* climbs on furniture at the White House Correspondents Dinner - pics

[Kadie]

President Bush, left, stands on a chair next to David J. Rivelli, one of two recipients of the Deborah Orin Scholarship, during the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association, Saturday, April 26, 2008, in Washington. When Rivelli was taking his picture with Bush, Bush quickly noticed how much taller Rivelli was and decided to gain a foot or two by standing on the chair.
(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)



This two picture combination photo shows President Bush, left, congratulating David J. Rivelli, one of two recipients of the Deborah Orin Scholarship, during the Annual Dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association, Saturday, April 26, 2008, in Washington. The photo at right shows Bush's reaction to the height of Rivelli. Bush quickly noticed how much taller Rivelli was and decided to gain a foot or two by standing on the chair.
(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

[Jack Rabbit]

1. What do you expect of a monkey?

[ColbertWatcher]

6. I hope he didn't throw his feces. n/t

[w8liftinglady]

8. lol..unfortunately,I can see him doing this

[alfredo]

57. He doesn't throw his food.

[chat_noir]

52. * hanging upside down

photo courtesy of the Telegraph (UK)





courtesy of bartcop

[uppityperson]

2. poor little insecure little man

ha. ha. ha. you are so funny. ha. ha. ha.

[Skittles]

11. that is EXACTLY what it is

fucking PATHETIC :o

[SammyWinstonJack]

54. Is that why he always has to be the center of attention?

Rhetorical question. :silly:

[rfranklin]

3. Man, he sure is funny...

but he would be really funny in a prison suit at the Hague.

[frogcycle]

4. when does he put the lampshade on his head?

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. He is such a doofus

I cannot wait until this twit is no longer el pretzeldente.

[grasswire]

7. narcissist, narcissist, narcissist.

Textbook case.

It's why no one can bike ahead of him or run ahead of him and why he shoves other people out of a doorway to get through first.

Total narcissist.

[tavalon]

37. It's actually an amusing parlor game to diagnose him because so many of the diagnoses overlap

For instance, is a sociopath with narcissistic tendencies or is he a pure narcissist or does he have BPD or just presenile dementia from too many years of too many brain ravaging drugs and so on.

[grasswire]

39. all of the above?

I pegged him as NPD the first time I saw him on the national level. As the survivor of a long marriage to an NPD-er, I'm pretty tuned in to those signs.

[tavalon]

40. Yup, I've been lucky to not have an NPDer in my life, but have been in too close proximity

of a couple of sociopaths and many a dry drunk. Their brains are usually swiss cheese.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Too bad he didn't fall and hurt himself

Of course, if he fell on his head .... no harm.

[Ghost in the Machine]

10. Meh... just another "pet chimp climbs on furniture" story...

People always think they can tame these wild animals and keep them as exotic pets, but we see the results in this one of poor raising and being left by himself too long. His original trainers (Poppy & BarBar) shouldn't even have attempted to raise a goldfish, much less a monkey that needed attention....

just sayin'..

[SpiralHawk]

13. ROFLMAO

[Ghost in the Machine]

17. **snort!**

:hi:

[ColbertWatcher]

16. ?

[Ghost in the Machine]

20. I'll take "Which One Looks Smarter?" for $1,000, Alex...

Good one!

Can you name Condi's moods?

[ColbertWatcher]

22. This really should be its own thread. n/t

[Occulus]

30. Please?

DUzy goldmine.

[ColbertWatcher]

23. If you do start another thread...

...please add these:

[Dead_Parrot]

32. I'll try...

1. Grr.
2. Grr.
3. Grr.
4. Grr.
5. Huh?
6. Grr.
7. Grr.
8. Grr.
9. Grr.
10. Grr.
11. Grr.
12. Grr.
13. Grr.
14. Grr.
15. I should have gone in the break.
16. Grr.
17. Grr.
18. Mmm, Money.

[tavalon]

38. Please do this as a separate thread

That would also be a fun parlor game.

[Kurovski]

49. #18..."Bring it on, George."

[SalmonChantedEvening]

12. The sound of his handlers groaning musta been heard for miles

:rofl:

The performing chump has to be the center of attention.

[AzDar]

14. Always dignified, ain't he? God, January CANNOT come quickly enough.

[DesertRat]

15. 9 more months...

Plenty of time for more damage and embarrassment. :argh:

[tblue37]

62. That ridiculous soft shoe he did while waiting to congratulate

McCain for winning the Republican nomination was the most embarrassing yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5hedJe1pYA

He obviously is so uncomfortable in his own skin that he can't stop clowing for a second. And yet he is such a narcissist that he must demand all the attention all the time. Combine the two, and you have the "leader of the free world" doing a soft-shoe routine while he and the press wait for McCain to arrive.

[Snarkoleptic]

18. WTF? Chimpy McFuckstain gets lighter in the loafers every day.

He gets goofier and seems more unconcerned as...
We are pushed to the brink of nuclear holocaust.
We sink further into a deep economic recession (dare I say depressions).
Our currency is further devalued by our Iraq-driven deficit spending.
Mebbe he's just happy to go back to Crawford and pass his mess on to another President...

[VP505]

19. So The Prez demonstrates

some of that "dignity" that the RePukes claimed he was going to bring to the White House. Guess its not working out so good for them.

[live love laugh]

21. That's what chimps do...climb on things. No surprise there. nt

[Fovea]

24. The bride at every wedding, the departed at every funeral.

What kinds of drugs was Babs on back then, anyway?

[Hardrada]

31. More like the corpse at every wedding

The bride at every funeral.

