Bush’s UN Bathroom Break

Snopes is calling the pics authentic, although not crediting the bathroom text to Bush outright (it may be him writing the text on the bottom, and someone else's text above?) Anywho: http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/bushnote.asp

I wonder if it may be photoshopped - just the text at least...it seems to me that there's a little bit of fuzziness surrounding the text. And the "b" in "possible" seems to be missing the bottom. I would've expected it to be visible up to the pencil!

"When can I have my nap?"

now really, is wanting a bathroom break really that big of a deal? people are obsessed with finding anything remotely flawed with the president to attack him with nowadays.

Drudge credits the top of the note to Condolezza Rice as the person requesting the bathroom break. If you look closely, the top request is printed while the bottom is in cursive.

Isn't this a bit intrusive? Granted the note was harmless and a bit funny (and will definitely get much airtime on liberal blogs, latenight talk shows, etc), but an over the shoulder photo of the president's documents? Good thing he didn't have any pertinent national security documents on his desk.

"now really, is wanting a bathroom break really that big of a deal? people are obsessed with finding anything remotely flawed with the president to attack him with nowadays"

Posted by Tom


Well it appears Bush did not write that top part but Tom, c'mon, even if you are an ardent Bush supporter don't you find it even the slightest bit humorous that Bush would be asking permission to take a potty break from Condaleezza? Granted, we know now that is not the case but initially thats what struck me as humorous.

I think it IS a little bit funny if the president of USA think he has to ask if he may use the bathroom, still, depending on who is speaking, it could be interpreted in a lot of strange ways if he just got up and left, so why not ask for advice.

I think it's funny that the president even goes to the bathroom. I guess he's human after all.

The president uses the bathroom too????

Nah, ole Georgie was just drunk again!

I was thinking about the different script (printed, vs. cursive), and the top may be that someone has asked to go, and then the cursive does appear to be the beginnings of a reply: Is is possible ....to wait, to hold it, to use a paper cup?

Ohw, funny. If the question is Condoleezza's and the answer being written is Bush, it opens up room for al kinds of naughty speculation.

C.: "I think I may need a bathroom break?" ---> = "I feel horny, please join me at the bathroom and do what we did last time, remember?"

W.: "is this possible without..." "...someone nabbing us? I seem to vaguely remember one of my predecessors got into serious trouble with a thing like this..."

😜

"a bathroom break" could seriously be code for something else. Knowing that they couldn't communicate privately, it would make sense to have a secret code. Or it could just mean what it says.

Notice that "bath" in "bathroom" is capitalized. The word "need" is also capitalized. What he's really saying is "I NEED A BATH."

joemono

I don't think Shrub's handwriting is really that good. Otherwise, I could believe it.

While most adults would just get up and go, perhaps saying "Excuse me for a minute," W's Exxon and Halliburton handlers obviously have him on such a short leash (remember the hidden earpiece incident?) that he doesn't do ANYTHING without a nod from them.

What I find incredibly amusing is that the ostensible leader of the Free World only "thinks" he may need a bathroom break. I don't know about you but I was pretty sure when I needed to go to the bathroom by about age 4.

"now really, is wanting a bathroom break really that big of a deal? people are obsessed with finding anything remotely flawed with the president to attack him with nowadays"

Yeah! We should be fair-minded, not assume the worst, and give George the benefit of the doubt. Just the way you guys treated Clinton.

Will this note be on display in bush's presidential library some day?

(Okay, if he didn't write most of it, then how about the National Archives?)

Imagine what future generations will think.....

At least Clinton KNEW for sure when he had a biological urge.

I'm not really a supporter of any political party Chuck, in 2004 I voted for myself for president.

My point was simply people blow things out of proportion when it comes to the president(any).

Its real, that's for sure. That pic its all over the press around the world, a photoshopped pic isnt that fast. Its not just the question thats making such a big deal.. its the expression of Condolezza Rice's face reading it too.

Some people here are right... it is not a big deal that the bush needs to take a leak... the deal is that he needs to ask permission.

If the dude needs permission to piss... Who is he asking permission from on the big issues...

Nigel, where do you get the idea that Shrub wrote most of (or any of) ANYTHING that's going to end up in his Presidential Library (which they are threatening to put here in Dallas, ugh!)?

Okay, Giorgio - being all over the news doesn't mean it's not photoshopped. Additionally, Condolezza Rice isn't in any of the pictures that I've seen.

Also, as has been pointed out quite often before, it looks like Bush is responding to someone else's note, and it's not posed as a request, it's a statement.

Thought the moron wore Pampers anyway.

