It’s Good to be the President
I noticed this photo at Robert McCain’s site a day or so ago, but I completely forgot about it because I had gotten tied up in some work-related stuff. He reminded me of it today and he’s right. No caption contest could possibly be funnier than the real story. Here’s the Reuters photo:
Seriously, my brain locked up with caption possibilities when I saw that, especially because it looks for all the world like he’s giving Misty May-Treanor’s delectable derriere the big thumbs up.
But here’s the real story.
Today, as the busy crowd over at our Olympics blog notes, after an hour’s brisk bit of mountain-biking himself, Bush paid another visit to the American athletes, watching the women warm up for softball, regretting the disappearance of that sport from the next Olympics (“It’s good for the world to have girls playing softball and these women are going to show young girls how to win”) and trying his hand, so to speak, at volleyball.
Bush knuckled off a couple of lobs, but defending gold medalists Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh gave the chief executive some pointers. Then after a good play, in the tradition of female volleyballers, May-Treanor turned, bent over slightly and offered her bikinied rear-end for the 43rd president to slap.
“Mr. President,” she said, “want to?”
And in that second, George W. Bush stood on the cusp of a fantasy of hundreds of millions of red-blooded men.
But, as Andrew Malcolm put it, “Want to has nothing to do with it in public life.”. Bush merely settled for brushing the back of his hand across the small of her tattooed and tanned back.
And then he went back to his suite and cried a little.
Other Posts of Interest:
Category: 2008 Olympics
I watched the volleyball game last night. I think I'm in love with Kerri Walsh…