Bush photo today in California (plays guitar)

[doxieone]

The link is not yet up on the White House web page to get the text of his speech.

But before he made his speech discussing relief for hurricane victims, he has the time to play a guitar.

This might not meet the rule for late breaking news --- but I think it is important to know how Bush is reacting to the disaster Katrina has wrought.


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050830/480/capm10108301730

[MADem]

1. Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Chimp strummed while NO flooded

The fooking putz!!!!!

[wtmusic]

5. Damn you!

beat me to it :grr: :thumbsup:

[MADem]

6. First thing that came to mind! ;-) nt

[melody]

32. Makes you wonder if his handlers aren't throwing him to the wolves

How could any of his keepers let that moron be photo-op'd holding a musical instrument today?

Now if only they'll let the wolves sink their teeth in and thrash him about awhile.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

58. I've wondered the...

...same thing ever since they let him whiz past Camp Casey, not once but twice, on his way to and from a fundraiser. It requires little or no political savvy, only common sense, to know better than to do that knowing it would be photoed and reported. Puzzling. I guess we really are irrelevant.

[MADem]

82. Either that, or KKKarl is too busy, huddled with counsel, to think these

things through. Preparing your defense can be very distracting...

Who's holding his hand, do ya suppose? Karen Hughes? She usually isn't that tone deaf. Sounds like a Scotty McClellan blunder to me, frankly!!!

[rateyes]

72. Mine, too! eom

[flyarm]

79. Cindy Sheehan was on Randi Rhodes today and said * played

golf yesterday afternoon while people were dying and loosing their lifetimes in the gulf coast...

the gulf water was 92degrees and * doesn't think the enviornment matters, don't worry though the russians arestuding it and preparing for earthquakes they think will be the result of the warming in the gulf of mexico...but we don't need that science..says *...nahhh and we wonder why that hurricane excelled as it did..well how about 92 degree water temps??

fish have been dying in the gulf..red tide for months..all underwater life has been dying for months!!..but ...

* played golf yesterday!!


* cut the army corp of engineer money by 72 million for New Orleans..and * played guitar today...

now what are you willing to do to stop this maniac?? are you willing to go to washinton sept 24th??

are you willing to drive to see the bush tours of Cindy and be counted?? we need numbers folks..we need to tell our congresspeople we are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore..but it is going to take numbers in the millions!

we are the majority...but we need to be there in those numbers...they can not smear us if we are there in majority numbers..

are we all willing to put ourselves out??

we better be!

fly

[UpInArms]

10. my sentiments exactly

and I bet those people in the Superdome would certainly like to know how "strumming that guitar" is going to help them out.

:argh:

[bpilgrim]

35. I tell ya, Boyz, Prezidentin' is HARD WORK! - GWB

by DU's own gatorboy :toast:

larger image...
http://news.globalfreepress.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=1
(click on the image)

peace

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

64. You bet it's...

...hard work, and all that hard work he did during his first term, looting the Commonwealth for our illegal invasion of Iraq is why there are so few resources readily available for deployment in this emergency. What the fuck did we do to deserve wrath of Dubya? We must've done something. Or maybe it's what we didn't or haven't done. Can you say "REVOLUTION?"

http://www.karlandkinggeorge.com/Hard_Work.html

[flygal]

88. Gatorboy - I love ya man!

[gatorboy]

89. Thank ya Flygal!

Here's to chipping away at our beloved "leader", one piece at a time! :hi:

[Sub Atomic]

36. Nero's last words were purportedly

"What an artist dies with me."


I wonder what Chimpy's last words will be.....

[Richard Steele]

41. "Hey, y'all watch this"?

[wtmusic]

2. Is a Nero metaphor appropriate here? nt

[MADem]

9. From the Chimperor's perspective, it is

He sure acts like he owns the damn road!

[rodeodance]

15. what a waste of a good musical instrument--just to add to his trophies!

[David Zephyr]

34. So help me God, I thought of the same thing, wtmusic.

Over a hundred soldiers and Marines dead during his vacation.

Hundreds dead in a devastating hurricane...

And he's strumming a guitar?

Nero's fiddling while Rome burns.

[barbaraann]

3. Nero fiddled, Bush strummed.

I can hardly stand this. First he biked, now he's playing guitar.

