Bush Quits Playing Golf · 15 May 2008, 16:02 by trickykid
So once again Keith Olbermann says it direct and right to Mr. Bush. I don’t even think we should even call him Mr, he certainly doesn’t deserve any type of respect from any American.
Anyways, there’s a new commentary by Keith Olbermann from MSNBC linked from Truthout.org about how President Bush claims he quit playing golf out of respect to the men and women who have died in the Iraq War.
I have the same feelings as Keith does. I was appalled someone in his position would say something like this. Golf, you quit playing golf cause the War you started is killing Americans?
“Mr. President,” he was asked, “you haven’t been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?
“It really is. I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died, to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as – to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
I don’t even know what to think about this but it gets worse as Bush is nothing but a phoney liar.
“Mr. President, was there a particular moment or incident that brought you to that decision, or how did you come to that?”
“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. 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 any more to do.”
So he gave up golf. That’s his answer to people dying in a War he started. Instead of taking any other type of action, Bush gives up golf out of respect to soldiers getting wounded and dying.
But here’s the truth of his statement from the truthout.org article quoting Keith Olbermann:
Apart from your medical files, which dutifully record your torn calf muscle and the knee pain which forced you to give up running at the same time – coincidence, no doubt – the bombing in Baghdad which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello of the U-N… and interrupted your round of golf, was on August 19th, 2003.
Yet there is an Associated Press account of you playing golf as late as Columbus Day of that year – October 13th – nearly two months later.
I seriously doubt Mr. Bush has not played golf since 2003. This is a President who’s displayed by his own actions and words that he doesn’t care about anyone but himself and his buddies. His statements that claim that if a Democrat gets into office after his term is up will lead to more attacks. Let me remind you Mr. President that September 11, 2001 was during your term as President, after you set the record for the most days on vacation by any President in the first half year after getting elected. Perhaps we got attacked cause you were off playing golf instead of doing your job to protect us.
Is giving up golf such a big sacrifice for a head of state that he needs to publicize it?
This statement from a president of a nation sounds even more pathetic than it might actually have been, had he been a different kind of leader. But this is Bush we’re talking about.
This man keeps proving what a small mind he has and how his version of reality is warped beyond recognition.
• hari 17 May 2008, 23:11 #It really is amazing how very out of touch he is with the rest of the country. I doubt that anyone cares about his golf playing habits, as long as he can be seen to be doing all he can to tidy up his mess and get the servicepeople home he can play golf, crazy golf or catch-me-kiss-me for all anyone cares.
• ray 18 May 2008, 03:48 #Commenting is closed for this article.