Apparently, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s new portrait is out. I’ll let you judge it.
Louisiana taxpayers should probably ask for a refund on Bobby Jindal's official portrait (via @CenLamar/@TheInd) pic.twitter.com/qUZ5xLCE5M
— Logan Smith (@LoganJames) February 3, 2015
That’s exactly what I thought. His hair looks weird. I’ve decided to follow his lead, and have provided my official portrait:
I think it is spot on.
Baud
Mother of God, that’s awful in so many ways.
NotMax
A la Dorian Gray, as the years pass the portrait will look loonier and loonier.
Baud
Jindal should have bought a selfie stick and just done it himself.
Gravenstone
Portrait of
Dorian GreyMichael Jackson.Baud
Jindal should have really treated that artist’s studio as a no go zone.
Morzer
John Cole is more handsome than I remembered. More athletic too. Clearly, laying off the sauce does a body good!
Violet
I think George W. Bush painted it. Look like it anyway.
boatboy_srq
@Gravenstone: ROFL
Baud
Painted Jindal has no lips. He has no lips.
JPL
Well that’s not Jindal, so who is it?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Morzer: Yes, but the hair is all wrong.
Tree With Water
Louisiana doesn’t even need to hire a photographer for an ‘official photo’ of the governor. The state need only clip and paste Jindal’s sixth grade photo, and voila!
schrodinger's cat
Looks like Jindal took a bath in Fair and Lovely before posing for the official portrait/
Litlebritdifrnt
Who the fuck painted that? Did they canvas all the local painting clubs and choose the worst one of the bunch?
PS) wrt to the healthcare thread below can I tell you what pisses me off the most, the people who have a shitload of money touting Health Savings Accounts as an alternative to health insurance. cough Sean Hannity. People who work minimum wage jobs don’t have money to put into a health savings account to cover a $100K hospital bill when they get in a car wreck. Why the fuck are these people allowed to spout this utter nonsense without getting called out on it? Most people don’t have savings accounts let alone health saving accounts.
Baud
@JPL:
Right. I hope we’re being trolled here.
JPL
At least there might be a flag pin on his lapel, so that should count as something.
trnc
So they sent Scott Walker’s portrait to Louisiana by mistake. Or maybe on purpose.
Baud
The shirt collar looks like something you would see drawn in a bad comic book.
JPL
@Litlebritdifrnt: Why the fuck are these people allowed to spout this utter nonsense without getting called out on it?
Because they can
Baud
If I were Jindal, I would have set fire to another oil rig in the Gulf just so I could burn this thing.
M
Looks like another masterpiece by GWB
MomSense
Nah. Seriously? What on earth kind of instructions did Jindal give the artist?
JPL
I’m still confused. Do they keep the official portraits, so decades from now students can view the portraits and think this was a former Governor?
srv
You people just wait for his Presidential Portrait.
Scamp Dog
What’s up with that asymmetrical smile? Does he have some neurological problem?
Major Major Major Major
Yeah, that definitely looks like Walker.
Baud
@MomSense:
Draw me like one of your french girls?
Morzer
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Too dapper, you mean? It does look suspiciously more combed than I recall habitually being the case with JG Cole Esq.
bemused
That painting has to be a spoof. There’s no way that can be official Jindal portrait.
Morzer
@srv:
You mean he’s undead? It’s going to take more than a millennium to make Bobby-Blanc presidential.
Villago Delenda Est
What the hell happened? Did Jindal contract this out to the deserting coward or something?
BTW, the photo makes him look like a cut-rate Alfred E. Neuman.
Baud
OMG, the full portrait is even worse.
MattF
Portrait doesn’t get Jindal’s baby blue eyes right.
JPL
Maybe it’s Jindal’s lips on Vitter’s face.
Morzer
@Villago Delenda Est:
Portrait of Gov Blobby Swindle as a chihuahua looking for treats.
Ash
Jindal’s using a portrait of Kenneth the Page?
Baud
I might have to go watch an ISIS video to cleanse my mind of this image.
Morzer
@Baud:
Schoolboy Bobby about to cock leg on pillar.
Major Major Major Major
Maybe George W. Bush painted it.
jl
Mitt is borging all the GOP candidates?
jl
@Major Major Major Major:
I think G W would have done better. Believe or don’t.
