Bush's "Back Pack" Springs Big Leak after Last Night's Speech!

[KoKo]

(Is this another photo "enhancement." (Many DU'ers understand what Bush's "Backpack" means, I hope). Do most men leave a sweat pattern like this in a very loose fitting shirt? AND, it's another Reuter's Photo! :eyes: )

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About That Backdrop
TV critic Paul Brownfield writes for the Los Angeles Times: "The set piece was in sharp contrast to the backdrop that TV reporters and anchors have been using in the last few weeks, their dispatches filed from the edge of floodwaters and ruined homes, from shelters where lives had been turned upside down. . . .

"So the spooky placidity of Jackson Square, on what conveyed an otherwise peaceful evening in New Orleans, seemed an oddly appropriate choice for a president who throughout this crisis has been unable to halt the image of a leader who has been neither here nor there. . . .

"Bush, you thought, could have given this speech from the Oval Office, but he came to stake his own version of being there. And he chose the only kind of postcard left on the racks -- the impossibly serene one."

Here's the one unscripted image of the night: A Reuters photo showing a clearly exhausted, sweat-soaked Bush returning to Air Force One after his speech last night.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

[Child_Of_Isis]

1. clearly exhausted, sweat-soaked Bush

Speech reading is "hard werk".

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. That's not fair.

He has to work 4 hr days now. So give him a break.

[splat@14]

8. Time for another vacation. He did cut the last one short!

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[shaniqua6392]

2. He works hard or

maybe he got really nervous that Karl was going to be mad at him?

[AlCzervik]

4. thats the biggest display of flop sweat i've ever seen.

[rfranklin]

5. It's called "flop sweat" and Bush certainly laid an egg...

to use a little showbiz lingo.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. He just can't handle being out in the real world

He hasn't felt 100% humidity since the first time he got laid by a Bourbon Street whore.

[chalky]

22. He was here in Texas! In August, for crying out loud!

Then again, he did spend his vacation holed up in his air-conditioned bunker hiding from that "scawy lady" Cindy Sheehan.

I guess he didn't really have a shot at getting acclimated to the heat.

[DoYouEverWonder]

27. Have you ever felt the humidity after a hurricane?

I've lived in FL since the late 70's and I have never felt anything like it.

[gulfcoastliberal]

64. Good thing this was 2 weeks AFTER the hurricane!

Boy, he might've REALLY sweated if he went down there right after it hit! Fucking stooges have to have their fake-ass clearly manufactured photo-ops. How much did this 4 hour trip cost the taxpayer? Should've been done in DC, or back on the ranch.

[KoKo]

65. No....usually...years ago..you would have this great burs of fresh clear

air..and it was usually cooler. Our weather here in "inland NC" during Ophelia was very odd...and the aftermath brought in humid air and it's kind of stagnant and ozone filled.

I think in the last about 10 to 15 years...lots of stuff has changed. Global warming on steroids?

Whatever...yes I remember what you are saying...:shrug: Who knows...all is odd these days.

[DoYouEverWonder]

69. We had Ophelia offshore in FL last week

and that was one weird storm.

It felt more like an early northeaster, except it hung around and blew for 4-5 days. The air was definitely not as humid as a hurricane and it was fairly cool. Weird storm?

As for humidity, it was only after Hurricane Jeanne and we'd been without electric for the 2nd time for five days that everything was just saturated. Maybe it seemed worse because the electric had been out for so long but I've never felt humidity quite like it. You're right after these storms blow through the weather use to be beautiful, but nothing is making sense anymore weather wise and otherwise.

[JDPriestly]

7. No discoloration under his arms.

If the discoloration on Bush's back had been caused by his own sweat, wouldn't there be the same kind of discoloration under his arms? I believe that the discoloration on Bush's back is from something other than his body perspiration. What does Bush wear on his back under his clothing? We saw something strange in the debates. What is going on with this guy? Is he wearing some medical device?

[jobycom]

17. There is some around his armpits

His arms are down, but there is some discoloration under his arms.

You're right, though, it looks odd. That's sweat, but what made him sweat like that?

[KoKo]

18. Well do you remember the NYT's and the Bloggers here and everywhere

showing the photo's of the device on Bush's back during the debates? NYT's started an investigation then dropped it. Salon Mag was all over it and even had a professor talk about what it could be. Some medical folks weighed in, too. It was a HUGE story.

