Love everything about this photo......❤️

[Heartstrings]

[highplainsdem]

1. So do I! K&R

[tazmaniac]

2. Ahhh! Real people!!

[iluvtennis]

50. That's the key, real human beings.

[a kennedy]

3. Curious, when was this taken??? That GWB and Barack Obama were together??......

[Princess Turandot]

4. The dedication of the African American History Museum nt

[a kennedy]

6. but when, the month and year please.......

and it IS AN AWESOME PHOTO.

[Staph]

7. Per Wikipedia,

the opening ceremony was held on September 24, 2016.

[Heartstrings]

9. Thank you for that info!

[FSogol]

41. Public Service Announcement: If you haven't been to the African American History Museum in DC,

you are really missing out. Highly recommend.

[GeoWilliam750]

5. Cool!

[Sam McGee]

8. I [robably will be flamed for this comment . . . but . . .

GODDAM I MISS OBAMA.

In fact, it's so goddam bad, I miss GW Bush!!!!!!

[Jake Stern]

13. At least I could and did respect Laura even if I detested George

She actually had some class and dignity.

There is not a single Trump, including Melania, I feel is worthy of respect.

[SCantiGOP]

17. At least we knew that Bush was sane

And that he was a human.

[Jake Stern]

19. Indeed.

[Rabrrrrrr]

52. Dumb as a fucking lightpost, but yes, sane, and also understood the gravitas of presidenting

even if he was a total shitstain.

He's 10000 times the man than Donald is, and 1000 times the president.

And he fucking sucked! I mean, really fucking sucked. And yet, I'd rather him than Donald.

And having a dad who was president and an ambassador and a long time public servant, at least Dubya had an upbringing of seeing how leaders are supposed to act and what basic human decency looks like (even if it was only sometimes purely superficial).

There are times that I think about the things that I said while Dubya was president - the paragraphs and paragraphs of creative hate-filled invective - and I feel bad about it because Donald has lowered the bar so goddamn low.

[SCantiGOP]

53. I'm with you Rabrr

I was in college during Watergate. One thing I was absolutely certain of was that Nixon would go down as the worst President in history. Then Bush exceeded his horribleness by light years.
And now...........shit. Words cannot express.

[ret5hd]

28. Well, except when she runs over people.

[SammyWinstonJack]

22. tRUMP IS so bad he makes some miss the War criminal gw? SAD!

[jayschool2013]

40. This

Bush's illegal decision to invade Iraq killed hundreds of thousands of people, including friends and relatives of many on this board. Trump is on his way, but don't forget that Bush is already a legitimate war criminal.

[MFM008]

36. Yup

I thought he was an idiot, never a traitor.

[Bucky]

10. Picked the right pose partner. I wouldn't trust Dubya to handle my smart phone either

[JI7]

16. W would break it accidentily by not being able to figure

out how to use it.

Trump would steal it .

[dalton99a]

23. +1

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. That is genuinely sweet,

and I truly despise all the Bushes.

All of us are out and about when some stranger asks us to take their photo, and I just love doing that. Not that I've ever had the chance to take a picture of some famous person.

I have a friend who is a real jokester, and because he's younger than I am and far more proficient with the technology, he always takes a quick selfie of himself while he's getting ready to take the picture they want. He chuckles at the idea that at some point later on they'll be going through the photos and wonder who the hell that stranger is.

[Jake Stern]

12. Compared to the unabashed fascist clown we have in power now,

W looks positively dignified and respectable.

Bush merely pissed me off - Trump scares the caca out of me.

[47of74]

21. Yeah compared to fuck face

Bush is a decent and honorable man.

[Bluepinky]

37. I wouldn't go that far, he lied us into a war, never paid for it and was ok with torture.

He’s a better person than Trump, but so is every other person on the planet.

[RandySF]

27. W killed too many Americans for me to ever forgive him.

[Jake Stern]

32. As I said earlier Bush only pissed me off.

Trump terrifies me.

Lesser of two evils is still evil but one is FAR less evil than the other, IMO.

[Neema]

39. Amen to that. Just because Trump is the worst of the worst doesn't mean Bush isn't a war criminal.

Ugh, sorry, I'm never going to have positive feelings for that man.

[JI7]

14. It's a really cute pic . But can you imagine if it was Trump instead of Obama

How angry he would have been and he would have probably refused to take it.

