Bush receives ‘wooden box’ from staff for his birthday.
By on Jul 6th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Bush receives ‘wooden box’ from staff for his birthday.
Today is President Bush’s 62nd birthday. The AP reports that White House staff celebrated the birthday aboard Air Force One, where they presented Bush with the gift of a “wooden box“:
The party for birthday on Sunday was informal; the gift was not. The staff presented him with a wooden box made from a giant oak tree that fell on the White House lawn in 2007. Some of the wood from the tree, planted by Benjamin Harrison’s daughter in 1892, had been sent to Texas to be fashioned into a box about 12-by-18 inches. They filled it with notes and cards from members of his senior staff.
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Oh goodies a mystery puzzle box. It will take Dinkledoofus a millenia to open it.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:46 am12-by-18 inches.
My first thought was more like 72 by 36 inches.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:49 amHow nice, a wooden box, to match his wooden head.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:49 amtony and lido
it's where he keeps his stash... ;)
July 6th, 2008 at 11:55 amThe staff's answer to "Got wood?"
July 6th, 2008 at 11:59 am.
Ooooh, a Bush in a Box...
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July 6th, 2008 at 12:00 pmHmmm, the box in that photo looks suspiciously like a box of Partagas Shorts . . . from Habana. Can we slide it open and peek inside? Maybe turn it over and check the date? They need at least a year, maybe two before they start to get good.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:03 pmHe could fill the box full of pretzels!
July 6th, 2008 at 12:03 pmI bet it's realy a recycled White Elephant gift that no one wanted...
July 6th, 2008 at 12:07 pmBentley beat me to it!
July 6th, 2008 at 12:11 pmFilled with notes? The average American would have filled that box with something requiring squatting.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:15 pmOh, and it has a small hole in the bottom so you can slip your middle finger in and when it's opened you can twitch the finger around. Lot's of fun!
July 6th, 2008 at 12:16 pmRepublicans are so uncreative... The box looks exactly like the underside of a cabinet drawer. With all their money they couldn't have afforded some patterned inlays or even a stain color other than clear?
July 6th, 2008 at 12:20 pmIt looks exactly like the box my mother's ashes are in. How apropos.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:27 pmYay for the Republican conservatives! Ehm... all they got from a grown up giant oak is a 12x18 inches (bidimensional?) box?
July 6th, 2008 at 12:30 pmYes, Anne, the neocons seek to trim America down to size, drown her in the bathtub, and make the check out to the crematorium.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:32 pmA wooden box. Quel bizarre...
No one could have predicted!
July 6th, 2008 at 12:35 pmMaybe the wooden box is what will hold the contents of his eight years of the presidency? Hey could be. That's about all that's left that they haven't destroyed to protect themselves from prosecution.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:39 pmWhat DO you give a man who has f--ked-up everything?
How about a solid oak personal-effects box for him to store his wallet, belt, shoelaces and 'Skull-and-Crossbones' branding coat-hanger whilst he's in jail for life?
July 6th, 2008 at 12:47 pmReading those lovely notes should help ease the constipation on those lonely days to come.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:47 pmWell, at least they finally found a home for the Bush Presidential Library.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:48 pmThe cards read:
"Get out of jail free."
He is expected to sign them on January 19th 2009.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:53 pmThis is how RNC promoted a fundraiser using President Bush's Birthday, I just found this today. I didn't hear word one of this before today when I was doing some research. This will make you want to retch:
June 25, 2008
Just today, the Republican National Committee sent out a fundraising email, asking supporters to celebrate Bush's birthday by signing a birthday card and making a donation to the GOP.
Commemorating Bush's 62nd birthday with a donation "is essential to electing John McCain and Republicans up and down the ticket."
The e-card reads:
Thank you for your service and dedication to our country. May this day and every day be filled with family, friends, and good fortune.
Best Wishes on your 62nd Birthday, President Bush.
I don't think "thank you" is the message most Americans want to send President Bush these days.
I agree Americans are not thinking of sending "thanks" to Bush it would be more like Warrant For His Arrest. Our parting gift to you is a one way ticket to prison without a possiblity of parole.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:55 pmWhen a tree falls on the White House grounds, is the end result bigger than a breadbox? That tree and all parts thereof, belonged to the American people, not Georgie Boy. This was a gift from the American people, not his staff, and I want my portion back.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:56 pmi agree, un... surely there are some artisans in texas with the talent and know how to make an oak box into a special gift...
but, then again, duby does seem to be a minimalist...
good thing the maker put that dent in the lid or he'd never figure out how to open it...
July 6th, 2008 at 12:57 pmAfter all of the shredding was done I'm not surprised they could fit everything else in a small wooden box. I notice that there was no mention of anything from Dick Cheney. He must have shredded absolutely everything. In a sense, the box contains the ashes of Bush's failed presidency.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:57 pmI'm suddenly reminded of an Art Imitating Life thing. I and my colleagues built the boxes for M. Knight Shaymalan's "The Village"--you know, the ones that stored the disguises of the regressive elders that they used to keep the rest of population scared and contained?
