This picture!!!

[Courtesy Flush]

[htuttle]

1. That looks like a live-action representation of a Ralph Steadman characterture

All of them together like that.

[Robb]

17. OK that was EXACTLY what I was thinking.

Weird.

[BobTheSubgenius]

25. Bad Craziness.

[Buzz Clik]

2. With Pickles smiling at a hole in the stage.

[Maraya1969]

14. <<<<<<< Just to let you know. Your comment..........

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Is Babs having a heart attack???

I love the way Pickles always seems to be looking away from Bushwa, as if he does not exist.

[winter is coming]

15. I think her beautiful mind is troubled. n/t

[lumberjack_jeff]

37. +1 n/t

[tofuandbeer]

72. That's what I was thinking, as well.

[UTUSN]

18. pang at the horror she has participated in to create. nt

[BuelahWitch]

49. She's got a heart?

[Newest Reality]

4. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

characters are what first came to mind.

Isn't that Grandpa in the wheel chair without his hammer and bowl?

[Grassy Knoll]

32. Now That was funny.

[pacalo]

65. Bingo!

Here's the family portrait:




A close-up of the grandpa:

[spanone]

5. k&r...

[Tx4obama]

6. I wonder if 'they' even noticed. n/t

[sakabatou]

7. "Oh shit. That lady's gonna kick my ass with a mechanical thingy-ma-job in the ass."

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. "Hegel said that all great world historical figures appear, so to speak, twice..."

"...He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."

- Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

[freshwest]

9. One of *those* lamps, huh.

[The Straight Story]

10. Bush: "Lt. Dan, you got new legs!"

[elleng]

11. Its a LAMP!

[hootinholler]

61. It must be Italian!

See it says Fra-geee-lay on the crate!

[elleng]

63. YES, Fra gee lay!!!

[timdog44]

78. One of my favorite movies and a great line.

But I keep thinking how fragile the lady was who was proudly displaying the stars and stripes.

[lunatica]

67. That was my first thought too

giggle!

[Frustratedlady]

12. Does that gal have a prosthesis?

If so, they are looking at the result of George's fancy footwork. No pun intended. Shame on them for staring.

[zeeland]

77. Exactly. This photo is speaks volumes. N/t

[morningfog]

13. The male bushes are dumbfounded, the female bushes high on pills.

Perfectly sums up their existence.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Babs to Poppy: "Please, not that polka-dot tie, striped slacks, pink socks outfit again"

[Electric Monk]

19. "That explains the 32,000 handicapped parking spots..."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022755900

[damnedifIknow]

20. Let's

http://www.politicususa.com/war-criminal-george-w-bush-indictment-library.html

[mountain grammy]

34. Now, this one! Very powerful.

[BrotherIvan]

21. At least W looks guilty

I wonder if it ever keeps him up nights?

[Courtesy Flush]

22. My point exactly!

That's the face of a man confronted with his crimes. A man whose victims stand before him.

[BrotherIvan]

23. This picture should circulate far and wide.

I wish I could see the woman's face as well. She deserves a whole hell of a lot of respect.

He not only looks guilty, he looks SCARED.

[Courtesy Flush]

28. I think it's Pulitzer material.

It tells a story that people don't want to hear.

[SammyWinstonJack]

56. If he is scared of anything, it would be that he ends up being prosecuted for war crimes

and I'm pretty sure he knows that isn't gonna happen.


Especially given the praise Obama heaped on him at that event.

[BrotherIvan]

66. I don't know how sincere his religious beliefs are

But his fear might come from his twisted little soul. I don't believe he is a sociopath. We had a family friend who was one, and there was something so odd, so robotic about him. I think W. just wanted to one-up daddy and play in the big white house, so he didn't care what Cheney--the real sociopath-- et al were doing in the background. Do I think that makes him any less guilty? Nope.

And yes, I was appalled over the lovefest for W. I guess he can show up at conventions now. But I do expect this has a lot more to do with cleaning up the Bush name for Jeb than doing anything for little shrub.