That's what's odd about this photo... And, most men his age still wear undershirts. Bush is such a traditionalist I'd think his undershirt would have caught any sweat and it wouldn't have been in a pattern like that with an undershirt on, I would think. Plus the stain is so dark. :shrug:

[Crankie Avalon]

9. That's a cocaine sweat, no two ways about it.

[EST]

10. Yeah, the rest of his shirt looks sweaty, but what

is the shit on his back?

[jobycom]

11. Cocaine and alcohol make you sweat, but what's this back pack stuff?

I haven't heard of it.

[KoKo]

23. Here are some links... A Huge Story...all over the Blogosphere and Here!

Salon.com News | NASA photo analyst: Bush wore a device during debate
NASA photo analyst: Bush wore a device during debate ... If the bulge were on
Bill Clinton's back and he was lying about it, I'd have to say the same thing. ...
www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/29/bulge/ - 39k - Sep 15, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

Salon.com News | Technical expert: Bush was wired
One thing is certain: During the final presidential debate in Tempe, Ariz., on
Wednesday night, all eyes will be on Bush's back. salon.com. print · e-mail ...
www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/13/transmitter/ - 39k - Cached - Similar pages

Was Bush Wired? Sure Looks Like It.
A photo of President Bush's back from the third presidential debate, ... During the
first debate, there were those two uncomfortably long pauses after ...
www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/11/10_407.html - 32k - Sep 14, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

[jobycom]

26. I know about his cheating device during the debate, I thought

there was something related to this speech.

[KoKo]

46. Oh.....I thought you knew about the debate thingy, jobycom...

You've been around here awhile.....sorry. :hi:

[shanti]

57. get it right! it's a HUGH story!!

;-)

[jobycom]

58. It IS a HUGH story. I loved when he told the president off in that movie!

[Rude Horner]

12. That Wash Post article is fantastic

This is getting really interesting. I sense even Bush supporters jumping ship in huge numbers.

:popcorn:

[KoKo]

70. kick..............

[Zynx]

13. I think he has some physical problems.

He seems to sweat an awful lot and has other strange issues that come up now and again.

[Justyce]

14. How much tax money did it cost for

him to fly out to NO & back to give a 15-min speech when he could've given it from the White House??

[Lethe]

16. why is the sweat larger near his shoulderblades? thats weird...

usually its the other way around.....you have a larger sweat area on your lower back.

[jobycom]

19. The shirt would be touching his shoulder blades, so that's normal

Then it would have run down the center of his back. But something would have had to push the shirt against his back. Was he wearing a coat? Maybe he just leaned back in a chair. New Orleans is a humid, hot place.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

47. He had to sit in the SUV on the way back, of course

Bush had to sit in the SUV on the way back, of course. Even though it is air conditioned, he would still be sweating heavily when he leans back into his leather seat. That would "push the shirt against his back". Simple.

[henslee]

20. I couldn't help noitice the WRONG TIME on the Jackson Square clocktower

behind the president the whole time. I said in another thread, if the prez had any balls or brains -- he would have made the speech from the convention center -- going into details about the harrowing events there, vowing that nothing like this would happen again, promising to fight poverty for the rest of his term and even after he left office. He would have flashed raw blog photos on a pc screen of all the mayhem asking Americans for even more money and (get this) he would have walked Jimmy Carter, George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton and all their daughters out on the podium, all promising to help with the clean up and the creation of housing. Cut. Print.

[chalky]

28. See, that's another thing that pisses me off about this administration--

In a five line post you came up with a better plot than these jackasses have in five freaking years.

It's bad enough they're giving us all these scripted moments. But they giving us scripted B-movie moments! You'd think the leader of the so-called free world could hire a better screen writer and director than the hacks they have now.


oh, yeah. better not forget my :sarcasm:

[henslee]

38. All we really want is not to be treated like idiots. Tell it to us like

it is. Call it as it is. If it's raing shit, tell us. Otherwise its just insulting.

[librechik]

52. more proof the hump on his back is an alien slime monster

controlling President Meatpuppet. He has never denied it.



