a very odd Bush photo from 2002

[Neecy]

Setting the scene here....he's in Berlin. He's passing by a German honor guard.

Note the position of Bush's right hand.

Now note the expressions on the honor guard's faces. Pure contempt, and for good historical reasons.

[Alexander]

1. He's trying to be like Grandpa's good friend...

I noticed even Colin Powell looks disgusted in that photograph.

[ThomWV]

2. Looks like he was at a Gay Pride Parade if you ask me.

[Captain Hilts]

3. They are instructed never to smile. It's got nothing to do with Pres. Bush. nt

[onethatcares]

4. they look like the girls in

"addicted to love" by Robert Palmer

[crim son]

6. I do declare, I have never read here on DU

anybody describe the shrub as "President Bush." It seems... so out of place.

Contempt is more than the absence of a smile, no?

[Captain Hilts]

7. Well, Dems got angry when that ass Santorum called Pres. Clinton, "Bill,"...

we have to hold ourselves to our standards.

Trust me, those sailors don't give a rat's ass about Pres. Bush and honor guards are trained to have poker faces.

[unpossibles]

5. nice

what a putz.

And yes, even if they are instructed to not smile, at least a few of them obviously are looking at his gesture in a funny way.

[Richard Steele]

8. The thing about "honor guards" is....they're often made up of people who have HONOR.

The type of people who have a certain reaction to
a lying POS like our pResident, be they Hungarian:



Vietnamese:



Indian:



Chinese:


ANYWHERE he goes in the world to walk past an "Honor guard",
there are always a few members who can't help but look at him
like something they found on the bottom of their shoe.

And I think he KNOWS it: