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Sandpiper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:28 PM
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Does anyone think Bush is really 5'11"?
5'11" is average, and for a guy of supposedly average height, he sure seems unusually sensitive about it.

On basketball rosters, if a guy's 5'10", they'll usually list him as 6'0". I think that's what's going on with Dubya.

I'd put his real height at about 5'8" or 5'9".

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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:30 PM
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1. He's a shrimp
Edited on Mon Sep-27-04 03:30 PM by bif
I heard he wore risers (or lifts, or whatever you call them) when he debated Gore.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:31 PM
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2. Who knows. All I've seen said 6', even on the few Gov't records
wwhere it wasn't blacked out. I'm not going to get upset about 1". I'm much more concerned about his IQ than I am about his height.
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jean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:32 PM
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3. in his latest smear ad, they have Laura appearing under his right armpit,
way under, as if he is a towering 'figger' of a man.

Please - let's get debate images of the little man next to Kerry and slap them up all over the place.
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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:34 PM
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7. They insisted on lecterns 10 feet apart...
and they can't be shown side by side at any time.
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jean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:46 PM
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10. no split screen, huh? I want to see an accurate representation of their
relative size, along the lines of Gandalf and Bilbo (in the movie).



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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:33 PM
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4. Personally, I see him as a small dwarf
or maybe a spirochete actually.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 04:32 PM
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18. lol - good one!
maybe the syphilus pallidus spirochete?
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liberalnurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:33 PM
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5. *bush is definitely
a small troll they dragged out from under the bridge while he was sleeping off a drinking binge.
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:33 PM
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6. 5'11'' is average?
I thought 5'8'' was?
Either way, Karl neutralized the height discrepancy between him and Kerry..
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TexasSissy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:38 PM
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8. I think 5'10" is average. I think * is about 5'10" tops, judging by how
tall he is standing next to Laura and his daughters (when he's not wearing lifts).
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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:41 PM
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9. Well, ain't this a fine hey whoop dee diddle doo...
Y'all Libruls are prying into my personal life, AGAIN.

5'11"? Cain't a man have a little privacy? Let's just say that, like Greg Brady as rock star Johnny Bravo, I "fit the suit." And that's all I'm gonna say about it.
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buff2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:48 PM
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11. He looks to be 5' 8 or 5'9
No way is that shrimp 5'11. No matter how tall he is though, it can't take the ugly away from him. :puke:
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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:50 PM
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12. He Wears Lifts and Thick Soled Shoes To Make Him Appear Taller
I'd say he's probably around 5'7''.

Look at this picture and notice a couple of things; the thickness of the soles of his shoes and the height of his pants' cuffs. His cuffs are pretty high above his shoes because he's wearing lifts inside the shoes that were not there when his pants were tailored.

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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 04:31 PM
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17. THAT'S why he walks funny!
I've been thinking about the hype that * is such a macho, he-man athlete. Watch the way he walks when getting off AF1. Like he's afraid he's going to fall down the steps. I keep asking people: "Is that the way an athlete walks? He's no athlete." Now it makes sense. He's still no athlete.
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LisaLynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:53 PM
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13. He's a little guy...
in every way possible.
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MajorFlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 04:10 PM
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14. I'll tell ya' one thing: If I were Kerry, I wouldn't wait for the
moderator to declare the debate over, I would run right over and shake shrub's hand. For several minutes.
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Nordic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 04:16 PM
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15. I met him once and he's probably 5'10"
he was wearing dress shoes. I think. Come to think of it, coulda been cowboy boots.

He didn't seem "short". He seemed extremely average.

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progdonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 04:25 PM
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16. I take umbrage at calling 5'11" "average" :-)
It wouldn't surprise me if I would actually tower over Bush, though. All of those guys do it, since they know few people would ever meet them in person, and they can do wonders with camera angles.

One of the guys in my German class this summer was a full-fledged Repub (I wouldn't call him a Freeper because he didn't express the kind of bile those guys do), and he's involved in RNC politics. He told me that he once met Governor Gangbang (not his words, of course... :) ), and even he, standing at 5'10," was taller than Arnie. He could've been lying, but it would seem strange for a Repub to tell a Dem that ol' Arnie is a liar with size issues, so I find him credible.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 04:56 PM
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20. I know 5'11"
I am 5'11"

And I have many friends and associates who are 5'11".

So I think that makes me one of the tOp eXperTs on the plaNet on this suBject, and I say Shrub is a shrimp and he ain't welcome in the "International 5'11" Club. So that settles it.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 04:34 PM
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19. shrimpy shrub walks all hunched over so it's hard to tell anyway
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 05:02 PM
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21. My dad claims he's 5'9, in reality he's more like 5'6 on a good day
Little dictators Disease
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phylny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 05:04 PM
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22. Easily.
My husband met him a few years ago on the West Lawn, and looked him almost eye-to-eye. My husband is about 6'2".
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 05:05 PM
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23. He probably shrunk.
People shrink as they get older.
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