Man of the People


Pravda-on-the-Hudson:

On Saturday, Mr. Bush’s national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, conceded that the president had not come into direct contact with ordinary Vietnamese, but said that they connected anyway.

“If you’d been part of the president’s motorcade as we’ve shuttled back and forth,” he said, reporters would have seen that “the president has been doing a lot of waving and getting a lot of waving and smiles.”

He continued: “I think he’s gotten a real sense of the warmth of the Vietnamese people and their willingness to put a very difficult period for both the United States and Vietnam behind them.”

Note: the picture above is NOT photoshopped, except to adjust the size slightly. Anyway, when I came across it, I was reminded of another Shrubian "man-of-the-people" moment--also unretouched, in the interest of clarity:


Speaks volumes, eh?

But, then again, what do you expect from an administration that considers the last six years of misery an "accomplishment"?