The George W. Bush You Never Knew
Today the Associated Press posted this photograph, without explanatory comment, on its website. If it truly is a photo of President Bush as he looked (say) thirty years ago, then his years of drink and drugs took much more of a toll than anyone has hitherto suspected.
July 21st, 2005 at 12:25 pm
The aspect of his eyes gives me the impression that, behind that modified Devilock lies the raw material of an excellent legal mind. What a lawyer W might have made!
October 26th, 2006 at 12:16 am
This is not a photo of ‘lil Bush, sorry.
Many images & a few videos are out there from his boyish twenty-something male cheerleader days, his partying thirties, and futile half assed attempts at playing businessman forties. He’s always looked exactly the same, either cocky or deer-in-the-headlights expression (when trying to be serious). This is probably because he doesn’t learn or mature.
October 30th, 2006 at 9:39 am
That is actually John Roberts in his Harvard College days. When Judge Roberts was newly nominated to fill Sandra Day O’Connor’s seat (the bump up to Chief Justice didn’t come till some weeks later) his bland good looks were unfamiliar to the press at large.
“A routine mixup,” says J. Hobbes Affleck, Chief of Photo Intelligence for the AP. “Why he got identified as President Bush and not as, say, Grover Norquist, is anyone’s guess.”