Terrific description of Commander Dress-Up's latest costume

[Bozita]

http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/04/n/nstory.pl?fn-nyhancol11


Column: Political wars are over, but killing continues in Iraq, Afghanistan

By David Nyhan
Staff writer


All that was missing was the 60-foot banner from Karl Rove's political shop that should have said: "Mission NOT Accomplished!"

There he was again, our boyish commander-in-chief, tricked out again in his military-style garb, with a six-inch-wide badge on the right shoulder of some kind of fleecy, beige wannabe flight jacket, suitably framed against a backdrop of camouflage-clad Marines at Camp Pendleton.

Eighteen months ago the presidential warrior flew here to strut in his borrowed flight suit along the flight deck of the carrier Abraham Lincoln, under the infamous "Mission Accomplished!" banner the White House team of political advance men blamed initially on overzealous Navy folk, only to slither away from that canard when the tempest died down.

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Photo is from http://www.s5000.com/what_the_huck/663/george_bush.php

[Bozita]

1. here's another ...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/saturdayspin/203289_snark11.html


In the brief presidential debate dustup over what some dubbed a suspicious bulge in President Bush's suit jacket, some discredit was directed at the president's tailor, who was -- gasp! -- French. Looking at the photo of Bush talking to troops at Camp Pendleton Tuesday, wearing a tan sort of field jacket, complete with epaulettes, it appears that he's hired away a new tailor from another head of state -- North Korea's Kim Jong Il.

-- Thomas Shapley

[illflem]

2. Next thing you know

he'll be carrying around a green beret under those shoulder straps.

[Pathwalker]

29. Let's call it a Saddam Jacket - looks just like it!

n/t

[reprobate]

3. Finally america has a true military dictator.

In the footsteps of all the military dictators of south america and the rest of the world comes George W. Bush, Deserter Ameritus, consumate village idiot, and Constitution Destroyer.

All Hail, Lord Bush.

Now all he needs is fake campiagn ribbons on his chest.

[Octafish]

41. He's gotta get gussed up, otherwise people see him for what he is.

A phony who's never amounted to anything on his own. Whatever he's gotten, it's a result of his daddy. That explains why he was drunk until he was 40 and all the evidence of longterm cocaine addiction. He's nuts. And what's truly sad is, he's a NAZI.

[xxqqqzme]

4. OMG, they even put

his name on the jacket. Does he regularly lose pieces of clothing? I'm surprised there isn't a huge prez seal embroidered over the back. What a monkey turd.

[Stinky The Clown]

38. His name is even on his undies ...

.... in indelible ink. Babs has it done for him. By some "staff member."

[Vidar]

5. Poppy's friend Imelda probably has a nice set of pumps to go

with that ensemble.

[neebob]

6. I can't even believe that jacket

It's the new dumbest thing I've ever seen. He needs a jacket to remind everyone he's the Commander in Chief. Was it on TV? Anybody know what the big round thing is?

[Straight Shooter]

8. That's the presidential seal (which he has no right to wear) n/t

[neebob]

9. The presidential seal has a dark blue circle in the center

with an eagle and a shield, and a light band around the outside that says "Seal of the President of the United States." That thing doesn't look like it to me.

[antigone382]

30. There's a photo posted further down on this thread

It shows Bush in the jacket, standing at a podium with the presidential seal emblazoned on the front. The seal on the jacket and the seal on the podium look the same.

On edit: nevermind, should have read the whole thread. It's the USMC seal. That makes it even more sickening.

[Straight Shooter]

7. Correction. "boyish" commander in chief should be "childish"

bush isn't even in command of his own bowel movements, thus he needs to be reminded of his superiority on the world stage.

Hey world, look at our Traveling Freak Show. Ain't it grand?

[Bozita]

10. another photo, same costume ...

[neebob]

11. What IS that thing?

It's not the presidential seal. It has a light greenish background in the center. I wish someone would enlarge it and show us the detail. I can't do it on my dinoputer.

[TyeDye75]

Same shit different asshole (indeed)

[Blue Diadem]

12. Link to pic of same outfit, weird wave and larger image

Sorry I don't know how to copy pic so here's the link:

http://www.bgnews.com/vnews/display.v?TARGET=showImage&article_id=41b6905026102&image_num=1

[Bozita]

13. Good find ... I was looking for a bigger photo

[neebob]

14. Okay, so it's definitely not the presidential seal

What is it? :shrug:

[Bozita]

16. MoDo says it's the seal

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/09/opinion/09dowd.html?oref=login&n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fMaureen%20Dowd


The president loves dressing up to play soldier. To rally Camp Pendleton marines facing extended deployments in Iraq, he got gussied up in an Ike D-Day-style jacket, with epaulets and a big presidential seal on one lapel and his name and "Commander in Chief" on the other.

