What's wrong with these photos?

[paineinthearse]

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney listen Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during a meeting with the Defense Policy and Program teams at the Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas. White House photo by Eric Draper

Notice the lack of eye contact (all are looking down or into space), the boredom, the leadership vacuum the missing "je ne s'ait quios".

These are the best official photos of the meeting the WH is capable of?

[Literate Tar Heel]

1. wait, I know what's wrong with it

where's My Pet Goat?? what do I win?

[Sannum]

2. They all look like they are trying not to notice that Cheney farted.

[tuvor]

3. I see bush's artwork needs to be labeled. n/t

[madeline_con]

9. I wonder if the door has one, too.

chair
clock
table
just like in Kindergarten....

[Elidor]

4. That room is totally unsuited to a meeting

Two dicks in swivel chairs passing judgement. A visual metaphor.

[brystheguy]

5. The guys on the couch under the picture are priceless.

The one on the left looks like he's looking out the window and wondering when it's gonna rain and the guy on the right is bored silly.

[NoSheep]

6. Cindy isn't there. n/t

[Sannum]

Guy on the right thoughtbubble:

"I wonder if I should just go ahead and start sending out resumes"

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

23. LOL!

[madeline_con]

15. They're my 2 faves, also.

They pretty much sum up the whole thing.

Dick looks like he's trying to figure out how to make some more money from the whole mess.

[xray s]

7. Damn it anyway! We have people dying every day in Iraq...

...and this idiot holds court in Waco, and it looks like he's planning an Amway meeting at the local Holiday Inn.

Bush, and everyone else in that room, should be in Washington working 23 hours a day to get us out of this damn mess.

Jackasses!

[Mira]

14. Gross,ugly and artless. And that's just Cheney! n/t

[peekaloo]

8. His "meetings" are all scripted. The attendees have to make sure

they don't miss their cue to speak.

[complain jane]

10. Cheney: One foot in the grave, the other on a banana peel

in pic on the right...

[DesEtoiles]

11. Where's the Velvet Elvis? Where's the oversized crucifix?

[complain jane]

12. LOL

[madeline_con]

22. The Velvet Elvis is on the ceiling over the bed.

:evilgrin:

[Stinky The Clown]

13. That is one tacky fucking room ... who was his interor decorator?

[DURHAM D]

16. Where is Karl ? eom

[complain jane]

17. Stupid George... what is that, a uniform he's got on?

Does he change his clothes?

[City Lights]

42. Obviously not.

Look at how wrinkled his shirt and pants are. He's been wearing them for days. Plus, he only has one shirt at Compound W.

[Virginian]

18. Dick and Dubya look like they are practically lying down on the job.

If they lean back any further in those chairs, they are going over backwards. What slouchers!

[Literate Tar Heel]

19. look in the background of the first picture

there are bookshelves ... with books ... in Bush's house ... something doesn't add up

[madeline_con]

20. All this at taxpayer expense....

when he could have stayed his ASS in D.C. where he's supposed to be, and they could have all met up in Rummy's underground lair! :mad:

[leftofthedial]

21. books on shelf just for show

the bushturd doesn't read

no throne

and you're right. no one gives a shit

except cheney. I think he just literally gave a shit -- into his pants.

[Wickerman]

31. That is what is wrong with the photos

no reason for Bush to have a room with books in it.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. Where's his copy of "My Pet Goat"?

Are they all bored by the Boy Genius?

[Carolab]

25. I know what's wrong.

They know the protestors are down the road and they know they look like shitheads for ignoring Cindy and the others.

P.S. What is "She-Rah Hughes" looking at?

[shugah]

26. it's not "a" meeting

but 2 different ones?

instead of "what's wrong with this picture?" play "how many differences can you find in these 2 pictures?"

3 women on the couch/ 2 guys on the couch
cheney and bush in regualr chairs / cheney and bush in office chairs
woman in greenish toward the back reading something / where'd she go??
not the same table
where'd the globe come from?

there are too many differences for this to have been the same meeting.

if these were presented as pics from the same meeting... well, they're not!

[paineinthearse]

27. Wow, you are right!

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/images/20050811-1_g8o1536-2-515h.html

Caption 1 - (bookshelves) - President George W. Bush meets with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Foreign Policy Team at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Thursday, August 11, 2005. White House photo by Eric Draper

Caption 2 (windows, RODEO litho) - President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney listen Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during a meeting with the Defense Policy and Program teams at the Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas. White House photo by Eric Draper

[karlrschneider]

30. Cheney wearing blue shirt in one, tan jacket in the other...many books on

table in one, just a few in other. To name a couple...

[Carolab]

33. Kids, kids, kids! These are different ROOMS.

Look at the furniture.

[baldguy]

28. The guy in the big chair shouldn't be there

And most of the others should be in jail.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. "Have you ever seen the televised, St. Vitus Subcommitte Prize

Investigation dance? Those ants-in-pants glances...
well, look behind the eyes, it's a hallowed, hollow, anesthetized,
save-my-own-ass-screw-these-guys smoke-and-mirror lock down.."



...Overwhelmingly, I would say the mood in that room is one of "There is NO FUCKING WAY I am going to take the blame for this mountain of shit when the karmic bill comes due"

[paineinthearse]

32. Common theme of both pics

...all are bored shitless.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

34. compare

[DoYouEverWonder]

36. None of the furniture matches

and Karen is busy looking at the pretty cover of some 'official report'. I wonder what it says? Bin Laden Determined to Strike US?

[thjay]

35. Condi's Perky

In the first pict she is sitting upright and looking right at W. She's the ONLY one who is.

[hippywife]

37. Everyone is desperately wishing they were

somewhere else rather than holding fake meetings to give * an excuse not to go down the road?

[Swamp Rat]

38. Photo op.

They've got pretty color copies of something and they're playing musical chairs/rooms with two casts of characters... but they all look very worried, nonetheless.

[movie_girl99]

39. WTF are the twins doing in that meeting? n/t

[SunDrop23]

40. What's wrong = I hate everyone in it

[Solly Mack]

41. Besides the fact that we pay for his working vacations?

I spy Karen Hughes sitting there.

[LibDemAlways]

43. Top Pic:

Condi and the chimp look like they 're setting up a tryst for later. The other women are bored. Hughes is so desperate she's looking at the graphics on a brochure. Cheney has nodded off. The men who appear to be writing something are doodling naked sketches of the blond across the way.

Bottom pic:

Different room.
Chimp is wondering where Condi went. Cheney's heart is so bad he has no circulation and is cold - thus the jacket and coffee. He's again on the verge of falling asleep. Guy in foreground in tan jacket is watching Cheney's cup and making guesses as to how soon it will hit the floor. Rummy is raising hand to illustrate new torture technique he's just approved. Guys on couch are wondering what possessed them to sell their souls. Guy with hand on chin is contemplating what punishment awaits him when he arrives in hell. Other guy is considering fleeing the property and looking to see if the coast is clear.