Photo homage to Bush’s unimpressive international travels.
Photo homage to Bush’s unimpressive international travels.
The “busy corridor” leading to the State Department cafeteria used to display “old black-and-whites of historic, significant times in American diplomatic history, including Wilson at Versailles and Roosevelt and Churchill signing the Atlantic Charter.” In September 2003, however, the Bush administration took them down and replaced them with “quite beautiful White House photos of truly insignificant moments.” The Washington Post’s Al Kamen reports on the newest additions to this collection:
The newest pictures sent over by the White House follow in that tradition, sprucing up earlier diplomatic breakthroughs with the latest triumphs, including photos from last fall’s Mideast peace conference and President Bush’s trip to Africa in February. There’s a great shot of Bush at a clinic in Tanzania. […]
Fortunately, some of the old photos remain, including our favorite of that complete loser, former Iraqi prime minister Ibrahim al-Jafari, whom Bush had praised as a “great Iraqi patriot” and “a strong partner for peace and freedom.” Jafari was kicked out in 2006.
There’s also still no picture of Bush with current Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
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quite beautiful White House photos of truly insignificant moments.
The Dumbya legacy: Insignificance.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:56 amLeading to the cafeteria?
Is that shrub!? Never mind, I’m not hungry..
April 9th, 2008 at 10:01 amAnd Bush’s collection of international-hotel bath soaps will be on display in the Capitol Rotunda, before being donated to the yet-to-be-built presidential libary-and-waterslide.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:01 amLets hope the last picture in this horffic orgy or incompetance is one of him and Mr.So? at the Hague in Holland surrounded by the Iraqi people.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:02 amThe “busy corridor” leading to the State Department cafeteria used to display “old black-and-whites of historic, significant times in American diplomatic history, including Wilson at Versailles and Roosevelt and Churchill signing the Atlantic Charter.” In September 2003, however, the Bush administration took them down and replaced them with “quite beautiful White House photos of truly insignificant moments.”
The Chimpy administration in a nut shell ….. They know not nor care nothing of historic moments in history ; but believe themselves to be what everyone’s entire focus and life should revolve around.
I have never seen a more arrogant , conceited group of individuals , who are perhaps the most dishonest , deceitful , incompetent and flat out stupid , in my entire life ; and I better never see something like them again…………
April 9th, 2008 at 10:03 amCorrection to my awful typing skills - Lets hope the last picture in this horrific orgy of incompetance is one of him and Mr.So? at the Hague in Holland surrounded by the Iraqi people.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:04 amThe country is going to have so much cleaning that needs to be done next year!
April 9th, 2008 at 10:06 amAh, vanity! Thy name is “pined-for-legacy.” The evil men do lives after them–the Cheney-Bush legacy will be persistent!
April 9th, 2008 at 10:06 amreplaced them with “quite beautiful White House photos of truly insignificant moments.”
Although I’m quite sure that they adequately document his insignificence, I’m pretty sure that no picture of the smirkin’chimp could be pronounced, “beautiful”! Unless, of course, they are from his treason trial.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:07 amAlthough I was joking, I wonder: is this a sly way of getting the US taxpayer to fund exhibits for Bush’s presidential library? Where are these expensive reproductions going to be housed, after Bush leaves office?
April 9th, 2008 at 10:07 amphoto homage to Bush’s international travels
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to which I reply: So?
April 9th, 2008 at 10:08 amBush: “Black and white pho-tos of ancient events is symptoms of pre-911 thinking. We gotta catapult the propoganda into the 21st Century and focusss our attention deficitsss on new lead-er-ship by the people who lead the people who follow. We will stay the course in our his-tor-y makings and documentation of progresses. The State Department is responsible for managing the, the, the State and I’m the Head of State of the United States and so my head needs to be out front.”
April 9th, 2008 at 10:10 amthe Bush administration took them down and replaced them with “quite beautiful White House photos of truly insignificant moments.”
Bush’s legacy: Insignificant, irrelevant, illegal & ill-advised.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:11 amAdd a picture of Libby being found guilty, of resignation speeches of Rumsfeld,Feith,Wolfowitz,Fredo,McNulty,Yoo,Ashcroft,Haynes,Whitman,Fallon, Shinsecki,Bremer,and the hundreds of others who either in disgrace or in disagreement left this administration, and I might want to visit the “exhibition”.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:13 ambarfly Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Although I was joking, I wonder: is this a sly way of getting the US taxpayer to fund exhibits for Bush’s presidential library? Where are these expensive reproductions going to be housed, after Bush leaves office?
I know a lot of bird owners whose pet’s cages need new liners at the bottom……………
April 9th, 2008 at 10:16 amTravelers and Americans would find this photo of herr dubyah useful:
http://img515.imageshack.us/ img515/ 7162/ georgebushtoiletpaperd2zb1.jpg
April 9th, 2008 at 10:18 amIn September 2003, however, the Bush administration took them down and replaced them with “quite beautiful White House photos of truly insignificant moments.”
Chimpy’s birth ?
Chimpy’s 1st drink ?
Ah …………Chimpy’s 1st public speaking moment ……..
April 9th, 2008 at 10:18 amTruly, this is a man who needs a waste treatment plant in San Francisco named after him.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:19 amThe Bush White House.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:19 amA sereptitious, sleazy sack of slime, slinking slowly in infamy.
Hang their larger-than-life pictures for all to adore. This is what dictators do. Saddam Hussein, Chairman Mao….
April 9th, 2008 at 10:24 amLeading to the cafeteria? They must have a number of people loosing weight!
