I've always been kind of interested in seeing a picture of bush from his dissolute days

[Lautremont]

or, I should say, his more flagrantly dissolute days, when he could be a coke-snortin' boozehound more publicly. Well, looks like I found one. All my info tells me this is El Pretzeldente circa 1982:



This guy, the President? America is truly an amazing country of miracles.

[Stephanie]

1. What is that? Where did you find it?

Is it really him? It looks like it might be.

[Hissyspit]

49. From the documentary "Protagonist:"

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20163022,00.html

Movie Review
Protagonist (2007)
-- B+ Critics' Grades and Average EW.com Readers Chicago Sun-Times N.Y. Daily News Philadelphia Inquirer USA Today Variety Boston Globe EW Critics' Average
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- B+ B+



GOING TO EXTREMES Hans Klein stars in this intriguing look at the strange lives of four fanatics

Credits
Limited Release: Nov 30, 2007; Rated: R; Length: 90 Minutes; Genre: Documentary

B+By Lisa Schwarzbaum Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
A former German terrorist once in cahoots with Carlos the Jackal, a gay Christian evangelical who, during his avowedly ''ex-gay'' period, preaches that Jesus has cured his ''homosexual problem,'' a bank robber, and a martial-arts devotee don't walk into a bar in Protagonist. They do, however, form the four male pillars of Jessica Yu's intricate, novel, and altogether fascinating art-piece documentary. The filmmaker incorporates ancient components of drama — including the universal appeal of puppetry — to explore the shaping of character in the crucible of fanaticism. And she relates her subjects' odysseys to principles of Greek tragedy, pausing to explain such concepts as ''provocation'' and ''catharsis.'' (Those puppets? They form a Greek chorus.)

If all this sounds awfully classroom-bound, it isn't — far from it. Each man's story as he tells it is riveting, truly stranger than fiction, and awesome, too, in the way of unfathomable humans. And Yu (who made In the Realms of the Unreal, about ''outsider'' artist Henry Darger) fits her inventive artistic choices to a rigorous, well-thought-out thesis about the tragedy of the extremist — and what makes a man a man. B+

[Tinksrival]

57. Bush looks just like a guy who portrys a terrorist?

Hans- Joachim Klein



Looking like Bush is scary, yuk!

[Stephanie]

58. Aw, you got me!

I totally bought that it was a young Chimp.

[ikojo]

2. Looks like a young

Don Imus

[Joe Fields]

3. kind of reminds me of Nick Nolte

[madeline_con]

4. He looks like a homeless "offender". n/t

[Vanje]

5. Who'd have thought....

that such an aimless ner-do-well would become.......

[hedgehog]

6. We could check the chest hair to be sure. Or the gold chain nt

On the other hand, there is a cow in the background and this guy isn't scared. Clear proof it's not Bush.

[Lautremont]

10. I didn't notice the cow before. Looks like it might be sneaking up on him.

Perhaps this was taken moments before he fled in terror.

[gateley]

7. The gold chain is a nice finishing touch. Wonder if it's really him - COULD be! nt

[Tresalisa]

8. That sure does look like Georgie!

Here's what he looks like in the present day when his picture is taken with a reality camera...

[Vanje]

9. Karl Rove really IS a genius.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

11. What info?

Pic links to your photobucket account. What IDs the guy in this photo as bush?

[Lautremont]

25. It was just sent to me in an email by a friend.

He didn't say anything but "Here's Bush smoking a doobie in around 1982!" (I think that's a regular smoke, though.) Anyway, other than that I can't speak to its provenance, other than it sure looks like Chimpsy.

[Hissyspit]

50. See post #49. n/t

[The Gunslinger]

12. Is that George Bush or Don Imus???

[JohnnyLib2]

13. Looks like Little Joe from Bonanza!

(Michael Landon)

JL2, oldster

[calimary]

32. Or Will Ferrell?

What a mess. Outside as well as inside. Only now, he's got White House handlers, makeup people, valets, and world-class clean-up crews to keep him looking on the up-n-up. Clearly, back then, if this is li'l georgie, he didn't. Just laura. And from the looks of him, she'd already given up trying.

[progdonkey]

14. more like Bush after he's kicked out of the WH in 2009...

[Neshanic]

15. He looks like the creepy uncle you tell your kids not to hang around.

In a kinder universe, he would be sitting in the back yard with a cooler of cold ones, calling his dad, and bitching about his wife.

But this is the country where you can package up a pile of shit and put in in a five pound sack and elect it.

Poppy's little moron.

[BlueIris]

16. Yikes.

And there are people who find this man attractive?

I actually prefer Bill circa 1976 to this guy, and that is really saying something.

[SoCalDem]

17. The Bush family album has a lot of sketchy pics of him

Bush Family

Here's one with his first fiancee.. (she was jewish, so that one apparently did not pass the waspy-judgement of Bar.. even though the announcement was in the paper)

[sellitman]

28. Is that the one Laura ran over?

The one she turned into a pancake?


