Photo: Bush, clearly not enjoying his "working vacation" on the Pig Farm

[Human Torch]

U.S. President George W. Bush pauses between questions during a news conference on Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas August 7, 2006. Bush resisted a demand by Lebanon on Monday that Israeli troops immediately withdraw from southern Lebanon, saying it could create a vacuum and allow Hizbollah guerrillas to rearm. REUTERS/Jason Reed

[Oceansaway]

1. its 'hard work'.....n/t

[El Supremo]

2. What, no pictures of him today?

I need a fix! Can someone make one up?

[rwork]

3. Smart people

don't clear brush in west Texas in August when it is over 100 degrees.

[mike_c]

4. I don't know about you, but any vacation that involves wearing...

...a tie is suspect from the very beginning, Vern.

[SpiralHawk]

5. He's gonna go AWOL again, I can feel it

He always goes AWOL when the pressure is on, and when people are depending on him to do something useful.

[Human Torch]

9. You may be right...

...I posted this one yesterday (from the same conference):



He really has that "go to my happy place" look.

:evilgrin:

[gratuitous]

6. "pauses between questions"

Sure is a funny way of spelling "makes in his drawers". But I guess Reuters has its own style book to handle these kinds of locution.

[calimary]

7. DAMN, gratuitous - the way you word things!

Just DAMN!, she said, while cleaning off her computer screen...

"...sure is a funny way of spelling 'makes in his drawers.'"

[Human Torch]

10. If I owned Reuters, I'd give you a job writing captions.

:evilgrin:

:toast:

[Eurobabe]

8. this jackass is so befuddled, he needs to be removed

from office before he causes more wars.

[man4allcats]

11. I didn't realize it was a pig farm,

but of course it would be. I'll bet he even rents pigs. He's too thick-headed and numb-skulled to listen to reason, and that makes him hard to stop - just like most men that rent pigs.

[driver8]

12. I thought his "ranch" was a "brush farm".

They grow a bunch of brush so that shrubby will have photo ops when it is time to clear it.

"Brush clearin' is hard work. Ah know all about hard work...this clearifying is hard work."

[Disturbed]

13. Condi and George are pissed off because

now that they have the place to themselves while Laura and the brats are in Alaska, the Press won't leave them alone to do their thing.