Wonkette
From yesterday’s Power Lunch of the Living (?) Presidents, here’s an official White House photograph of George H.W. Bush Sr. “41″ and George W. Bush Jr. “43″ protecting the elitist patriot Barack Obama from these two scary old white-headed Democrats. Notice which two dudes aren’t wearing flag pins. [White House]
And look which one looks like their dad made them dress up for a wedding
Jimminy Carter soooo does not want to be there. With them.
I know I make jokes about the corpse of Reagan pretty often but couldn’t they have dug up the old guy for this occasion? He and Bush 41 have a lot of catching up to do.
Jimmy looks like he might just have both those flag pins somewhere dark and uncomfortable.
Like his shoe.
Pervert.
tdehr: WIN.
The photographer set it up like this so that he could crop out the one-termers.
Aww, Jimmy is so far away!
Is it just me or does Bush look like one leg is longer than the other here? Whatever it is, he’s listing pretty bad.
I’ve never seen 5 living human beings look more like cardboard cutouts. Including Barry.
If I were Obama, I would also want to get far, far, far away from the New Left because they ruin everything.
Notice the neckwear; PUMAs, Troofers, NWOs, will all have a field day proclaiming B. HUSSEIN NOBAMA IS JUST ANOTHER PUPPETPAWN!!!!!1!!!!!
They all look kinda…weak.
tdehr: I’m laughing my ass off over here! He kind of looks like that guy who wore tennis shoes with his tux at the prom.
Barry is covering his ginormous crotch like he’s afraid W. is going to back slap it for revenge for all that shit Barry said about him on the campaign trail.
They look like they’re made of wax. Delicious, patriotic wax.
Look at W’s feet! He even stands like a moron! Amazing. Well, maybe not.
I don’t think Poppy Bush is wearing a flag. If you look at the other White House pictures it pretty much looks like a set of wings. Carter could’ve worn a little anchor. Or, he could have worn a monocle, and leaned on a cane, so he looked like Mr. Peanut.
I SPOT ‘EM. 5IVE BIIG FOOTS. GIT MIE GUN.
Holy Shit! Talk about a yiff pile in the oval office!
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
I have a serious question about the flag pin thing. During the 6os and 70s, it was cool for hippies and such to wear American flag clothing. Noone had ever done this before, and the Repugs were all outraged because wasn’t their a law or something that said noone could ever wear anything flaggish, that it could only be used as an actual flag and that to do otherwise was disrespectful?
would it kill our current president to stand up straight in a group photo? is he doing the I have to pee dance or something? my god I thought he would have learned how to stand with both feet on the floor when he was saving our country during his Texas Air guard days…
oh and Carter is looking like Fred Gwynne dontcha think?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Herman.Munster.jpg
W even stands crooked.
Jr. Bush looks like he needs to use the loo.
Texan Bulldoggette: I think he’s embarassed because he has that long tie. Why don’t they get him some new ties that are normal length? Maybe the tie is to cover his ginormous crotch.
(L-R) Poppy, Hopey, Dopey, Gropey, Mopey. I’m a freaking imagineer.
So that’s the official white house photo, but I’d like to see the photo taken by the photographer that they were all actually looking at.
Dubya looks like a retard who’s trying really hard not to fart.
Or else maybe there was a stripper or lobbyist or something standing six feet to the left of the official white house photographer.
Kev-O-Tron: Or they just could have asked Mittens to place dress up. (You know he loves to play Reagan & Mommie when he’s home with the wifey)
Wait. Where’s Hillary?
I think we can see where Barry falls. Just look at the ties.
Look at the last one in this slideshow. What, exactly, are Hopey and Poppy joking about?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/07/AR2009010702039.html
illnoise: They might have been looking at Laura drooling.
FreshCliches: OH SNAP you just HAD to bring sweet FEMALE Snow White into this, didn’t you? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU MALE WONKETTE SCUM>?/A?
WIN.
I think the lean is a desperate attempt to block Barry from view.
Kev-O-Tron: Was just saying to myself - why is that clown standing on the side of his foot? Is he 11 years old? Why not just make googly eyes while you’re at it, doofus?
FreshCliches: How about
Greazy, Pleazy, Sleazy, Eazy and Lazy?
yorktronic: They have him positioned in front of McCain. He tried to get into the picture by peeking into the window. Not so fast, Johnny!
Which one was singing, “One of these things is not like the others…”?
Wow check out the body language. Bush is leaning towards Obama to get close to him, physically and symbolically. But Obama is leaning back to distance himself but try to remain in front by pushing his shoulder forward.
Clinton is just being Clinton (still a little boy) and Jimmy is just tired. He’d rather be eating peanuts.
