If this is not the most repulsive * photo op, I don't know what is.

[wndycty]

President Bush (news - web sites) runs with Army Staff Sergeant Michael McNaughton, of Denham Springs, La., on the South Lawn of the White House Wednesday, April 14, 2004. The two met January 17, 2003, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where SSgt. McNaughton was recovering from wounds sustained in Afghanistan (news - web sites). The President then wished SSgt. McNaughton a speedy recovery so that they might run together in the future. (AP Photo/The White House. Eric Draper)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040414/480/wx11404142322

Do you think * would have agreed to running with Sergeant McNaughton if there were not cameras around. At least this guy was wounded in Afghanistan because if he had been wounded in Iraq that would have been just wrong. Nonetheless it seems even the wounded soldiers are viewed as photo ops.

[CatWoman]

1. Notice thatt this guy was wounded in Afghanistan, not Iraq

he avoids the Iraq wounded like the plague.

[wndycty]

5. If he had been wounded in Iraq. . .

. . .this photo would definately be in bad taste.

[montanacowboy]

2. But these soldiers are enablers

no one forced him to run with the moran - when will anyone stand up and NO! people continue to be used and abused and made fools of by this dangerous half wit - it is really beyond my comprehension.

[fryguy]

15. the freaky thing

is that for as much as we all can't stand the little shrub, there are still so many people who think he's the greatest thing since sliced bread....

poor deluded souls. its not so bad to have one's head up one's own ass, but its very sad that they admire the view so much....

[Commendatori]

19. I'm not so sure

If Bush wants to run with a wounded soldier, a soldier will be "volunteered."

I was ordered to pose in a photo op with the first Bush (on a day of leave, no less), and got out of it only by "accidentally" spilling a full cup of coffee on my uniform shirt. I was not given a choice until my uniform was deemed unsuitable for the photo.

[sniffa]

3. maybe * can finaLLy win a race

fair & square.

is this one too tasteLess for a captioning?

[fryguy]

16. no wait....

I think I can see Scalia, Rhenquist, and Thomas in the bushes....

[BlueEyedSon]

4. I want to see the picture with Bush and 500 amputees

jogging, in wheelchairs, etc., to make a point of the magnitude of his crimes.

[gWbush is Mabus]

6. LOL. yes, THAT would be a good photo-op

[walkon]

7. That is A GREAT idea.

The photo above is appropriate for his Memoir - not for politics.

[belle]

28. I'd like to see them running him over.

[jackstraw45]

8. Running the South Lawn? Nice 5 second run photo op...try these instead...

Emma Roberts is comforted by her daughter, Angela Roberts-Burton, second from right, after receiving the U.S. flag that draped the coffin of her son, Marine Lance Cpl. Anthony P. Roberts, during a cermony inside the pavilion at the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Wednesday, April 14, 2004, in Bear, Del. The 18-year-old Delaware native was killed April 6 in combat in Iraq (news - web sites). (AP Photo/Dee Marvin)


Charity Witmer (R) and Lori Witmer (2nd L) hug mourners at a visitation for their sister and daughter Michelle Witmer, at Elm Brook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin April 14, 2004. Michelle, a member of the Wisconsin National Guard 32nd Military Police Company, was killed on patrol in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) on April 9. REUTERS/Michael Sears/POOL


The flag draped coffin of Lance Cpl. Aric J. Barr, 22, a Marine rifleman killed in combat April 2, 2004, in Iraq , is carried out of St. Stephen Church by a Marine Honor Guard in Hazelwood, Pa., during his funeral, Monday, April 12, 2004.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

17. I am sitting here in front of my computer and looking at the above

photos and crying my eyes out. That stupid brainless twit doesn't have one clue about what the people in these photos are going through. I am absolutely disgusted by the audacity that man has. If I could ever get close enough to him, I'd spit on him.

BTW: that man refers to *

[elperromagico]

20. There's your Bush photo op.

Of course, Bush doesn't want to see dead bodies on his TV. He'd much rather watch Spongebob, I guess.

[Nailzberg]

22. It's really getting hard to see those Witmer women.

And before I need to break out the asbestos, it's not because they are women in combat. It's just all the media coverage they are getting (Chicago has really been heavy on it). Here these two have to fly home with their sister's casket, symbolically bringing her home to their parents.

Just a really sad situation, and the media can't give them any peace.

[noiretextatique]

25. thank you...

these photos really put the jackass' grandstanding :grr: in perspective :cry:

[AlCzervik]

9. I'd like to see that

wounded soldier kick the squatter-in-chief squarely in the ass with that bionic foot, now that would be a photo-op.

[bif]

10. "Okay, you get two minutes with me, then I want you outta here."

Sickening.

[Kahuna]

11. Geez. Just when you think he couldn't possibly top himself.

I hate this guy. :puke:

[Catfight]

12. I wouldn't put it past Bush to computer graphic the leg...

He has no morals, he'll exploit women (condi) or the maimed to get his precious few votes.

[fryguy]

13. when exactly did * console any loved ones?

"Look, nobody likes to see dead people on their television screens. I don't. It's a tough time for the American people to see that. It's gut-wrenching. One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who've lost their lives. It is a — it is a — it's a chance to hug and weep and console and to remind the loved ones that the sacrifice of their loved one was done in the name of security for America and freedom for the world."

[xxqqqzme]

23. he can't even get fake humble right

'console family members who've lost their lives.'?????WTF?? If the family members have lost their lives - not much consoling 2 do. One of my hardest parts of my job???? And I thought it was hardest 4 him 2 speak English and put coherent sentences together.

[Domitan]

14. If Bush was leading in the polls

would he bother doing something like this?

[elperromagico]

18. That guy had better not outrun Dubya

if he wants to keep his other leg.

[demosincebirth]

21. The man...

lost his leg in combat and Bush is Commander in Chief. I wouldn't expect him to say no to Bush regardless of his politics.

[Soup Bean]

27. I agree. This guy gave of himself for his country.

I don't think this photo op helps Bush very much, though. I hope the kid got some enjoyment out of it.

[spanone]

24. He needs an op. 20,000 soldiers are pissed at w*

[BlackVelvetElvis]

26. No he would not run with the Sgt.

This war is one big photo op for him. I believe the details of those have been discussed.