Pillager in chief

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/quicktakes/749436,CST-NWS-qt20.article

Slate.com notes President Bush's description of a favorite painting by W.H.D. Koerner that hangs in the Oval 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."

The only trouble is that Koerner created the work originally "to illustrate a Western short story titled "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."

The caption in the magazine: "Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught."

The painting was later used to illustrate another story with the caption: "Bandits Move About From Town to Town, Pillaging Whatever They Can Find."

And who would this be?

[LiberalEsto]

1. But Dumbya is AFRAID of horses

Maybe the picture represents his fantasies.

[ladjf]

2. Prisoner in chief.