April 9th, 2008 at 10:28 amThere’s also still no picture of Bush with current Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Because a picture of 2 puppets without a puppetmaster isn’t much to look at …………….
April 9th, 2008 at 10:31 amugottherightstuff Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 10:29 am
This is a tradition. every president does this!
Every president glorifies their incompetence , stupidity and uselessness ?
April 9th, 2008 at 10:33 amYes, we’ve got the right stuff, i.e. intelligence. Trolls, however, keep trying the “everyone else did it” defense even when, no, they didn’t. The article clearly states that Bush’s pictures replaced a wide-range of historical pictures involving a number of former Presidents, not a huge egotistical display of one former President. Some trolls don’t get stuff right.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:37 amHi gang. Just a word of caution. The trolls seem to be raising the stakes and have been posting links to porn sites, and lord knows what. I urge you all to be careful about clicking suspicious links.
Fight the good fight and have a great day.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:45 amugottherightstuff Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 10:29 am
This is a tradition. every president does this!
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EVERY president takes down Wilson and Churchill to make room for ego? It’s amazing that Woodrow and Winston lasted as long as they did, then.
First we have the Alphonso Jackson ego monument, now Bush. It’s one thing to put up a photograph of a truly historic moment. It’s another to build a shrine to yourself, a la Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Bokassa, Pol Pot, and other dictators.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:48 amSeeing as Dubya is a big chicken-hawk, wouldn’t this all just be “proper gander”?
Cheers,
April 9th, 2008 at 10:49 amSeeing as Dubya is a big chicken-hawk, wouldn’t this all just be “proper gander”?
Or the recipe for Bush Legacy: cooked goose, with a heavy glaze.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:54 amNo flag draped coffins? No mass graves? How about smoke rising from the Green Zone?
April 9th, 2008 at 10:57 amA “photo homage” to the Shrub should be nothing other than snap-shots of the inner workings of an outhouse……….
April 9th, 2008 at 11:03 amHis library will be filled with photos of him cutting brush and the windshield cowboy riding the “range” in his Ford pickup.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:11 amFormer Sec. State Albright warned that the incoming president is going to have an extremely challenging agenda in the clean up and repair of Bush&Co. No surprising news there.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:15 amI question whether we can make any substantial improvements in the first term! We will need a super-majority in the congress in order to begin to clean up at home; internationally, we will need pragmatists, instead of our current political propagandists.
Appalling…but by no means surprising. Anyone who’s been paying attention over the last six-odd years could have predicted this, because it’s very much in keeping with Bush’s character (or more specifically, his lack thereof). Time and time again, Bush’s choices and behavior have been those of the quintessential eogtist and/or narcissist. If appearances are anything to go on, Bush doesn’t just believe that he leads the country — he believes that he is the country. Of all the presidents that we’ve ever had, he’s probably the one who comes closest to upholding King Louis XIV’s famous quote “L’etat, c’est moi” (Nixon runs a close second). Apparently, in George W. Bush’s view (implied by his actions), only those things which the State Department has accomplished during his administration are important and worth commemorating because he considers everything and everyone secondary to his own ego.
Of course, as anyone who has studied psychology knows, arrogance of this magnitude is almost always a disguise for profound insecurity. Whether he’s able to consciously admit it or not — and my guess is that he’s not — it’s probable that he had the pictures taken down because he fears that they might make people nostalgic for the successes of yesteryear and lead them to realize that the dubious accomplishments of the Bush administration significantly pall by comparison.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:26 amI think Dubbie’s more than a little disappointed the Iraqis haven’t ereceted a statue of him in Baghdad, and that’s why Maliki doesn’t get a photo-op prize.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:29 am“The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end.”
April 9th, 2008 at 11:34 amFrom Gladiator the movie. The emperor in the movie is so like our own.
Where’s the photo of Bush’s fecal matter being collected??
April 9th, 2008 at 11:49 am#34 Bluestocking Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 11:26 am
I agree, he is very insecure. We all know Bush has many shortcomings, he tries to make himself appear LARGER THAN LIFE.
HIS WALL OF SHAME IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THIS.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:54 am…and this photo here… is Bush cutting and running from his national guard service. A truly historic and defining moment.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:01 pmIs there a picture of “Mission Accomplished”?
April 9th, 2008 at 12:28 pmTime to ship all the pictures to the GW Library… oops, I forgot, there is nowhere to place it yet. Perhaps to the GW Sewers…
April 9th, 2008 at 12:35 pm“leading to the State Department cafeteria”…well, that would certainly kill my appetite.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:56 pmAlso visible in the photo were all the books and papers of the Bush administration that dud not have to be classified to prevent them from being used against the administration in a court of law. The same ones that won’t be on display at the George W. Bush presidential library.
Poor Dubya, the only title that will be on the shelf at his library is “My pet goat.”
April 9th, 2008 at 1:11 pmThis idiot is so full of S*it he thinks he’s so great. Look at the situation in this country! Consequences of a criminal war! Yet the idiot thinks he’s so great! Death to the Idiot!
April 9th, 2008 at 1:13 pmMarie @ 31 - Right on. Bush is the perfect example of a rich and powerful family’s idiot son. Let him pretend to be a Texas cowboy with a ranch.
Too bad the dude is afraid of horses and has no livestock. The only thing he can do is clear brush. Makes him look manly and all. In reality, it is the only thing his little peabrain can handle.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:56 pmPictures of Roosevelt and Churchill signing the Atlantic Charter, or photos of George and Laura Bush on a stroll in front of the Kremlin?
Which one is a more significant moment, which one deserves to be preserved for posterity? hhhmmm…. tough choice….
/sarcasm off
April 9th, 2008 at 10:19 pm