Re: Chimpoleon Gives Up Golf To Acknowledge Troops' Sacrifices

CHICANERY wrote:
> "Rich Travsky" <traRvEsky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> > Ref at
> >
> > http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10314.html
> > ...
> > For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried
to
> > acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families: He has given
up
> > golf.
> >
> > "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. And I think playing golf during
a
> > war
> > just sends the wrong signal."
> >
> > Bush said he made that decision after the August 2003 bombing of the
> > United
> > Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello,
the
> > top
> > U.N. official in Iraq and the organization's high commissioner for
human
> > rights.
> > ...
> >
> > Wow. Sob. Sniff. My President gave up golf. I've never been so proud
to be
> > an
> > American!
> >
> > Yawn.
> >
> Now if he'd quit drinking...........

He drinks to um uh sympathize with the troops. Yeah, that's it...

RT