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George W Bush has turned his hand to painting. Here's his portrait of Putin

Should he give up the day job?

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THE FORMER US president has some time on his hands these days and has decided to dapple in a bit of painting.

However, he is not just doing landscapes, no, he has decided to paint some of the people he met while on the job, like Berlusconi, Blair and Putin.

The 67-year-old is taking his work very seriously and unveiled an exhibition of his work on Friday at his presidential library in Dallas.

The exhibition is entitled: “The Art of Leadership: A President’s Personal Diplomacy.”

What do you think, should he give up the day job just yet? Take a look at some of his other works of art:

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rtr3jzfd Another wall displays four different world leaders, including (clockwise from top-left) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, former French President (2007-2012) Nicolas Sarkozy and former South Korean President (2008-2013) Lee Myung-bak. Businessinsider Businessinsider

 Read: Laura Bush: George once drove into a wall after I told him his speech was no good>

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    Nov 2nd 2018, 7:55 AM

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    Next week. Iodine in pregnancy causes your baby to grow two arses.

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    Nov 2nd 2018, 9:08 AM

    This article is little less than covert advertising. It is likely to create unnecessary alarm to those who are pregnant while unlikely to make a demonstrable difference in the outcome of their pregnancies. Can the author provide any evidence published in the scientific literature to support the assertions that a nutritional assessment is of benefit?

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    Nov 2nd 2018, 10:10 AM

    @diarmuid o’riain: I always remember Dara O’Briain’s comment that a Nutritionist is to a Dietitian what a “Toothologist” is to a Dentist. Show the evidence based, peer reviewed science please

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    Nov 3rd 2018, 10:46 PM

    Yup, another opinion piece. I’ll wait for the science.

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    Nov 2nd 2018, 8:02 AM

    Why say “can” boost how your child’s brain develops when the evidence is supposedly very clear?

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    Nov 2nd 2018, 8:08 AM

    @Toon Army: because she is a genuine expert in the field. Only somebody trying to sell you something will make absolute claims like that.

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    Nov 2nd 2018, 2:22 PM

    @K Lawlor: “Genuine Expert”?

    Nutritionists are not regulated by law – anybody can call themselves a nutritionist. 

    Dietitians might be what you are thinking of.

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    Nov 2nd 2018, 10:38 AM

    I stopped reading when I saw that the article is the opinion of a “nutritionist”.

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    Nov 3rd 2018, 10:49 PM

    @Kinsaleable: That’s our malnourishment talking. Aren’t we sorry now that we didn’t eat more seaweed dipped in sewage? Imagine all the ecoli we could have in our bodies now.

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    What if you take those out of date nuclear bomb shielding iodine tablets the government sent us years ago, when ‘duck and cover’ was proven insufficient?

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    Nov 2nd 2018, 3:38 PM

    Guys! Guys! She’s a SENIOR nutritionist. Show some respect!

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    Nov 2nd 2018, 8:59 AM

    Cut out all the sh-t. A little if everything, a balanced diet. Problem solved.

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    Nov 2nd 2018, 12:03 PM

    Boost brain development, no amount of supplements is going to push them past the intelligent level constrained by their genetics – or is it not PC to acknowledge that intelligence levels naturally vary across a population

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