Bush gives up golfing because of Iraq war.
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By on May 13th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Bush gives up golfing because of Iraq war.
In a new interview with the Politico today, President Bush says that he has given up golf because of the Iraq war, to show “solidarity” with U.S. troops and their families. He added that “playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal”:
Q Mr. President, you haven’t been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, 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.
Evidently, Bush learned his lesson since this incident after 9/11. Watch it:
UpdateCernig writes, "You go to war with the handicap you have…" Brandon Friedman adds, "In today's world, sacrifice is defined in terms of not being able to afford a Hummer; of having to see a few images of war on TV; and of giving up golf."
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Gee Whiz, he gives up golf, he is so full of BS.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:09 pmNo sacrifice is too great for our preznut.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:11 pmGW Botch = Pure Scum
May 13th, 2008 at 7:12 pmBush says that he has given up golf because of the Iraq war, to show “solidarity” with U.S. troops and their families
If GDumbya really wants to show “solidarity” with the troops and their families, perhaps he should:
1. give up breathing as more than 4,000 of our troops have
2. cut off one or more limbs to be like more than 6,000 of our troops
3. go blind as more than 2,000 of our troops have
4. send one or both of the drunken slut Bu$h twins off to Iraq as more than 200,000 families have done
5. suffer brain damage as more than 7,000 of our troops have . . . oh, I forgot . . . GDumbya is brain-damaged
May 13th, 2008 at 7:12 pmOh, please. Playing golf sends the wrong signal? I’ll tell you what sends a wrong signal. Lying to the American people about the actual threat, or lack thereof, Saddam was to the American people. Not having any plans for the occupation of Iraq, even declaring major combat operations were over and that the mission was accomplished. As for signals, what kind of signal did you send as Katrina bore down on New Orleans. Well, at least you weren’t playing golf (I don’t think). What a crock.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:14 pmI would rather he take up golf and end the war. It probably doesn’t matter, he sucks at both.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:14 pmJust wish he and five deferments dick had ‘given up the ghost’, that would have been much better.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:15 pmChrist, what a softball special. Politico sucks but it never resembled Ladies Home Journal more than with this crappy blow job of an interview.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:15 pm“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf.”
What a sick statement.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:16 pmHe’s only thinking of his legacy.
Bush giving up golfing is like Bush giving up drinking.
Bush’s comments = BS
May 13th, 2008 at 7:16 pmAH HAH!
Ergo (New Headline):
Bush Suggests Bob Hope Didn’t Support The Troops!
May 13th, 2008 at 7:22 pmThis golf thing is really about how in touch he is with reality. Like Marie A. who said “…let them eat cake,” the longer he is around the further away from sanity he appears. One wonders, will his future after Jan 20, 2009 be like that of Joe McCarthy who died miserably after his ignominious fall from the heights of power?
May 13th, 2008 at 7:25 pmHe still a Dead Beat and Dumb Ass on top of that.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:26 pmBush: And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.
- - Golf or not, this guy’s been in the bunker for 7 years.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:27 pmOr Richard Nixon, wandering the beach at San Clemente in his Bermuda shorts.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:27 pmI’ve got this visual of Dufous endlessly mowing the dead brown grass of his lawn in Crawford.
Or, if playing by MSM/GOP rules;
Bush Proves Bob Hope Was A Traitor!
May 13th, 2008 at 7:28 pmMy understanding (from a 2001 report) is that W. doesn’t really like golf. It’s a family pastime with Dad and his brothers, but he’s not particularly good at it, and resented the competition and pressure.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:32 pmBadmoodman Says:
Bush: And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.
- - Golf or not, this guy’s been in the bunker for 7 years.
He sliced his way into a sand-trap, and all he’s got left to play with is his woody.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:32 pmSo is GW Botch gonna go shoppin’ instead??
Or clear more BrUSH!!!
Or throw a BBQ?
Or buy duct tape + plastic and cover his dude ranch?
What a useless phcuk of a human being GW Botch is!!! His parents must hide in the dark each night these days!!! And stay at home during the day!!!!