Elizabelle
@Violet:
GW Bush! Indeed.
Jindal has decided he’s more acceptable if he looks like one of the (Texas) Castro brothers.
beltane
It really does look like it was painted by George W. Bush. Has Bush taken on apprentices?
Steeplejack
That portrait pales in comparison to its subject.
JPL
Maybe MSNBC acted to soon. just sayin
Morzer
@Steeplejack:
The painter must have reassured Jindal that it would be all white on the night.
bemused
@Baud:
I still can’t believe this is for real.
kuvasz
What we got there is one of those Michael Jackson tans.
ranchandsyrup
from Jindal’s chief of staff
eta: Kyle Plotkin is such a great name. perfect
Baud
@bemused:
It’s like they literally found the worst professional artist working today for this job. I can only assume the painter is the relative of some big Jindal contributor.
Elizabelle
@ranchandsyrup: Thank goodness.
And that’s a good portrait, actually.
LOL over portraitgate.
ETA: tweet from Kyle Plotkin:
that’s not the official portrait. Constituent loaned it.This 1’s official. Thx 4 ur race-baiting tweet
Major Major Major Major
@ranchandsyrup: That’s a relief.
Still looks like Scott Walker though.
AdamK
@Baud: He has three thin lips.
Baud
@ranchandsyrup:
Thank the Lord. It’s still a hideous portrait, but miles above this one.
What do they mean “constituent loaned it”?
Major Major Major Major
Apparently the portrait in question *is* hanging in the office right outside the elevator, though.
jl
Haters here at this den of rabid hyenas (or is it jackals? I forget) gonna hate, I can’t stop that, but c’mon, Dub woulda done better.
I saw a good Dub protrait of Jay Leno, but now can’t find it on the tubes. Actually it looked more like a good caricature, but still. At least most of them, you can tell who they are supposed to be.
The Faces of Power, From the Portraitist in Chief
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/arts/design/george-w-bushs-art-exhibition-at-presidential-center.html
ranchandsyrup
@Elizabelle: @Major Major Major Major: still seems off to me.
MomSense
I asked my 11 year old for his opinion and he looked at the portrait and the photo and said that they had the same cheekbones, dimples, and facial structure. Then he asked me if he [Jindal] felt a lot of peer pressure to be white. He wonders if Jindal is afraid of what people think of his appearance.
p.a.
Maybe south of the Mason-Dixon paint tubes labeled ‘flesh’ only come in the one color that matters there.
joel hanes
@BillinGlendaleCA:
yes, but the hair is all
wrongWASPFTFY.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
I don’t think the real portrait, but it’s like Rembrandt compared to this one.
beltane
Next up, Chris Christie’s official portrait bearing an uncanny likeness to Benedict Cumberbatch.
Steeplejack
@Morzer:
Didn’t use the deluxe Crayola box with the burnt sienna crayon in it.
JPL
@ranchandsyrup: The comments are interesting. It’s better but if that had been released first, it still would have been mocked.
jl
@ranchandsyrup: Well hell, that one doesn’t look anything like Jindal either. Faint resemblance to Alfred E. Newman, maybe.
Edit: if “a constituent loaned it”, maybe that one where Jindal is getting ready to piss on the capitol pillar is really of the constituent?
ranchandsyrup
@Baud: Bobby loans his pic out for berm construction dig grand openings.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Oh Gawd, it is worse.
trollhattan
Evidently, the cost of burnt sienna was “too damn high.”
Speaking of Rand Paul (close enough) this guy is a fundraiser and on his “finance team.”
BillinGlendaleCA
@Morzer: Now, now, Cole INAL. No need to put him with Burnsy and eemom.
different-church-lady
POTATO
JESUSJINDAL!ranchandsyrup
@JPL: I’m in the mock both of ’em category.
@jl: that gravely disrespects Alfred E. Newman
Morzer
My wife observed that the shadowing on the unofficial loaner official portrait makes it look as if Jindal is sinking into the pillar he is supposedly leaning on.
ranchandsyrup
Always get a backup official portrait, folks.
Morzer
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Cole Is Not A Lesbian? The things I have just learned about Burnsie and Eeyore!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Morzer: Madame Morzer is a very perceptive women.
MomSense
@MomSense:
Ok I see now that this is not the official portrait.
The official portrait is much better.
