I made this cheap animated gif for a Tatershop contest during Bush’s trip to Africa last July.
What is the point of photoshopping public figures doing improbably offensive things if they’re just going to turn around and actually do them?
Sheesh.
:d
(What I meant to say was - :D)
(What I meant to say was “Hey, the 11-letter minimum is gone!”)
Hang on a second: The President of the United States rubbed a black man’s bald head?
I have no words.
Why, might I ask, did he do that?
Anyone?
Anyone see video of it or something? Just to see if it might only look like that? Or if it was an accidental brush??
Or we have one f*cked up prez.
hahaha what the hell
Good lord.
Alphonso Jackson, proud recipient of the Presidential Noogie.
I would tend to give the man the benefit of the doubt (such as it is) and think that he did it simply because Mr. Jackson was bald and Mr. Bush was fairly confident that he would not punch him in the mouth for taking such a liberty. I used to shave my head, but stopped because for some bizarre reason people of a certain mentality take it as an invitation to lay their grubby mitts on your scalp. God alone knows why.
I think the “good luck” 
that people associate with rubbing a black man’s head is supposed to reside in the afro, or something.
Now wait just a minute. At the risk of stating the obvious, your animated gif seems to be about rubbing a black person’s nappy head because black people have such weird hair (don’t-cha-know) and it’s supposedly just fascinating to touch it. The real picture you linked to seems to be about rubbing a BALD man’s head for good luck (regardless of race). Larry, are you mixing up your strange cultural practices?
I’ve heard of the rubbing-a-bald-head-for-luck business any number of times, but I’ve never heard of rubbing an Afro for luck. Although I might have to try that sometime.
I think the point is, the President of the United States of America shouldn’t go around rubbing people’s heads in public, whatever race they happen to be. It lacks gravitas.
Miller, Dubya thinks gravitas is what keeps pulling his fat ass down when he stumbles over the truth.
He tries not to let it get him down.
I think rubbing a black,wooly head (usually a young boy’s) for luck has been around at least since the time of slavery. I’ll bet everyone in the south past a certain age knows this and so does the prez.
Why he would allow himself to be photographed doing this may make some sense in the dim recesses of his simian mind,but to the rest of us (except skinheads and Klansmen,etc.) it is incomprehensible.
Eleventh generation Southerner here. 60 years old. Taught in predominately black neighborhoods for 20 years. Never heard that superstition.
That just shows you how ignorant I am. 
Larry, if you have a photo of him shaking hands with a chimney sweep, it could be worth something.
masonite, I promise that the animated gif I made is based on the quaint idea that rubbing a black fella’s head brings good luck. I’d hoped that “good mojo” would convey that while concisely evoking the Southern U.S. at the tail-end of the nineteenth century, but there’s only so much you can count on with those cussed little thought-balloons.
More to the point, “Rubbing the negro’s head for luck” is a honest-to-goodness superstition. I don’t have a cite ready, but I’m familiar with this one from any number of radio programs from the thirties and forties. On the flipside, I’ve never heard of rubbing a bald man’s head for luck, and always assumed people were doing it to confirm that there was really smooth, or something.
As far as the luck angle is concerned, it seems to me that regardless of skin-colour or whether someone is cueballed, hirsute, or lanate, if you rub their head without invitation, you’re lucky if they don’t kick you in the nuts.
Zoe, I always heard that one as kissing a chimney sweep – and I would like to see photos of that. Oh yeah.
“That there was really smooth”?
Just pretend I speak English, okay?
Geez, people…
He was dropping his hand to pat the guy on the back or shoulder, which is a VERY common thing for Bush to do, and the camera caught it in mid-drop…
Grow up…
Ok, somebody just shoot me now, please…