Purusing the
official White House website, looking for a speech transcript for a paper I'm writing, I stumbled across a section called
Photo Essays, and decided to take a look.
I thought I'd share some of the things I've found...along with some pithy captions, of course.
Here is Bush, chatting on the front porch of a Biloxi resident, saying, "I sent the Secret Service guys out to fetch us some cold beer, so we can hang out here and be dudes together. Hey, by the way, you want some wood?":
Laura Bush: "I'll shake your hand, but don't come any closer, or my secret service detail will have to bust a cap in your ass."
Dubya on phone to Rove, "Yes, Karl, I'm surrounded by black people and the media has filmed it. Can I please go back to my vacation now?"
Bush laughing, saying, "This guy to my right is even dumber than I am - he can't even spell the name of his country. Dude, it's H-U-N-G-R-Y!"
"Members of the United Nations, what I'm proposing here today is that we trade displaced citizens of New Orleans and the U.S. Gulf Coast for oil. Ya'll need labor, we need oil. Talk to my consigliere, Condi, and work out the details, capische?"
Bush: "I can't wait until I grow up and get to be the President, so I can have a big-screen plasma tv in my office like Dick Cheney does."
Bush, on happening upon a flag-draped coffin: "Phew! You scared me there for a minute. This flag draped coffin is not my fault - it's Justice Rehnquist, not a solider."
"Is that a sock in your flight suit, or are you just happy to see me?"
"My girlfriend Condi likes to play dress up too. Tell me honey, where'd you get this flight suit? I'd like to pick one up for Condi before I head home."
Bush hijacks the space shuttle: "Yee-ha! We're going to Mars, bitches!"
Laura to Jeb Bush: "Thank God that idiot is gone. Talking him into going to Mars was the smartest idea you ever had, Jebbie."