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Posted on 08/12/2004 1:14:40 AM PDT by kattracks
To his critics, George W. Bush is a cowboy bully who bent the rules to get ahead, and even to win the presidency.Now, they may have proof the ``bad boy'' image goes way back.
A newly unearthed photo shows a college-aged Bush grabbing a fellow rugby player in a head tackle with Bush's right arm cocked to give an upper-cut punch.
The caption in the 1969 Yale yearbook notes: ``George Bush delivers illegal, but gratifying right hook to opposing ball carrier.''
Published in the Los Angeles Times Monday with an opinion column by 1969 Yale grad Jim Sleeper, the photo quickly became fodder on the Internet.
A posting on the liberal blog thismodernworld.com by Bob Harris compares the image with recent attacks on John F. Kerry's military record.
``As long as we're re-examining the 1960s, looking for signs of character . . . here's George W. Bush during his college days, hitting a fellow sportsman in the face,'' Harris wrote.
Talk about desperation!
there's another post for this..
but the best comparison i've seen is the one where Kerry is catching a football... he throws and catches like a girl.
Oh Lord, thank you for making my enemies ridiculous!
Where's the picture? We can stick Kerry's ugly mug on the other player getting slugged (Nov.2).
Was GW playing rugby in Cambodia? That's what I want to know.
Great screen name - I just obtained the book "Count Belisaurius", by Robert Graves, via ebay.
Freeper comments on the Effin/Teraaaayza Hubbub:
Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry and his wife got into a heated argument after a campaign rally in Arizona Sunday night -- a heated argument so hot they spent the night in different rooms!
A well-placed law enforcement source tells DRUDGE how Kerry and Teresa Heinz moved to separate suites at Flagstaff's Little America Hotel.
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* Trouble in paradise. I guess Tah-ray-zuh got mad because Effin didn`t clean his room.
* Someone please call the UN to negotiate.
* Kerry asked for too much allowance this week.
* Maybe he has "Battered Husband Syndrome". Wouldn't surprise me. She's a brute.
* To be serious, maybe Tah-ray-zuh had a meltdown over Johnny Boy's constant Vietnam fabrications that are now threatening to derail his campaign.
* "Scambodia" really got to her!
* "John, take your campaign and shove it!"
* I hope she didn't hit him. I can see another Purple Heart coming up!
* Maybe she walked in and caught him and the "Breck girl" in a...ahhm...compromising situation.
* Kerry has probably faced more enemy fire in his marriage(s) than he ever did in Vietnam.
* Teraaaayza: "I could have bought you Cambodia, if you had just kept your damned mouth shut."
* I am guessing that for the first time in their marriage they are spending a lot of time together, and it's getting to the both of them. I wouldn't be surprised if we see Mrs. Heinz scampering back to a mansion or two shortly for some much needed "R&R". We knew she couldn't take much more. Chili, hotel rooms, reporters and sucking up to all those icky little people.
``George Bush delivers illegal, but gratifying right hook to opposing ball carrier.''
Hey at least it wsnt staged on a movie set it just proves ol` George is more real than ever proves hes not going to be pushed around or let someone else dictate the score.
A bully ? NO !
A hero ? to some maybe but NO!
A man ? Hell yes more real than the feminized edition being created by this liberal media that reports on him !
Yeh, I hear he was........ over Easter.
And he parachuted in from an SR-71!
I saw the picture. W is a man and he is competitive and will win.
I notice the 'rats have to advertise that Kerry is an "Alpha-male" as they did Algore. Bunch of girly-men.
Obviously written by one of the sissies in the press that hid in the lockers while men were taking showers in high school PE (hehe). Jealous that they could not ever become real men. They hate competition and making decisions. They hate the second admendment as they fear that they might have to defend their families, as they are cowards. They marry masculine woman who order them around.
The writer is obviously an effeminate sissy. I would pay him no mind.
blessings, Bobo
From that angle, with his feet off the ground, that "right hook" would have amounted to little more than a love tap. A real right hook delivered by a trained puncher is going to put your lights out.
Kerry and his Bag Lady are probably searching the country far and wide right now looking for a couple of those critters to go along with his Scambodia story! ;-)
The Longest Yard remake.
That's it? The picture does NOT show him "giving a right hook". Is this the BEST the MSM can come up with?
GW, with his other arm around the guy's neck, and his entire weight in the air, may have delivered a little pain there, IMHO. Regardless, if this is the worst you do when you join Skull and Bones, I'm really scared.
W was just using good rugby ball tackling technique.
or maybe not....
I assume that W is middle back row in this picture?
This is the only Bush rugby photo from Yale I could find.
Did anyone notice the site? THIS IS ON A NON-PROFIT'S SITE. Time to report the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace to the IRS for political activities, folks!
All I REALLY want is to be a....DANCER !!
Now I know this election will be a landslide. A photo like this will only help the President. Makes him look heroic compared to kerrys lame sports photo ops.
Actually that looks much more like a slipped tackle than a right hook to me. But what do I know, I only played rugby for years.
Punches aren't uncommon in rugby, but it rarely happened in the open like that. It was usually at the bottom of a collapsed scrum or ruck.
Aren't these the same people making fun of him for being a 'wimpy' cheer leader last election cycle?
Nice legs in that photo.
Okay, I don't follow sports, but if he were going to punch the guy, wouldn't he be looking at him?
This is much more important than the SwiftVets charges. I expect to see this running 24/7 on CNN.
Sure, Pres. Bush punching someone during a sports games is the same as shooting someone in the back(not). What losers Democrats are.
I thought men played rubgy just so they could hit each other?? What's the problem?
Bush out to take this picture, thank the author and make it into a campaign sign..
Fighting then...and Still Fighting for You
A sucker punch in rugby? - what a monster.
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Yeah, maybe, but could have just been a legal tackle in progress.
This is the only picture that matters now:
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Well there goes this election. Thanks MSM.
It doesn't even really look like a right hook at all. W is doing a head tackle and the other player is trying to twist away. Could it be that the yearbook caption was somebody's attempt at a joke?
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Yes, All year books are like that....
ROTFLMAO - oh man, liberals are funny!!!!
No one in his right mind would vote for Kerry. Whatever popular vote he gets just proves that the country has a certain resident population of nitwits.
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