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

Carl Spackler to Ty Webb about Judge Smails:
If he bothers you, I'll take care of him. What you've got to do is cut the hamstring on the back of his leg right at the bottom. He'll never play golf again, because his weight displacement goes back, all his weight is on his right foot, and he'll push everything off to the right. He'll never come through on anything. He'll quit the game.

 

It would look bad for the president to play golf while a family is burying a solider. And for him to give up golf is a drop in the bucket as far as right things to do.

But for Bush to take the fact that he stopped golfing and run it up the flag pole ... that's just plain idiocy.

Somewhere, during that interview, Karl Rove cringed.

 

Things sometime go wrong when you're not close at hand to write scripts on a daily basis.

 

He ain't giving up beer:

 

Name one as tragically inept as this waste of carbon.

The art of persuasion, linked with speaking and communication, is a job prerequisite. At least, it used to be.

 

Keith Olbermann:

"When somebody asks you, sir, about Democrats who must now pull this country back from the abyss you have placed us at…

"When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation…

"When somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead…

"This advice, Mr. Bush… shut the hell up!"



Full transcript:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/14/countdown-special-comment-to-president-bush-shut-the-hell-up/

 

somebody make this guy a full fucking member right now.

damn solid, doug.

 

Justine Henin is down with the troops too.

What was odd about the Bush comments was (in the interview) it fully sounded like the reporter knew the whole story ahead of time and asked Bush about it. Like someone in the press office told the reporter from Politico to ask him about it.

 

And Bush couldn't even get his story right about playing golf and the death of the UN man. He was playing golf two months after the bombing.

This president can't do anything without a script, including having someone read a children's book to him.

 

This is what I love about American politics.......

Of all the things people criticize the President for -- and there is plenty of material -- this might be the dumbest.

Is him saying he wants to do something symbolic to show his solidarity with the troups any different than the freaks with yellow ribbons hanging on their trees or the suddenly patriotic frauds who are running around waving and flying flags every day now?

It is symbolism, something very small, nothing more and nothing less.

My God, some of you really need to get into therapy to deal with your hatred of Bush because it is becoming creepy, like in a stalker sort of way......

 

This is just the latest in a series of grotesquely inappropriate remarks by Fredo.

The combination of being (a) utterly oblivious and (b) possessing a tin ear for nuance,
is deadly, for a COC.

When you're talking about idiocy at this level, it's always open season.

 

People...listen up.

This is NOT about Bush giving up golf as some symbolic gesture. It's NOT. It's about Bush making ANY sort of self-sacrifice that is a) rather inconsequential in the grand scheme of things and b) doing it in such a way that was meant to show empathy.

The problem with both is it was neither a grand gesture, nor did it provide one iota of comfort to those families who have lost someone in the war. It was, on the whole, a public relations gesture and a horribly thought-out one as well. No sincerity, and every attempt to make it seem genuine when it solely reeked of failure.

And had a Democrat done this too, I'd be attacking them with the same level of scorn. Empty gestures in the face of dead troops? That doesn't fly with this veteran.