What Is It About Painting That Attracts Politicians?

[sandyRoe]

Hitler tried his hand at it, as did his nemesis, Churchill. And now GW Bush.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26890910

[wolf63]

Maybe that's the answer Sandy. George W isn't much of a painter - his paintings are almost as if a child did them.

[sandyRoe]

And if GW had been a better artist how many Iraqi lives might have been spared?

[ludwig]

// And if GW had been a better artist how many Iraqi lives might have been spared? //

Err, dunno. None probably. His pictures wouldn't have been as crap though.
Unlike Hitler, who basically became a warmongering dictator after his application to art school was declined because he wasn't good enough. Sour grapes or what?

[janbee]

I suppose George Osborne does Painting by Numbers. They'll be cr*p though as he can't count !