Bush Speech Pix: Crocodile Tears --->>>

[Stephanie]

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U.S. President George W. Bush pauses as he reads the letter of an American soldier who subsequently died, during the President's remarks about the war in Iraq at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland November 30, 2005. Bush, in a speech at the U.S. Naval Academy, countered criticism that his administration lacks a clear Iraq strategy. REUTERS/Jason Reed

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[Lowell]

1. No substance

just flash

[Supersedeas]

50. shallow superficial and thin -- with direct orders to applause -- sick

[Straight Shooter]

2. Plan for victory?

Yeah, right.

This stagecrafting charade looks like something an elementary school in Podunk-Podunk would come up with as a patriotic spoof.

[FSogol]

4. Maybe he should have planned for victory BEFORE starting the war. n/t

[Straight Shooter]

15. That would presume they researched the consequences of a war.

It would also presume they considered the consequences, which is a mature character trait that bush never has and never will possess. Had any of the bush cabal done so, with the best interest of the American people (and the world) at heart, there would never have been a war. Never. Little Boots just loves bombs and other exploding things which kill.

[Johonny]

43. They won the election didn't they

oh you mean plan the war. Republicans don't govern they just campaign continuously.

[Straight Shooter]

58. No, they didn't "win"

But you're correct if you mean that they plan very carefully on stealing, whether it's by Diebold or invasion.

[FSogol]

3. Its a stage production of "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis. n/t

[Stephanie]

6. Look at the lighting - above the cadets' heads

They must have flown in all that lighting equipment. And I wonder how much the backdrop cost us.

[triguy46]

32. He's really taking a chance, doing this in front of cadets.

As is his method, he confront opposition directly, never afraid to deal in the marketplace of ideas..:sarcasm:

[JHB]

59. It looks like the football stadium. The lights were probably...

...already there. God forbid the footbal team have to skimp on facilities :sarcasm: :rant:

[Dhalgren]

7. Wow! Made the hair stand up on the back of my neck!

You are dead on! :scared:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. I was hoping for some pix of him crying...I hear it was the high point.

Guess I'll just have to use my imagination.

:evilgrin:

[Stephanie]

13. check the last one I just added

no tears tho - did you see tears?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

25. Those must have been pretty dry tears...

...I saw a report on MSNBC a few minutes ago with Bob Kur. He showed a clip (looks like the same moment as that pic) and said that Bush was "holding back the tears, and that was one of two moments in the speech where that happened."

I knew a sales training guy once who was the ultimate shark, and who could cry on a moment's notice. He was getting $5000 per head to teach sales training in my company, times 12 people in the class, for a total of $60,000. At one point the natives got restless and he gave an impassioned speech about how important it was that the people "got" the material, how much it mean to him...then he cried.

People fell for it hook, line and sinker. I saw him about five minutes after everyone left the room. It WAS an act...just like today.

[AzDar]

51. I didn't see any tears, either..reminds me of Susan Smith after she killed

her sons, and blamed it on a stranger. She was all over the news, begging for their safe return; lots of heaving, and sobbing noises..but NO TEARS. Of course the whole time her kids were strapped into their car seats at the bottom of a lake that she'd driven them into. Guilty, lying murderers apparently make bad actors.

[CottonBear]

8. Remind me? Did Clinton have these sort of stage sets?

I was without TV during much of his two terms. I just don't remember him appearing in front of these crappy stage sets

[chaulieu]

14. No... these stage sets are new

These stage sets, backdrops etc. were not used by Clinton or any previous president of my life time.

[Stephanie]

16. Bush's set designer is Scott Sforza - he's on staff

Welcome to DU, chaulieu!

[donkeyotay]

39. It's so creepy. Fake president. Real set designer

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. It does look a bit like a game show set, or maybe a televangelist's send-money set. Wasn't that long ago that some GOP genius started up with the overt messages behind the speaker - stuff like "Trust us," but this is getting absurd. This is so slick it makes him look like the fake he really is.

[goclark]

52. Looks like a Big Blue Doll House To Me nt

[CottonBear]

17. Welcome to DU chaulieu!

Thanks for your response. I don't ever remember stage sets either. I can remember watching Nixon on TV and there were no stage sets then. Bu$h is so bad I'm almost nostalgic for Nixon. :( (Good lord, I can't believe I just typed that!)

[madokie]

28. You did go wash your hands, didn't you

[CottonBear]

45. Of course I did! :) n/t

[ThatsMyBarack]

34. Hi, chaulieu!

Welcome to here! :hi:

[CrownPrinceBandar]

27. It looks like a game show.............

*: "Umm... I'll take world domination and universal suffering for $500, Alex."