" Pressed for a "legitimate explanation," (Ken) Mehlman said: "The president is an alien. You heard it here first. The president is an alien. That's your quote of the day. He has been getting information from Mars. The shock of the debate will be the president's alien past will be exposed, which is why that box is there."

(From the Oct. 13 04 Salon.com campaign-news blog.)


I kid you not!

[unblock]

29. is the clock wrong? or was the speech taped?

[chalky]

31. The clock was stopped.

n/t

[henslee]

39. Clock stopped, I mean how totally horribly ironic is that?

An unitentional irony of course.

[JDPriestly]

56. Do you suppose this speech was pre-recorded last week

while Bush was in NO? I would not put that past them. I didn't watch the TV show. Is that possible?

[stlsaxman]

68. The time on the clock was when Jackson Square lost power from Katrina.

And it only ran again for the 20 minutes of Bush's speech. It stopped again when he left and they re-cut the power.

[confludemocrat]

21. Its the sweat behind that huge radioprompting device he wore for speech

causing his wierd looking shirt appearance in the front. Now ther should be no doubt

[KoKo]

30. Here's a snip from one of the "Was Bush Wired for Debates" articles:

Was Bush Wired? Sure Looks Like It.

A photo of President Bush's back from the third presidential debate, enhanced by NASA scientist Robert M. Nelson.

Click to see enhanced photos from all three debates

News: A NASA photo expert's analysis makes it clear: Bush is lying -- he wore some kind of device in each of the three debates. So why won't the media go near this story?

By Dave Lindorff

October 30, 2004


-snip-


Klein adds, "Major media outlets are understandably reluctant to influence an election, but in this instance, they have a certified government expert willing to go on the record; there's absolutely no excuse for their silence. All any journalist needs to do is report this news."

Meanwhile, it becomes another form of bias for the media not to do anything, once the evidence is put out there, as Nelson has done with these photos.

It is no longer possible for the administration and the president himself to laugh off the bulge in his jacket at all three debates as bad tailoring, or as an Internet urban legend. Between Nelson's photos and the onslaught in such comedic venues as The Daily Show and Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury column, the question has to be asked: What was the president wearing and why does he wear it?

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:OZS--cJUiSgJ:www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/11/10_407.html+Bush+was+wired+for+debates&hl=en

[KoKo]

59. kick for the "blue splat" on his back...it's kind of curious...

:kick:

[sui generis]

24. it's uh, pretty humid down there this time of year

and particularly now that half of NO is still a shallow lake.

That plus, he's on adderall - amphetamines, which overstimulates perspiration when poorly titrated.

[kath]

67. well, yeah, but that's an AWFULLY weird sweat pattern.

[hippiechick]

25. Wow, check out the posture/body language ...

... homeboy knows his glory days are past ...

[SoCalDem]

37. It's his usual Sasquatch posture

[hippiechick]

45. ... and that's definitely NOT the posture of a 'world leader' ...

...or a confident, successful individual.

What a message of 'I know I'm a putz' does that send ?!?!


:wow:

[goclark]

61. In picture 3 is he taking a pottie break

without asking Condi? He can't do that!

Seriously, those breaks are either for a Depends problem or he needs to get his coke fix.

[KoKo]

48. Geeze, SoCal....incredible pics....and that turkey stare.....with fingers

wrapped around it's neck... :rofl:

Also Sasquatch....:D...Yep that's him.

[Buns_of_Fire]

32. I guess they brushed off the egg shells and tomato skins

before they let him back on board. :shrug:

[op6203]

44. LOL

:rofl:

So far that makes the most sense!!!

OP

[Beowulf]

33. Antidepressants

Some antidepressants, such as flouxetine (Prozac), can have heavy perspiration as a side effect.

[johnaries]

34. Wait a minute, there has been speculation that B* was wearing

a bullet-proof vest because of the way his shirt was buttoned. Which would make sense because he was so exposed.

BUT, if he was wearing a vest, there's no way the sweat would soak all the way through it to his shirt.

I'm not a big tin-foil hatter, but my BS detector is going off!
Edit to add links:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2093402#2093590

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4791786#4791833

[loudsue]

66. Why a bullet proof vest?

The military/fema/cia has totally taken over NO. Any of THEM who wanted to shoot boosh would aim for his pointy little head, anyway.