July 6th, 2008 at 12:58 pmhey TP - here's your "Featured Comment" for this thread:
hussein toasterhead Says:
Well, at least they finally found a home for the Bush Presidential Library.
excellent!
July 6th, 2008 at 12:59 pm#19 5th Estate Says:
whilst he’s in jail for life?
We are on the same wavelength. LOL
July 6th, 2008 at 12:59 pmNice to be in good company!!!
The coffin of his presidency?
July 6th, 2008 at 12:59 pmNot unlike the "gifts" that the Idiot Boy King bestowed upon over 4,000 American servicemen/women and their families with a reckless and duplicitous war for oil. A key difference: they can't return it; Shrub can.
Bastard.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:59 pmAn harbinger of things to come from these greedy bastards.
A tree falls on public property and they take it for themselves.
Next is ANWAR oil.
July 6th, 2008 at 1:07 pm#29 Freedom Rebel Says:
We are on the same wavelength. LOL
It has ever been thus [I think :)]
July 6th, 2008 at 1:07 pm"They filled it with notes and cards from members of his senior staff."
_____
Written in words of one syllable -- phonetically.
July 6th, 2008 at 1:13 pmLooks big enough to inter his ashes...
hey, a fella can dream, can't he?
July 6th, 2008 at 1:19 pmIt's just big enough to hold the ashes of our 'outdated' Constitution and Bill of Rights.
July 6th, 2008 at 1:31 pmActually it's the right size for storing those mini booze bottles,like the airlines charge $5 for.
July 6th, 2008 at 1:48 pmtony and lido
A box 12" x 18" is just perfect to hold legal papers. May I suggest Congress send him some on impeachment to start his collection?
July 6th, 2008 at 1:59 pmThe appropriate thing to do would've been to make it an urn and fill it with ashes, to symbolize all the dead solders killed in Iraq, and all the global prestige, consumer wealth, and rule of law thats gone up in smoke since Bush seized the White House.
July 6th, 2008 at 2:12 pmFor the ashes of the Constitution...and his weed...
July 6th, 2008 at 2:16 pmKinda like a metaphor for him and his administration. An empty wooden box full of stupid ideas.
July 6th, 2008 at 2:25 pmThat's about the right size to represent his legacy and view of the world.
July 6th, 2008 at 2:33 pmcan't you just see the befuddled look on his face when he unwrapped it thinking it was a box of Cubans or something? he'll probably re-gift it.
July 6th, 2008 at 2:47 pmI feel as a taxpaying citizen i serve to donate a few milliliters of semen to that box.. consider it a sign of your messiahs "second cuming"
July 6th, 2008 at 2:52 pmAh, a wooden box for the Pinocchio-in-chief with a hollow brain. Let's just hope that his 63rd birthday is spent behind bars where he belongs.
July 6th, 2008 at 2:56 pmLabel on bottom of box: "Made by Pandora".
July 6th, 2008 at 2:56 pmConvenient . . just the right size for a stack of "My Pet Goat" hardbound edition, with room for a yo-yo and souvenir T-Ball . . . .
July 6th, 2008 at 3:15 pmSooooooooooo...that's Benjamin Harrison's daughter's box, eh?
July 6th, 2008 at 4:37 pmOK there's a joke in there somewhere, but I sure as heck ain't going in after it!
Well, they sure couldn't give him a Rubik's Cube. He'd be baffled forever with that.
July 6th, 2008 at 4:53 pmI would suggest he put something in it, but since he never listens to advice I'll just tell him not to hit himself on the head with it.
July 6th, 2008 at 5:08 pmShould have been a 6' x 3' pine box.
July 6th, 2008 at 5:28 pmWhy a wooden box?
July 6th, 2008 at 5:53 pmBecause they couldn't get the lead pipe past the metal detectors.
Wooden box for the wooden ventriloquist dummy ?
July 6th, 2008 at 6:07 pmHelen Hussein Rainier Says:
Well, they sure couldn’t give him a Rubik’s Cube. He’d be baffled forever with that.
He still gets baffled by the round peg/round hole - square peg/square hole whoozamadingy :)~
July 6th, 2008 at 6:32 pmWhat a dumb gift.
July 6th, 2008 at 10:05 pmTEXAS HUSSIEN VIETVET SAYS it's a good place to hide your crack.
Or just leave the box empty like the christian soul you claim to have.
Tell the undertaker where to shove it when you die, a..hole.
July 6th, 2008 at 10:24 pmThat box is about the same size as the one the crematorium gave me to carry my Dad's ashes down to the military cemetery for burial in 1990. My box was cardboard, no doubt hermetically sealed to keep any of my Dad's remains from leaking out in transit. A hand-crafted wooden box would have been better, though.
Just sayin'.
No, I'm not implying that this small wooden box, which looks like a smaller version of a wooden coffin, was somehow a subliminal message given to Bush by the White House staff. What would ever have given you that idea? Heh, heh.
July 6th, 2008 at 10:54 pmThat's not large enough.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:51 amAn utterly stupid gift for an equally stupid man.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:25 amNeed some wood box?
July 7th, 2008 at 2:32 pmIt was probably from Libby in his prison cell
July 7th, 2008 at 7:10 pm