Morzer
Good news for GOP presidential nominee candidates attempting to differentiate themselves:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/04/even-cockroaches-have-different-personalities-scientists-find
Morzer
@ranchandsyrup:
Does Bobby Jindal have a concealed carry permit for that portrait he’s toting around?
JPL
@beltane: He’d aim higher and go for Springsteen with sweat pouring down from his brows.
rikyrah
damn,
don’t even want to be ‘colored’ in his official portrait.
damn.
pitiful.
PITIFUL!
and there are still those who will say changing his name and religion don’t matter.
they, like this portrait, explain EVERYTHING.
bemused
The official official portrait isn’t much better. There has to be many good portrait artists in Louisiana to choose.
GregB
The Ghost of Bobby Jindal.
Morzer
I hear that Jindal is going to appear in a new, hard-hitting prison drama called:
Orange-Cream is the New Black.
Arclite
#Not Intended To Be A Factual Portrait
Violet
@rikyrah: The portrait Cole linked is not his official portrait. This one is the official one. Not great but better.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Morzer: Ah, there’s hope for Scott Walker after all.
Felonius Monk
I think the “official” Louisiana artist had a few too many mint juleps before doing the Jindal. Or perhaps not nearly enough considering the unpleasantness of the task.
SamR
Reminds me a bit of this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/world/europe/botched-restoration-of-ecce-homo-fresco-shocks-spain.html
gogol's wife
@Steeplejack:
FTW.
OT, but I just turned on the TV to see Ronald Colman in A Tale of Two Cities at 8:00, but right now James Mason is on my teevee in North by Northwest. He is so damn cool I can’t take my eyes off him.
Culture of Truth
Bayou Gilligan looks like a vulcan. or maybe Commander Data.
different-church-lady
@Violet: Is there a bigger sucker for disinformation than our dear JC?
Alex s
There is always the official Louisiana governer’s website’s picture…
picture
Which is also. interesting
Hal
He’s white. Not even tanned or olive skinned. No one thought to use the right shade of brown?
Elie
LOL!!! that is the portrait of a white boy. Bobby aint white except in his head.
This is just pitiful and dreadful… He was already a laughingstock…. how many more rungs are there below this?
As a black person (and I know he is Asian/east Indian not black), it would be a mark of some horrible personal denial to allow a portrait of oneself as white — in this culture — and in the south. His skin is as black as that of many true black people. To allow himself to be represented as white…. well… that just says it all doesn’t it?
Baud
@different-church-lady:
This apparently went viral. Can’t single out Cole on this one.
SiubhanDuinne
@Violet:
Bland, vanilla, B-flat, anodyne….
Morzer
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I still think it’ll come down to Walker versus Santorum for the nomination. Jeb seems to be on the wrong side of enough issues that the base won’t give him a chance to shake off the anchor of being That Guy’s brother. I don’t see Man Who Can’t Remember The Third Thing going anywhere. Rand Paul has kookified himself and was never more than the choice of the glibertarian white teenage fantasist faction, while Cruz has made himself look dumb enough and pissed off enough colleagues that he’s going to get whacked like a Canadian immigrant pinata, and the usual clown car of Newticles/Carson/Cain/Bachmann/S.U.M. Moron aren’t likely to matter. Santorum will be the Energizer Bunny Of Perpetual Grievance again, but Walker has enough of the White Victim Conservative With Results To Show For It magic that he’ll prevail fairly handily in raising money and getting the base all hot and horny.
different-church-lady
@Baud: Oh well heck, as long as it went VIRAL then gullibility ain’t a crime, I suppose…
Morzer
@Elie:
The white space in Jindal’s head is starting to affect his skin. It’s what the technically-minded call the Inverse Boehner Effect.
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
Looks like a paint-by-number, executed by someone who flunked first-grade arithmetic.
Baud
@different-church-lady:
If you can’t trust the Internet, who can you trust?
Arclite
@Violet: The official one looks like he’s corked with a vibrating butt plug.
chopper
@ranchandsyrup:
Not nearly as terrible, but still notably lacking in the dusk.
Baud
@Arclite:
It really captures his essence.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Morzer: There’s never been a Republican primary that the establishment candidate didn’t win except for perhaps Reagan in ’80 and I’m not sure there was an establishment candidate running that cycle.
