Un. Fucking. Believable.

I'm reprinting this in toto because what Brandon highlights just so fucking offensive to anyone with a goddamned pulse. From VetVoice:

Bush Finally Speaks to the Ultimate Wartime Sacrifice
by: Brandon Friedman
Tue May 13, 2008 at 19:32:14 PM EDT

With the ghosts of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower looking down, President Bush finally admitted today that he has been touched by the true cost of war:

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."

In unity and spirit with Americans who will never see a child or a parent again on account of his policies, George W. Bush made the heart-wrenching decision to take a five-year hiatus from the game. He chose to make this sacrifice several months after the invasion of Iraq.

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.

"I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man's life," he said. "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.'"

In a just world, words like these would cause our nation's capital to come to a screeching halt. But not in today's America. In today's world, sacrifice is defined in terms of not being able to afford a Hummer; of having to see a few images of war on TV; and of giving up golf.

If past Commanders-in-Chief were alive, they'd wretch at such a statement from this wartime "leader." Imagine Washington at Valley Forge. Imagine Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War. Imagine what Truman went through in August 1945. And then listen to this asshole:

"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."

Of course, George Bush, Sr.--a combat veteran himself--was never so crass when he made the decision in 1991 to commit the most troops to combat since Vietnam. And if he wasn't ashamed of his son before, I think it's pretty safe to assume he will be now.

As are we all.

Here: take your blood pressure medicine.

Comments

[Elspeth Ravenwind]

what a fuckmook of the first order!

Elspeth

[punaise]

sure wish we could take a mulligan on the war.

[kate]

Marie Antoinette would have been proud of the fine king.

[Capt. Bat Hussein Guano]

Spoken like a true sociopath. Now maybe someone will go over the edge and turn out the big light on the most evil, insane, narcissistic sub-human piece of shit since Hitler.

[P O'Neill]

To the extent that it's true, it means Michael Moore got to him. That scene in F9/11 stung.

[Rene ala Carte]

But bike riding is still OK?

Unbelievable!

[distributorcap]

i am at a loss for words ---- combine this with his dancing and merriment at his bimbo daughter's wedding as suffering continues in Myanmar and Iraq and in the midwest ---

nothing stop this complete and total piece of human flotsam from his vacations/fun/break from hard work -----

and he is damn proud of his "sacrifice" for the cause.......

shackles in the Hague are too good for him'

[Elspeth Ravenwind]

Marie Antoinette was NO despot. Quit dissing on her. By the time her Louis ascended to the throne, the finances were in an irreparable mess and nothing they could try to do would fix that - but they tried anyway. She and Louis XVI actually waived quite a few taxes that were traditionally levied on the po' folks. She tried to limit the bazillion of high-born ladies that were her 'maids' but as she was not only an 'outsider' but a hated Austrian - once the wedding was over and she wasn't pushing heirs out by the tonne, the populace was giving her no quarter...and the 'maids' were not about to give up their posh salaries for being one of several women to pass her her varying dressing bits every morning and back every night. Antoinette also tried to simplify her dress (as evidenced in the portrait wearing a much more casual style gown of gauze) that sent the silk weavers into a frenzy ("that would bankrupt them!!"...so she caved...and still got poked in the ass for spending the money..!?!?). While still new and super slender naturally, she wanted to not wear a corset - same situation w/the corsetieres - if she didn't wear one, noone would... Did she ever have anyone tortured? No! Did she ever start a war? No! (and don't go there w/the Revolution - that was burbling under the surface for a while!) The crap she got into was from trying to fit in since trying to do the right thing got her censured and went against the system. DUMBYA has NEVER tried to do the right thing and has always been bailed out from repeatedly doing the WRONG thing and NOT caring a WHIT about the outcome...he knows he will end up smelling like a rose even while he looks the part of a sweltering TURD.
Dammit I am SICK of the effing slams on Marie Antoinette - she wasn't an evil person, do some damned research!!!
Elspeth

[Monica_A: Dammit]

Reunite on ice is so very nice. That's how I'm getting through the remaining months.

[Caveat]

I'm with the bush. I think I'll give up shooting pool to show solidarity with the dead, become one with the bereft, feel their pain...

[Tom Traubert]

Not only that, but he's lying:

I quote:
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.

Bush's last round of golf as president dates back to October 13, 2003, according to meticulous records kept by CBS news.

Bush: I quit golf over Iraq war - Yahoo! News

[Maryc]

Well, I can do no better than repeat what tontocal (a Sadly, No! commenter) said:

Blllleeeccchhh……my soul just threw up.

[pansypoo]

well then, georgee has done more than the soldiers ever could give for their country.
(wishing i had a putter + georgee next to me- i swing a mean bat)

[shawk]

"I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf."
No doubt, Mr. Bush plays golf in a secret undisclosed location.
Like Camp David.

[Max Power]

He didn't give up golf carts, remember?

[Sorghum Crow]

How can we forget the "Now watch this drive" moment?

[sister of ye]

George H. W. Bush may feel embarrassment because Junior is tarnishing his "legacy." But I doubt he feels any shame. If so, it should be of himself for foisting the dimwit on the country when he knew full well what a little shit he is.

[JDM]

I don't believe it plays golf. It's not much of a game, but requires more than that drunk, drug addled POS has. Another one of the POS out of touch PR geniuses around him thought it would sound good, that's all. Tone deaf motherfuckers. Elpeth's right, too. Whacked the wrong Austrian that time.

[Lance Armstrong]

Riding a bike is good exercise, unlike golf which is just waving a stick around like it's a long dick. Which, is more or less what Bush is.

[Jackit]

Can we all just buy pretzels and mail them to the white house? Please.

[pansypoo]

exploding pretzels.

[leslie]

He didn't give up lying or killing or stealing from the poor to give to the rich.
He didn't end the war - and he's trying to start another one.
He didn't stop crawling under desks and making jokes about "No WMDs here, or here either".
He didn't stop doing his fancy footwork ("bein preznit is hard werk") and tapdancing his way past the WH press "corps" in the rose garden whilst awaiting McBush.

But, he says, "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."

Yup. That's the way you do it.
"Get yer money for nothin and yer chicks fer free."

I. Hate. Him.

[JimmyDean'sFuckedUpCousinClyde]

Those double or triple amputees at Walter Reed, or the thousands of permanently brain damaged young soldiers must be truly moved by his gesture.

The man's a veritable saint, the more I think on it.

I wonder what that special place in Heaven is called for such an altruist . . . . Oh yeah-----it's called HELL.
May he fucking rot in it for eternity, the scum piece of hubric shit.

[Capt. Bat Hussein Guano]

Other than all the above comments I hear he's a helluva nice guy.

[Neil]

from the interview at Yahoo news
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080513/pl_afp/usiraqpoliticsbushgolf_080513212030

— His Christian faith has increased in office, since “part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord, and that's a daily occurrence.

A Noble Spirit Embiggens The Smallest Man -- Jeremiah Springfield

[leslie]

But bike riding is still OK?

Unbelievable!

Posted by: Rene ala Carte | May 13, 2008 at 10:37 PM

So is challenging double amputees to a foot race.

(and what JimmyDeansFUCousinClyde said)