Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Eight years' worth of a thousand words

Give it up already, Mr. President.  Even Kissinger is cringing. 

Aug 13, 2008 2:26:13 PM | Politics

9 Comments

Fritz

Wait, what?

Posted by: Fritz | Wednesday, 13 August 2008 at 02:46 PM

JPool

I feel worst for the potato headed young man sitting next to the Kissingers, cause, you know, he's got that big ole head to carry around.

Also America. I feel bad for America.

Posted by: JPool | Thursday, 14 August 2008 at 11:22 AM

JPool

Also also, it's a simple thing: if the flag is frontwards facing you, it's backwards for the people in front of you; say, photographers. Maybe we can come up with a mnemonic to help him remember this.

Never mind, he won't have time to learn it.

Posted by: JPool | Thursday, 14 August 2008 at 11:22 AM

Fritz

Wait, the flag is backwards? Aren't flags double-sided? I mean, it's not upside down, is it?

Is that the joke, the flag is backwards?

Another backwards flag: http://www.grunt.com/images-bs/1st%20Iwo%20Flag%20Raising.jpg

Posted by: Fritz | Thursday, 14 August 2008 at 11:05 PM

JPool

Yeah, see, that flag is pivoting in a wind-based fashion around a pole, and so would only be backwards if they had managed to tie the stripes to the pole. Our President has the ability to hold the flag any damn way he pleases, including, as tradition would indicate, with the stars in the upper left corner for those facing him.

Posted by: JPool | Friday, 15 August 2008 at 12:59 AM

Josh

At a certain stage in a child's development, s/he will respond to your waving at him/her by waving at her/himself, not yet having learned that it's conventional to turn one's hand in the direction of one's interlocutor to wave. GWB has regressed prior to l'étade de miroir.

We have a cat who also waves at her own face when we wave at her; but I think she's just Giving Us The Paw.

Posted by: Josh | Friday, 15 August 2008 at 07:51 AM

Tim Lacy

Is the lady between Kissinger and Mr. Potato Head alive, or is she a wax figure from Madame Tussaud's strategically placed for would be assassins? - TL

Posted by: Tim Lacy | Friday, 15 August 2008 at 11:02 AM

Fritz

Tradition, what a dangerously conservative basis of evaluation. But of course, as with all incidences of Bush Derangement Syndrome, there is no possible evidence that does not support your theory.

Posted by: Fritz | Friday, 15 August 2008 at 11:37 AM

The Necromancer

Kissinger looks sleepy. Or drunk.

Posted by: The Necromancer | Friday, 15 August 2008 at 04:34 PM

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