That means John E. Bush has the inside track, regardless of what the polling looks like now. But I still haven’t ruled out Mitt riding in on his white horse to save the day.
Arclite
@Morzer: So it’s Walker then. No way Santorum gets the nod. Too many people will throw up in their mouths when they google him.
chopper
@Arclite:
You win the internet.
mainmati
Um, this is Louisiana, remember? Probably state regulations do not permit portraits of governors to be anything but white-skinned. Seriously. The painter clearly is a paint-by-numbers amateur. One of the worst such portraits I have ever seen.
SatanicPanic
@ranchandsyrup: that’s not much better. I don’t get it.
Morzer
@Arclite:
Right – but I would be very surprised if Santorum didn’t fight hard this time. He was the second-placer last time around, which ought to give him the inside track.
I think Jeb’s been out of the game too long as well as being That Guy’s brother for him to really be the establishment candidate. It probably doesn’t help that he converted to Catholicism rather than Fundie Jeebusness like That Guy.
Morzer
@Arclite:
#Represents The Interior Of The Subject Only
Major Major Major Major
@Arclite: A Walker/Clinton debate would put the entire audience to sleep, I think.
Morzer
In “News Likely To Make Charlie Pierce Stroke Out”:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/national-republicans-dick-cheney-fashion-icon/story?id=28675841
Just Some Fuckhead
@Morzer: FWIW, this time in the 2008 election cycle, Guiliani was the polling favorite. This time in the 2012 election cycle, Huckabee was the polling favorite.
Villago Delenda Est
@JPL: The guest was spot on IRT Jindal.
JPL
@Morzer: Just proves what I said earlier, there is no peak wingnut.
Villago Delenda Est
@Violet: No, not much better at all.
Still looks like a low-rent Alfred E. Neuman.
Morzer
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Yes, but, if you look at the latest polling out of Cornfedhickistanwa,Jeb is in 6th place in the second choice category as well as going nowhere in the first choice category. It’s not as if he doesn’t have name recognition, after all, which means he’s unlikely to be able to win enough people over to change the game. That suggests to me that he’ll limp through the early states and (to general media surprise) bow out after going pretty much nowhere.
Villago Delenda Est
@Culture of Truth: Please. Vulcans and Commander Data are known for their devotion to logic.
Jindal is anything but devoted to logic. Even Sarah Palin knew better than to scoff at volcano monitoring.
Bobby Thomson
Speaking of shitty governors, we dodged a bullet when Tom Wolf got into the race. Rob McCord is pleading guilty to extortion charges from strong arming people during the primary. I can just imagine what kind of governor he would have been if he had managed to beat Corbett.
Mary G
I looked at both portraits and need a retina-cleansing treatment immediately. I suggest pictures of Lily, Rosie, Steve, Ginger, Thurston & Lovie as the minimum needed for the cure.
O/T but still something John used to go on about that I agreed with: S&P to pay more than $1 billion fine for role in the housing bubble & recession.
Elizabelle
@gogol’s wife: I heart James Mason too, and caught the end of North by Northwest too. Right up to the train in the tunnel. Wink wink.
However, I see Humbert Humbert in most Mason performances. He was just too good in Lolita.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@MomSense: Quite an insightful 11 year old.
Ripley
@Culture of Truth: Republicans simply don’t do Data.
Bystander
Little known fact: Bobby Jindal’s favorite movie is “Imitation of Life”. He’s a devoted fan of actress Susan Kohner.
Elizabelle
@Violet:
Another Jindal portrait. Also not official.
The Blue Dog is the tell.
Corner Stone
@Morzer: So, a point about polling around this time in 2008, and polling around this time in 2012 pointing to abso fucking lutely nothing relevant to actual outcomes. And then your refudiation is that, yes but, look at how candidate Jeb is currently polling around this time in 2016 cycle in Iowa! That’s instructive!
Elizabelle
@gogol’s wife: PS: caught a bit of Ronald Colman in Random Harvest yesterday. Preposterous plot, and who wants to wait that long, but he and Greer Garson were quite appealing.
raven
@Elizabelle: Ever see him in “Age of Consent” with Helen Mirren?
Morzer
@Corner Stone:
Your horse didn’t even make it to the starting gate, despite your many assurances that it was a surefire winner. You’ll understand if I treat your analysis and insight as having as much value as Donald Trump’s latest prediction.
