Bush & Lula: most painful hug photo since McCain brought to heel

[yurbud]

[shain from kane]

1. Lula: To Sir With Love.

[kenny blankenship]

2. aWwWwWkwaaaaaard!

Somebody tell Georgie that the Lambada is the forbidden dance!

[MADem]

3. It has a quality like this one about it....

[yurbud]

5. oddly, anyone Bush hugs becomes as brittle as Nixon...

[Jim Warren]

10. Hilarious

Dick was obviously more comfortable hugging himself than having to putting his hands on Sammy.

[SoCalDem]

13. How 'bout this photo op? defines awkward

[yurbud]

34. Mr. T aint gonna find much milk in that nipple

[Selatius]

4. Lula was always on better terms with his neighbors such as Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela, not the US

The US was always seen as the outside foreign power in the region that imposed its will in various ways both politically through free trade agreements and militarily through the support and weaponization of dictatorships.

[yurbud]

6. yep. I didn't even think this represented Lula knuckling under, just a good image of how people

feel about Bush.

[MilesColtrane]

7. How do you say "somebody get this sweaty moron off of me" in Portuguese? n/t

[bluedog]

17. alguém começa este moron sweaty fora de mim

ref.....AltaVista Babel

[Divernan]

8. W is hunched up like a dog humping someone's leg!

Sorry for the imagery - but that's how it looks to me.

[lolly]

20. Damn! I thought is was me!

Yeah, that's exactly what I thought when I looked at it.

Thought I was little sicko for getting that image.

It's the weird bend to his back. When you hug, you're supposed to pull your body towards whomever you're hugging--not bend part of it back.

[Richard D]

21. Yeah

I'm sure * is closeted.

[tibbiit]

26. I was going to type

He looks like he is right about to hump his leg.
He really really does lol.
tib

[SoCalDem]

31. someone should animate it.. with Lula saying "down boy"

:)

[Ino]

9. My gawd, Bush is disturbed... and disturbing. (n/t)

[SoCalDem]

11. C'mere ya big lug.. Give Poppa a kiss

:)

[yurbud]

12. "Will the organ grinder please pull his monkey off me?"

[yurbud]

16. PIC the grinder and his monkey

[Judi Lynn]

14. He's no James Bond, is he?

It's so obvious he is damned determined to get a flattering photo op from Lula to make himself look good for publicity purposes, and he couldn't care less what Lula thinks.

Pathetic son of a bitch.

[seafan]

15. He just cannot keep his hands off of people. It is another sign of veiled contempt.

U.S. President George W. Bush smiles as he puts his arm around Flavio Pimenta, left, Director of Meninos do Morumbi as they tour the center's computer lab, Friday, March 9, 2007 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Meninos do Morumbi is a community center serving teenagers in the neighborhood. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)


Wonder what little nickname * bestowed upon Mr. Pimenta..

[yurbud]

18. only the teacher knows to be afraid. like that American kid Saddam put his arm around in first Iraq

War.

[Richard D]

22. Or

Closeted homosexuality.

[Stephanie]

19. good call

that one's a winner

[yurbud]

27. it was front page above the fold on LA Times today

[Frustratedlady]

23. GW is really prostituting himself. What an awkward clutch.

It appears he is wearing his bullet-proof vest or has put on weight.

[EFerrari]

25. The Decider isn't the one prostituting himself in that picture.

Lula must have handlers with barf bags on call. :puke:

[MADem]

30. I'd say both. The ballistic lining is visible and he's jowly. NT

[Swamp Rat]

24. porra!

Parece que Bushler tá cagando em tadinho Lula! :puke:

[UTUSN]

28. At least Angela fought back!!1

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2006/07/19/BUSH.TMP&o=0

[yurbud]

32. She should have aimed a little lower and punched him in the nuts

[yurbud]

33. No offense to Merkel, but Bush might have thought it was Harriet Miers.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

29. So Bush HAS seen the protestors. n/t

[peekaloo]

35. "Damn, I loved you in the Addams Family, Gomez!". Now speak French.