Have any other US presidents spoken on a stage like this?

[Eric J in MN]

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. What can't be seen in that picture is

There is a barricade, a fair amount of space, and two SS agents in between him and the troops. PBS showed it.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/iraq/index.html

[LizW]

17. I saw them briefly on ABC

It was offensive. They were standing on each side of Bush, facing the audience, during the whole thing.

[insane_cratic_gal]

2. It's so the chimp

remembers where he is!!

Fort Bragg .. Fort Bragg

blah blah blah.. The graphics always amuse me at these things..

[Tommymac]

No, and no one has yet either.

[MarkTwain]

9. Kudos....

... the POST OF THE NIGHT!

Touche.

[Badger1]

3. No

No other prez has been this desperate. What a worthless POS

[MisterP]

4. "Mom would always say that I was sorta a braggadocio"

(paraphrase of Shrub, c. 2001)

[LibertyorDeath]

5. That is hysterical OMFG are they for real

I'll take NuCu-Lar for one hundred Alex.

[Eric J in MN]

6. It's a Reuters photo. I didn't change it in any way.

I got it by going to Yahoo! News and it was the second photo in a collection of Reuters photos.

[LibertyorDeath]

22. Thanks just went & looked at the slide show

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. Probably not, but then again, president's haven't spoken on stages like

THIS before, either: (RNC podium from NY, 2004)





If you study the podium VERY CAREFULLY, a hidden pattern emerges!
:o

[Chan790]

13. Wow.

OMFG. That's creepy. It's a friggin cross. They can't be serious, like that isn't way too obvious. Just more proof that your run of the mill GOPper has a god complex.

[NightOwwl]

16. I actually said to myself...

"Oh my god, it's the World Trade Center!"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. "It's a cross, AND the World Trade Center!"

Pimping 9/11 AND fundie evangelical Xtianism at the SAME TIME for the win!

[jayctravis]

8. I wonder where he is? Fort Bragg?

Just in case the audience forgot?

I'm surprised it's not one of their tiled-repeating desktop subliminal-slogan backgrounds.

[Bluebear]

14. It's in case HE forgot.

"Ah'd lahk to say it's a pleasure bean here at (nervous glance right and left)...'Fffftt Bragg'/"

[kodi]

10. Only one, President George M. Cohan

the blatant use of symbolism on that stage would be even more repugnant were it not so obvious and lame.

the only thing missing was a huge, illuminated crucifx behind Bush.

[Eric J in MN]

12. Bush has a huge silver halo. (nt)

nt

[Eric J in MN]

11. Does anyone know what the seals to the left and right say?

The words in the circles to Bush's left and right?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. "Department of the Army" "United States of America"

[Eric J in MN]

18. thanks (nt)

nt

[gulliver]

20. Lipstick on a pig. That picture says it all.

Tiny little man in a megaforce marketing wrapper! I sometimes can't believe what I see. And his advance people started the applause too.

Mind boggling, farcical... a tour de force of travesty.

[Stirk]

21. I'm always waiting for guitar solo when I see those sets.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

23. "This Speech Needs More Dry Ice!"

[Stirk]

25. LMAO

Classic.

[libodem]

24. that photo looks so well framed with packaging and glitz

it reminds me of scary movies where all the powers that be are created, designed, manufactured, for presentation. Nothing is actually 'real' it's all phoney and faked. Nothing natural, spontaneous, or genuine, it's all staged, like a media production. Like a Stepford President. Like the Wizard of Oz...with KKKarl behind the curtain puffing the smoke and flashing the mirrors. It's not human. It's a mannequin. The Mannequin Candidate. (spell check won't work..forgive any errors):)

[WCGreen]

26. It's the stage for so you want to be an American......

All you have to do is sign up and fight our war for us......