WHY does he always mess up his FACE?

[Stephanie]

It's alarming.

[Emboldened Chimp]

1. Because he's a fall-down drunk

[Webster Green]

6. Yep....gets blotto drunk and passes out.....

Pretzels and mountain bikes....my ass!

He governs like a drunken idiot. all the signs point towards....drunken idiot.

[Nay]

35. Exactly. He's a drunk, and they're covering for him all the time.

Drunks generally can't block their falls with their hands or arms because their reflexes are so slowed down by the alcohol.

[Gin]

2. the last and latest pic makes me sad when I look at him...

I do not like the man...but he is a troubled human being.. and this picture touched sadness in my heart for him.

[Stew225]

7. Gin, your compassion is

very commendable. Hell, would anyone with an IQ in double figures trade places with this guy?

It's refreshing to see that compassion is still alive.

[Lin]

18. I might be sad too, IF ONLY his carelesess didn't hurt SO many- <eom>

I do commend your good instincts, sorry to say, mine, (at least towards anything regarding *W&co.) are worn out....yea, long gone:(

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. Yeah and his troubled mind is screwing over the whole World!

He should resign, get into therapy and let the rest of us live! How can anyone feel sadness for someone so arrogant and uncaring, is beyond me.

[punpirate]

3. Because...

... if he fell on something other than his head, it would hurt....

[Charlie Brown]

4. Reminds me...

of domestic violence photos I've seen on television. I wonder how much pressure Laura had to put on him to raise the NEA's budget.

[leftofthedial]

5. because he forgets to keep his left up

when he and Pickles are getting into it.

[Cleita]

8. Benefit of the doubt.

I kinda go with the falling down drunk scenario. Number two on my list would be Laura beats him up with whatever she can get her hands on. My benefit of the doubt scenario comes from another DU'er, who is subject to epileptic siezures. It's called petit mal. It's a mild form of epilepsy that attacks for an instant, then disappears, but in that instant people can walk into posts, walls, fall off of things like bicycles, etc., before they can regain their composure. There is medication that stops the seizures, so if he's not taking his medication or his doctors haven't made the diagnosis, they should look into it.

[grasswire]

9. the scratch on the tip of his nose...

...was there on a photo May 20. It's not from the alleged bike incident. Someone had the photo here yesterday.

[Spinzonner]

10. Keeps him from landing on his brains

[Merlin]

11. Is the last pic above from the "bike" incident? n/t

.

[Stephanie]

27. Yes, that's from Yahoo today. Caption & link below:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=news_photos&p=bush

U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) walks to Air Force One in Waco, May 23, 2004. Bush is flying to Connecticut and is scheduled to attend a party for the graduation of his daughter Barbara. Bush suffered minor abrasions after falling off a mountain bike while cycling on his Texas ranch on Saturday, the White House said. The 57-year-old Republican president had cycled 16 miles (25 km) of a 17-mile (27-km) afternoon bike course when he toppled over while riding downhill on what the White House described as soil loosened by recent rainfall. 'He had minor abrasions and scratches on his chin, upper lip, his nose, right hand and both knees,' White House spokesman Trent Duffy told reporters. REUTERS/William Philpott

Below is the latest picture, from about an hour ago. He looks like he's wearing heavy makeup.




http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040523/480/gh10305232028

[goclark]

39. What is wrong with his neck?

Is that a reflection from the picked up by the camera?

Or, is that another drunk adventure? That is one strang accident!
Seems like the boo boo's bounce around his face-something is seriously wrong with the idiot!

[Stephanie]

40. You're right - it looks like he dragged his neck along the pavement too

WTH? He is a freak of nature.

[mountainvue]

42. Yes he looks

like he's wearing some kind of powder based foundation. His skin appears extremely dry.

[Mandate My Ass]

12. Even if he fell flat on his face

without shielding with his hands, wouldn't his nose be banged up worse than the upper lip just below his nose? It's almost impossible to scrape that area in a fall. Something doesn't add up here.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

21. I did that once...

fell flat on my face without using my hands.

Ow.

I missed a slight step up -- a whopping two inches -- and my foot caught it, causing me to go "timber" face-first onto a rough, downtown sidewalk. My hands were full with packages so I was down before I could break my fall.

I only ended up with a really fat chin - no scratches, and nothing happened to my nose.

Now, Bush has BOTH hand scrapes and facial scrapes, and he was supposedly wearing a helmet.

The "accident" that caused that, I would really like to see!

