Caption: Junior points out celestial omens to G8 men

[emad]

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Or:

King Canute Orders Tide to Stop; Most Courtiers Not Quite Convinced

[SCDem]

2. Greets the second coming of Hitler

[JohnyCanuck]

3. It's Dubya doing his impression of King Canute

and ordering the tide not to come in.

So one day King Canute told his followers to carry him and his throne to the seashore at low tide. "Set me down right there at the water's edge," he said. "And I will command the sea to stay away. I will order the tide not to rise."

"Oh wow!" said his followers as they obeyed the King. "This ought to be something to see!"

King Canute sat. He shouted: "Sea, stay away! Tide, do not rise!" But slowly, slowly, the tide came in and the sea rose, over his feet, past his knees, up to his waist. The crowd of followers pulled back a little to keep their own feet dry. They were puzzled. Why did the sea not obey the King?

www.mothergoose.com/PopGander/st_cant.htm

Of course King Canute knew he was making an empty gesture. Dubya is figuring as God's anointed evil-doer destroyer he really does have the power to tell the tide not to come in.

[Radical Activist]

4. Just ignore those protestors over there...

half of them are undercover FBI agents anyway. Johnny has us covered.

[Wickerman]

5. Nevermind me, I know no one here is paying attention

I'm only holding up my hand to make it look like I am telling you guys something important. Hey, This being president is jsut as much fun as my daddy told me it would be.

[BringEmOn]

6. Ah'm gonna show you how a real wartime president walks on water.

[Peachhead22]

7. Shrub is thinking:

Everytime I put my hand up like this and say my new campaign slogan "Hey Bush" Gerhard Shroeder keeps slapping me on the back of the head. What's up with that?

[TrogL]

8. Like, is this a parade or something

They've been walking around that damn lake in formation for the last five threads.

This may be a side-shot of a previous picture, but Martin's still making his point, the three guys in back are still cooking up something, the Japanese guy is now bored to tears, Chirac appears to have taken up jogging and Dubya's STILL trying to hail a cab.

[cosmicdot]

9. been walking around that damn lake in formation for the last five threads

bwhahahahaha

and, here's another variation

[cosmicdot]

10. W: alright, everyone else fall behind Mussolini and me ...