Botox is my guess - her forehead is strangely smooth, even though she’s mugging to beat the band. Maybe the doc overdid it, and she’s having trouble with her facial expressions now? Hilarious though, no doubt.
Are we 100% sure it isn’t photoshopped?
It’s happened… she’s finally short-circuited!
Doing a search for other pictures in this series reveals them to all be quite normal. Also, I don’t think her eyes are that blue.
They’re on gettyimages.com (Big editorial photo site) and branded as AFP shots–they’re not fakes. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/FrameSet.aspx?s=ImagesSearchState|0|-1|28|0|0|0|1|||0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|7|laura+bush|-8193|0|0|0|0&p=&tag=2
Damn it, Pat Robertson! Bad aim!
Looks like one of those soldiers behind her rammed a rifle up her ass. :eek:
(Can I say that?)
“You can on this network.”
If the images were photoshopped, I can’t help but think they would be even more bizarre. And there would be some mention of it in the thread.
:: sheesh::; you all are way to easy to freak out. What a waste of time looking at those pics was…
*:: going back to flossing my teeth ::: *
My guess is she’s trying not to blink. She may have been having a hard time not blinking during the photo op (so many cameras, so many flashes) and became super focused on not blinking, hence the photo.
Possibly. It would be ironic, though: She wanted to avoid looking bad by blinking, so she looked even worse trying not to blink. There’s a lesson here.
I looked at some of the other pics at that Gaudere linked to and there were no similar odd expressions. I think it was of an example of “poor Face” instead of “good Face” ala “Vogue” by Madonna. Sometime you are going to be pulling an odd face and that is when the cameras catch you.
Are we 100% sure matt mcl isn’t right? I wonder how often Laura Bush gets a checkup.
I’d say that based on the information in this thread, that it’s most likely she’s been replaced with a space alien. 
If you look at the first group shot, you can see only George is smiling; the others have more or less neutral faces on. In the next group shot everyone’s pasted on a smile and that’s when Laura sticks the chin up and out and puts on that demonic look. I think one or more of the photographers had yelled for them to smile and the horrorpix caught Laura just as she’s slammed her public smile into place and yanked her head up, and just before she snaps it down into something approaching a normal pose.
She’s still creepy as all hell, though.
She’s always slightly crosseyed. That seems like a really hard thing to correct for. What the hell good can attractive fashions, jewelry, and hairstyling do for your looks when your eyes are permanently crossed? Also, I’m pretty sure that mood altering prescriptions cannot be ruled out here.
I’m in agreement here. These just look like garden variety shots of people mugging for the camera. I don’t see why anyone would think they were photoshopped. I mean, OK, they could be, but what would be the point if you can probably already get pictures like this just by snapping them at the right moment (and given that she’s first lady there are tons of opportunities for that).
Mildly amusing I guess, but on a level with those goofy pics of your cousin that hold onto so you can embarrass them at family reunions.
This is pathetic. The most likely explanation is that the camera caught her at a bad time. It happens to everyone. But no, that can’t be it. She’s got to have a brain tumor, botched plastic surgery, be high on crack, or be going completely nuts.
If she looked like this all the time, maybe such speculation would be warranted. But she doesn’t. All the linked photos in which she looks weird are just differently cropped versions of two originals, which appear to have been taken at the same time but from different angles.
It is somewhat humorous that someone managed to catch her with a weird look on her face, but the feverish (almost hopeful) speculation that she’s somehow gone completely fucked up is absurd. Come on, people.
You’ll notice that the referred to space alien is not visible in these photos. He/she is under Laura’s dress. That’s why it goes to the floor. The Prez thinks it’s funny, but the Prince is jealous. The Dutchess couldn’t care less. She actually lusted after Princess Di.
mangeorge
Oh. Now I see.
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