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(51,076 posts)between Carter, Clinton, Obama and the two bushes
I love my/our President Obama as well as Carter and Clinton. The two cretins not
rdharma
(6,057 posts)I regret that I'm limited to only one recommendation! This deserves thousands!
Rex
(65,616 posts)The other two decide to sit this one out.
President Obama, bunny rabbit ear, GWB oblivious = priceless.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)SalviaBlue
(2,910 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)That sounds EXACTLY like something he would do.
CincyDem
(6,283 posts)tblue37
(64,982 posts)it means the person is a cuckold. President Obama is insulting Laura Bush with that gesture!
Fla Dem
(23,352 posts)tblue37
(64,982 posts)Fla Dem
(23,352 posts)This one just seemed too implausible, so did a little checking.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)I ran a curve on it to brighten it, and it is clear that Obama's arm is on Bush's chair.
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I very much doubt it is photoshopped. Obama is capable of having fun and they are all laughing.
It's not from the angle of the formal photo. Lots of other points of analysis too, not the least of which is that somebody would have had to photograph Obama's hand making that gesture in that light.
octothorpe
(962 posts)I wish it wasn't photoshopped though.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)I mean, I'm just curious..
Well I guess the answer is simple. you just photoshop the shadow.. :>
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)You have to very carefully measure things like shadows from other parts so you can gauge angles and distances. You have to account for some parts being closer to lights. Some parts will be closer to the wall than others. It devolves from an understanding of the rays of light and the clues they leave.
tridim
(45,358 posts)I think in modern times it's just a goofy thing to do when taking a picture.
Bette Noir
(3,581 posts)It was meant to indicate that the person in the photo was either an insect or a Martian. It was a joke, meant in good fun. You didn't put antennae on someone you didn't like.
Fla Dem
(23,352 posts)redqueen
(115,096 posts)Certainly not in the US. Doubt it ever did here.
eShirl
(18,466 posts)tblue37
(64,982 posts)sarge43
(28,939 posts)It isn't bent at the elbow. You honestly think the president would do something like that?!
tblue37
(64,982 posts)several preliminary shots that then subsequently got leaked. Times are much more playfully informal than they used to be.
I was just amused because I see people doing that gesture all the time, but with absolutely NO awareness of its meaning.
Even if someone imagines that the gesture refers to bunny ears, then why doesn't anyone wonder why it would ever become a "thing" to always give someone else bunny ears in a photo?
sarge43
(28,939 posts)President Obama, being an educated and well read man, no doubt knows that gesture means "putting horns on the cuckold". Being a gentleman he wouldn't, as you say, insult Mrs Bush.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)sarge43
(28,939 posts)caledesi
(11,903 posts)I grew up in RI...used to do it in pictures all the time. We were told that "they were horns like a devil."
I have never heard of "bunny ears or cuckolding."
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)They_Live
(3,222 posts)I never knew that. and I'm old even.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Please tell me that's photoshop.
Fla Dem
(23,352 posts)Bette Noir
(3,581 posts)Bright socks with a suit also happen to be in fashion. On Graham Norton's show a couple of weeks ago, all the men were wearing red socks with their dark suits.
Borchkins
(722 posts)I named my baby, Carter, in honor of Pres. Carter. (He's 9 and still let's me call him my baby!)
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TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)and they're 28 and 25.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)progressoid
(49,827 posts)He looks like he has a looooong wrist.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Gotta love me some photoshop!
Whisp
(24,096 posts)the only two decent people there
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)That's okay........everybody can't like everybody!
Whisp
(24,096 posts)he's killed a lot of Iraqi's, just as the Chimperor did.
but somehow that's not much addressed.
or even believed.
He was in it with the scumBushes all along. At one end is Poppy the murderer, Clinton in the middle continuing the killing, then Dim Son gets to invade full bore after the weakening.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)really?
wow.
ancianita
(35,816 posts)allan01
(1,950 posts)i just had to throw that in. love the humor
Thanks CatWoman.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)!!
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)spanone
(135,637 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)Carter is healthy.
GWB is the guest of honor, in his own house, so to speak.
If Carter were as ill as GHWB then he'd be seated too.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Catherine Vincent
(34,485 posts)Kali
(54,990 posts)jeebus! the overly medicated grimace and wtf is she seeing?
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Although, I do love the socks poppy bush is wearing.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)that photo is shopped. It's a pity.
And I notice Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee are too lazy to stand (though I guess I have to give Tweedle Dum a medical pass).
michigandem58
(1,044 posts)of the elder Bush's socks?