not working?

Keep um coming GW!

[lpbk2713]

35. COME ON DOWN AND MAKE ME AN OFFER

ON ONE OF THESE LOW-MILEAGE BEAUTIES!!!






Come see us at Honest George's Used Cars. Home of the best deal you'll find anywhere.

And bring the kiddies to see Rummy the Clown and Princess Condi.


We're just off the Interstate on Halliburton Drive.

[Jeanette in FL]

37. OMFG

That had to be the funniest thing that I've seen in a long time.

[partylessinOhio]

38. What is a "CELL BUS?"

Is that a prison bus? Good grief!
:eyes:

[ThsMchneKilsFascists]

39. How many wish that moran WOULD go play in traffic?? n/t

[rucky]

40. "The bus I rode to school was alot shorter than this one..." n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

41. how bout this for a backdrop?