Bush uses photo-ops to ‘angle for conservation stature.’
By on Oct 20th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Bush uses photo-ops to ‘angle for conservation stature.’
Today, President Bush used highly choreographed photo-ops in Maryland in an effort to “burnish his conservation credentials.” He looked “slightly askance” with a screech owl on his hand, remarking, “Cute little fellow.” He also joked that he loves fishing, but “the Secret Service won’t let me go hunting” with Vice President Cheney anymore.
According to the League of Conservation Voters, the Bush administration “has arguably been the most anti-environmental in our nation’s history.” More on his FY2008 budget proposals here.
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Personally, I’d argue with “arguably”.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:22 pm“has arguably been the most anti-environmental in our nation’s history.â€
******The guy is a first class fraud.Everything he does is fake.Think how far we have fallen as a country.Once leaders of the world in almost every category now we are the laughing stock of the world.A.Prez who can’t command English language is native tongue.Can’t wait for this long national nightmare to be over.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:26 pmNo, Bush was looking askance at the vice president who was taking aim at the little owl.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:27 pmWhich one’s the hooked nosed owl??
October 20th, 2007 at 5:32 pmThe Owl looks more intelligent than Bush does.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:34 pmAlso if you look at a chronological list of legislative government environmental accomplishments, you will notice that there have been none since Bush stole office.
omg, Veritas, they do look alike.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:34 pmNo, Bush was looking askance at the vice president who was taking aim at the little owl.
Comment by Candyce — October 20, 2007 @ 5:27 pm
Ha! LOL… PHOTO CAPTION CONTEST!!!
“Yer aimin’ fer tha owl, right, Dick? Dick??? The owl, right???”
October 20th, 2007 at 5:35 pmWhoa… has Li’l Georgie ever aged!! All that screwin’ up ‘n stealin’ ‘n lyin’ sure takes it outta ya, apparently.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:37 pmDubya couldn’t spell “environmental” even if it was tattoed on CHeney’s arse.
His idea of being green is his look in the mirror at his next-day hangover.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:37 pmcaption:
George: “I’m the Conserverator!”
Owl: “Hoooooooo do yooooooo think you’re foooooolin’?”
October 20th, 2007 at 5:38 pmPosing with an owl cause no kids will go near him after the SCHIP veto?
October 20th, 2007 at 5:39 pmPhoto caption…
… and the owl sez to the doctor…
“but is this growth on my butt cancerous?”
October 20th, 2007 at 5:39 pmlol, TRoS.
“Am I relevant now?”
October 20th, 2007 at 5:42 pmNice owl, nice owl, now bite the sucker’s nose!!
October 20th, 2007 at 5:43 pmThat photo of the chymp finally qualifies him as a
“pencil necked geek”
October 20th, 2007 at 5:44 pmIs he really wearing a jacket with his name on it, and the presidential seal?
October 20th, 2007 at 5:45 pmI am the President. See, it says so right here on my jacket. hehe he he he.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:46 pmIs he really wearing a jacket with his name on it, and the presidential seal?
Comment by Candyce — October 20, 2007 @ 5:45 pm
Aw, Candyce, you’ve always bin relevant… and yes, the nimrod is indeed wearing a jacket w/ his name on it, and the Presidential seal…
Wanna bet it has bowling pins embroidered on the back?
October 20th, 2007 at 5:48 pmOctober 20th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
“Polly wants a cracker…” – what birds used to say…
‘Screechy wants some crack…” – what birds say now…
October 20th, 2007 at 5:49 pmI’ll bet that Screechy is wear gloves too. Smart bird…
October 20th, 2007 at 5:51 pm“He also joked that he loves fishing, but “the Secret Service won’t let me go hunting†with Vice President Cheney anymore.”
I wonder how Harry Whittington and his family feel about the Presidential Joke. (double entendre intentional)
October 20th, 2007 at 5:54 pmHe has to wear his name on his jacket, otherwise his dad might think it’s his.
Can’t you just see the name tag on the underwear?
Depeepeeciderer.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:59 pmI wonder how Harry Whittington and his family feel about the Presidential Joke. (double entendre intentional)
Comment by boreas — October 20, 2007 @ 5:54 pm
That’s his forte. Like pretending to be unable to find WMD in the Oval Office while troops died looking for the non-existent things.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:59 pmBush is also a “Windshield Conservationist.”
October 20th, 2007 at 6:00 pmLets recognize America’s working poor (former middle class) and their children an endangered species and protect them.
October 20th, 2007 at 6:01 pmOnce an idiot cheerleading frat boy, always an imbecilic, faux cowpoker (or horsejackeroffer)
October 20th, 2007 at 6:01 pmCaption Contest:
“Give a hoot. Veto children’s healthcare.”