JPL
@raven: Did you ever finish “The Fall”?
Violet
@Elizabelle:
I want to know what “Constituent loaned it” means. A constituent actually has that painting in their collection? Seriously? Where do they display it? And if it’s hanging behind the receptionist’s desk in Jindal’s office, first of all Why? And second, if it’s on loan from a constituent, where’s the plaque saying that? Why display it so prominently. The photo was apparently taken in 2011. It’s been on loan for 4 years? That’s some loan.
Morzer
@Violet:
Sounds like a campaign donor’s way of reminding Jindal where the real power lies.
raven
@JPL: Yea, we watched the last three last night not realizing the last one was 90 minutes! It was ok but too many stupid things at the end I thought.
Mike in NC
The “artist” definitely had a limited range of colors in his or her box of crayons.
JPL
@raven: They left open the corruption aspect but I think that was a lead in, if there’s a third season. The tie in with Jimmie was stupid but the entire series was too intense for my taste.
Corner Stone
@Morzer: Ah, I see now. Poor ability to read closely, piled on to your tedious habit of constantly trying to funny-up someone else’s comment.
Ok, friend. You’re going to take Walker v Santorum. Santorum, for fuck’s sake. Versus a guy who looks like if he were any where other than WI he’d be third shift manager of a 2nd rate fish fry fast food chain. Dude hasn’t even graduated a four year university. All the Koch billions aren’t going to change who he is.
Elizabelle
@raven: No never. And love Helen Mirren too. Will be on the hunt for it.
raven
@JPL: Yea and I think Anderson will live. Shouldn’t say too much but the solo stroll in the woods was bullshit.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Corner Stone: I’m not sure there isn’t some hinky shit going on with the voting machines in Wisconsin. Somehow that piece of shit keeps beating the polling.
Elizabelle
@Violet: Constituent’s wife was threatening to throw it out, so it’s in Jindal’s office instead?
Brought back memories of a Stallone/Rocky portrait a friend rescued from the trash many years ago.
The full frontal Jindal (gag) seemed kind of graphic novel like.
Linky:www.mediaite.com/online/bobby-jindals-official-painting-looks-nothing-like-bobby-jindal/
Reminds me of a paper doll.
raven
@Elizabelle: It’s one of her first films, 1969. She’s also killer in The Long Good Friday and Excalibur.
Morzer
@Corner Stone:
I imagine your little outbursts of rage on here spare your neighbors some bother. Rage on, Comrade Hairpiece.
Corner Stone
@Morzer: Listen, you’re the one who likes Walker v Santorum. Don’t try and hang your pathetic insecurity issues on me.
Morzer
@Corner Stone:
So you do wear a rug, Donny! Thanks for making my morning just a little more amusing.
JPL
@Corner Stone: I think Walker has a chance with this new GOP. Walker doesn’t have a College degree against that elitist, educated Hillary.
Corner Stone
@Morzer: Man. This is you, now? I mean, you have always been tedious but damn.
Sheesh.
eemom
@Morzer:
hmm. Funny the things one learns — for example, you’re kind of an oaf.
Morzer
@Corner Stone:
I hope you didn’t put all those shiny magic bitcoins of yours on Romney, Corny. You do seem awfully bitter these days.
raven
What is all this bullshit?
Morzer
@eemom:
So my friends tell me, dearest one.
Corner Stone
@Morzer: Oh, Morzy. Such an exemplar of your usual tedious and unfunny, um, “wit”.
Do carry on, Dear Morzy.
Baud
@raven:
You’ll have to narrow that down.
raven
@Baud: :)
John Cole +0
@different-church-lady: The official portrait is MUCH better. He’s pink.
Morzer
@Corner Stone:
I see you’ve got stuck on the “You are NOT funny and I am going to tell your mom!” meme. I’ll take that as your concession speech and go back to enjoying a fine cup of coffee.
Y’all have fun now, bless your corny little heart.
Corner Stone
@Morzer: Oh, the “bless your heart” attempt.
Sorry, Morzy. Just as much of a worn out and pathetic attempt as everything else you try on here.
Elie
@Morzer:
LOL
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike in NC: Yup, that’s a good description of the deserting coward, alright.
raven
Left Shark was better than this.
Elizabelle
We’ve exhausted this topic.
