Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Today after seeing his face again on AOL, I made an observation. Why are most of the photos of the president bad ones? The photographers always manage to get him while he's squinting, or scrunching up his face, sucking on his lip, or some other strange facial gesture. I wish we would get more "normal" photos of him instead of the ones that make him look dumb. Even though I'm not a Bush fan, I still think there needs to be more "presidential" photos of him.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/" target="_blank">http://www.whitehouse.gov/pres ident/</a>
Originally Posted By TomSawyer This one is my current favorite: <a href="http://img422.imageshack.us/img422/1672/bd68sl.jpg" target="_blank">http://img422.imageshack.us/im g422/1672/bd68sl.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder Take your pick: <a href="http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/108808.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.strangecosmos.com/i mages/content/108808.jpg</a> <a href="http://www4.mtv.terra.com.br/blogosfera/imgbin/321a03c34530a0377b4c35b7dd54a20c" target="_blank">http://www4.mtv.terra.com.br/b logosfera/imgbin/321a03c34530a0377b4c35b7dd54a20c</a> <a href="http://exhippie.com/files/Alfred-3.gif" target="_blank">http://exhippie.com/files/Alfr ed-3.gif</a> Sorry, this was tooo easy.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF It would take some heavy Photoshop work to make Bush look less like Alfred E. Neuman than he does.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo "I wish we would get more "normal" photos of him instead of the ones that make him look dumb." To quote Forest Gump - Stupid is as stupid does.
Originally Posted By planodisney this is no big deal. The media has been going out of their way to make republican Presidents look stupid for many years now. From Ford, to Bush1, to Reagan and now Bush. The media always portrays them as idiots.
Originally Posted By planodisney Meanwhile, the Billy Carter of presidents, Clinton, the white trashiest president in our nations history, was portrayed as a mental GIANT. This is not a Clinton bash or anything, I meen the guy couldnt have been anything but white trash because of his up bringing and birthplace. I actually respect him for making it from what he came from.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 There's no contradiction between being born into "white trash" surroundings and being intelligent.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Clinton was a Rhodes scholar. You know, one of the guys who got into a university because of academic acheivement instead of being related to a prominent alumni.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo However, although Clinton had charisma, he was no portrait either. From a Clinton fan
Originally Posted By planodisney I am not saying he wasnt intelligent at all. But, there were alot of rednecky, goofy aspects about clinton that were always portrayed as a fun loving partier as apposed to a goofball, which is what a republican would have been stamped with. I am sorry, but dancing around in a hotel room smoking a cigar in africa, after finding out you arent going to be indicted, when you have been launching a, "smoking is dangerous campaign", is just GOOFY. Bush would have been made to look like a hypocritcal moron for that.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>But, there were alot of rednecky, goofy aspects about clinton that were always portrayed as a fun loving partier as apposed to a goofball, which is what a republican would have been stamped with.<< You must not have heard any of Letterman's Top Ten Lists during the Clinton years. Or any of Jay Leno's monologues. And considering some other uses President Clinton found for cigars, dancing around a hotel room smoking one was an improvement. ; )
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Anyone who says, "that depends on what your definition of the word IS is" garners my suspicions as an intellect. That said, some people don't photograph well and there is no two ways about it. This time of year I look forward to the Christmas photo of a former coworker and her family. She is a beautiful woman but I have yet to see a picture of here where that beauty was captured.
Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder I just love how this got turned around to Clinton. That's got to be some sort of record. Bush still looks like Alfred E. Newman, no matter what Clinton looks like.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice *LOL* Tom Sawyer (Post # 3) Face it... He's looks like a Goober. As a President, good, bad or indifferent. He still looks like a Goober no matter the photo (even on the whitehouse.gov web site).
Originally Posted By RoadTrip My favorite George W. Bush photo: (Cheating Macho Man) <a href="http://www.gwpda.org/tomorrow/bushsuckerpunch.gif" target="_blank">http://www.gwpda.org/tomorrow/ bushsuckerpunch.gif</a> Source: <a href="http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2004_08_08.html" target="_blank">http://www.thismodernworld.com /weblog/mtarchives/week_2004_08_08.html</a>