[Heartstrings]

15. I can imagine the horrified looks on the faces of that family as well!

He probably would have imposed himself on them, and not the other way around....

[VOX]

18. "Photo by Barack Obama" edition of one.

Hope the family gets a copy of the image of Obama taking the pic.

[ToxMarz]

20. I think W spends a lot of time thinking back about his Presidency

and realizing he might have actually done some good. I don't think he cared before, sad it took actually totally fucking it up to realize he might have done something good and honorable for the country and people that have been so good to him. His last silver spoon chance to have done something to be proud of rather than entitled to.

On edit, I have no idea what he thinks, but I hope he does

[dalton99a]

24. Kick

[Rustynaerduwell]

25. A picture of 2 Presidents who were better than Trump

and about a dozen other people who would be.

[RandySF]

26. I'm sorry

But I lived through eight years of George Fucking Bush and his master Darth Cheney. His being slightly less awful than Trump doesn't put him on my good side.

[mr_lebowski]

30. Give Dump just a bit more time & we'll all long for the days someone only 'slightly less awful' was

in charge of our great Nation.

Of that, I'm totally convinced.

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. Can't rec this and can't like this...There is a war criminal in this picture

that was the cause of almost ONE FUCKING MILLION men, women and CHILDREN dying. Some here seem to have conveniently forgotten that.

[mr_lebowski]

31. Dump would HAPPILY cause the deaths of 100X that number, yet still refuse to pose for the photo ...

BTW, one could argue LBJ was responsible for a similar body count. And WAAAAAAAY more of them would have been Americans. He definitely would've agreed to be in the picture, though ...

Thank Dog Dump is an ignorant buffoon, otherwise the US would already be in a major war with 10's of 1000's of deaths already under his belt.

Well, THAT and the fact that thankfully a significant portion of his 'electorate' have become much more isolationist than the GOP voters were right after 9/11, and are far more unlikely to warm up to 'boots on the ground' vs what they felt in 2003.

This is why I would strongly suspect that Dump at this point desperately desires his OWN 'Pearl Harbor'-like event, ala the one that was handed to Shrub.

Man I hope someone catches him on tape lobbying for that to occur, like that one Congressional Candidate did recently. That just might be the one and only way this a-hole can be brought down is if he's caught red-handed trying to drum up a casus belli ala Operation Northwoods. I think he's JUST dumb enough ... to get caught doing that.

[Jake Stern]

33. LBJ was, in my opinion, an even bigger war criminal than Shrub.

However his legacy and reputation were rehabilitated by positives like the Civil Rights Act and Great Society. Bush had no such cover.

In terms of casualties Bush couldn't hold a candle to LBJ or Nixon: 58,000 Americans and God only knows how many Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians, dead.

[jmowreader]

45. Thank military medicine for that

[Sunsky]

38. I'm right there with you

The first thing that came to my mind was- Why would anyone want to take a picture with that one, especially with an excellent President present?

[demmiblue]

49. +1

[Doreen]

34. I miss our president.

[ailsagirl]

43. "sigh" So do I-- every single day

[Raine]

35. Sweet...

Seems like former presidents get along once they leave office, no one else but them knows what they go thru.

[TNNurse]

42. Damn, that is a wonderful sight.

[rickyhall]

44. All are right but...

W is still a War Criminal!

Just sayin' ...

[Steven Maurer]

46. Bush was a "nice guy" and not a racist

A terrible president who started wars of choice, but if you can set that aside (which is hard for me), you can appreciate that he did have minorities in significant positions in his cabinet.

[xeodtech]

47. What I don't get ....

Is why President Carter, President Bush (2nd), President Clinton (and duly elected President Clinton by popular vote.. not to mention Al Gore) President Obama are not on every cable news show every day screaming about how democracy is about to be abolished in the US. How long has this been going on and if you love Obama, which I did for a number of years, ask yourself why isn't he speaking every day against this insane ahole. Has he become the billionaire class??? The Bush's hate trump but probably love his policies. I get that Clinton is damaged material at this point and the Bush's are kinda ok with Drumpf.. but what the F about Obama and Carter.... .

We need them to speak up for us.. We elected them and need their voice..

[Boomerproud]

51. President Obama's silence is depressing and confusing.

I don't undertand it especially considering the slander from 45.

[Decoy of Fenris]

48. Bush, while vile, was/is a human being. Trump is a lower form of parasitic protozoa. n/t