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The Coincidental President

An adviser to President Bush said Monday that Bush's photographs in the company of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff amount to a coincidence and shouldn't be interpreted any more seriously than that.

Bush himself has said that he doesn't recall meeting Abramoff.

Time magazine reported on its Web site Sunday that its staff members have seen at least six photos featuring Bush and Abramoff. They appeared to have been taken at White House functions, according to the reports.

Well it is coincidence. Time magazine failed to report that many people have coincidental photographs with President Bush.

Ira Slpitnik, of Portland Maine, has a growing collection of 19 coincidental pictures of herself and the President. In some pictures he is blurred and in the background, like the one at the Happy Suds Laundromat, and the one at Loch Ness. But most of them have been authenticated.

"We always keep a camera around," said Ms. Slipnik, " well especially after we coincidentally met the President at an Arby's. After we saw him in a Jiffy Lube we just figured we'd start collecting the coincidental pictures."

This reporter only has four coincidental pictures with President Bush. One is in a dental office in Citrus Heights California, and the last one six weeks later from a coincidental meeting at a Record shop in Austin where Bush exclaimed "oh, it's you...Funny how we keep bumping into each other."

Coincidentally, Abramoff raised $100,000 for Bush's coincidental re-election. Since then, we have coincidentally found ourselves in some kind of war, which is taking place, coincidentally, not far from where Bush's father had his.

The White House has not released any of the coincidental photos featuring the President and Abramoff, who was declared a Bush "pioneer" for raising at least $100,000 for the Bush-Cheney '04 re-election campaign. Instead of releasing the coincedental photos, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan simply released Abramoff's dental records instead saying "We cannot comments on Mr. Abramoff's dental records until a full investigation has been started which will never be completed."

"Pioneering is a basic value of the American people," Bush said from the Bush Rose Garden (which coincidentally is filled with rose bushes) "Liberty...Freedom...Pioneering. These are good things for your children who, coincidentally, carry many of your own last names."

posted by Obi-Mac BakDon @ 11:05 AM