[Skittles]

29. naw

it's more of a WHAT THE FUCK IS *SHE* DOING HERE kind of look - that sociopathic bastard is incapable of feeling or looking guilty

[caraher]

39. Having researched the matter...

I think he views her as providing absolution for his sins. When he sees how well she and other wounded veterans who do things like join him for 100k bike rides are doing, in his tiny RW mind it means the wounded can all do well if they just try, and that his war left no lasting scars - in fact, it gave Americans a chance to rise to the occasion and be great.

Just watch his press conference (the woman whose leg is in the picture is the one with him in the video, and speaks briefly starting around 1:59):

http://bcove.me/yk2goltv

At one point W mentions how tough the ride was, "especially if you're 65" and Dan, another amputee, chimes in, "Or have just one leg."

Anyway, I'm sure he sleeps like a baby... like any other sociopath would.

[G_j]

44. that really sums up how out of touch he is.

And there are tens of thousands of people whose lives he damaged.

"At one point W mentions how tough the ride was, "especially if you're 65" and Dan, another amputee, chimes in, "Or have just one leg.""

[The Blue Flower]

64. It's all about him

The suffering of others is completely out of his range of comprehension. How does being a healthy, intact, mobile, wealthy 65 compare to being an amputee who will live with the physical and the psychic wounds of war for the rest of their life?

[BrotherIvan]

53. Thank you for sharing the video

I do find it hard to condemn her, she sounds like a very positive person and is making do far better than I certainly would. I blame HIM and that malevolent cur Cheney and all their demonic minions.

[caraher]

59. I agree

[SammyWinstonJack]

57. Geez, it's still only about him, with him, isn't it?

especially if you're 65.


What a sick bastard he is.

[caraher]

60. Absolutely

And notice the whole event - a bunch of hand-picked wounded veterans still well enough to engage in one of W's pastimes gather for a few days of reflecting on the awesomeness of teamwork and America. In speaking about the ride the one vet talks about how great it was to get help when he needed it and not get help when he didn't need it; metaphorically speaking, the message seemed to include the idea that a problem in America is people being offered help they don't really need...

The whole staged gathering is calculated to stroke Bush's ego and let him say pious words about "honoring our veterans" without ever coming face-to-face with anyone who might present a word or situation that might disturb him.

[pangaia]

82. The bastard has no idea..

NO IDEA WHATSOEVER.. what he has done... no feeling at all for those people standing around him....'

karma always wins...
With any luck he and Cheney will come back next time as wild boars and get hunted down with spears, dogs and rat poison...

[pangaia]

81. God, he makes me want to throw up.

I can't watch it. 30 seconds is all I could stomach...

[caraher]

84. yeah, he's repulsive

Having him just... go... away... was one of the best things about 2009. To think we had to endure 8 years of that in the Oval Office!

[hibbing]

40. No....

Hey,
He is perfectly "comfortable" with the decisions he made, so I presume that includes the results of those decisions.

Peace

[KentuckyWoman]

46. I doubt he feels anything

This is the guy who used to go frog hunting so he could perform torture on frogs and actually bragged about that in his governor campaign.

[blkmusclmachine]

24. G/ddamn, they're creepy.

[lpbk2713]

30. Creepy is what BFEE does best.

N/T

[Arugula Latte]

48. ...

They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky,
The Bushco Family.

Their house is a museum
Where people come to see 'em
They really are a scream
The Bushco Family.

(Neat)
(Sweet)
(Petite)

So get a witches shawl on
A broomstick you can crawl on
We're gonna pay a call on
The Bushco Family.

[Arugula Latte]

26. That is one weird-ass picture.

That family ... *shudder*

[MisterP]

27. Poppy: "You think when I dress like this I'm even more obvious."

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wait, W has turned into Devo's Booji Boy!

[madamesilverspurs]

31. Babs is saying

"Dammit, Poppy! They snuck his legacy in here!"

[The Blue Flower]

33. * has seen Banquo's ghost

The look is unmistakable. His equally guilty parents have seen it, but the mother must avert her eyes, while the father can't tear his eyes away. The drugged, oblivious wife is lost in denial.

