Bush at portrait unveiling: ‘Welcome to my hanging.’
By on Dec 6th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Bush at portrait unveiling: ‘Welcome to my hanging.’
Today, President Bush presided over the unveiling of his presidential portrait, at the Union League. “Welcome to my hanging,” Bush joked to the crowd. The portrait “shows Bush staring straight ahead, looking comfortable but not quite smiling, against the backdrop of the White House’s Treaty Room.” Bush said the painter, Mark Carder, “did a really fine job with a challenging subject.”
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Wouldn’t just a MAD MAGAZINE cover suffice?
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December 6th, 2008 at 2:28 pm“Bush at portrait unveiling: ‘Welcome to my hanging.’”
Memo to Bush: Ah, be careful what you say and what you wish for.
December 6th, 2008 at 2:32 pmMaybe Bush can see his future at Hague
December 6th, 2008 at 2:55 pmWhere’s darth cheney in all this.? Hiding in the basement of the white house maybe.?…..Blessings
December 6th, 2008 at 2:57 pmIs it really necessary to keep this guy “hanging” around?
December 6th, 2008 at 3:00 pmDoes this get Spencer’s mom off the hook for the threatened narcing she was to receive the other day
December 6th, 2008 at 3:02 pmBush staring straight ahead, looking comfortable but not quiet smiling,…
Not quiet smiling- like giving the country a Bronx cheer? or
December 6th, 2008 at 3:25 pmNot quite smiling- like a chimperor king?
This is the only portrait of himself he deserves.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-04/23/content_325839.htm
December 6th, 2008 at 3:34 pmI might be wrong, but didn’t he make the same lame joke when his official Governor’s portrait was unveiled?
December 6th, 2008 at 3:43 pmCan we see the portrait? I can’t even find it at the official White House website.
December 6th, 2008 at 3:47 pmBurn the painting hang the bastard!!!! HAGUE 2009!
December 6th, 2008 at 3:48 pmFred says:
“Man alive, what a stinko thousand years. Blimp wrecks, teenagers, then again we had two TV shows with Andy Griffith.”
December 6th, 2008 at 3:50 pmThe portrait “shows Bush staring straight ahead, looking comfortable but not quiet smiling, against the backdrop of the White House’s Treaty Room
Ironic, since there are few if any treaties, Bush and his minions honored.
“From the very beginning, the Bush-Cheney administration has dismissed international law and disregarded domestic law. They began by either repudiating or refusing to honor the United States’ international commitments and obligations, thus showing indifference, if not outright hostility, toward international law. They opted out of five important international treaties and commitments: the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty and the International Criminal Court. In so doing, the United States, under the Bush-Cheney administration, has betrayed its international commitments and has moved away from being a moral state, and more and more toward the status of an international rogue state.”
And there of course, there were the Geneva Conventions…so “quaint.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10598
December 6th, 2008 at 3:56 pmLet’s not forget the U.S. just refused to sign the Treaty against the manufacturing and use of cluster bombs.
December 6th, 2008 at 3:57 pmGallows humor might not have been the best choice of words for Bushie considering that he still may have to face The Hague.
December 6th, 2008 at 3:57 pmCan we get a hold of a time machine and switch out Saddam for Sheriff G.W. Pepper?!
December 6th, 2008 at 4:00 pmHow is Botch dressed in this portrait?
Is he nattily attired in orange jumpsuit, w/ matching shiny bracelets?
It has got to SUCK big time being that man, and knowing probably more than half the country just doesn’t want your presiduncy over with, but would be truly delighted to see your sorry Cheney hauled off to the Hague and put on trial as a war criminal.
The joke about hanging would indicate he’s aware of this at some level, even thru that murky alkyholic daze he’s rumored to be spending his final weeks in office in.
Can’t say I feel the least bit sorry for the vicious, incompetent, delusional corrupt, bullying, arrogant, little dry drunk from Hades.
December 6th, 2008 at 4:17 pmwas the painter a realist and have him throwing feces with one hand while swilling from a bottle of jack with the other?
December 6th, 2008 at 4:19 pmIf only it was…and the noose was tied around his scrotum.
December 6th, 2008 at 4:21 pmLaura didn’t have the man gelded yet?! I pity any egg that would meet his sperm ever again.
December 6th, 2008 at 4:23 pmYou should see the portrait he has hidden in the attic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WugcAuQMP1s
December 6th, 2008 at 4:39 pmSTOP IT GEORGIE….
YOU’RE GIVING ME A HARD ON
December 6th, 2008 at 6:00 pmI’ll bring the darts.
