Stop the presses, Bush gave up golf for the Iraq War.

[deminks]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10314.html

(snip)

In an Oval Office interview with Politico and Yahoo News — Bush’s first for an online audience — the president said his doomsday scenario for a premature withdrawal “of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”

For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families: He has given up golf.

“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. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”

Bush said he made that decision after the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. official in Iraq and the organization’s high commissioner for human rights.

(end snip)

I am bordering on speechless. When I calm down, maybe I can make a comment.

[ThatsMyBarack]

1. * sure can give 'til it hurts!

:sarcasm:

[MichiganVote]

2. ..........said to be saving the Jack Daniels for the war in Iran.........

[Botany]

3. the man has taken more vacation time and side trips than any

... President in history and yet he spouts this gibberish?

It gets even worse :puke:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x358943

[coriolis]

4. I don't even DARE write what I'm thinking right now

:mad: :grr:

[Usrename]

8. He should be placed in stocks in the 9th Ward (New Orleans)?

Am I close?

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Apparently taking months of vacation and cutting combat pay doesn't send a wrong signal.

The man is twisted indeed.

[sarge43]

6. That son of a bitch should tell that face to face to a soldier or

marine whose legs got shredded to bloody scraps.

[onethatcares]

7. no wonder pickles says he suffers as much if not more than anybody

they're fucking insane, no scratch that, they are way beyond INSANE.

[Disturbed]

10. Apparently , Busholini saw the film F-911 or

one his Cult Members told him about it. "Watch this drive."

This man is an evil Silver Spoon Sociopath.

[ljm2002]

15. That's exactly what I think...

...he saw how poorly that little caper played, and in true Rovian fashion, took the weakness and spun it into a strength: decided he could nullify it all by publicly giving up golf (awww, poor guy) in support of the troops.

F*in' moron.

[VP505]

9. What he really meant

was that it would be too easy for people to see him boozing it up on the golf course therefore he gave up the game for something more private.

[lpbk2713]

11. Only because it is close to summer and the weather is getting hotter.

He's just a candy ass.



He'll be back out there in the fall.

[Chemical Bill]

12. Let me know when he takes up reading.... n/t

[jmowreader]

13. He (supposedly) reads books on his vacations

It would be very nice if his summer reading list included United States Signals Intelligence Directive 18 (the manual that says you're not allowed to use the NSA against the American people), the Geneva Conventions and, just so he'll be prepared, "Ex-Convict" by David Allan Coe.

[Wizard777]

14. Nah, He's STILL trying to finish My Pet Goat

Then he'll move on to that book Laura got him for Christmas. The Presidency For Dummies.