Tom, I wasnt suggesting you were a Bush supporter, I don't throw around insults like that :lol:

and yes, I agree with you, things get blown out of proportion...it was still funny though 😊

Actually, I think that entire note is written by GW. The words "think" and "this" certainly look like the same handwriting. Lots of people mix cursive and printing, and it's apparent that our president does also. (The word "possible" is entirely printed, for example.)

I think this is hilarious. For numerous reasons, most of which are already mentioned here. And if the man didn't want to be made fun of on occasion, then he shouldn't have become a politician.

Why would he be writing on the bottom of someone else's note asking to go to the bathroom?

Tom wrote: "people are obsessed with finding anything remotely flawed with the president to attack him with nowadays."

Well, Tom, if you'd been paying attention all this time, you'd know it isn't hard to find W's flaws.

Has anyone else noticed that the President ended a direct statement with a question mark? Or is it really a question? I think he's coming up with an excuse for the reason he didn't do something else, and wants to see if the excuse meets with Condi's approval.

As in, "How about if I say, 'I need to go to the bathroom?' Yeah, maybe that will fool them."

Poor Mr. Bush, lol I feel so bad for him, he's got Green Day whining about him left and right, people getting close-up pictures of him writing on a piece of paper without him noticing it... tsk tsk tsk, if he's president he was obviously good enough to get elected crima nittley

of course it's two different people writing the note.. Look at the capital I's... And it's not even someone asking for permission. It seems to me like they were checking when a good time would be to head out... is it really that big of a deal?

"of course it's two different people writing the note.. Look at the capital I's... And it's not even someone asking for permission. It seems to me like they were checking when a good time would be to head out... is it really that big of a deal?"

what a f'ing moron.

I'm looking at the capital I's, and they look no different than how I write my I's. Oh are we to assume two people wrote it because not one I is an exact clone of the other???? When did all these morons become experts in this field of matching handwriting?

One more thing, the picture is real, and it was him asking Condi...

Why??????


Because he hasn't really attended a UN meeting that lasted that long, and so he wanted to ask someone with experience, if it was possible to go take a piss without offending 130 countries taking part in a meeting...

He can't just get up and go piss because he feels like it or because he's the Prez. He has to ask, because he is before the international community, and doesn't want to make an ass out of himself anymore than he does already.


I mean imagine, if he just got up and left to go piss during the middle of a speech given by say China or something... Can you imagine how they'd feel later on?? They'd probably wanna kick our butt or something.


USE YOUR DAMN HEADS, HE ASKED BECAUSE HE NEEDED TO KNOW IF HE COULD GET UP IN THE MIDDLE OF A MEETING, OR IF HE HAS TO RAISE HIS HAND...


Besides, why are you geeks about to have orgasms over this note in which he's just trying to make sure he doesn't offend the other UN members in attendance?? C'mon, out of all his bullshit, you guys are going to act like he's Condi's bitch??? Seriously, we all know Rove is the man, so give it up.



Remember, he asked, because he didn't want to offend other people by just getting up and leaving as if he were fed up with the meeting..


Next time you bush haters that jumped on the bandwagon try to find something to scrutinize, why not ask what goes on @ Bohemian Grove or something..

Well, I am a Bushhater, if you want to call it that. But as I said before, it could offend a country if he just went out. The irresponsible (and bushlike) thing to do would be to just stand and walk out, offending a more or less friendly country and costing millions of dollars if not lives.

The I's standing alone are different from the I in 'is' but is that unusual?

If G.W. has any reluctance to offend other countries, he sure as **** hasn't demonstrated it up to now.

haha!! why was he asking though? maybe it is code, why wlse would you "think" you "may" need a bathroom break?

It's hoax. The writing is bold and dark. That No. 2 pencil makes thin gray lines. Put in the Museum.

Well I totally agree with Bob there. Just a question about protocol. Assuming it is real, and its all W's writing. Which I think is probable.

And we've all, in writing short notes, written a question as a statement and then tacked on a "?" to make it obvious we want an answer.

Geez. There are hurricanes all over the southern part of this country, people are dying of AIDS and starvation in Africa and Asia, dangerous radicals are developing nuclear technology - NONE of this is W's fault - and you cant think of anything better to do than talk about if he wrote a note or has to take a break?

"...and you cant think of anything better to do than talk about if he wrote a note or has to take a break?"

What, you mean you can?

Funny and sad how many people leave comments feeling sorry for this ridiculous man. He's the Chauncey Gardner of politics. I wish we could flush him.

Reagan was the Chauncey Gardiner of (real) politics. Shrub is the Mortimer Snerd of politics.

The Bush note of 14. of September 2005 is not a hoax.


It was probably illegal satellite beams which made Bush write the note.

http://www.geocities.com/hackedsatellites//index.htm



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