* and Laura watch a performance of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - pics

[Kadie]

hmmmmm...

President Bush, center, watches the performance of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory during the Children's Holiday Reception and Performance in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Dec. 4, 2006 in Washington. Sitting with him are Addis Bugg, 8, from Stafford, Va., left, and Chauncey Liscomb, 7, right, from Luray, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

hey kid, I don't get it. Explain what is going on to me.

President Bush, left, leans in to talk to Addis Bugg, 8, center, from Stafford Va., and Chauncey Liscomb, 7, right, from Luray, Va., at the performance of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory during the Children's Holiday Reception and Performance in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Dec. 4, 2006 in Washington.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Oh. Now I get it. Goody.

President Bush and Mrs. Bush, right top, applaud during the performance of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory during the Children's Holiday Reception and Performance in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Dec. 4, 2006 in Washington. Sitting with them are Addis Bugg, 8, from Stafford, Va., left, and Chauncey Liscomb, 7, right, from Luray, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

That was great.

President and Mrs. Bush, right top, smile during the performance of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory during the Children's Holiday Reception and Performance in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 4, 2006. Sitting with them are Addis Bugg, 8, from Stafford, Va., left, and Chauncey Liscomb, 7, right, from Luray, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Wish I had my foot stool, maybe I could get comfortable...

President and Mrs. Bush, at right, sit with local area children in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 4, 2006, as they watch a performance of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, during the Childrens Holiday Reception and Performance. Seated between the president and first lady are Addis Bugg, Stafford, Va, third from left, and Chauncey Liscomb, Luray, Va., second from right, (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

[peekaloo]

1. Where's the Hershey Highway bit Gannon told me about?

Frumpa Lumpa-in-bed seems to be enjoying herself, too.

[JHB]

2. "Whad'ya think, young fella...

...Ain't those orange midgets funny?"

[Little Wing]

3. Caption

If I could get WonkaVision, we could shrink the Democrats and Turrists

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Uh-oh...It's a War on Christmas!

"Children's Holiday Reception"

Bill-o's going to have a FIELD DAY with this one!

[whistle]

5. Do you think KKKarl Rove is schtupping Laura when Dubya is...

...out of Washington DC?

[goclark]

6. I wonder how the children were selected?

His little "photo ops" are getting more and more staged.

[Fridays Child]

10. They're from the ranks of the uber-faithful, I imagine.

[BurtWorm]

7. Bush is Mike Teevee.

Laura is Victoria Beauregard (chewer of valium gum).

[tridim]

12. I'd say Bush is more like Verruca Salt

"I want the world. I want the whole world. I want to lock it all up in my pocket, it's my bar of chocolate, give it to me!"

"Don't care how, I want it NOW!"

[AndyA]

8. The Bushes: Fake smiles.

They aren't enjoying themselves. Those are forced smiles if I ever saw one. They know the Democrats are coming after them in January, and they know what they've done. How long they can keep it from the Democrats remains to be seen.

[blogslut]

9. Too bad it ain't

The Murder of Gonzago. We would have better pics. ;)

[badgerpup]

11. The second to last pic, where they're 'smiling'...

...the kids' smiles are genuine, but Laura looks like Pickles Barbie and Bush looks like he's experiencing a particularly painful gas bubble.

[grasswire]

13. why those boys from rural Virginia?

Why not pick some kids from those parts of DC where poverty rules?

[QuestionAll...]

14. lol. that first pic, first time I've seen a look of genuine concentration

on the vile face.

never saw Willy Wonka, does it have an intricate and twisty plot?

[tridim]

16. He probably has his eye on the Oompah Loompahs..

They'd make great cannon fodder in his never ending wars.

[QuestionAll...]

15. Georgie Wonkers and Kill the Chocolate People Factory.

[Sugar Smack]

17. Oh, bless his heart.

Bless his blackened, stupid, illiterate heart.:cry:

[zbdent]

18. Emmanuel Lewis is a Repug?

That one kid looks like him ... ;)

In that last pic, it says "sit with local area children" ... hmm, you listen to the media, you would think that there would be one or two white kids there, instead of the majority ...

[goclark]

21. It is so scripted by a BAD PR

dummie like Karen Hughes.

[YOY]

19. Mr. Bush was amiable up until the scene where Veruca Salt got dumped into the schute

"Ah thawt fer sure that charmin' lil' thang would win the chololatification!" said a disappointed Commander in Chief.

"That Wilder Genie fella who kept quotin' Albert Camus was really takin' a shine t' her! Rather r'minds me o' m'self at that tender age...cept mah daddy's an OILMAN and not into Nuts! There ain't no money in nuts, but Dick still calls me his 'billion dollar nutjob!' Hmmm... Maybe I can get some of those Car'lyle folks some money to research that one sos I can understand it!"

The president did show some recovery after what he viewed as a 'sad turn' in the end of the film after lengthy discussions with the first lady.

"'S okay though! Laura is perty sure that her father'll buy the choc'late fac'try from under that little Charlie Bucket's feet! Heh heh heh...love t' see the look on his face when that happ'ns."

[Target_For_Exterm]

20. I think Willie Wonka is beyond Bush's intellectual capacity

He's faking it.