It I quit posting it's because my head has exploded.

[maddezmom]

4. reminds me of photos of * reading "My Pet Goat"

while the planes were hitting the WTC and the Pentagon. He is a disgrace. :mad:

[cbear70]

7. seriously??

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[fasttense]

8. Bush strums guitar

while, Rome burns, I mean, New Orleans gets hit by hurricane. His compassion is just amazing. :sarcasm:

OK you beat me to it. But he was doing this about 1:30 yesterday. All those people in the dome must of felt real secure.

[maddezmom]

13. was that before or after eating birthday cake with McCain?

[AllyCat]

61. After. He's just the kind of guy you could have a beer with, huh?

What a party animal.

[Wheezy]

71. I wonder if

that icing slid off. Doesn't it look like it's about to go? It was 113 here in Phoenix yesterday.

And there on the other side of * is our (dem) governor, Janet. She looks too happy to be there. x(

[Sequoia]

11. Post it side by side with the flooding pics.

[Gemini Cat]

12. Strumming a guitar!?

There isn't anything left to say.
:wtf:

[cry baby]

14. I wonder why there is a presidential seal on the guitar?

[Don Claybrook]

84. I noticed that. I think it has to do with narcissism

Everything this moron owns has a presidential seal or stitching that says "The President of the United States" or "43", etc. I think he's terrified that this power he has is fleeting. So he marks everything with reminders that he's large and in charge. Freakin' loser dirtball.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. Where have all the brain cells gone...long time passing

C'mon DU..SING IT!!!

[txaslftist]

38. Where have all the brain cells gone, long time ago.

Where have all the brain cell gone?
Gone to cocaine, every one.
Oh when will Bush ever learn?
Oh when will Bush ever learn?

Where has all the cocaine gone?
Long time passin'
Where has all the cocaine gone?
Long time ago
Where has all the cocaine gone?
Gone to pay mercenaries, every one.
Oh when will Bush ever learn?
Oh when will Bush ever learn?

Where have all the mercenaries gone?
Long time passin'
Where have all the mercenaries gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the mercenaries gone?
Gone to free Iraq, every one.
Oh when will Bush ever learn?
Oh when will Bush ever learn?

Where has free Iraq gone?
Long time passin'
Where has free Iraq gone?
Long time ago
Where has free Iraq gone?
Gone to fundamentalists, every one
Oh when will they ever learn?
Oh when will they ever learn?

Where have all the fundamentalists gone?
Long time passin'
Where have all the fundamentalists gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the fundamentalists gone?
Gone to shoot presidents, every one.
Oh when will they ever learn?
Oh when will they ever learn?

Where have all the presidents gone?
Long time passin'
Where have all the presidents gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the presidents gone?
Gone on vacation, every one.
Oh when will they ever learn?
Oh when will they ever learn?

Where have all the vacations gone?
Long time passin'
Where have all the vacations gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the vacations gone?
Gone to lost brain cells, every one.
Oh when will they ever learn?
Oh when will they ever learn?

Where have all Bush's brain cells gone...
(Repeat Everybody!)

...Kumbaya, Milord, Kumbaya.....
I'm a dumbass president, lord, Kumbaya....

[boise1]

17. Here would be a good tune for him, from 'Cool Hand Luke'

"I don't care if it rains or freezes,
long as I have my plastic Jesus
glued upon the dashboard of my car!"

You get the idea..

[Sanity Claws]

26. Welcome boise1

Sounds like he was in your neck of the woods last week. :hi:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

18. Lee Atwater is still dead, but

remember the photo of him with Fuckface's father at his (the old man's) inaugural, faking playing guitar with Atwater, who should only be rotting in the hottest fires of Hell for all eternity?

[Sanity Claws]

28. I don't remember it

Thanks for telling us about it.

The cat in your signature line is missed. Tell him/her I said hello and to have one for me.

[SpiralHawk]

19. Bush is giving the finger again in that photo

Check it out. He is playing a chord known to no other human being.

It is the Fuck You Mississippi and Louisiana Chord, and he is flashing the finger -- again.

[karynnj]

75. I actually was reading this JUST for that information

Is Bush really playing? I don't play guitar so I wondered if that;s a real chord. Our Phony President is playing dress up again. He pretended to have flown the plane for mission "accomplished" when it was clear he lost flying privileges years ago and probably can't fly a plane.