December 6th, 2008 at 6:20 pm“Welcome to my hanging”
Bush/Cheney -Nuremburg ‘09
December 6th, 2008 at 7:00 pmSaid: Wayne A. Schneider
What the hell is your point, Wayne? Oh, wait, I know.
December 6th, 2008 at 7:05 pmHow did he reproduce that smirk?
December 6th, 2008 at 7:07 pmMuch like Sadam.
December 6th, 2008 at 7:19 pmLaura should finish the term.
How bored is this Mark Carder dude ?
Why in the world would anyone waste their time painting a portrait of a pile of shit ?
December 6th, 2008 at 7:46 pmHee, hee, hee, gallows humor. Bush is such a card.
Unfortunately, the evil and corruption our nation has experienced over the past eight years under evil and corrupt Republicans is no laughing matter…and with Republicans planning on blocking every Democratic Party initiative in the Senate, initiatives meant to right the Bush wrongs, meant to set our nation once again on the path to peace and prosperity, meant to guarantee liberty and justice for all Americans, things aren’t going to change very soon.
And with die-hard Blue Dog Democrats siding with culture of corruption and corporate greed Republicans all the time, probably things aren’t going to change at all.
December 6th, 2008 at 7:56 pmDec. 20th is close.. means the beginning of less than a month of this administration.
Can you feel the excitement?!!!
December 6th, 2008 at 7:59 pmchimp is such a weird, psychopathic ignorant imbecile. “Welcome to my hanging.” he thinks making a joke out of hanging is funny, he knows people really want to hang him. he also knows that he hung Hussein and a few contractors/private army, blackwater, were hung on a bridge.
I see nothing funny in his ignorance.
December 6th, 2008 at 11:25 pmGO AWAY YOU SADIST OLD FOOL!
His portrait features a grandfather clock. Is this a tribute to his grandfather, Prescott Bush? We all know how he began the family fortune.
December 7th, 2008 at 2:09 amThis is a beautiful portrait. Very well done.
December 7th, 2008 at 9:43 amThank you TP! Yesterday (see post #11) I put a link to what I felt was the only portrait Bush deserves. It went through with no problem. Today at Huffington Post I tried to post it again as a reply to a commentor asking “Where’s the picture”. They dumped it twice. So I tried again, this time linking to the one they had AT THEIR OWN SITE! Poof! gone. Way to go HuffPOO!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nico-pitney/a-mosaic-4000-americans-d_b_93044.html
December 7th, 2008 at 11:25 amThis idiot persists mocking us americans as if we were stupid. I am so sick of this. Keep pushing it idiot! We’ll insert a hook in your mouth and drag you all over DC until your lower jaw comes off! As americans we’ve put up with your crap these last 8yrs. We are contenders. We have grown stronger and WE WANT YOU DEAD! lOSER FREAK!
December 7th, 2008 at 12:27 pmToo bad Salvador Dali is not still alive; he could have done an excellent portrait of this surreal jack ass.
December 7th, 2008 at 12:33 pmWorst.
F**king.
President.
EVER.
December 7th, 2008 at 12:57 pmConsidering that anyone else making a similar joke could be accused as incitement (especially that there are a lot of folks out there who don’t like the guy):
Is there anyway we can charge Bush for incitement for saying this ????
Well I can dream can’t I ?
December 7th, 2008 at 7:24 pmI’d pay my last dollar to watch that idiot hang.
I hope he drinks the rest of his lousy life away.
It couldn’t happen to a more deserving a$$hole.
Buck Fush!
“When Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag carrying a cross.” Sinclair Lewis.
December 7th, 2008 at 8:09 pm( WMR ) — With less than two months remaining in office, George W. Bush, witnessing a devastating defeat for the Republican Party,
worse favorability ratings than those of Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal, and the most devastating economic situation since the Great Depression, is reported by a number of well-placed sources in Washington as drinking heavily.
I hope he is drinking. This is the first time in his spoiled rotten life he’s been held accountable for his failures. At least in public opinion. I hope he walks down the street and people spit on him.
POS.
December 7th, 2008 at 8:12 pmHe’s drunk, during this “hanging”. There’s just no doubt about it. If he leans any further he’ll fall off the podium, and check out the slurred speech.
One would think that he’s drinking out of misery for the complete and utter disaster his 8 years have been. I beg to differ. I believe he’s celebrating. Disaster is what this man has been, and always will be about. He is a complete sociopath and these 8 years have been more than any of his kind could ever dream of. Chaos, destruction, death… and he’ll get away with everything he wanted. Heckuva job, Bush.
December 8th, 2008 at 9:04 amHanging?!?!?
They’re gonna HANG Bush?!?!? COOL!
What? You mean a PICTURE hanging…?
Oh.
Never mind.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:43 am