With Katrina's Death Toll and Skyrocketing Gas Prices What Does a Leader Look Like?

The image here was posted on the White House website as a featured photograph. It is apparently meant to represent the most poignant image of the president's leadership today, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005.

In one sense, the meaningful hand gesture and the forthright posture might suggest determined leadership.

Upon further reflection, however, this image communicates that the president is a little lost, and, in reacting to his lost feeling, intends to bully everyone around him into listening to his off-the-cuff observations. The eyes are narrow and a little crossed. The lips are pursed and suggest a partonizing tone.

The lips are the predominant feature here, and, for me, they are a good example of how I may see GWB one way while others see him completely differently.

This picture looks like a man who is out of his element and is trying to appear in charge. He looks like someone who feels he is being charming, when, in fact, he is being threatening.

Clearly, other viewers of this image will have an entirely different reaction.

What is your opinion of the leadership suggested by this image?

Chew the fat; speak out.