[buff2]

20. That stupid bastard......

Not a phucking care in the world. Who is that bu$h ass kissing moron with him? Never heard of him before.Yes,this is typical for that "compassionate CON-servative". All the devastation going on and he phucks around with a guitar with that sneer on his ugly face. I would give anything to wipe that sneer off his face. :grr:

[SammyWinstonJack]

57. Country music's own Mark Wills who presented Vacation boy

with the guitar. :puke: Oh Toby's gonna be pissed!

[Lochloosa]

21. Give Him a break people....

He's on Vacation

[old blue]

22. Looks like he's attempting to play a G chord, on the wrong fret

Most likely Wills just finished placing bush's fingers on the neck.

[MaineDem]

25. I noticed that, too (nt)

[one_true_leroy]

53. no way, dude...

I've looked at it, and it is definately a C#b5dom7#9.

Who knew W's a jazz hound? :eyes:

[mwb970]

76. It's a G chord that drifted to the right.

The sad thing is, remember Clinton? He could actually play the saxophone, not just hold it funny.

[Imagevision]

23. Bush Katrina? It's more important to rally the troops for noble cause

People are drowning still missing and this is what he wants us to see?!!

man, are we ever screwed, only hope is Fitgerald at this point.

[SammyWinstonJack]

62. Think the NG troops in Iraq will get a kick out of Jr. fooling around

with a guitar while their home states are being destroyed? Like Jr. cares!

[MaineDem]

24. He blows off the Little League champs because of the storm but...

he has time to play around with a guitar?

I'm sorry, this was the wrong time for him to go on this junket. Now I hear over 100 people have died in Biloxi and he was off on this trip? Disgraceful!

Was any part of this trip a fundraiser? THis is important information.

[Roland99]

27. * Diddles while New Orleans drowns

[yojon]

29. Wonder what song he was trying to play..

?Roll on Muddy River?
?Ol Man River?

[0007]

33. "Three Blind Mice"

[sniffa]

30. he's the new wesLey wiLLis

[Shakespeare]

31. MASSIVE stupidity and failure by Rove on this one.

This is the image of a president dealing with an enormous national tragedy. Make it a meme....c'mon, y'all....

[txaslftist]

40. Rove has problems of his own...

[Justyce]

37. His numbers are down,

his brain starts clicking, 'hmmm.... everyone seemed to like when Clinton played the sax....' except when Clinton did it, hundreds of people in our country weren't drowning & thousands fleeing for their lives. To me, everything he does lately looks like a desperate attempt to get his numbers up/get attention -- only he's going about it the wrong way of course. He can't see anything beyond himself.

[all.of.me]

39. what an asshole

no heart, no soul.

[MadeinOhio]

42. Well, it's official....

Bush has cracked and gone crazy. I never figured it would happen barely one year into his second 'fraudulent' term......

Christ, he looks like stevie wonder having a really bad day!!!! What does the guy do nowadays, talk to himself in the backroom when Cheney and the other Darth Vaders are away on a picnic?

:crazy: :crazy:

[flamingyouth]

43. Glad he's moving on with his life.

:grr:

[Jeanette in FL]

44. Send these pictures to everyone you know

Remember if people don't see something on TeeVee it hasn't happened. Let everyone see what was important to * during one of the worst disasters to happen to this country.

[CityZen-X]

45. The Nero Factor

either strumming a guitar or reading a fairy tale this modern day Nero, is a piece of Bu$h*t!!!

[BrightKnight]

46. Louisiana 1927, "Rode my limo to the levee but the levee..."

Perhaps he was playing something appropriate.

[dancingme]

47. another pic from Yahoo

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050830/480/capm10208301856

[BrightKnight]

51. He is flipping the finger again in that one. - n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

68. I can't get that to load...

Did they take it down?

ed. Oh, there it is. Must have been too many hits or something.

[u4ic]

48. Maybe it's his sick, twisted version of Live Aid........n/t

[bobbieinok]

49. who plays a guitar IN A SUIT??????????????

