NICE...Check Out Bush Checking Out

Check Out Bush Checking Out

by Craig Brown

The NYT just ran an interview with Reuters head photo editor Jim Bourg who shared the following:
http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/

I was planning describe to and you had asked me to choose ten photographs, but to tell you the truth, I was pretty tempted to supplement it with one of the pictures by our photographer Jason Reed from (Bush's January 15th) farewell address. I was paging through the thumbnails with our remote editing program as they came in live from the White House. And it is not often, with all the pictures I've edited, that I stop dead in my tracks and say, "Oh, my God," but I did that last night. Bush finished his address to the nation, went back out through the doors, and the doors closed behind him and the national TV broadcast went off the air. And then after the live TV was off, the doors suddenly reopened, and he came back in to say goodbye to all the guests - his former cabinet members, his current cabinet members, Dick Cheney, his daughters, Laura and lots of other friends and supporters. He popped out that door, and when the door opened and he came through it, the look on his face was like no look I'd ever seen on George Bush's face in my life. I actually flagged three versions as he comes through the door and his expression changes.

And I turned to one of my editors - First I said, "Oh, my God." And he said, "What?" And I said, "You've got to see this picture of Bush. This is really stunning." And I flipped it over to him to process and his first reaction was, "Wow." And I said, "If he wasn't just back there behind that door crying, I don't know what that look on his face is." Because he just looks absolutely devastated as he comes through this door after essentially ending his eight year presidency. And it's just really striking. He just looks absolutely devastated.





http://www.commondreams.org/further/check-out-bush-checking-out

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of failure and disgrace.

Like he just realized for the first time that the Obama administration has the ability to unveil all of his dirty little secrets.

Frieghtened to be exact is what I think. His 'retirement' won't be what he had envisioned that I feel good in saying.

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he is alone and no protections, his legacy he knows is shit and good. suffer.

:applause:

Captions not needed.

:rofl:

He looks like he is frightened big time - did he throw up?

These pictures are more what I'd expect, considering the
disaster his presidency degenerated into ...

various comments repudiating bush's leadership.

Nary a reaction, from what I could see, and I was trying to watch for it.

Remember during the first debate with John Kerry during the 2004 race? Remember all the smirking and annoyed faces he made? Remember all the reaction shots? You could read his face like a comic book, it was that clear and glaring. And it got all kinds of coverage all over the place. NOTHING this time. He had to be completely anesthetized. Because he sat there like a stone, not reacting at all. He would have shown some taking-of-offense, otherwise.

To prison.

What an asshole.

probably had been crying. It's a family trait - Poppa Bush finds it hard to hold back tears as well and rarely succeeds. The fact that W is clueless about what he's done to his country and its people and the rest of the world is another story entirely. This was an emotional goodbye by a man who believes he was a good president. Kinda sad.

Good one! :hi:

AP Photo Ron Edmonds - 3 weeks ago: In this Jan. 7, 2009 file photo, President George W. Bush, right, and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, left, enjoy a light moment during a reception in honor of the Points of Light Institute in the East Room at the White House in Washington. When George Bush lifts off in his helicopter on Inauguration Day, leaving Washington to make way for Barack Obama, he may not be the only thing disappearing into the horizon. To a number of social analysts, historians, bloggers and ordinary Americans, Jan. 20 will symbolize the passing of an entire generation: the baby boomer years.



AFP/Getty - 1 week ago: Outgoing US President George W. Bush (L) and his successor Barack Obama (R) depart the White House in a limousine en route to the US Capitol for Obama's inauguration as 44th US president on January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC.



AP Photo by Charles Dharapak - 1 week ago: President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama bid farewell to former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush at a waiting Marine helicopter on the East front of the Capitol in Washington after Obama was sworn in as the 44th president, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.

Seriously.

That is one sorry specimen and his face shows it all.

Thanks for posting this!

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He's finally on the receiving end of his own greedy selfish policies.

Alot of americans are going to feel this way if they don't already, and they don't get his pension and party benefits.

he has been the worst pResident ever. I don't give a flying fish about his sorry ass.

His hopes and dreams of dictatorial powers came oh, so close to fruition, but as with everything else he does, it failed miserably. He never thought his crimes would come to light because he would be in charge of everything forever. The War on Terror was to be a never ending war and he would be the never ending Commander in Chief. Waller around in your grief, you lousy shitstain.

8 years of torture and we are still letting the Republicans and Rush Limbaugh run their mouths.

America must love the pain.. its called Bipartisanship.

Or not.