…is it me or does look like an intervention?
Monsieur Grumpe: damn. I did not see that.
Look closely to the right of Carter’s left shoe, there still seems to be some stains on the Lewinsky rug.
ToeCramps: Lotsa permutations. It’s like Will Hunting listing off his imaginary brothers.
ToeCramps: No, Lazy’s already in the ground. My Jimmy is the world’s most heroic 92-year-old man.
…Jimmy Carter reminds me of that “senile grandfather” that is always out of position during family photos. Someone always has to hold his hand and tell which camera to smile at!
AngryBlakGuy: …GEEZ, MY GRAMMAR 2009 IS SHITTY!!!
Anyone have a shoe I can toss?
@freakishlystrong: Dammit, you’re making me ill! Must… find… happy place… Anderson Cooper… pantsless behind podium… mmmmm……
AngryBlakGuy: Poppy looks pretty senile, too. The glazed look, eyes focussed somewhere in the distance, mouth hanging open. Or maybe he is just talking, rambling on: “well, when I was a young feller, and they didn’t make us let the damn women into the club in Kennebunkport…”
You can’t see Bill’s hands. Never a good sign.
AngryBlakGuy: Oh come on, it was never that good to begin with.
shortsshortsshorts: Snow White is off camera, filled with Roofies and Jameson, getting prepped for the Presidential Sealing of her cartoonish life.
*waves to Darragh*
It looks like Bush is trying to squeeze an inch in height. I guess he didn’t get Bab’s beastial traits like Jebby.
Monsieur Grumpe: When Barry was in the john, the four white guys went cheek to cheek, Mount Rushmore style, for a few shots.
j6n: Notice how Father Bush’s hands are deep in the pockets of Big Trousers, possibly giving stimulus to his package.
bfstevie: “Carter could’ve worn a little anchor. Or, he could have worn a monocle, and leaned on a cane, so he looked like Mr. Peanut.”
I don’t want to say LOL or anything, but you made me laugh out loud. It’s always the random unexpected jokes that are the best.
Trace: one reporter on NPR this morning noted that several legislators had “concerns about the size of Obama’s package” and wanted to know if “his package can stimulate as promised”. Of course, I had to make the requisite comments to my husband, who noted that other presidents have not launched this train of thought in me. Well, yeah?
That because Bill is wearing his favorite tear-away flag boxers.
FreshCliches: Brilliant!
FreshCliches: Patrician, Statistician, No Mission, Musician and I Just Checked In To See What Condition My Condition Was In.
I like how pappy Bush chose to stand next to the competent guy instead of his dimwit offspring. I bet there’s alot of pictures like that in the Bush family photo album.
No rabbit ears?
Did not know that Carter is a midget.
Why does Bush Snr appear to spoil the neat young-to-old color-to-grey hair trend. We got to see Bush Jnr’s hair nicely transition over the last 8 years. Tell me, is it something about that Maine sun?
Mustang: Yeah, once Ralph Lauren plastering the flag all over its clothes, the GOP stopped caring about disrespect for the flag from hippies. But don’t go trying to burn those RL sweaters or anything.
SayItWithWookies: Yeah! Yeah! Whooooooah-yeaaaaaahhhh!
I would like to see 10 shoes lined up and a Cuban pitcher in the same room. Let’s face it, the Iraqis are no good at baseball and Bush Jr used to have something to do with baseball
FreshCliches: WIN!!!!!
Everytime I look at the photo I am struck by how Clinton looks…which is like
he’s had cosmetic surgery. No neck waddles, firm face….maybe he’s relieved that
Hilary DIDN’T win but that shouldn’t make him look that much better…
and Carter…considering what a low opinion he has of either Bush, you can’t expect
him to be that happy being there. Besides, he’s been busy being a REAL senior statesman..
supporting Habitat for Humanity, overseeing voting rights in foreign elections (remember the
jokes about asking him to oversee the US elections?) and doing on-the-ground research on the
Middle East conflicts even when POTUS told him not to….
I love to share the laughs with the funny stuff, but please remember to give respect where it is due…
OMG, Jimmy Carter is shrinking. People must have been shorter in the 70s, because I don’t think he looked like such a wee little man back then.
Caption:
Dithering old failure, black crack head, white coke head, pervert and dithering old communist gather to control the world.
Why is Jimmy’s tongue darting out like a lizard? Or should I say LIZARD PEOPLE OMG.
Hmmm…Carter and Clinton with red ties, Bush and Bush in democratic blue, and Barry O in postpartisan purple. What’s it all mean? Where are the old Kremlinologists when you need help with decoding this kind of symbolism?
