“I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn’t work.” If it’s any consolation, Dubya, we all feel just as trapped. In one of those resounding visual metaphors that capture a presidency and that life occasionally kicks up for all to see (the last one being Dubya’s fiddling during Katrina), our leader gets stymied by a locked door while trying to evade a reporter’s questions about his China trip (which were pretty softball, given all the things he could’ve been asking these days.)
In somewhat related news, in the relatively sanguine Post story about the door incident, the following depressing information is included: “In five years in the presidency, Bush has proved a decidedly unadventurous traveler…As he barnstormed through Japan, South Korea and China, with a final stop in Mongolia still to come, Bush visited no museums, tried no restaurants, bought no souvenirs and made no effort to meet ordinary local people…[Laura Bush] once persuaded him to go to the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, only to see him burn through the place in 30 minutes. He dispensed with the Kremlin cathedrals in Moscow in seven minutes. He flatly declined an Australian invitation to attend the Rugby World Cup while down under.”
and according to Atrios, Bush along with his aides and some of the press ate at Outback while in Korea. Guess he couldn’t handle the kim chi
Well, hey, if he got the Bloomin’ Onion, all is forgiven.
This picture makes me laugh. What a bizarrely funny face. It’s a spot-on frog impersonation.
Looks more like what it would look like if Johnny Carson was still around and did an impression of Duh-bya
He has no curiousity no imagination nothing redeemable about this Texas twit. he has the chance to go around the world and see everything and he blows it. Ughhhh.