And then some.
Puppies? Crackerbrau? Anything new?
raven
@Elizabelle: Shark Fiction?
raven
No interference call on Left Shark?
Sad_Dem
@Baud:
That sounds like a viable theory. What would be the payoff for hiring the worst painter at the local high school? Does it have the “side mirror” warning? (Dork in painting may be darker than he appears.)
raven
Fins to the Left!
rikyrah
@Elie:
That says it all.
chopper
@Corner Stone:
yeah, “bless your heart”, like “do carry on”, is pretty worn out.
Pogonip
We can has better topic, please?
raven
@Pogonip: Better than Left Shark???
chopper
@raven:
there is no better topic.
David in NY
@JPL:
Michael Jackson?
Wait. Gravenstone beat me to this (com’t 4) but only with a late edit (at least I though his said Dorian Gray at first).
trollhattan
@Elizabelle:
How about: we’ve heard of too big to fail, now it’s too big to shut off. Evidently the nasty, dirty, destructive Canada tar sands oil projects are so expensive and time-consuming to build they have to keep them running even while losing money. So there’s your Keystone pipeline Raison d’être. Nice.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@ranchandsyrup: The one with the Blue Dog is better.
Cheers,
Scott.
Elizabelle
@raven: Shark Royale!
Zinsky
I wish liberals would ignore all these silly nicknames that conservatives give themselves and call them by their real names. The man’s name is Payush Jindal. There. And it isn’t “Mitt” Romney, it’s Willard Romney. I couldn’t believe they allowed Willard to be on a national presidential ballot as “Mitt”! Maybe Deocrats should start giving themselves masculine nicknames like “Rocko” Biden or “Tank” Kerry. Sheesh! Start calling these vermin by their real names!
LanceThruster
Looks like the same studio that does ‘Frisky Dingo’ and ‘Archer.’
Corner Stone
@chopper: Almost as sad as the, “Swing, and a miss.” trope, eh?
David in NY
@Zinsky:
Well, you’ve got to blame “Jimmy” (James Earl) Carter and “Bill” (William Jefferson) Clinton for a lot of this. I know that at least Clinton signed stuff with his full name, but I’m not sure about Carter. What would Mitt have done?
chopper
@Corner Stone:
at least that one doesn’t envision some 80-year-old broad in a crocheted sweater.
jl
@David in NY: If HRC wins the nomination, she’ll have lots of nicknames. GOP will probably try to work them into their outreach program, though I am not sure how successful that will be.
ruemara
Yikes. Was it done by his cousin? A blind wombat? Ms. Carchardontis’ 5th grade fine arts class? Hopefully, it was free. Mind you, the picture is probably smarter than the subject.
Hmm. Do we know if the artist is a Democrat?
gogol's wife
@Bystander:
LOL
pat
@Steeplejack:
ding ding ding we have a winner
Suzanne
This looks like the Mormon picture of Jesus.
JordanRules
John, I think you should update the post with…”much better…he’s PINK” ! LOL
Amir Khalid
I’m kind of late to this thread. But I found myself wondering if former commenter T&H had somehow scored the biggest commission of his artistic career.
Bruce Webb
@David in NY:
“Well, you’ve got to blame “Jimmy” (James Earl) Carter and “Bill” (William Jefferson) Clinton for a lot of this. I know that at least Clinton signed stuff with his full name, but I’m not sure about Carter. What would Mitt have done?”
Yes thank God that ‘Jerry’ Ford, ‘Dick’ Nixon, ‘Ike’ Eisenhower never stooped so low. Nor ‘Dubya’ Bush or ‘Dutch’ Reagan. And you can only give ‘Jack’ Kennedy so much of a pass. And then you have ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt back in the day. Of them all the only one that I know of who insisted on signing his name other than his birth name was James Earl (who signed it either Jimmy or Jimmie) but it is not like 20th century presidents insisted on their names as seen on their birth certificates.
Amir Khalid
@David in NY:
Per Wikipedia, his full name is Willard Mitt Romney, i.e. he goes by his middle name rather than his first.
Villago Delenda Est
@David in NY:
Outsourced it to the lowest bidder.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
What is Republicans and the artists they chose for their portraits? That horrible.
Redleg
It looks more like Bobby Kennedy than Bobby Jindal. Did Dubya paint that portrait?