With American approval ratings in the low 30s, widespread hatred abroad and the violent deaths of some 200,000 people due to his crazy administration, the last thing you'd call George W. Bush is "popular."
Yet folks are lining up to see the doomed president's look-alike, impersonator Steve Bridges.
The 41-year-old actor is doing big business with his Dubya act.
In truth, Bridges looks nothing like Bush -- just as he looks nothing like two of his other popular characters, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bill Clinton.
It takes hours of careful makeup and prosthetics and a wig to get the Dubya look just right, Rake Magazine reports in its May issue.
Bridges' version of the beleaguered president isn't cruel. He never talks about the people killed on Sept. 11, or in New Orleans after Katrina, or the thousands of blown-up U.S. troops, or the bombed women and children in Afghanistan and Iraq, or the people expected to be killed in Iran or by the Bird Flu or whatever they're currently working on.
Instead, Bridges plays the president's harmless side -- the good-natured idiot who loves America in his way.
"Unlike the real Laura Bush, who stole the show at last year's White House Correspondents' Dinner with her same-sex horse-milking joke, Bridges works clean," Greg Beato writes in the magazine.
"Telling G-rated jokes to a couple thousand drunken car salesmen and limo drivers on holiday in Sin City may sound like a recipe for disaster, but Bridges maintains complete command of the room.
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