* dances with the Kankouran West African Dance Company (Yikes!) - pics

[Kadie]

President Bush, second from left, and first lady Laura Bush, right, dances with the Kankouran West African Dance Company in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2007, during a ceremony acknowledging Malaria Awareness Day. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070425/480/c3443444f7b1416f...


President Bush dances with the Kankouran West African Dance Company, Wednesday, April 25, 2007, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, during a ceremony acknowledging Malaria Awareness Day. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070425/480/2f4d5397227e4dd2...


President Bush, second from left, and first lady Laura Bush, right, dance with Medoun Yacine Gueye, left, and Assan Ronte, second from right, from the Kankouran West African Dance Company, Wednesday, April 25, 2007, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, during Malaria Awareness Day event. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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President Bush, second from left, and first lady Laura Bush, right, dance with Medoun Yacine Gueye, left, and Assan Ronte, second from right, from the Kankouran West African Dance Company during a ceremony acknowledging Malaria Awareness Day, Wednesday, April 25, 2007, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
http://news.yahoo.com/photos ;_ylt=Ag4NFK1dv_bZZ.Kr7lT9fLGs0NUE

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President Bush, second from left, dances with Medoun Yacine Gueye, left, and Assan Ronte, right, of the Kankouran West African Dance Company during Malaria Awareness Day event, Wednesday, April 25, 2007, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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U.S. President George W. Bush (R) reacts as he is pulled on stage to dance with Senegalese performers from the West African Dance Company during an event marking Malaria awareness day, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington April 25, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES)
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/705 ;_ylt=AjM73sbzV8viQmIMVgPV2S1paP0E

[Ian David]

1. Holy mother of fuck... he IS a fucking chimp!

[Hand]

3. Dang! Ya beat me to it! nt

[hippiechick]

5. LOLOLOL !!!

I am at my desk at these pics!

I cannot WAIT until The Daily Show gets ahold of this footage!!!

[CrazyOrangeCat]

13. Great. We got the missing link for a preznit.

[wicket]

14. Beat me to it!

[Kadie]

24. ROFL n/t

[Justyce]

2. OMG! Those are some of the funniest pics I've seen in a while...

lol

[Ian David]

6. Funniest since THESE

[Justyce]

11. You're killing me... I forgot

about those - lolol!

[Kadie]

25. That first set still makes me LOL.

The second set gives me the creeps.

[Supersedeas]

35. those are not to be forgotten

[terrya]

4. He looks like he's auditioning for a touring company production of "Cats" in that last one.

That man never ceases to take a stupid looking picture.

[MissB]

7. Proving once again he is an inept idiot.

Lack of grace and class all in one shot.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. These weren't photoshopped?

That first photo---I mean ---- and the rest--- he's making monkey faces!

[CottonBear]

17. Nope. See this thread for a video link of the Chimp getting down:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[Kadie]

23. omg

[Proud2BAmurkin]

9. Dancing with the Chimp

nt

[bahrbearian]

10. Must be the dance of the howler monkey

[hippiechick]

12. Is his hand on the drummer's ass in the first picture?

Hopefully its an exorcism dance, anyway !!

[CottonBear]

15. Oh my god! I am laughing out loud here at my desk. He's ultra-chimpy!

Check out Laura getting down. They so can not dance nor should they have even tried to do so.

[cassiepriam]

16. Drunk again I see......

[lutefisk]

18. Priceless. Laura looks a bit embarrassed in the video

Junior kind of lost control when he heard the music- like it triggered something.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/25/mc-bush

[Judi Lynn]

19. Here's the website of the Dance Company:

Kankouran West African Dance Company
http://www.kankouran.org/index.html

Photographs:
http://www.kankouran.org/photo.html

Couldn't find a video quickly of this group, but here's a great video of a dance company doing West African dances from Senegal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHH8cLESbko

Kadie, thanks for posting these photos! The costumes are amazing, and I have NEVER seen a drum like that. It's something to find out a lot more about.

The _Bush photos are epic. He's always true to form, isn't he?

[progressoid]

20. Oh boy, is that ever uncomfortable......

For both chimpy and the rest of the planet.

[soup]

21. M.alaria A.wareness D.ay

and there he is - MADness, personified...

[myrna minx]

22. Good gawd. He just can't help himself. Can that man

go five minutes without humiliating the United States?

[tblue37]

26. While it is true that the still shots make him look foolish, as still shots could

make anyone look foolish, the video just makes him look as though he is being a good sport and having a good time.

I despise Bush as much as anyone, and yet the video doesn't disgust or annoy me. It is one of the few things I have seen that would make me feel warmly toward Bush if I had not already learned what he is really like.

I would have considered the video cute and funny if I did not already despise the man and all he stands for.

And I might add that I would probably do much the same sort of thing--except that I am actually a good dancer. But if I weren't, as he clearly knows he isn't, I would probably have played around similarly.

I would rather criticize him when something he does really is awful, not when it is as innocuous and amusing as this. I got a kick out of the video.

[seaglass]

32. It didn't give me any warm feelings BUT I did laugh my ass

off when I first saw the clip on CNN. I just can't be annoyed and disgusted about it because it is so damn funny.

[Blue_In_AK]

27. OH.MY.GOD.

That would have been very funny to see in video.

[justjones]

28. Wow. Bush is being totally disrespectful of an African culture. No surprise here. eom

[Colobo]

29. "Are there any blacks in Brazil?"

[spanone]

30. Drunk & Disorderly...

[slutticus]

31. Striking resemblance. Laura and chimpy

[BluePatriot]

33. ...

You have got to be kidding me. Doesn't this guy have an overpaid armada of PR people trying to make him look presidential or something?

[Catherine Vincent]

34. The video is not that bad.

It's actually kind of funny. They were all being a sport about it. He was probably uncomfortable but couldn't show it. I remember when Clinton was in India and the ladies were dancing around him throwing rose petals at him. He was just standing there clapping and laughing but I'm sure he was uncomfortable.

[onethatcares]

36. "second from left'?????

like anyone would confuse him with an African dancer. Pickles calls that dancin? She needs to go back to the no tell motel and get her some.

[Saphire]

37. Just when I thought it couldnt get any worse..................e/m

[scorpiogirl]

38. OMG...what a baffoon!!!! n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. How does he manage to look so totally defective in EVERY SINGLE PHOTO?

Yeah, everybody has a few bad pics where they look silly or dumb, but I swear to God every single photograph ever taken of the Pretzeldent makes him look like the biggest cretin in the universe.

....Ohhh. Right.