What a phucked up family!!!! Criminals!!! All of them!!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 7:34 pmI say we should take away his bike until he brings the troops home.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:35 pmHe’s not playing golf because it send the ‘wrong signal’. Note that he didn’t suggest the reason was he had WORK TO DO!
May 13th, 2008 at 7:43 pmG.H.W. Botch (the first loser Botch president) and Babs Botch raised nothing but Botched criminal children!! Everyone of their kids are crooked to the core!!!
Neil robbed a Savings and Loan (Silverado S&L)
Jeb was a crooked Florida Governor in a crooked RePugniScum state. He threw (along with a phucked up unSupreme Court) the 2000 election to his moron brother Gorge (sic) Botch!!
Enough of these bastards!!!!!
NO MORE BOTCHS!!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 7:47 pmI think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.
But making jokes about not finding WMD, that’s just good fun.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:56 pmToo bad this worthless lying traitor didn’t give up his office (after having Cheney give up his office first)… Then we would have President Nancy Pelosi as the first woman President. And then the Royal Hillary could have given up her racist, corporatist, imperialist campaign to “become the first woman President.” She could have tried to “become the second woman President” instead…
May 13th, 2008 at 7:56 pmOval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Says
Wrong. Nancy PollLooser didn’t have the GUTS to get it done! She is LOOSER #1 in the DemoRat wing of the Democratic Party!!! Hairless Ried is #2 DemoRat and Hillarious Clinton is #3 DemoRat.
They all suck CORPORATE FACIST TEETS!!! EVERYDAY!!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 8:12 pm“People who know Bush well say the strain of war is palpable. He rarely jokes with staffers these days and occasionally startles them with sarcastic putdowns. He’s being hard on himself; he gave up sweets just before the war began.”
http://www.usatoday.com/ news/ washington/ 2003-04-01-bush-cover_x.htm
My God, when will the sacrifices end? First “sweets” and now golf. Oh, the humanity!
May 13th, 2008 at 8:12 pmFirst sweets, then golf. Let me know when he gives up drinking (like that will ever happen).
May 13th, 2008 at 8:19 pmNo great loss to the game. His swing is for shit anyway, as expected.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:22 pmHe should have given up the Presidency because of the Iraq war.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:27 pmGo ahead and golf, you pathetic excuse for a Human Being. At least you won’t be fu(king up anything else while you are whacking balls.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:28 pmDoes he engage in other forms of recreation? Does he still play cowboy and clear brush ? I can think of all sorts of things worse than playing golf.
But of course I know that Shrub suffers more than anyone else in the war.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:29 pmwhat an insanely elitist thing to say.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:29 pmHe played golf? I thought he had lost his balls years ago…
May 13th, 2008 at 8:30 pmMethinks the real reason he gave up the game was he’s too inviting a target in the open fields.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:41 pmDid you know that many in the Bush Administration have been charged with war crimes? Read it now!
May 13th, 2008 at 8:47 pmSuch an amazing sacrifice from this total idiot.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:52 pmPlanted question and pat answer
May 13th, 2008 at 9:01 pmWell, he is correct that playing golf during a time of war does not bode well for his popularity.
Ya think Limbaugh will follow suit?
May 13th, 2008 at 9:08 pmIt’s a pity that he didn’t give up learning to play guitar as well — or am I the only one who still remembers that photograph of George W. Bush at around the time that Hurricane Katrina made landfall? Playing the guitar while a national disaster forces thousands of people from their homes also “sends the wrong signal”…but he didn’t let that stop him, did he? What a self-satisfied, pseudo-pious hypocrite…
Could it be that there’s some truth to the old joke about people who play golf…the higher the paycheck, the smaller the balls?
May 13th, 2008 at 9:26 pmI can’t manage any fresh outrage. What a vile caricature of a human being.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:51 pm.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:05 pm.
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Why this war criminal is not on trial for the obvious crimes he has committed is a stain on America for generations to come.
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Bush gives up golfing but insists on vetoing VA benefits for the over worked, abused, exploited troops he sent to Iraq so he could be a war president??