[Fovea]

55. You get no argument from me, Harald.

n/t

[kath]

25. Gee, I guess they didn't invite Steven Colbert this year, eh?

(I'll have to see if I can find that video from a coupla years back. It was *priceless*!)

[MisterP]

26. Bush: "He must have an enormous schwanzstücker!" *slap* n/t

[Jamastiene]

27. He looks like he's clogging as well.

His mother and father did a terrible job raising him. Some of the most unruly children I have ever had the pleasure to watch* are more civilized and sane than that man is.

Yes, I tend to like impish, devilish, mischievous little kids, because that would be what my kids would be like. Not mean, just unruly and such. Bush, on the other hand, is a horrible excuse for an intelligent adult. He is neither.

[Fuzz]

28. Good thing he wasn't bald, he might have climbed up there King Kong style

EDIT:


Can I nominate myself for a Duzie? cause that one cracked ME up! ;)

[Djinn]

29. Quick march him to prison

after election theft, pre-emptive war, illegal occupation and institution of fascist laws at home THIS is just outrageous.

I'm pretty sure it's not just my political views leading me to have difficulty raising any ire or even amusement at this, even if I were a Democrat I'd still think it was kind of like objecting to Ted Bundy for using his soup spoon instead of a dessert spoon and belching at the table.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

33. 267 days left of Bushco

These will be the final events we celebrate under the Bush administration:

My birthday, May Day, the opening of "Iron Man," Mothers Day, Memorial Day, Fathers Day, official beginning of summer, last day of school, Fourth of July, Bastille Day, the Democratic Convention, fall color, Labor Day, back to school, Grandparents Day, Rosh Hoshanna, Columbus Day, Halloween, Election Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Christmas, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day.

[Amonester]

47. And these will probably be the final events we won't celebrate:

The illegal bombing of Iran, the start of WWIII, the final crushing depression of the world economic system...

We'll be lucky if we reach New Year's Day alive.

[Eurobabe]

34. Once a Napolean, ALWAYS a Napolean. n/t

[FloridaJudy]

35. Even as a clown, he's a total failure

Gods! I will be so effing grateful when the country has a real President again!

[tavalon]

36. Wow, our president,

the jackass frat boy. We can all be so proud.

[orleans]

41. please refrain from using the word "our" before "president"

i prefer to think of him as "the" "fuckhead"

no matter what--i refuse to take ANY responsibility to owning that twisted little chair-climber.

[tavalon]

42. I forgot to use the sarcasm label

He is not my president. It was like the royal we.

[Skittles]

43. please refrain from using "president"

:puke:

[orleans]

44. no shit. n/t

[verges]

63. The squatter at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[HuffleClaw]

45. they can't leave him alone for a second can they!

i cannot imagine how he will function once his term is up and he doesn't have a platoon of people to handle him. i guess that is why they are sending him to paraguay

[crimsonblue]

46. Goddamn it, who forgot to give George his valium today?

As hard as I might, I just could not jedi-mind trick that chair into falling backwards...

[Amonester]

48. Drunk again? ummm? - eom

[bushmeister0]

50. Bush excelled at "Risk" remember the Maureen Dowd piece

"W. always acts like he's upping the ante in a board game where you roll the dice and bet your plastic army divisions on the outcome. This doesn't surprise some of his old classmates at Yale, who remember Junior as the riskiest Risk player of them all, known for dropping by the rooms of friends, especially when they were trying to study for exams, for extended bouts of 'The Game of Global Domination.'

Junior was known as an extremely aggressive player in the venerable Parker Brothers board game, a brutal contest that requires bluster and bluffing as you invade countries, all the while betraying alliances. Notably, it's almost impossible to win Risk and conquer the world if you start the game in the Middle East, because you're surrounded by enemies.

His gamesmanship extended to sports - he loved going into overtime and demanding that points be played over because he wasn't quite ready.

As Graydon Carter recollects in the new Vanity Fair, Gail Sheehy wrote an article for the magazine about W. that made this point: 'Even if he loses, his friends say, he doesn't lose. He'll just change the score, or change the rules, or make his opponent play until he can beat him.'

W.'s best friend when he was a teenager in Houston, Doug Hannah, told Ms. Sheehy: 'If you were playing basketball and you were playing to 11 and he was down, you went to 15.'

That says a lot about his preppy psychology."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011307D.shtml

Or if you happen to be taller than him. . . Rivelli is lucky he isn't getting a one-way-trip to Club Med Guantanamera

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

53. I have said for years that I could just picture the WH warmongers obsessed with Risk. Funny thing

about Risk..once you conquer, there are no plans to clean up the mess made.

[bushmeister0]

58. That's what freshmen are for.

[peekaloo]

51. High Chair President. Did he also swing from the light fixtures?

[MiniMe]

56. No, he couldn't reach it. But he was later seen with a lampshade on his head.

[lunatica]

59. He's totally deluded that people think he's funny because

he doesn't get it that they're laughing out of politeness and to pretend something embarrassing isn't happening. You can bet David J. Rivelli has heard every joke in the frigging book about his height and he's probably had a dozen people in his life do that chair thing. People won't laugh quite as hard when he's no longer El presidente with the power to say who's a tarrist enemy combatant.

[lame54]

60. This reminds me of something...

[Poiuyt]

61. No big deal. I saw Prince Charles doing the same thing.

And Queen Elizabeth was making farting noises with her arm pits.

[struggle4progress]

64. At least, "Bush quickly noticed how much taller Rivelli was." I should have hoped for "immediately"

but you read the news about the President you have, not the President you wished you had