Teh Stupidist of teh Stupid
In a direct repudiation of Barack Obama’s daily bowling obsession, George W. Bush really really said this today, so sit down and put your moonshine away….
“I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” he said in an interview for Yahoo! News and Politico magazine.
“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.”
The US president traced his decision to the August 19, 2003 bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad, which killed the world body’s top official in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello.
“I remember when de Mello, who was at the UN, got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man’s life. And I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, it’s just not worth it anymore to do,” said Bush.
Military funerals he’s attended: 0
Annual National Press Club comedy routines he’s participated in: All of them.
Times he played guitar while the Gulf Coast was drowning: 1
Estimated number of returning veterans not being treated for PTSD and other disorders: tens of thousands.
He’s biked, run, worked out, met with members of athletic teams, thrown out first pitches, dismissed the importance of finding Osama Bin Laden, opposed expanding the GI Bill, but our troops and country can go to sleep happily assured that their Commander In Chief is not dissing their sweat and sacrifice, blood and tears by playing any of that dastardly golf stuff.
I’m completely relieved … of my capacity for wondering how low an IQ can sink from years of alcohol abuse.
We’re at zero, folks. Don’t dare bet that it can’t get any lower. He’s so out of touch with reality that we can only pray that his head doesn’t deflate like Cheney’s latex blow-up submissive dolly before January 20th rolls around again.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Don’t forget the birthday cake with McCain during the Hurricane Katrina disaster!!!
May 14th, 2008 at 5:18 am
[…] War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. Ah….ok….excuse me…..I was choking back a tear. We knew that Dubya sacrificed a trip to Vietnam to patrol Texas bars looking for Vietcong and now we learn that he has given up golf because it “sends the wrong” signal to continue to play during the occupation of Iraq. The again he might have made this brave sacrifice because his knees aren’t up to running or playing golf anymore. Another brick on the House of Bush legacy, pluming new depths of wussiness. VoteVets notes, Bush actually played his last round of golf on October 13, 2003. This means that the reason he gave for quitting after the August 2003 U.N. bombing is dubious at best. More likely, he made the story up in a clumsy ploy to gain sympathy. In many regions and cultures around the world, this is called “lying.” […]
May 15th, 2008 at 4:02 am
[…] Congratulations to our own uber-blogger, Kevin Hayden, for this post, and Warren Street of Blue Girl, Red State. Both of these bits of bloggy goodness were mentioned in the Washington Post in yesterday’s White House Watch column (at the bottom of page two / top of page three of the online article). […]
May 15th, 2008 at 8:28 am
[…] Kevin Hayden blogs on the American Street: “Military funerals he’s attended: 0 […]