Bush’s reasoning and con is absolutely unbearable. Can’t stand this much longer.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:26 pmSo “clearing brush” instead of meeting with Cindy Sheehan didn’t
May 13th, 2008 at 10:35 pmconstitute an insult to a Mom whose son was killed?
The hypocrisy just continues.
Sooo… what kinda message did he send in 2004 when he threw hisself a 60 MILLION $$$$ inaugural? Solidarity with the defense contractors who’re raking it in off of bush’s bald fabrications.
George W. D-o-u-c-h-e
May 13th, 2008 at 10:45 pmMy thoughts on the subject. After what he did to Cindy Sheehan in Craford back in ‘05, leaving her standing in a drainage ditch while he was sped to another GOP fundraiser, that cocksucker hasn;t the right to be so pious about it.
Sacrificing golf for the troops. That must’ve been murder for a Republican.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:47 pmMore definitions of sacrifice:
Brian WILLIAMS: The folks who say you should have asked for some sort of sacrifice from all of us after 9/11, do they have a case looking back on it?
BUSH: Americans are sacrificing. I mean, we are. You know, we pay a lot of taxes. America sacrificed when they, you know, when the economy went into the tank. Americans sacrificed when, you know, air travel was disrupted. American taxpayers have paid a lot to help this nation recover. I think Americans have sacrificed.
Link.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:50 pmYou also have…
Sweets? For the Troops? Those excerpts are from 2003. Bush didn’t even keep that promise to the troops. If you google for images of “bush mccain cake katrina” you will find one of Bush licking his thumb over some some cake. Bush either had some cake or he sucks his thumb. Probably both.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:31 pmActually driving a Super gas sucking Super Duty Pickup Truck during an occupation of a sovereign nation that did not attack us for control of their oil, and sending our kids to die for you and your sack of shit oil cronies, has a way of canceling out any good will you intend by not playing golf. Shove a 9 iron up your ass Mr. President, you stupid SOB.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:13 am.
Bush gave up golf to become a WAR CRIMINAL…?
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May 14th, 2008 at 12:30 am.
George W. Bush thought he could beat the handicap of becoming America’s Greatest War Criminal of the 21st Century.
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May 14th, 2008 at 12:46 amIf he golfs as well as he fishes, I can see why he might be looking for an excuse to distance himself from yet another activity which he sucks ass at. This is a give the man a fish crowd. Don’t bother with that crap about teaching the man to fish. Trust me on this one. These people can not fish!
May 14th, 2008 at 12:47 amDid he just dis Bob Hope?
How UNAMERICAN!
After all Bob Hope did to support the troops.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:48 amTo think I believed until now Bush was guilt-free, unwilling to make any sacrifice at all.
After this painful self-punishment, he can send more people to the Iraqi meat grinder with a clean conscience.
Stay the course! (Specially true if you are ’staying the course’ in front of your TV set, at home)
/sarcasm off
May 14th, 2008 at 1:26 amThe whole interview is disgusting. He blamed the the Iraq war on the bad intelligence he DEMANDED. He blamed the Democrats for acting allowing him to go to war on the intelligence which he demanded. He has no accountability for anything he does. And then.. when it was all over, and the reporter let him slide on all of this uncut bullshit, the reporter then went on to ask him about the really tough issues…baseball!?!?!? This is truly the most disgusting period in our history. Will it ever end?
May 14th, 2008 at 8:10 amLet’s see…..he doesn’t want to play golf ’cause that might upset the mother of a dead soldier,….but it was OK to make a joke about “those missing WMD’s”…..”not under here” as he crawled under his desk in a clip shown at the annual White House/Press dinner and the press at the dinner thought that was hilarious.
Those were same WMD’s that HE lied about and the corporate media acted to “catapult the propaganda (lies)”.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:02 amThose lies got soldiers killed or maimed, but Bush and the corporate media lackies just yukkked it up over those silly missing WMD’s ….HIlarious good fun, a real laugh fest.
The American people need to open their eyes…NOW!
PATHETIC. SICKENING.
So his personal contribution to the war effort is to stop playing golf, as that might upset military moms?
