Bush acknowledges the sacrifice of soldiers ... by giving up golf

He's a 15, so it's not like anybody's going to miss anything by watching him meander around a course.

And this is well done.

 

I would expect his scorekeeping precision resembled Bubba's, back in the day.

 

And if he had been photographed playing golf since then, you people would have ripped him.

 

Why wouldn't we have? Why wouldn't any have? More to the point, why shouldn't we have, had he done it?

 

Well, as we already know from last week's thread on Jenna Bush getting married, many of you believe that President Bush and his family should never have weddings, baptisms, reunions, christenings, Christmas parties or any other family function, because the servicemen killed in Iraq won't be doing that. I simply noted that golf has been added to the list.

 

And once again, the entire premise of the argument flies over your head.

It's not the fact that he gave up golf. It's the fact that it was his response to the sacrifices others are making overseas, and that he's making it out to be some grand gesture.

 

A. I never said that.
B. Only one or two people made that claim, and they did so more out of snarkiness than reality.
C. Adding golf to the list on that assumption is snarkiness in and of itself.
D. Obviously the entire premise of the thread was lost on you. It's not golf. It's that he's passing it off as some great sacrifice in the face of families of fallen soldiers, and instead, he comes off sounding like a clueless buffoon with very little genuine sensitivity.

 

Katie Kelley's book on the Bushes, The Family, goes into a measure of loving detail about W's golf-course conduct as a youth.

Fascinating reading.

And, yes, consider the source . . . I'll grant you that. But plenty of petulant, spoiled brats never grow out of it, and here's another example.

This guy's earned 90%+ of the broad contempt the bulk of the American population currently maintains towards him. He could have stepped up and done more of the right things, at the right times . . . but he didn't.

History will judge . . . and not kindly . . . and hundreds of millions of Americans agree.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/us/20061228_3000FACES_TAB1.html

Will never play golf again, not necessarily by choice.

 

Holy crap!

 

People begrudge Bush for his family's happiness because, due to his own selfishness in going to war, there are many people who will not be able to celebrate those same things in life.

 

"They volunteered."

-- Little Dick