President Bush, right, reacts after posing for a photo

President Bush, right, reacts after posing for a photo with 43 women from the Middle East and North Africa involved in elections in their home countries, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across from the White House in Washington. The women, from Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, are part of an exchange program to promote democracy, economic and educational reform in their home countries.
AP Photo by Charles Dharapak