Although they all look like cardboard cutouts of themselves, Jimmy Carter actually looks like he was photoshopped into this picture. Can eyewitnesses attest: was Jimmy really there? Cuz I gotta tell you it’s no stretch imagining the gang of four trying to figure out how to avoid inviting “Buzz-kill Jim”.
Is it just me, or are they all wearing suits that are a size too large?
Poor Jimmy Carter. He lost the coin toss with Poppy to see who’d get to stand next to Barry.
Jimmy Carter is a Bodhisattva.
Aw, they came for the solidarity and Obama played them.
Poppy Bush is the only ex-prez who doesn’t have white hair. I guess that got passed on to Babs but maybe he’s on Valium.
What is wrong with these guys? Each looks like he just let loose a big smelly fart, or what he thought was going to be a fart. Or did one of them bring some really good shit that was handed ’round just before this photo?
Before I read the text, I assumed that was a photo of some wax museum’s capture of this meeting. Is this an example of what terminal awkward does to your face?
PAPPY: Your gotdamned son is grayer than you are, you old vain twat. Stop with the Just for Men for fuck’s sake.
BTW, go to the link and check out the other picture. Pappy looks like Faces of Death. Hopey’s making his semi-serious face. Dipshit is making the only face he can make what with his low IQ and all. Bill is still doing the “how YOU doin’?” face and Carter looks constipated and like he definitely does NOT want to be there.
JIMMY CARTER IS SO CUTE!!!!
Is Jimmy Carter wearing lipstick?
I want a dwarf Jimmy Carter hamster for my Oval Office cafe set, too.
Or cage set, even. Shut the fuck up, Nakie Buns.
gurukalehuru: If Benito Mussolini had his hand over Obama it could be an avant-garde redo of the Sgt Pepper album cover.
Dubya proves here once and for all that human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.
I think the little boy lean and foot shuffle actually means “does everybody out there know that I am the only real cocksucker here?? Let’s smoke one.”
is it actually humanly possible for W not to look like a complete doofus?
Gathering round the Oval Office anus…
I think they stuck Jimmy on the side becuase AIPAC gathered everyone together before hand and told them that he hates jews so they better keep their distance.
They all look very comfortable with each other. They all must have had a very nice time.
More like Lunch of the Living Dead. Dear lord, what will Obama look like in four years??
sanantonerose: An enraged whitefolk man.
FreshCliches: “(L-R) Poppy, Hopey, Dopey, Gropey, Mopey.”
wins the thread.
I have a fantasy image of three shoes for a buck on the Boardwalk, me as the carney, and the sinister midget with a bucket and a mop, where the …
…. we all know where the sinister midget stands.
bago: Win!
PrairiePossum: Nah - they just paste over Dum-ya’s face with a headshot of that nice young feller Laura killed that one time…
Bill has that sort of reminiscent look, like he’s touring his old high school and stirring up some fond memories.
“Now hey, wouldja lookit that - the old bathroom is still there!”
I saw that it was opined that Carter was standoffish in this photo. I think that Clinton had just farted and everyone was leaning away. Carter was just able to take a step away, being on the outside. George W. and Barack were leaning away they were just stuck between George H. W. and Clinton. The only one oblivious to the Clinton fart was George H.W., maybe it had not drifted that far for him to notice or he was in cahoots with Clinton to force Barack and George W. to get a good whiff. Notice Clinton’s smile, that’s definitely a fart smile!
That picture would make much more sense if they were all dressed in bondage gear, so no, they’ve shouldn’t have changed clothes after their meeting.
“I love this rug.” -Bill Clinton
While dining with your presidents in our nation’s capitol, please note that Beano will be served only with rutabaga as per protocol.
Be a patriotic American, bring your own matches and or room deodorants.
Thank you
PFFFT-
Sorry.
Wrongavore: Dude, I was totally just going to post that.
Nah MaumeeD, That was not a Clinton fart. Georgie is the one famous for his farts. Notice how he is leaning to the right to ease it out, with that left foot rolled on the side like a naughty ten yr old! If you saw the news clips you would have seen Bushie yuking as he did whatever he is doing.
Is he standing in front of everyone to make himself look taller? Didn’t work did it. He still looks like a little worm.
Carter looks like he wants to be as far away from the taint of Clinton as he can possibly be (”get me away from that stinky taint”). Clinton looks like he would rather be on the other side of the group, in Barry’s place, between two bushes (his preferred spot). W., as usual looks retarded.
Ugh, that looks like a really uptight version of Color Me Badd.
Doglessliberal:
Poppy: you know I’m really impressed by how smart and articulate you are, did you get into Harvard on a basketball scholarship? Just as amazing as our Condi. You know where I live, they have a few colored people living my area, too.*
*That sentence (a paraphrase) was actually said to me once.