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Well Hung: Bubba’s Hip New Portrait (Picture This: Bill Is Framed)
NY Post ^ | Ian Bishop | April 25, 2006

Posted on 04/25/2006 8:08:39 AM PDT by dead

Bill Clinton has never looked so "hip." This jacket-pulled-back, extended-hip pose of the former president was unveiled last night during a ceremony at the Smithsonian Institution.

In the unconventional creation by artist Nelson Shanks, Clinton bears a passing resemblance to former "Nightline" host Ted Koppel and has a hint of a scowl on his face.

But it was the former president's somewhat unpresidential, somewhat louche stance in the Oval Office that had people talking from Washington to New York...

The painting will hang as part of the newly expanded exhibition "America's Presidents" when the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery opens on July 1 in Washington.

"I have reservations about having a large portrait of me," Clinton said at the unveiling ceremony, where he was joined by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea. "If you grew up when I did, portraits were for dead people."

Curator Carolyn Kinder Carr says Clinton appears "intense" and sports a "warm gaze" as if to "greet an unseen visitor."

The other portrait commissioned at the same time features a more-traditional profile of Sen. Clinton striking her best Susan B. Anthony dollar pose.

Sen. Clinton chose Ginny Stanford to paint her portrait - the first time the Portrait Gallery has commissioned that one be painted of the first lady at the same time as the president's.

While many liked Hillary's pose, some of the same people said Bill's "Inside the Beltway" portrait looked very unpresidential.

Carol Baker, 65, a tourist from London, said Clinton's pose looks feminine.

"He looks very effeminate for some reason," she said. "He ought to be wearing a white shirt."

Both paintings were paid for by Clinton's friends.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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That front page greeted me at my local deli this morning. I was able to grab one for myself before splattering the remaining papers with vomit.
1 posted on 04/25/2006 8:08:41 AM PDT by dead
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To: dead

I thought he was black...


2 posted on 04/25/2006 8:09:43 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: dead
Here's my own creation:


3 posted on 04/25/2006 8:09:55 AM PDT by dead
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To: 2banana

I thought he was a woman.


4 posted on 04/25/2006 8:10:30 AM PDT by LIConFem (A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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To: dead

Last time I saw a pic of Bubba he looked like Heck on the half shell. This portrait makes me think of Dorian Grey in reverse.


5 posted on 04/25/2006 8:10:48 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: dead

Oh. I read the headline and thought he just had a hip replacement...


6 posted on 04/25/2006 8:11:06 AM PDT by TommyDale
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To: mewzilla

Reminds me of the Vanity Fair Cover (also known as Monica's view).


7 posted on 04/25/2006 8:11:28 AM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in blue state)
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To: dead
It has a "Ted Koppel" look about it.
8 posted on 04/25/2006 8:12:09 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: dead

The picture on the $3 bill is most accurate. Anyone have that?


9 posted on 04/25/2006 8:12:14 AM PDT by TommyDale
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To: dead

Don't they mean "Well BENT"?


10 posted on 04/25/2006 8:13:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: dead

BWAHAHAHA


11 posted on 04/25/2006 8:13:12 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: dead

ROTFLMAO!!!


12 posted on 04/25/2006 8:13:21 AM PDT by lesser_satan
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To: dead

I always thought of Bubba as a black velvet sort of guy. You've captured him well.


13 posted on 04/25/2006 8:13:22 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck
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"If you grew up when I did, portraits were for dead people."

That would be SWEET!

14 posted on 04/25/2006 8:13:46 AM PDT by Onelifetogive (* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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To: teddyballgame
Reminds me of the Vanity Fair Cover (also known as Monica's view).


15 posted on 04/25/2006 8:13:48 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: dead

LOL! Perfect. It captures the inner Bill.


16 posted on 04/25/2006 8:14:56 AM PDT by saganite (The poster formerly known as Arkie 2)
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To: dead

LOL! Kramer!


17 posted on 04/25/2006 8:14:58 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: dead

Looks like a gay version of Tip O'Neill


18 posted on 04/25/2006 8:15:08 AM PDT by tophat9000 (If it was illegal French Canadians would La Raza back them? Racist back there race over country)
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To: dead

Somehow I think that Juanita Broderick, Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey would describe him as something other than "louche". Maybe "rapist',"predator" or "pervert".


19 posted on 04/25/2006 8:15:10 AM PDT by Inwoodian
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I thought the article was about that Chinese guy from American Idol........


20 posted on 04/25/2006 8:16:20 AM PDT by b4its2late (If it's treason, there's no doubt a democrat is standing behind it.)
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