[waiting for hope]

9. Pic # 3

"I am God's emissary and am doing his work. He speaks to me directly and I hear his plan of divine supremacy....."

He's getting scarier and scarier....:scared:

[MN ChimpH8R]

10. That set looks like a Photoshop The Onion would use

Does anyone with four functioning brain cells think this phonied up BS is impressive anymore?

[ThatsMyBarack]

35. I never did....

....think it was impressive at all. :thumbsdown:

[NewWaveChick1981]

11. Geez, the first pic makes him look like Der Fuhrer...

Sieg Heil!

[mr_hat]

29. Baby aka "Hermann Goering" Blue.

[Z_I_Peevey]

12. Today's subliminal: Bush as Moses

The tablets behind give him that just-come-down-from-the-mountain aura.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

33. Also the crosses. The backdrops have been using a grid-like pattern

that surrounds him with crosses. Creepy!

[texpatriot2004]

18. Hitler used military troops as his backdrop too nm

[Stephanie]

20. yup

[texpatriot2004]

23. Well, that picture puts * in perspective. Thanks Stephanie. n.t

[zippy890]

24. that first photo of bush looks very hitler-like

the elaborate backdrops - ugh, too Third Reich for me
:scared:

[fooj]

19. Guess I'm late to the party...

Plan for Victory? Shit. I thought we already hit "Mission Accomplished" stage...

What a complete jackass!

peace.

[mshasta]

21. what a nazi.

bush and he's hitler speeches

[LincolnMcGrath]

22. And Yet

Mr. Bush has yet to attend a single military funeral!

[Z_I_Peevey]

26. What are those crest-like symbols

with the pitchfork/trident at the top?

[KittyWampus]

36. Navy? Marines?

[JHB]

46. It's the Naval Academy seal.

[KittyWampus]

30. That Stage Set Is So Over The Top It's Surreal. It Looks Like A Parody

are they so freaking desperate that they're trying to use extreme backdrops now?

[triguy46]

31. Sets designed by the people who brought us "Mission Accomplished" n/t

[deminks]

37. Like this shot of the crowd that was on CNN just prior to the speech

[grasswire]

38. I hope Jon Stewart saw that scene

Geez. Talk about staging. The audience was probably rousted out of bed in the middle of the night so they could be in place for der Fuehrer's arrival.

[Psychmd]

41. Is this shot really from today's crowd?

How long did they make these kids....(yes kids , just look at these children..it makes me sick to think that a lot of these children are going to die in this a**hole's game) wait for their dictator, I mean president to show up

[deminks]

47. Yes, here is a link to another thread

from others who noticed this scene, too. It was on the homepage of CNN website.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5482741&mesg_id=5482741

[lovuian]

56. LOL!!!

HA HA HA!!!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

40. What were the eye blink and lip lick counts?

And how many times did his train of thought derail, giving him the ol' deer in the headlights look?

It's important.

[hunter]

42. I'm lying under a bench at a bus stop in Las Vegas, too drunk to move...

...after puking my guts out in the gutter... and this is just another horrible, horrible... horrible... hallucination, right?

Please tell me it's so. I want to go back to the motel.

[MilesColtrane]

44. Looks like the set of PTL on Trinity Broadcasting Network...

But you'll notice, those tridents look suspiciously like crosses with lines added to the top.
Maybe we should tell the Bushistas that Neptune was the brother of Pluto, the god of the underworld.
In terms they can understand.... the Preznint's standin in front of a crest glorifyin' the Devil's brother!!!!

[Redstone]

48. Hey, Steph, thanks for ruining my lunch!

Just joking. Good post.

Redstone

[Blue_In_AK]

49. War criminal... n/t

[Clara T]

53. He's a really twisted creature

[catabryna]

54. While I find all these photos disturbing...

The third picture down with * reaching his arms out really set my "creepy" radar off. Made me think of a "welcome to my fold" sort of thing; reminds me artists' renditions of Christ welcoming his children. Blech!

[Saphire]

55. Gee, I guess we have all been wrong about him...he really is a

wonderful,caring man.:sarcasm:

[hankthecrank]

57. This is a smoke screen

The one pulling the strings plan is to stay until they have gotten all the profit they planned for!!!!

And we won't leave until

A. sheep wake up enough to oppose plan.

B. They made all the money they can get.

C. Iraq get tired of out sides stealing their oil

The over head sign should read

The Plan for GREED!!!