:kick:

[jeffreyi]

35. I think it's a set-up to "impress" the unwashed masses (us)

Poor exhausted and beleagered bushie, sweatin' and all. A glass of water poured on the back doesn't hurt the "Workin' harrrd" image, no?
????
That sweat pattern doesn't even look close to real!
It's always worked before, why not now.

[Catherine Vincent]

36. Geeze!

He probably stinks too!

[bigbrother05]

42. I tell ya its an

intravenous drip bag. If you saw him speak at the UN, he had cotton mouth, slurred speech. You know Poppy was a Halcyon freak. They have got to keep him doped up.

[Scurrilous]

40. Jeebus...

...somebody buy that guy some anti-perspirant.

I live in South Florida (currently a muggy 90 degrees) and see many men dressed similar to Bush walking about outdoors, doing this and that, and I've never seen anyone that freakin' sweaty. It ain't right.

[progressivebydesign]

41. Okay, that's just disgusting. No one sweats like that...

.. except for Albert Brooks on Network.

[CoffeeCat]

54. LOL!! Good one. I'll never forget that scene in Broadcast News! (nt)

[Kazak]

43. I didn't realize that thing was hydraulic.

:shrug:

[KoKo]

60. Maybe it "IS" inflatable like that Parrot in "Pink Panther" Movie

I can't remember which movie but the one where Clouseau plays a Pirate and has that inflatable Parrot on his shoulder that he keeps having to blow up.

Maybe whatever Bush has "IS" inflatable...or needs some puffs of compressed air...

Who knows...there's still something strange about that stain....it just doesn't fit with the shirt and sweat patterns for LA or Southern Summers where he only walked to a podium and talked for 25 minutes.

I'm sure there were "Presidential Fans" in operation on the site. He couldn't seat a "Big Blue" like that one...imho...from just giving a speech..no matter how hot and humid it is down there.

P-Residents have access to "Climate Control" the rest of us don't . :shrug:

[Mabus]

49. Are you talking about the "Elitist American Bio-Support System"?

i.e., Bush direct line to Rove, Hughes, et al.

:rofl:

[earth mom]

50. He got in a sweat cause it was past his bedtime! nt

[stanwyck]

51. Bush proves global warming n/t

[MaineDem]

53. Maybe he was wearing a cool suit

A vest with a bladder that circulates cool water. Race drivers use them a lot. Maybe that was the lump on his back (as opposed to the lump in the bed from earlier in his presidency). It could have sprung a leak.

That's the oddest sweat stain I've ever seen.

[Mabus]

55. Maybe he biked over

and that's just "bike splatter" on his back.

:rofl:

[goclark]

62. Why would they let him have his photo taken like that---

Couldn't someone bring him a jacket from his big time plane?!
Something is happening, big time.

They are letting the Chimp hang himself and all they do is laugh.


Ha Ha

Maybe they are having more fun than we are laughing at him.

[symbolman]

63. I have a theory that he has a unit

that's filled with whatever they need to juice him up or slow him down installed - jacked right into the blood stream that can be used with a remote.. a modern day technopuppet..

Imagine a team much like the guys that run a tv show, "Gepetto Three Here, I'm getting too much jaw jacking here, we need 50cc's of lortab streaming STAT.." Presses med remote button..

"Too slow, too slow! He's drifting and leaning on the podium, 25 cc's of crank, on my command.."

"Gepetto 6 Here: We have a bad feed, lost radio to transmed unit, jack up receiver - better yet, switch to channel 16, all units.."

"Okay, speech over, let's juice him for the walk back - SHIT! The unit's leaking, he's being bathed in combination drug stew - some of that stuff will absorb through the skin - he's out of control, off message, off message! Get two SS guys to drag his ass up the stairs to AF one, don't need another bad photo op at this time.."

"We'll yank the IV as soon as he's out of the shower - pull the Puppet Master 2005 from the spine and rinse back, STAT.."

Bush:"But I always wanted to be a REAL BOY.."

[bertha katzenengel]

71. Picking on the guy because he sweats? In summer in the Gulf of Mexico?

GMAB :eyes:

People would ridicule him equally if the man changed shirts to avoid embarrassment.

There is so much more to ridicule about this man's presidency. Why waste time stuff that everyone experiences?