Comparison photos of Bush's "Yurpeon" Vacations

[SoCalDem]

There will be many more wonderful photos pposted of Obama's trip, so here are a few from our very own dear leader's visits to Berlin, & London...just so we can reeeeeealy enjoy the pictures were are seeing posted these days..

A trip down memory lane..

Most of these are post 2005..
Can never have too many barricades or empty streets..Locals LOVE being inconvenienced





This one was actually in Austria, I think


More more more love



A Fountain in London


Security but not many "fans


The day after the '06 elections


Germany has it BIG for our prez


and theirs too.


Germany.. What a Crowd..


Protest..Like you mean it


This was in the Guardian, apparently

from the Mirror in 2004


No protest zones. (can;t have him seeing dissent, now could we?


Germans prefer NUDE to NUKE (tame nudity..click to see it)
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Barricade buster..Hey he just wanted to see the prez..


London Billboard circa 2006


Stencil art---Berlin

[Submariner]

1. Gee...I wonder if Bush has any world travel/sightseeing plans

in the works for after 1/20/2009? I doubt he can ever leave the U.S. again and feel safe. He'll be quiet and rot away in Dallas bar rooms if he's smart.

[SoCalDem]

2. He'll probably get arrested for chainsawing trees on a boulevard

Not much "brush" to clear in "town".. Hey.. maybe he can get a job at parks & rec..they always need groundskeepers:)

[tekisui]

4. He will go to his own private island in Dubai.

Rot there or in the Dallas bar. Either way, he'll have to hide and rot until he's hauled off for war crimes.

[madokie]

5. bush will make a trip to the netherlands and thats about as far as it will be

whether or not he wants to believe it he is going to the Hague along with a large part of his cabinet, vp for sure if he doesn't check out first which is what I suspect will happen.

[Historic NY]

3. Wow nice the Statue of Liberty one is my favorite....

would make a nice museum piece.

[SoCalDem]

6. The Germans don't hold back, do they?

:rofl:

[Crazy Dave]

7. DU member "MissHoneychurch" who lives in Germany...

...is going to see Obama in Berlin tomorrow night and the mood sounds very festive for Obama vs. aggressive as with any Bush visit

[SoCalDem]

8. I bet they are soooo excited.. hope they get some good pics ..n/t

[Lorien]

9. Yesterday on NPR they were comparing Reagan's visit to Berlin to Kennedy's

apparently Reagan's crowd consisted of 20,000 hand picked "fans" (because he was hated in Germany), while Kennedy's consisted of 400,000 citizens who showed up on their own to cheer the American president. Some things never change.

[SoCalDem]

10. The probably took real tight shots too, so the audience looked bigger

They didn;t have photoshop back then :)

[jillan]

11. Excellent, excellent thread!

[SoCalDem]

12. I can't wait to see the crowd shots for Obama

Of course our media will spin it, as somehow negative

[alphafemale]

13. Obama Crowd Shots

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6535805#6535990