Folksy Is As Folksy Does.

As I said earlier - all this does is draw attention to Peter Wallsten's affliction. If The Daily Show picks up on it - then Peter Wallsten will always be "that blind guy". Nice going.

Bush was joking around with a reporter who had not mentioned his affliction to anyone at the White House. Bush sincerely apologized and Wallsten did not take offense. Yeah - I can see how you guys could think this was a big story. Poor Peter Wallsten gets to be the butt of jokes now just so the left can try to get its jollies.

 

And Bush is the embodiment of idiocy. I gave him 6 years to impress me; I'm neither side of the aisle, just someone who wants to be represented in front of the world by a person (man or woman) who knows what the hell he/she is doing.

I'm a dolt. I don't mind admitting this. But he's just a fucking imbecile. Hence my jokes about him. Come back to me, Lou, when your boy gives one speech in front of the world that doesn't sound like a baboon after a night of 8-balls.

 

Cool ... I'm in!














Hey, can I borrow $800 from you?

 

Well-handled by the reporter. I'd have been like "I'm blind, you stupid motherfucker!"

 

That would have been video worth seeing.

 

Buck - a better question may be how long has he had the affliction and also who knew. He may not have even told his bosses because he did not consider it job affecting. I understand that UV sun glasses are used to stem the progression of the affliction and many WH press conferences are normally held indoors.

More info on Stargardt's disease

http://www.mdsupport.org/library/stargrdt.html

 

waste o' paste.....what's the point?

 

$800? For LASIK? ... Doc, if you read this thread ... oh, hell, I'll get it myself. 8)


HA HA!!!!!


(Seriously, though, most credible places will charge you between $1,000-$4,000 for both eyes -- $2,500 is certainly reasonable -- but anything less than $1,000 is not somewhere I'd trust to use a laser on my eyeballs. ... The place I went to had a great payment plan, like $50-100 per month, they gave you plenty of options if you couldn't afford it up-front, which most can't. ... But hell, I'da gone into debt for 15 years if I knew how great it would be.)

 

Fucking breathless waiting for Thursday's edition

 

Why didn't the White House Media Relations staff prep the President about Wallsten's blindness? I'm sure they have bios on every reporter.

 

The point is, it's funny.