PHOTO: Bush in compassionate deep thought for tsunami victims

"In this photo released by the White House Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2005, President Bush talks with Secretary of State Colin Powell and Florida Governor Jeb Bush, while working in the Oval Office, during their trip to tsunami affected areas."

Of course, it probably took 70 shots to get that just-right pensive stare on film...note also how the White House also stresses that he was actually "working" instead of clearing brush for five minutes.

That may explain the expression.

And on a side note, I think I have the exact same tie he is wearing. DAMN IT, I loved that one.

If you zoomed in it is probably little white elephants or dollar signs.

I always see him with a pen and a stupid pad of paper.

Doesn't his head look disproportionately small compared to the rest of him? The photo says it was released by the White House. I wouldn't put it past them to photoshop the photo.

pads. Would a bullet-proof vest be that bulky?

jeez I hope not

edit: actually could be an oil gusher

Note to self, use tornado to clear brush.

Admiring death and destruction.

an oil well coming in. He's probably convinced himself by now that he was a success in the oil 'bidness'. Delusional.

edited for spelling.

or bbq chicken wings?.........:shrug:

they fail so miserably. primary reason: the man simply looks like an idiot when he fakes being human for the camera.

his natural state is the smirk of "who cares what you think"

At least for those who he doesn't have a spell over. those folks probably would pay good money for a reprint of this photo, like the ones he sold of himself on 9/11.

ah, the boy just loves destruction. Bet he's asking bro how the body's smell.

To provide that certain "Statesman-like by association" subliminal effect.

Who gives a fuck about their propaganda? He's Joe Isuzu for chrissakes.

after he finishes drawing pictures.

Nice catch. No one does any serious writing with a Sharpie. He's just posing.

On a related note and in completely bad taste...

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0105/asia.html

Freehold, Iowa - Not since the time of Noah has God used water so effectively to harass sinners and wreak havoc upon those who don't flatter Him with sufficient regularity. As unsaved, impoverished Hindus toiled in beachside shacks on Christmas instead of exchanging expensive gifts from American department stores to celebrate the Baby Jesus' Birthday, the Lord was plotting their horrific, briny demise. True Christians know from the Great Flood that one of God's favorite ways to indiscriminately kill enormous swaths of children is by drowning them and watching them gasp for air and then float like little discarded Styrofoam cups in the tide. Sometimes, He extends an enormous hand as if He is about to rescue the bobbing tot, only to retract it at the last minute to teach the drowning child a valuable lesson about the ineffable nature of God's love.

While American Christians have long delighted in the carnage that resulted from the Lord's irascibility as depicted in countless, grisly episodes in the Old Testament, the present-day flooding in Asia brought home the enormous power of their deity more vividly because of its immediacy.

He still looks like Emmitt Otter to me.

No help for it I guess.

This will probably be for sale soon to good patriots(TM) everywhere.

"This "hold" music is simply riveting! I've always loved Chuck Mangione...Oh! Hello! Is this Domino's pizza?"

Thank heavens Laura wrote down the order for me. I might never have remembered all three toppings."

without Laura?

this one reminds me of the one on AF1, when he was running away from whatever he perceived the attack on 9-11 to be.

Then, suddenly, we see, he was not RUNNING away. He was doing hard work on AF1, by talking on the telephone on his way to a bunker somewhere in the west.

And, in all arrogance, sold those posed photos, for fifty dollars apiece.

Is the cap still on his pen? Looks like it to me. I am sick of his poorly acted, put on face.

or is he talking??....and NOBODY can hear him....

I've never quite seen it before.

Such a staged-looking photo.

Keepin up with football is HARD work.

He can't write. What the fuck's with the notepad? I call Bullshit!

unlike that shot of him using binos backwards.

-- a subtle artistic dig at the subject in front of it?

n/t