I am simply at a loss. I don’t know how much more of this I can take, and I don’t know what the hell to do about it.
Too bad Americans are too fat and lazy for another revolution.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:08 amebbAndflow Says:
So “clearing brush” instead of meeting with Cindy Sheehan didn’t
constitute an insult to a Mom whose son was killed?
The hypocrisy just continues.
The war criminal doesn’t meet with or talk to citizens who disagree with his policies, even if they were the ones that had to sacrifice for those policies, like losing a son…he think’s he only represents the Koolade drinkers and his base….”the haves and the have mores”….
May 14th, 2008 at 9:09 amall the rest of Americans are just enemies or suckers to be played to our sociopath-in-chief.
citizen_pain Says:
Too bad Americans are too fat and lazy for another revolution.
Yesterday I saw some clips of some of those voters waddling into the polling places in West Virginia, my apologies to those who are heavy because of their metabolism, etc, but it really seems that a good sized portion of the populatiion are MENTALLY lazy along with being physically lazy.
Those people are dragging this country backward while the rest of the world moves forward. A country with a population of ignorant dolts is not going to be able to compete with Europe, Asia and the rest.
The American people should have been screaming bloody murder to their Congressmen to get that rat out of the White House.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:28 amThey have been enablers just like GW’s parents, Harvard, Yale, Congress and all the cronies who bailed the spoiled frat boy out of his failed businesses.
Bush gives up golfing because of his war of aggression.
BOO FRICKING HOOO!
What about the people who gave up their lives, limbs, livelihoods, and minds because Bush is a wannabe fuhrer?
May 14th, 2008 at 9:29 amDo you think someone finally showed him a clip of the the “Now watch this drive” scene from Farenheit 911?
May 14th, 2008 at 9:32 amDid Chimpy actually give up golf after August, 2003?
You may wish to check out the following link:
http://nymag.com/ daily/ intel/ 2007/ 07/ president_bush_and_his_toy_car.html
May 14th, 2008 at 9:32 amAh, such sacrifices he makes for the common good. Wasn’t it Laurabot that said nobody suffered more than the President about the goings on in Iraq? I mean, how many times can you dance with the natives and then tapdance on the Portico of the White House before people begin to believe you are such a sensitive soul?
May 14th, 2008 at 9:38 amThe man’s a fuukin’ SAINT! Am I wrong? Is this NOT that “quiet Nobility” which Tweety extolled? Is not this man a veritable fuukin’ saint? He is! He IS! The man’s a saint, I tell you, a fuuking SAINT.
An’ I’ll throttle the first manof yuz what sayus differ’nt.
We ALL know how much the Boy loves the golf: “Watch me hit this drive!”
So to give up that source of comfort and consolation so as not to make a bad impression on the bereaved families? Why, it’s down-right fuukin’ SAINTLY!
I mean, ain’t he giving up the best part of the season? When I read about it, I was nearly moved to fuukin’ TEARS! I damn near fuukin’ WEPT!
There’s that fuukin’ NOBILTIY! God, what a man….
May 14th, 2008 at 9:43 am“I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is — my point is, there’s a strong will for democracy.” — George W. Bush, during interview with Wolf Blitzer, September, 2006
To see it for yourself, please go so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLYWh2f6xE0&eurl
May 14th, 2008 at 9:44 amBut I’m sure the timing is pure coincidence:
http://tinyurl.com/4pfz37
(snip)
Last summer, Bush suffered a minor muscle tear in his right calf and that injury, along with aching knees, forced him to abandon his running routine. The calf strain healed by August when he had his annual physical, but the president said in September that he suspected he had a meniscus tear.
The meniscus is the cartilage that lines the inside surfaces of the knee. It’s a rubbery tissue that acts like a shock absorber between the upper and lower leg bones. There are two menisci, which help stabilize the knee joint. They’re often injured or torn when we twist or pivot while playing sports, for example. And in older people, worn menisci are easier to tear.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:37 amI hate him. I hate him and every other corrupt barstid in his vile administration with the fire of a thousand white-hot suns.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:45 pm