Bush's favorite painting which he has in Oval Office is really a horse thief running from a mob.

Bush has always said, the horse rider is a famous evangelical riding to spread the word of God. He also says the rider looks like him.

But someone did a search on the paintings history. It's a horse thief.

Just heard on Wait, wait don't tell me.

What a fraud.

He came to believe that the picture depicted the circuit-riders who spread Methodism across the Alleghenies in the nineteenth century. In other words, the cowboy who looked like Bush was a missionary of his own denomination.

Only that is not the title, message, or meaning of the painting. The artist, W.H.D. Koerner, executed it to illustrate a Western short story entitled "The Slipper Tongue," published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916. The story is about a smooth-talking horse thief who is caught, and then escapes a lynch mob in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. The illustration depicts the thief fleeing his captors. In the magazine, the illustration bears the caption: "Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught."


http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/2008/01/george-w-bushs-favorite-painting.html

Is there anything he doesn't lie about?

Oh yeah. . .there was that time he said "Money trumps Peace."

Ughhh

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3745.html

During his first months as governor of Texas, George W. Bush carefully hung a portrait in his office, directly across from his desk. The painting, by W. H. D. Koerner, is named "A Charge to Keep," after the title of a famous Methodist hymn by Charles Wesley. As Bush recalls in his memoir of the same title, he then sent a memorandum to his staff: "When you come into my office, please take a look at the beautiful painting of a horseman determinedly charging up what appears to be a steep and rough trail. This is us. What adds complete life to the painting for me is the message of Charles Wesley that we serve One greater than ourselves."

Bush's personal identification with the painting, which now hangs in the Oval Office, reveals a good deal about his sense of himself as a political leader—who he thinks he is, the role he plays, and the centrality of his religious faith. But the way we respond also reveals a good deal about us, his intended followers, and about the effectiveness of his leadership style.

His followers today tend to see in Bush what he sees in the painting: a brave, daring leader riding fearlessly into the unknown, striking out against unseen enemies, pulling his team behind him, seeking, in the words of Wesley's hymn, "to do my Master's will." They see him as a straight shooter and a straight talker. They take comfort in his religious faith and think he is leading us toward a mountaintop.

His critics can look at the same painting and see something very different: a lone, arrogant cowboy plunging recklessly ahead, paying little heed to danger, looking neither left nor right, listening to no voice other than his own. They think he is careless, even deceptive, and often says one thing while doing another. That he believes he is doing the Lord's work only increases their apprehension. He's not taking us up a mountain, they fear, but over a cliff. Indeed, some believe he is the most dangerous president in a century or more.

contestant on "Not My Job."

This ought to be really entertaining.

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/01/hbc-90002237



came to believe that the picture depicted the circuit-riders who spread Methodism across the Alleghenies in the nineteenth century. In other words, the cowboy who looked like Bush was a missionary of his own denomination.

Only that is not the title, message, or meaning of the painting. The artist, W.H.D. Koerner, executed it to illustrate a Western short story entitled “The Slipper Tongue,” published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916. The story is about a smooth-talking horse thief who is caught, and then escapes a lynch mob in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. The illustration depicts the thief fleeing his captors. In the magazine, the illustration bears the caption: “Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught.”

So Bush’s inspiring, prosyletizing Methodist is in fact a silver-tongued horse thief fleeing from a lynch mob. It seems a fitting marker for the Bush presidency. Bush has consistently exhibited what psychologists call the “Tolstoy syndrome.” That is, he is completely convinced he knows what things are, so he shuts down all avenues of inquiry about them and disregards the information that is offered to him. This is the hallmark of a tragically bad executive. But in this case, it couldn’t be more precious. The president of the United States has identified closely with a man he sees as a mythic, heroic figure. But in fact he’s a wily criminal one step out in front of justice. It perfectly reflects Bush the man. . . and Bush the president.

Update
Though I haven’t exaimed Jacob Weisberg’s sourcing for his book, an alert reader points out to me that the story of the Koerner picture “A Charge to Keep” (though we should note that this is the name Bush gives to the picture, not Koerner’s name) was first explored and revealed by Sidney Blumenthal in April 2007 in a column published at Salon.

:rofl: k&r.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14358.html

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In his new book, “The Bush Tragedy,” Jacob Weisberg explains:

(Bush) came to believe that the picture depicted the circuit-riders who spread Methodism across the Alleghenies in the nineteenth century. In other words, the cowboy who looked like Bush was a missionary of his own denomination.

Only that is not the title, message, or meaning of the painting. The artist, W.H.D. Koerner, executed it to illustrate a Western short story entitled “The Slipper Tongue,” published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916. The story is about a smooth-talking horse thief who is caught, and then escapes a lynch mob in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. The illustration depicts the thief fleeing his captors. In the magazine, the illustration bears the caption: “Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught.”

Slate’s Tim Noah added: “The painting was subsequently recycled by the Saturday Evening Post to illustrate a nonfiction story.
The caption that time was, ‘Bandits Move About From Town to Town, Pillaging Whatever They Can Find.’”



Above photo from Slate
http://www.slate.com/id/2182222/
of which Jacob Weisberg is editor in chief.

More info here at Amazon:
Jacob Weisberg is the editor in chief of Slate. He previously worked for The New Republic and was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and a columnist for the Financial Times. Weisberg is the inventor of the “Bushisms” series. He is also the author, with Robert Rubin, of In an Uncertain World. Weisberg’s first book, In Defense of Government, was published in 1996.




http://www.amazon.com/Bush-Tragedy-Jacob-Weisberg/dp/1400066786/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200435626&sr=1-1

Me too, to a certain extent.

I'm just working on the big picture and how there are so many millions of us who helped BushInc do what he has done, so the whole thing is not his fault exclusively and in order to get to those others we must demonstrate understanding of what happened and we CAN do that without giving up our own Values. Otherwise, we will soon be repeating the same or similar mistakes with perhaps a different cast of characters.

HIS BASE KNOWLEDGE IS THAT OF A 20 YEAR OLD

Who is helping the dude?

Are they insane too?

7 Years on the job and no Improvement?

drunk.. she is burnt out also..

W is so fucked his chainsaw was taken away from him during pgoto ops cause he is too damn dangerous...not so much for him but for the safety of the secret service dudes helping....so they gave him a machette....

Same thing.....

Now its carrying the rubbish...thats all he is allowed to do...

Even then he keeps falling down.....

When are they going to give him his wheelchair back?

Dumbya, i am really surprised he keeps making it back from all his trips. I was sure Chaney would have had him Martyred by 'fake Iranian Terrorists' by now , he is such a liability.

into near extinction or, at the very least, NEAR Extinction.....through a number of insidious ways..such as an inability to change for the better

:hi:

So he'll have to use another means to get to South America.

"Why," asked the repubiclican, "are you a Democrat?"

"Well," said the Democrat, "my father was a Democrat, my grandfather was a Democrat, and my great-grandfather was a Democrat, so of course I'm a Democrat."

"Ah," said the repubiclican, "suppose your father was a horse thief, your grandfather was a horse thief, and your great-grandfather was a horse thief. What would you have been then?"

The Democrat thought for moment then said, "Well in that case, I probably would have been a repubiclican."

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