Photos confirm Bush doesn't know Jack
Posted: February 13, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Ever since George W. Bush said he couldn't remember meeting with Jack Abramoff, there have been rumors that several photos exist showing Bush cozying up to the busted D.C. lobbyist, who is now singing like a drunken canary on Karaoke night.
Time Magazine has now become the first mainstream media organization to release photos of this "meeting." Simply put, Democrats haven't had a letdown of this magnitude since Walter Mondale said "I proudly accept my party's nomination."
Time shows three pictures. Abramoff appears in only one of the three photos, and Abramoff's distance from Bush in the one photograph in which he does appear is almost comical. If you have trouble finding Abramoff back there, call NASA and rent some observational time on the Hubble telescope. If you look closely and use your imagination, you can also see Sasquatch, Nessie, D.B. Cooper, and the missing 18 minutes of Watergate tapes.
How quickly is this story going to go away? Faster than Bubba can get a City College cheerleader out the back door when Hillary opens the front door. The media can't fuel this story all on their own. They need some people on the inside, and they're not getting much help from congressional Democrats who, when the time comes to fan the flames against Bush, usually come running with a Zippo and a can of kerosene.
On any other day, when congressional Democrats smell blood in the Bush White House, they're in an attack frenzy. Look at the wiretap story, Abu Ghraib, court picks and many other situations for examples as to how Democrats will relentlessly – and often embarrassingly – go after Bush. With the Bush-Abramoff photo story, congressional Democrats have been suspiciously quiet.
Why is Bush's alleged relationship with Abramoff not being pushed hard by Democrat members of Congress?
A couple of weeks ago, a New York Post editorial helped explain part of the reason:
As smoking guns go, surely these photos are far less incriminating than, say, the one taken at a White House Christmas party in which then-first lady Hillary Clinton posed with Jorge Cabrera – just three weeks before he was arrested and charged with smuggling 6,000 pounds of cocaine.
He later pled guilty, amid reports that his $20,000 check to the Democratic National Committee came from an account replenished with cash from coke sales.
For that matter, back in the '70s, then-First Lady Rosalynn Carter posed one-on-one with a Chicago Democratic precinct captain named John Wayne Gacy. Moreover, the photo was personally inscribed: "To John Gacy, Best Wishes – Rosalynn Carter."
Adding to the New York Post's list, there's also a photo out there that allegedly shows Howard Dean with a producer of gay porno movies. Nothing criminal, of course, but it could help explain where "The Scream" came from. This supposedly was taken while Howard was running for the Democrat nomination for president and was willing to do anything for financial support of his campaign.
Not to be outdone, Bill Clinton and Al Gore have rubbed elbows with Ukrainian mob boss Vadim Rabinovich.
Then, of course, there's Georgia Representative Cynthia McKinney, who had her picture taken with Michael Jackson. From a political standpoint, this is incredibly stupid – I can't believe Jackson was dumb enough to allow his picture to be taken with somebody like McKinney.
The list goes on.
This all brings us back to the Bush-Abramoff photo(s). Going to D.C. and capturing a lobbyist in the same photo as a politician is as common as the cold. A politician at a campaign event appearing in a group photo that didn't contain a lobbyist would be a rarity – like having your picture taken in the New York Yankees locker room and somehow avoiding getting pinstripes in the shot.
The reason why the media continues to push the Bush-Abramoff story – and those inside the Beltway don't – is that almost all of them have at least one picture they'd love to be able to carve out of the photo album and toss into the fireplace, not to mention some money they'd like to pretend they never received. But, as they say in Washington, "hindsight is 20/50," so somebody is bound to raise a stink in spite of the risk of self-incrimination.
For the most part, however, the Bush-with-Abramoff "blockbuster" has become the 8-track-tape of stories in Washington, and without help in D.C., along with photographic evidence that does not involve using an electron microscope for clarification, the media's attempt to drive this "story" will founder.
Hey, look at that "Time" picture once more. I think I finally found Waldo. |
