Is this pose a coincidence or a backdrop?

[Career Prole]

Do they have another screen with a fireplace and one with a picture window with a mountain view, like Sears Portrait Studio...
or does he actually stand there and look like the drooling idiot he is in everyone's background?

[flvegan]

1. When you say that he "looks like a drooling idiot"

You imply that it's a faint possibility that he might not be, only looks like one...

[Career Prole]

2. Point taken!

Repaired same. :toast:

[DS1]

3. Looks like a minor stroke on one side to me

the way his lips turn down on his left side.

[SheilaT]

6. No, he has always had

that amazingly un-matching face. Way back during the 2000 campaign someone remarked on it. Most people's faces are asymmetrical. His is unusually so.

He's also the only person I've ever seen whose mouth turns down when he smiles. It's quite weird. I noticed it a lot during the debates.

[Bouncy Ball]

8. Damn, you know

you're right! The left side is the side that looked all wonky during the debates.

I swear to you, I am becoming more and more convinced he has a fairly serious medical problem. No physical. No real proof of one in 2003, either (no official report, as they did in 2001). None in 2002, natch.

And this weird shit. And the verbal disintegration. Something's wrong with him besides his black heart and lacking a soul.

[Lisa]

4. Bush is actually an animatronic robot

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A52767-2000Dec26¬Found=true

"The first photograph appeared in The Washington Post on Dec. 18. In it, the president-elect stands behind and to the side of Condoleezza Rice, his nominee for national security adviser. George W. Bush is slightly out of focus. His head is cocked to the left and tilted slightly backward, his mouth downturned in a perfect cartoonish crescent, the way a first-grader might draw a frown. His eyes are squinty.

The next photograph appeared in this paper two days later. In it, the president-elect stands behind and to the side of Alberto R. Gonzalez, his choice for White House counsel. George W. Bush is slightly out of focus. His head is cocked to the left and tilted slightly backward, his mouth downturned in a perfect, cartoonish crescent, the way a first-grader might draw a frown. His eyes are squinty.

It is not a similar pose; it is an identical pose. It is not a similar expression; it is the identical expression."


http://deadlysins.com/robotW/

"Notice the eerie similarity? Leading experts in animatronic motion agree that what you are seeing is a puppet that has defaulted into "standby mode." George W has temporarily shut down and assumed a preprogrammed pose while waiting his turn to reactivate and begin speaking."

[Career Prole]

9. Standby mode! Bwaaahahahaha!!

And Gonzalez, too...I knew I'd seen it again somewhere else.

[stinkeefresh]

5. The framing perfectly mirrors

a key shot in the opening scene of Alfred Hitchcock's "Stranger's on a Train". Of course, Hitch used this framing to suggest romance between his two male characters. Although they were technically sitting across the train aisle from each other, this framing placed their faces intimately close from the perspective of the viewer.

Is that the purpose of this framing? Who can know...

[whalerider55]

7. proof of W doubles

the real W is back in Crawford, trying to get the seat of his pants unfastened from some barb wire he backed into.

whalerider55

[YDogg]

10. I noticed that, too ...

[Lisa]

11. and the new Agriculture guy, too!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041202/photos_pl_afp/041202180914_6t79f2h9_photo0

[Career Prole]

14. omg! That's too weird!

I wonder if he could see him if he looked back.
Maybe it's like the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland and they can only see the Scowling Dope Phantom peering over their shoulder when they look in the mirror at the end of the ride.
"We will return to Haunted Executive Mansions after this pause for station identification..."

[Merlot]

12. "There are no coincidences in politics."

Believe that's a Roosavelt quote, not sure which one. But it's dead on.

[clover]

13. related link

http://www.lowculture.com/archives/2004/12/didnt_america_v.html