No Play Cheap Shots
Bush says that out of respect for the war dead and their families, he decided to stop playing golf during wartime. AFP:
“I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” he said in an interview for Yahoo! News and Politico magazine.
“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.”
Predictable lefty bloggers, lacking as much taste, go for the cheap shot:
What’s a Deciderer in Chief to do to when his troops are sacrificing life and limb, mental health and family integrity, for his war of choice?
Give up golf, of course. No sacrifice is too great for the troops. “I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
You go to war with the handicap you have…
This one gets worked up about it:
Let it sink in. Wait… just a little bit more… okay, you got it? Good.
It’s not like his heart isn’t in the right place, I mean, I get what he’s going after here, but still, this is the action of a child. I mean, you’re the President of the United States; people aren’t going to spend a lot of time caring if you swing the clubs once in a while. They are going to care, however, if you can’t govern to save your life.
And that’s the point here. Of all the things that Bush could do to be a better president in regard to the occupation of Iraq, he chose to stop golfing. Meanwhile, no one would care one wit about if he golfs, plays shuffleboard, or skeet shoots in his off time if his foreign policy wasn’t spun out of sheer lunacy.
This one’s apoplectic and has worked up a Bush lied, he golfed while Katrina victims died conspiracy angle:
The story of Bush playing golf while Katrina was destroying lives by the thousands and property by the billions of dollars is apocryphal at best. No pictures exist of Bush playing golf either that day in San Diego or any of him since 2003.
But banning photographers while you’re playing golf in order to look more reverent than you are isn’t quitting. It’s just being sneaky and dishonest, which are two words that perfectly, if euphemistically, describe this administration from start to bloody finish.
So, the next time we see Bush playing golf, that’ll mean the war’s over. Right?
So much for fun, games, respect for the dead and lack thereof. The lefties and AFP seemed less interested in this part. It’s the part that has to do with what they died for and whether it ultimately will be for something, or whether it gets thrown away and more die. via Politico:
President Bush warned in an interview Tuesday that the Democratic presidential candidates’ plans to withdraw abruptly from Iraq could “eventually lead to another attack on the United States” and would “embolden” terrorists.
In a White House interview with Politico and Yahoo News — a president’s first for an online audience — Bush 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.”
“The United States pulling out of Iraq or pulling out of the Middle East or not maintaining a forward presence would send all kinds of signals throughout the Middle East,” he said in the Roosevelt Room. “And it would shake everybody’s nerves, and it would embolden the very same people that we’re trying to defeat.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:15 am on Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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May 14th, 2008 at 4:53 am
[...] of respect for the soldiers (who died) fighting in Iraq. Although I understand Bush’s reasoning (some may feel that playing golf while a war is going on is insensitive), [...]
May 14th, 2008 at 9:38 am
“Predictable lefty bloggers, lacking as much taste…” Yes, I was just thinking that us lefty bloggers lack so much taste. We of our nasty cheap shots, our not starting or supporting needless wars that have killed thousands of people… Oh my!
I’d rather lack taste than shame.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:43 am
The man is responsible for running an entire nation, let alone a war. I expect that his moments of genuine relaxation are few and far between. So, yeah, I expect that this is a major sacrifice to him. It’s not the sacrifice some make, but his heart is certainly in the right place.
I don’t doubt that he can hardly wait for January 2009.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Yes, tas, you and your fellow leftie bloggers do lack taste. And dignity. Not to mention a heart.
But that’s cool, people don’t expect a lot out of you.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
The people who are sneering at Bush for giving up golf in wartime are the very people who would be screeching, red-faced, at the sight of him on a golf course. If nothing else, Bush’s years in office have demonstrated that to some people, he can do no right, no matter what.
May 14th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
“Yes, tas, you and your fellow leftie bloggers do lack taste. And dignity. Not to mention a heart.”
More to the point, they lack brains.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I am shocked, shocked that the President is a politician. And it’s significant that he cares more about how soldiers’ families feel, as opposed to moonbats who will hate him regardless of what he does.
It’s not so much that Lefties lack brains, it’s that they choose not to use them. For them, it’s all emotion about how people are dying, and how that’s such a bad thing. They don’t spare any thought for what the alternative would be, nor consider the possibility that their preferred solution would lead to more misery, not less. The President has no such luxury.