[BrotherIvan]

52. Exactly

[pangaia]

83. Perfect analysis.

[caraher]

35. The veteran whose legs we see is Melissa Stockwell, there to lead the Pledge of Allegiance

She's a Paralympian and triathlete whose certainly done well despite what W's war did to her, and to hear her tell it there seem to be no hard feelings. From her blog last year:

The last day the President rode along with Team Melissa and there he was himself, on my back wheel shouting ‘Thatta girl Meliss’ and ‘That’s what I’m talking about’ as loud as he could. Pair that, all the teamwork and mountain bike adventures with being out there with fellow wounded vets, the President (who is a stud of a mountain biker) and I was left with such a high that kept me up for weeks after the event, feeling like the luckiest girl alive. And the President, wow. Politics aside, he is one of the most wonderful people I have met. Truly affected and emotional about the choices he made and how they’ve affected all of us, a witty man, a great athlete, quite the fine dancer and a true American.

"affected and emotional?" Frankly, I don't care about whether he can produce tears on demand - what he did was criminally wrong, and no amount of appearing to care (sincerely or not) can right the evil he did.

Well, I'm happy for her ability to enjoy life and do great things. I'd guess she'd be pretty annoyed with the way we see the image of her prosthesis to symbolize the carnage W unleashed... but her personal regard for Bush doesn't validate his wars.

[ZRT2209]

43. these people have a sickness

[SammyWinstonJack]

58. Agreed. nt

[Zoeisright]

36. That's a really bad photoshop job.

[Bonobo]

38. There is more truth in that "fake" than in a million "true" photos.

Is this more "true" for example, or LESS true?

[caraher]

41. I thought so at first, but it's real

It's image 3 in the BBC slideshow. (Unless Getty Images is distributing bad Photoshops...)

She's a Bush loving Iraq War vet and amputee

[pinboy3niner]

47. You're right. She's identified as Melissa Stockwell, an Iraq War vet

This is the photo caption:

The pledge of allegiance to America was read by Melissa Stockwell, the first female US soldier to lose a limb in the war in Iraq. No mention was made of the divisive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, launched during Mr Bush's first term in office. (Getty Images)

[ZombieHorde]

69. What makes it a really bad photoshop job?

Why would the BBC photoshop the photo?

[tofuandbeer]

76. I'm hoping he was being sarcastic.

[ZombieHorde]

79. Could be. So hard to tell sometimes. nt

[ZRT2209]

42. J.e.s.u.s.

[Hekate]

50. >sigh< Poppy looks absolutely senile these days, doesn't he?

Junior fried his brains long ago, Pickles is pickled to the eyeballs, and Babs's beautiful mind is momentarily troubled.

[name not needed]

55. Your brains would be fried as well if you had to talk to junior.

[Fire Walk With Me]

51. K&R

[name not needed]

54. There's your legacy, George.

[Triana]

62. Drinky Dumbass looks utterly bewildered at what he's done..

....and a little bit scared. Well well well...

[lunatica]

68. At first I didn't realize it was a star spangled prosthesis

I'm sure neither Poppy nor he were looking at it. They're looking beyond it. At something behind the photographer. But it's a damned good photo though.

[grahamhgreen]

70. K&R

[tofuandbeer]

71. W looks scared, Sr. has a look of "Get her out of here!"

Thanks for posting!

[hedgehog]

73. I suspect that the look on Bush's face has nothing at all to do

with the sight of an amputee. More likely, it's just a random, un-posed shot that caught him with an odd look on his face (not that that's hard to do!).

Too bad. If the look were real, one might think Bush has a heart!

[Snarkoleptic]

74. Tought bubbles-

Babs- I can't trouble my beautiful mind with the little people and their woes.
HW- Ya fucked up, son.
W- Dur dur dur...freedom.
Pickles- Oh, look Georgie, an ant.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

75. Maybe he is having a "Richard III" moment?

"My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain."

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Richard III

[toby jo]

80. She may divine a different truth one day. It'd be a pretty difficult journey right now considering

her predicament.

It's always best to look at things from as many perspectives as possible - creates a maturity for future battles. Our little girl soldier isn't on that path, yet. Probably alot of the male amputees are right up there with her.

Still, my respect goes out to her.

Stunning photo. Thanks.