[karynnj]

77. The Beatles wore suits and John, Paul, and George played guitar

Bush's suit is not the problem, it's his brain For politicians, Kerry had his guitar with him on his bus and he often was dressed in a suit - I didn't notice what he was wearing, but he looked like he enjoyed playing his guitar. Clinton wore a suit when he played sax.

[bj2110]

50. That makes me sick... How fucking hard is it to cancel your schedule?

[VOX]

52. Heh heh **What made Milwaukee famous, has made a loser outta me** heh heh

Can you imagine the shit-storm this would have created in the right-wing media had Clinton pulled this stunt? He would have been EXCORIATED. Doubt that'll happen to the Godly Chimp.

:mad: :grr: :nuke:

[PittLib]

54. C'mon guys, give him a break ...

he's playing to what is left of his "base". If he stood them up, who'd he have left? Oh, yeah ... the fundies.

[samsingh]

55. once again millions are suffering in some part of the country

and this revolting excuse for a human being is doing something that does absolutely nothing to help those that are suffering.

[Straight Shooter]

56. He isn't "playing" the guitar. He's strumming it.

bush wouldn't know how to play a guitar. That requires coordination which we all know the freak does not possess. And you have to memorize all those hard chords and everythin' :)

This photo is even worse than the one where Kerry was windsurfing. At least Kerry knows how to windsurf.

[karynnj]

78. Kerry also knows how to play the guitar he was pictured with

and, flight suit not withstanding Bush can't fly airplanes - another thing Kerry can do.

[spindoctor]

90. He is thumbing an F13sus4 chord. Good country key.

Sounds wicked in western too. :evilgrin:

[unblock]

59. that's a bogus chord he's playing

i don't know what chord he's pretending to play, but that would sound horrible. he's playing an open chord too far away from the nut. you either play an open chord and use the nut to get a good tone out of the strings you're not fingering, or you use your index finger as a barre for those strings.

nor is his right hand in a decent strumming position.

STAGED!
STAGED!
STAGED!

[AllyCat]

60. It's not a chord. He's flipping us off again.

Look at his left hand.

[Ian_rd]

63. It looks like he's trying to play an Em but one fret too far south

Edit: Nevermind, that doesn't look like an Em - it's just BS.

[unblock]

70. Em7 maybe? one fret off?

[Blue_In_AK]

65. I noticed that, too,

and I'm not even a guitar player. Play that funky music, White Boy......

[zulchzulu]

74. Here's the chord he is playing.....eeeewwww....

E A D G B E
- - - - - -
- - - - - -
- X- - - -
X - - 0 X 0

[Lisa]

86. no wonder they didn't let him into the band at Andover

Evidently his musical skills haven't improved since then.

"He was the head football cheerleader his senior year, a member of his class rock-and-roll band, the Torqueys – not singing or playing an instrument but clapping – and organizer of the school's stickball league."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072799.htm



p.s. I like Dan Sack's take on this ...

[CityZen-X]

66. Who Is The A**hole

behind the Chimp that let the scum of the Earth touch his guitar. I want to make sure that I do not contribute ever to his music or his ass-kiss band!

[Roy]

67. Wait till Jon Stewart gets this!!!

N/T

[faithnotgreed]

69. that would be the ONLY good thing to come from it

just like the "reports" that cnn etc were handing out the past couple days as if this wasnt a huge disaster in the making

the only good thing to come of it is maybe people will wake up to the lies they are being fed from corporate media
they only report the truth when they have no other choice

on edit: thank you to jeanne meserve - it sounds as if she is basically the exception and i am glad cnn has her reporting about this
from what i have heard from everyone here she clearly is the one who has reported this as it really is
i hope she is ok...

[zulchzulu]

73. Wow...he's playin' an Abmin9#07/Gb!

OK...it sounds like a guitar being dropped.

What a fucking poseur...

[spindoctor]

91. No, no...its an F13sus4

With an E bass to be exact :)

[fooj]

80. The President who does not feel...

http://evilqueen.demesnes.net/mp3/e_l_doctorow.mp3 (audio version)

peace.

[SunDrop23]

81. Mark Wills = nutjob a la Clint Black

nfm

[johnnie]

83. It's hard work

[WI_DEM]

85. yeah, as if he actually knows how to play

[PDittie]

87. He's just getting on with his life

Because as we all know, some people are made to suffer and some people aren't.