October 20th, 2007 at 6:03 pmLater, the owl will write a book exposing Bush’s devastating effects on his habitat. The right-wing smear machine will go into full force, claiming that the owl could’ve protected its habitat on its own, by selling the lumber. And then they’ll say the owl is unamerican and secretly supporting our natural enemies, the bears.
October 20th, 2007 at 6:04 pmThey had to put his name on the jacket so he can be returned home when he get’s off the short bus….Blessings
October 20th, 2007 at 6:16 pmSpeaking of fishing George,
October 20th, 2007 at 6:25 pmI guess we know now that the 7 1/2 pound perch you caught
was actually your forearm, huh?
Did you have to have help getting the hook out?
Did your health insurance cover it?
Excuse me, there are wayyyyyyyy too many reich wing losers dirtying up the world politics forum at craigslist.
Would you great liberals please join up and occasionally take part in the spitting and spanking we get into over there? it’s very very low intellectual stuff. But sometimes during the day folks need backup.
http://forums.losangeles.craigslist.org/?forumID=20
October 20th, 2007 at 6:26 pmHey George, species are dying off at one thousand times the natural rate due to global warming. Having your picture taken with one owl doesn’t help.
Next time you talk to God, ask him his views on that.
October 20th, 2007 at 6:39 pmafter that shot was taken he bit the head off the owl.
October 20th, 2007 at 6:47 pmObviously, the Screecher was drugged.
Bet the bird was too.
October 20th, 2007 at 6:56 pmwell now i know what i’m gonna be for halloween:
October 20th, 2007 at 7:00 pma d0uche bag holding an owl
The right-wing smear machine will go into full force, claiming that the owl could’ve protected its habitat on its own, by selling the lumber. And then they’ll say the owl is unamerican and secretly supporting our natural enemies, the bears.
Comment by TheToonGuy
Yup, they’re already calling it Owl Qaeda.
October 20th, 2007 at 7:02 pmOkay, the Secret Service SHOULD let him go hunting with Cheney. Hopefully Cheney will bag himself a lame duck. LOL
October 20th, 2007 at 7:23 pmThe Owl looks more intelligent than Bush does.
Comment by OxyCon — October 20, 2007 @ 5:34 pm
The Owl IS more intelligent than Bush.
October 20th, 2007 at 7:31 pmRovism posits that there is no objective, verifiable reality at all. Reality is what you say it is.
nuff said.
October 20th, 2007 at 7:31 pmCandyce: The resemblance is amazing! No doubt the photograph thought so too because he’s captured the owl’s profile which matches The Shrub.
Maybe the caption should be: “Owl Perched Precariously on Shrub – a Shrub, which like all of the rest which we’ve polluted, is on “overtime”.
October 20th, 2007 at 7:48 pm#39 And that caption could be: Deadeye Dick, Sans Swiss Miss, bags himself a presidential rarity – The Quintessential Lame Duck.
October 20th, 2007 at 7:49 pm#36 You can’t go as that! The Shrub has already beaten you to the punch!
October 20th, 2007 at 7:49 pmOh yes, Bush is quite the staunch conservationist and friend of the sport fisherman.
Except when he can win Oregon farmers’ votes by killing off 30,000 salmon in the Klamath River: Blue Oregon – Rove, Smith Sold Salmon for Votes
October 20th, 2007 at 8:12 pmOwl:
“Man, am I glad I’m not a frog…”
October 20th, 2007 at 8:35 pmBush is on his “I’m Relevant Tour,” and today’s stop featured an owl to show that he’s an “environmentalist.” What’s next for this pathetic excuse for a presnit?
BTW — we’re still waiting for Sen. Mitch McCacca to apologize to the Frost family for smearing them over S-CHIP. Mind you, we’re not holding our breath that Mitch will do the right thing. But with the news that Bonnie Frost will continue to speak out on the importance of children’s health insurance, the good senator will remain in the spotlight. Whenever Bonnie appears, we will be reminded that McConnell led the smear against her and her family.
For all updates see: http://www.ditchmitchky.com
October 20th, 2007 at 8:35 pmG. W. Bush, The Marketing President.
October 20th, 2007 at 8:43 pmOwl:
“Man, am I glad I’m not a frog…â€
Bush:
“Hehe… let me tell what’d I be doin’ to this li’l feller if he was a frog…”
October 20th, 2007 at 8:58 pm1) Wasn’t it Bush that opened up logging in the NW that is threatening the owl species up there ? Kind of interesting for Shrub to announce himself conservation man while holding up one of their cousins ?