When he really had a chance to put on a uniform and go someplace where the enemy was invisible and there was no exit strategy and our government was not leveling with us about how bad it was, W. wasn't so high on the idea. But now that it's just a masquerade - giving a morale boost to troops heading off someplace where the enemy's invisible and there's no exit strategy and the government's not leveling with us about how bad it is - hey, man, it's cool.

[neebob]

17. MoDo's mixed up

because if you compare the patch on the jacket to the presidential seal on the podium, it's clearly not the same thing.

[Bozita]

19. Jacket was specially tailored for Bush

Perhaps the blue background on the embroidered seal was altered to make for better color coordination.

That could be important to a narcissist.

[neebob]

22. Aha! It's a USMC emblem

according to this article from the Camp Pendleton website:

http://www.cpp.usmc.mil/test.htm?http&&&www.pendleton.usmc.mil/scout/archives/master.asp

<snip>
Thousands of Marines representing nearly every command on Camp Pendleton greeted the president with a round of "ooh-rahs." Bush, wearing a tanker jacket with a United States Marine Corps emblem on the right side and a Commander-In-Chief stitched on the left, thanked U.S. forces for making the sacrifices needed to make America safer.
<snip>

Check out the "Recent Releases" on the right. Camp Pendleton Marine Dies in Iraq. Camp Pendleton Marine Dies in Iraq. Camp Pendleton Marine Dies in Iraq.

There are 50 or 60 of them, going back to January 2004.

Anyway, I guess Bush is also now a marine, since he's allowed to wear the insignia.

[Bozita]

21. another photo -- same costume, different angle

[neebob]

15. Oh, and by the way

If that's 14 percent body fat, I'm a skinny blonde.

[TyeDye75]

18. That jacket is about four sizes too small.

I guess chimpy was too busy playing war to go shopping for coats with his mommy.

Also I think hes wearing a gurdle.

[tanyev]

33. Someone posted a picture in another thread

of him wearing the exact same jacket, but the picture was from 2003. Looks to me like he's put on a few pounds in the last year.

[Dangerman]

20. Funny...

GWB doing an Adolf Hitler impersonation.

[Stinky The Clown]

39. What.A.Fucking.Asshole .... n/t

[bobbieinok]

23. did Ike EVER wear anything even vaguely military when he was president

or what about JFK???

maybe it's only unelected AWOL pResidents who 'dress up'

[American Tragedy]

25. Never

I did research on it, since I've been writing a big paper on Eisenhower. As far as I can tell, he never donned military garb when he became a civilian; except possibly at a memorial, which many soldiers do, including my grandfather. He strongly believed that the presidency was a civilian position and that the military needed to be subordinate to civilian authority.

[VOX]

28. No! If you've been in uniform in a real war, you're not eager to wear it..

ever again.

[scottxyz]

24. Bush is such a drag queen

nt

[American Tragedy]

26. WTF? Is he wearing the Marine seal?

That takes some serious nerve, for someone who's never been USMC.

[neebob]

31. I'd say it's been established

that he has some serious nerve. Or maybe they just tell him no one will mind because he's the most awesome, kick-ass pretzeldent ever!

[against all enemies]

27. Did I see George on "Queer Eye for the "Straight" Guy"?

The hair, the coat, he looks marvelous.

[Lady Effingbroke]

32. Members Only

[Poor Richard Lex]

34. Funny, when he had the opportunity to really wear uniform

he went AWOL

I guess it is ok for him to play dress-up, as long as he doesn't have to put his own precious ass on the line.

what a fool

[Dem2theMax]

35. I wish I could post the pic that was on the front page of the

San Diego Union-Tribune. It was HUGE. Talk about a photo op.
Made me :puke:

I'd post it but I can't get any image hosting site to work lately. sigh.

[gordianot]

36. That uniform was a definite mistake.

Anyone have odds we will see it again soon? Wonder if it was "chubby" Rove's idea?

[merh]

37. Are we sure that the number of soldiers in attendance as

depicted by the photo is accurate? Remember that photo taken before the campaign that was photo shopped and duplicated the soldiers, just pasting the same soldiers throughout the "printed" photo increasing the size of the audience? :shrug:

Wonder if I can find that thread. :think:

[sleepyhead]

40. I must continue to insist

that he looks like Ralph Kramden from the Honeymooners in his bus driver uniform.