[librechik]

13. rule 1: You don't talk about Fight Club n/t

[grasswire]

14. here's the pic from May 20

The nose scratch is there, and there appears to be some sort of red patch on his left cheek. Also, there's a small mark by the left corner of his mouth.

Something's going on.

[Malva Zebrina]

17. what on earth is he doing here?

geez, it looks as though he needs some metamucil. What on earth is he posing for? It is a face in pain. Or an actor acting what he THINKS he should look like. Is he at a funeral of some dead young soldier. Is he at church and adopting this face in his perceived interpretation of what a person in prayer is supposed to look like?

[EOTE]

28. Yeah right.

Dubya has far too much hubris to actually attend the funeral of someone whose death he's responsible for.

[Straight Shooter]

37. He's constipated

it's a wonder he doesn't look like that all the time, he's so full of sh*t

[boobooday]

15. I also vote for drunkeness

I work with college students, and they show up with injuries like this all the time from getting absolutely wasted.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Lin]

16. Can't HIDE 'em- The facial marks are the *only* ones they can't cover-up

Probably has many, many more 'incidents' we never hear about/see because they CAN cover them....secrecy is their first instinct-this must drive them NUTS!

This admin hides whatever makes 'em look bad, if this is what they allow us to know, just imagine what we don't see/know about.

[Mike Niendorff]

23. I was thinking the same thing.

His injuries to the face are just the subset that they have to explain publically (because they can't be hidden).


MDN

[snippy]

36. I think you may be right.

It would be odd for someone to exhibit a pattern of injuring himself only around the face. The other times he injures himself may explain his frequently awkward movements and gestures. He sometimes walks as though he is in a full body cast. And he often waves as though he has an injured shoulder.

[Lin]

19. ps/ on secondg glimpse looks like boyking can't shave his neck ewww (eom)

[GCP]

20. His picture in the attic can't take any more evil

(Dorian Grey, anyone?)

[mopinko]

22. it's just that

the bruises elsewhere are just hidden.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

24. When you're unconscious you can't catch yourself when you fall.

[DoYouEverWonder]

50. Unconscious or having a seizure?

otherwise your body naturally tries to break a fall.

[qwertyMike]

26. Alcoholic Rule #1

At any costs, don't spill the drink !

[PurityOfEssence]

29. 'Cuz he's a stumblebum; I DO dig the Hitler mustache scab, though...

When you're not well-balanced, you fall down a lot...

[Merlin]

30. My wife's theory: He fell off a horse. But being Texan, can't admit it.

And why the hell is he riding a bike on a ranch anyhow?

Maybe the horse's name is Bike?

[grasswire]

31. he doesn't ride horses

He's notoriously NOT a horse rider.

Look at the lies.

"The ground was wet." weather.com reports NO RAIN in Crawford in more than a week.

"bicycle ride" We have NEVER HEARD of him riding a bicycle before. NEVER.

[stickdog]

32. More likely, he fell off

the wagon.

[LuLu550]

33. He's too drunk to break his fall

and I'm not joking....he never really dealt with his alcoholism, he just stopped drinking and became a "dry drunk." Dry drunks go back to the bottle in times of extreme stress, and with the way he has screwed things up, he's gotta be drinking again, IMHO.

[Cat Atomic]

34. The face is the only thing you can't hide. You just don't hear about

all the scrapes and bruises the drunken fool gets on other parts of his body.

That's my guess.

[graywarrior]

38. NO NO, he's in Fight Club

[BurtWorm]

41. It's the mark of Cain!!!

The sign of the beast!!!

:scared:

[Catherine Vincent]

43. Most doofuses do.

[Stephanie]

44. What is that above his right eyebrow, in the current photo?

It's some kind of horrible lump. See that?

[BurtWorm]

45. It's a vein. Reminds me of the climax of Scanners

when the hero and the villain face off to see whose head is going to explode.

[Stephanie]

46. It's gnarly

[goclark]

47. Check the neck from this view!!

It looks like it is raw like his chin!
Do you think someone tried to choke him?
IMO his neck looks RAW!

They really need to hide him for about a week because this makes him look like he was in a fight with his girlfriend or something like that-is Condi anywhere around?

[Stephanie]

49. Is it possible to fall off your bike and scrape your NECK?

It's freaky - what's WRONG with him?

[ThoughtCriminal]

48. It's the only boo-boo we're allowed to see.

<nt>

[peacefreak]

51. I think it's symbolic in a way.

He's taking his lumps & cannot hide it. Maybe he should consider borrowing one of the bags from Abu Ghraib
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