2) Was it a Freudian-style revelation that while holding a tame owl, Shrub thought of Cheney and hunting.
3) Not to mention that Shrub is one of those he-man hunters with which the only way to admire the beauty of an animal is from the comfort of an air-conditioned range rover while a paid, professional guide shoots it.
If I were that owl, I’d fly away real careful like.
October 20th, 2007 at 9:09 pmThe owl’s probably thinking, “Hell, his shoulder’s not worthy of my sh*t.”
October 20th, 2007 at 9:18 pmYup, they’re already calling it Owl Qaeda.
Comment by Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver — October 20, 2007 @ 7:02 pm
hahahaha!!
October 20th, 2007 at 9:30 pmThat picture can be used in schools that teach creationism.
God created the owl and the dodo.
October 20th, 2007 at 9:54 pmI think I read that story as a child:
“The Owl & The Chickenhawk”.
Word of caution… it doesn’t end well for the owl.
October 20th, 2007 at 10:04 pmOne is an unintelligent predator with an undeserved reputation for wisdom the other a bird.
October 20th, 2007 at 10:07 pmCaption Contest:
\/\/: Last time I got near a bird see, it tried to eat me. Look, here, I aint no consurvatur, ya lice infested fowl, ol Dick over there is gonna bite your head off and I’m gonna do to you what that other feathery thing did to me, see?
October 20th, 2007 at 10:33 pmI think they do these photo-ops to make us vomit.
October 20th, 2007 at 11:07 pmDumb . . . Dumber . . . Dubya
October 21st, 2007 at 12:38 amBird brain poses with a wise litle owl. . . . hoping that all small minds think alike . . . I’m thinking that he’s wearing big manly gloves so the wise little owl won’t peck his hawkish little nose off.
In a battle between and owl and a hawk, I’m betting on the owl. Hawks are much smaller and small brained than most people realize. They fight in the air. Hawks attack based upon instinct, not strategerie (sp?) . . . they buzz, they blitz, they prey . . . but owls watch, they are strategic hunters and can take out prey on the ground, two, three times their size . . . and do so efficiently.
How big is the US . . . how big is Bin Laden? Bush hardly registers as a house fly.
Wise little owl is miffed . . . I have to sit here quietly. This turkey is no hawk.
October 21st, 2007 at 2:59 amNo hawk, and no match for me. Take the gloves off dubya, I wanna bite your beak.
Leave my forests alone.
October 21st, 2007 at 3:06 amI wish that owl would peck the sh¡t out of that son of a b¡tch !!
∞
October 21st, 2007 at 3:13 amOf course, not to dismiss the hawk. Hawks are beautiful birds and dive through the canyons and mountain valleys that we all love and that Bush seems dead set on destroying . . . it’s horribly unforturnate for all hawks that the GOP’s has attempted to cloak themselves with your virtues while enacting policies that ensure your demise . . . karma is a tricky business . . . Bush apparently suspects this dilemma. . . . don’t be fooled . . . align your selves with the owls . . .
October 21st, 2007 at 3:21 amDon’t pull the top off of that animal George.
October 21st, 2007 at 10:53 amRep. Diane Watson has stated ON TAPE, on Oct. 14th 2007, Pelosi’s real reasons for not pressing forward on impeachment! She says they (the other democrats in the House) have the evidence to support impeachment and the desire to do so, but that their “leader†has a different plan!
“Now, our leader has looked at this issue, and her strategy is, our speaker, is be sure we take the White House and that we win 60 (more) seatsâ€
At best this is the politicizing of the impeachment proceedings and at worst it is her own desire to remain Speaker of the House! As our soldiers place their very lives on the line in an illegal war, and as this administration beats the drums for another war with Syria or Iran, Pelosi is content to let it all happen, so they can regain control of the House in 2008 and she can retain the Speakership!
Watch for yourself and please get the video out to as many people as possible. Pelosi must be removed!
watch it HERE!
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/ 2007/ 10/ 21/ watson-lays-out-pelosis-reason-to-suppress-impeachment/
October 21st, 2007 at 11:02 amthe most inviro-disastrous president ever in the face of an inviro-crises,
strike up the band
“AND I’M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I’M FREE”
October 21st, 2007 at 11:35 amIt really bums me out that this bird falls out just south of me and is sighted only with rarity in NH.
October 21st, 2007 at 4:32 pmSomebody call Harry Potter and tell him his owl is alive and was stolen by baby Bush. He looks like he wants to be Harry Potter and attack himself to the Potter success. I hope Connie Rice starts reading the books to George. I will not say how it ends.
October 21st, 2007 at 9:06 pmkinda looks like the masonry owl on the dollar bill dont it?
October 21st, 2007 at 11:29 pm