:popcorn:

[SoCalDem]

30. Laura ran into HER boyfriend.. this guy

[madokie]

42. took him out too

she did

[waiting for hope]

39. Did you see this one?

:rofl:

In Edit:

Creeeepy!

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. I made some quick Photoshoppal adjustments

and it does indeed appear to be Bush the Younger, younger.

[TahitiNut]

21. He must be smoking cow dung ... as fresh as it gets.

:silly: Why else would he be around cows? (No. Let's not go there.) :evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. We can't, anyway

The paternity suit is still in litigation.

[frogcycle]

27. yeah it sure looks like him

the nose is a good giveaway

[calimary]

33. Trying to make like the Marlboro Man?

Oy. Cows, of course, he isn't afraid of. But don't dare put a horse in there!

[Gregorian]

19. There's highly revealing footage of him tagging along with his dad on the trail.

I've only seen it, but cannot find it on the net.

He looks completely adolescent. A total loser. It must have been 1988. So he'd have been about a 45 year old kid.

We should have dragged this stuff up in 1999. Oh well.

[saged52]

20. where is his wedding ring?

maybe he took it off to clear brush that day -

[hedgehog]

22. Do you realize that if this isn't Bush, somewhere out there is someone who looks this much like him?

I wonder which one has aged better? It might be like the picture of Dorian Gray!

[zabet]

23. Does this photo

show a secret clue to
his irrational bovine
fear? Maybe his hair is
mussed and he is smoking
that cigarette, post-cowitus.
:rofl:

[havocmom]

53. Equine. Equine fear

and here is a possible root of that
Parents put him on dead horse


And here is the reason for his fear of turkey basters:

[TacticalPeek]

24. "I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=I've_been_to_war.


Poor twins. He chose to do neither, the bastard.

:(

[peacetalksforall]

29. I'm waiting to see or read more about the photos referenced in a

Drudge report about 1998/1999 or so. He reported that a team of people were busy rounding up photos of a person who was considering running for Pres. According to Drudge - one in particular was of interest - a photo of someone dancing nude on top of a table with only boots on.

The question of 'who' means a rundown of other candidates - I don't think it was Bill Bradley, Al Gore, Gary Bauer, Pat Buchanan, Larouche, etc., etc., etc.

[Cha]

31. Karma's a bitch..

and bush is it.

[calimary]

34. Karma's a bush.

:rofl:

[Cha]

36. You just made

a new one! :rofl:

[many a good man]

35. At's 'im, aw ritey!

[frogcycle]

37. I put it together with several shots of him

to make it easier to compare.

its him, alright

[Lautremont]

38. It sure as hell looks like him.

The eye(brow)s have it. And the nose. And just about everything else.

[NYC Liberal]

40. I like this one myself:

[Odin2005]

45. "Illegal but gratifying" That pretty much sums up Bush's behavior. n/t.

[madokie]

41. whats a cow doing in a bush* photo op

[hunter]

43. He looks like the star of some sleazy farm porn.

That would explain his fear of horses and the anthrax attacks, wouldn't it?

Apparently those pictures are still out there...

:hide:

[balantz]

44. That's because

he is the star of some sleazy farm porn.

[Hissyspit]

46. It's ex-terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein in a still from the new documentary "Protagonist"

according to Entertainment Weekly. See the latest issue.

He hung out with Carlos the Jackal.

[hunter]

48. Bush called himself Hans-Joachim and hung with Carlos?

Wow. Carlos didn't suffer fools, so Bush must only be pretending to be stupid!

:silly:

[frogcycle]

52. here it is

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20163022,00.html

and here:

http://www.protagonistthemovie.com/

this is intriguing. Klein is not the actor; Klein is the character portrayed. The movie uses puppets.

Here is another site depicting Klein.

http://www.filmstransit.com/hj_klein.html



I'm trying to find another pic of Klein - sure as hell looks like a bush doppleganger!

Here's another:

http://www.freilassung.de/div/texte/rz/zorn/Zorn20.htm



and another:
http://www.freilassung.de/div/texte/rz/zorn/Zorn21.htm


and one more:
http://www.tiffreviews.com/2006/film.php?fid=142


It seems he played himself in "My life as a terrorist" but couldn't find pics.

[Alexander]

47. I KNEW Bush was a smoker. I've been saying this for years.

The bastard still smokes, which is why he looks like hell at the age of 61.

[NastyRiffraff]

51. Lookit the eyebrows and the nose...

If that's not him, he has a twin (OMG! ::shudder::))

[frogcycle]

55. and his twin is a former cohort of Carlos the Jackal!

I can't get over the nose and the shape of the left eyebrow. If someone told me that someone has been using old pics of bush all along as promo pics for Klein I'd believe it.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

54. George W. Imus?

:shrug:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

59. Yep.

[graywarrior]

56. Hell, he looks like someone I'd did some blow with back then.