Your Turn: "W" Stoned
Bypassing the option of releasing an actual still, we see this morphing of reality and fiction, with "W," the diminished bad boy, in the amused hands of the physically and creatively imposing Oliver Stone.
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(Way) After The Flood
Short of re-donning a flight suit and posing looking back at the USS Abraham Lincoln, I couldn't imagine another shot more evocative of Bush 43's other monumental failure.
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McClellan's Cover
I have a few points and a few questions about the cover of Scott McClelland's Bush attack tome.
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The Dark Knight
Yesterday, I had the chance to say hello to Christopher Morris at the VII Seminar in NYC. (I'm hoping to do a couple of posts on the NY Photo Festival, as soon as I work off my sleep debt.) In particular, I'm interested in this Morris shot TIME used...
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Middle East 101
It's hard to see how Bush helps his cause in attacking Obama when the WH posts shots like this.
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I'm Sure Smirky's Golf Game Wasn't That Hard To Cut Loose
Just like he never felt any need for collective sacrifice, it is just not in Bush's make-up to have made this decision to give up golf in the broader context of "the appropriate behavior to set in wartime."
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Jenna's Blessed Wedding
Jenna's blessed wedding. Setting sun + Bush war denial + limestone mega-cross + in-law in wheel chair + slab.
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Whatever It Takes To Be On Top
After getting punked at the WH Correspondents Dinner in '06 (and again at last year's post-mid-year election Radio and Television Correspondents Association chum-fest), Dubya literally made sure, this year, he had the upper hand.
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War On Terror: The Game Show
President 18% has sunk so pitifully low that he's taken to honoring Iraq veterans through the vehicle of the television game show.
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The Frat Boy He's Been All Along
Bush, as telegraphed by the years worth of lip-biting, never belonged in a field like this and consequently never fit in.
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Coming To A Cubicle Near You
This is probably the closest President Silver Spoon (looking like a pitchman for the Home Shopping Network) has gotten to a cubicle in his life.
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Bush's Sub-Prime Moment
If Katrina only crippled Bush in the compassionate conservatism department, I'm thinking this shot will finish him off.
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Fallon On His Sword (Or, He Was Sitting Right Here!)
Okay, maybe it's completely serindipitous, but I still marveled at this sequence of images of Bush with Admiral Fallon, who was disappeared from his role as yesterday. (Such is the fate of an underling for personally cancelling Bush's public performance of Bomb Bomb Iran.)
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Not Like McSame Wanted To Appear Like He Was Taking Dubya's Lead: Latest Shots From "43's" White House Scrapbook
Not Like McCain Wanted To Appear Like He Was Taking Bush's Lead. (Latest Shots From "43's" White House Scrapbook.)
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Partial To Africa
In a tour through the Meru District Hospital near the Kenya border Bush called his anti-malaria initiative 'a practical way to help save lives.'
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Turn! Turn!
With the economy tanking, Bush's photo op has to do with hyping small business tax cuts. Here are a few takes...
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Murdering And Swashbuckling
The New York Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war. In many of those cases, combat trauma and the stress of deployment — along with alcohol abuse, family discord...
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