Newsweek cover, Bush and Air Force One costume

[edhopper]

Sorry for the small pic. In case you can't see, he's wearing a spiffy little jacket embroidered with "Air Force One. I mean jeez, what is he twelve years old? Did he get to meet the captain in the cockpit and wear little lapel wings.

I did a Google and Yahoo image search of Clinton and Air Force One. I could not find any photos of WJC wearing any sort of costume like this.

What is with this guy. This is just embarrassing. Enough with the dressing up already. Just grow up!

[Mandate My Ass]

1. OMG I read that yesterday

Somebody dropped acid to write that aritcle. It was six pages of pure fiction. Bush was smart and cool and loved behind the scenes at G8, it was just when the cameras or mikes were on that he looked like a petulant, drunken buffoon. :rofl:

[KurtNYC]

2. They dress and pose him like their own little action figure

Rove et al are very conscious of images and subliminiminiminal messages. The idea here is that B*sh is a victim of the world situation... (bare with me here) you see. He has to be ready to board Air Force One at a moment's notice and go to where ever he is needed....

uh oh, made myself ill....


:puke:

[Master Mahon]

3. Newsweek and U.S. News and World Reports

Pure photocopies of RNC propaganda spin.
What a waste of paper and slap to the enviornment.

[Benhurst]

4. Daddy Bush loved his little costumes, too.

After the Bush compound in Maine was hit by a hurricane, Bar and Poppy visited to check out the damage. Poppy stayed inside, almost driven to tears while being interviewed on camera by the loss of antique tea cups, while Bar strode manfully on the beach, telling reporters that the good news was that all of George's outfits had been washed out to sea.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

As I recall, the interviews were shown on 60 Minutes. Later it was reported that an advance team had preceded the royal couple, filming the damage for them so they would be emotionally prepared. (It seemed to work for Bar, if not for Poppy.)

Seeing Poppy almost reduced to tears over some tea cups, was stark contrast to the countless interviews with poor people standing stoically in front of what little was left of their homes or trailers, saying "at least, thank God, the family was spared."

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. All the Nazis

love to play dress up.

They're such a bunch of girlie men.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Hitler used to have all sorts of funny costumes and do-dads too.

People were afraid to say anything about him as well.

[Dhalgren]

9. Actually Hitler always dressed very plainly.

It was Goering who dressed like a reject from "Duck Soup"... :rofl:

[yy4me]

7. If I was a subscriber, this would be end of my subscription.

It is so blatantly biased. Are we supposed to think this photo makes him qualified? Its repulsive.
Where is he sitting anyway, inside his safe little office. Does he don the jacket whenever he gets on the plane? (which is far too often anyway. Stay home and work, no jaunts to the farm at our $$$)

[edhopper]

8. I'm not sure of this

but I believe that whenever they can (inside the WH, Camp David, AF-1 or any place they can control) they only allow the official WH photographer to take pictures of McChimpy.

[WI_DEM]

10. did they point out that "the weight of the world" at this point is largely

Bush's own doing--especially in the Middle East?

[CTyankee]

11. Eisenhower knew the importance of the civilian "Commander in Chief"

and he never put on his uniform again after he retired. As president he wore suits. I recall photos of him wearing a helmet when he visited Korea but that was probably a matter of his safety.

But of course Eisenhower was a genuine war hero, so he felt no need to act out. Ike would be appalled at this president.

[edhopper]

12. Are you kidding?

Eisenhower lost more troops in one day (June 6, 1944) than W has in this whole war.
How can you critize our Great Leader in a time of war?:sarcasm: :D

[senseandsensibility]

13. ?

I'm sure you just forgot about the sarcasm icon, right?

[edhopper]

14. Done

But you know. That icon really ruins the joke:-(

[senseandsensibility]

16. I agree

For true sarcasm, it's what's left unsaid that counts. If you have to scream that you're being sarcastic, it loses its punch. I guess I should have just kept my "mouth" shut. Sorry.

[CTyankee]

17. D-Day saved western civilization, for sure. It was sad

as was so many other beach heads we established through extensive loss of lives in that awful war.

That is why I think Ike never donned a uniform again, along with his understanding of basic civics that a president just doesn't do that, something totally lost on W.

That was the civics lesson I grew up with. Now it seems to be gone forever. I hope not. Maybe somehow our kids will be taught about how our government actually should work...

[ChristianLibrul]

15. Jed Bartlet frequently wore such a jacket

And he wasn't even AWOL from a branch of the armed forces!

[CTyankee]

18. He was an imaginary, dramatic character

It's called "poetic license." Real presidents don't get to do that. It's called the "Constitution."

[Quantess]

19. Look at me! I look important!

I get to fly around in my own plane whenever I want! :eyes:
B*sh is such a tool.

[WildEyedLiberal]

20. Do you remember the creepy dictator jacket he had

emblazoned with "Commander in Chief George W. Bush"?

He's like a kid playing sandbox Caesar in his backyard. Such an embarassment...