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- MadKennyP, on 05/14/2008, -17/+343I know of at least 4,000 other Americans who have given up golf for the Iraq war.
- gak001, on 05/14/2008, -18/+244"Now watch this drive"
- induren, on 05/14/2008, -43/+272Good God what an idiot. He was actually being serious! I can not believe this fool. He should have just stayed quiet. This will be ridiculed for years.
- PhilliesBlunt, on 05/14/2008, -17/+225I wish he'd give up the presidency for the troops.
- AAK15, on 05/14/2008, -23/+203What a truly moving and noble sacrifice
- reuscel, on 05/14/2008, -14/+144Sometimes, I think his heart might be too big.
- Dumbledorito, on 05/14/2008, -23/+86For his next trick, he'll give up sport fishing AND watching football.
There is truly no end to the depth of this man's willingness to deny himself pleasure to help the troops. - Gazoo2001, on 05/14/2008, -19/+80Pie,
The criticism of Bush's action is that it is inconsequential. You know how sometimes when someone gets cancer and the radiation therapy causes them to lose their hair, and their friends and loved ones will shave their heads in support of the sick person? Well, Bush giving up golf to support the troops is sort of like the cancer patient's parent trimming their nose hair in support of their sick child. Oh, and when they were the one who caused the child's cancer, too.
I agree with you that him playing golf does send the wrong signal. What's funny about the story is that it seems he thinks he's making a strong statement by giving up golf. - inactive, on 05/14/2008, -14/+67Why is this listed under 2008 elections? Bush can't run for a third term.
It should be listed under political opinion. - Dumbledorito, on 05/14/2008, -10/+59Does that mean you love him no matter how badly he screws everything up?
- AshamedAmerican, on 05/14/2008, -15/+58*dry heave*
- AKBryant54, on 05/14/2008, -3/+38He should give up the gulf instead.
- Marinium, on 05/14/2008, -18/+53Not once did the article say it was his "supreme sacrifice" or that he felt it was "truly noble". These are the posters interpretations of the article. Most likely those interpretations are incorrect. He probably said that in response to someone asking him, "Hey Mr. President, why aren't we seeing you play golf these days?" Given THAT scenario, his response would have been completely appropriate. Of course, the context in which he gave the statement has been left out, conveniently, so the reader is left to draw the conclusion that he must be the biggest dick ever. HUGE SPIN. buried.
- EatingPie, on 05/14/2008, -12/+47Forgot to mention re "he should have stayed quiet"...
"Q Mr. President, you haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?"
The Huffington Post leaves the question out, but it's in the transcript.
-Pie - inactive, on 05/14/2008, -18/+50Our Commander in Chief has made the supreme sacrifice. Those whiny veterans with missing limbs and those pesky widows and orphans should just STFU. /sarcasm
http://www.awolbush.com /notsarcasm - dreicher, on 05/14/2008, -10/+42If he said, "I don't have time for golf because I'm working day and night focusing on ending hostilities in Iraq so that our brave men and women can return home safely. And when they do, I'd like to invite a few of them with me to play a round." That would be sincere, not "one of my flunkies said its bad press for me to be on the news golfing while soldiers are dying in Iraq and I thought that makes sense."
- culbeda, on 05/14/2008, -6/+37You're forgetting the tens of thousands of people who have lost their limbs or their faculties over there. I'm pretty sure most of them had to give up golf as well. (Excluding "contractors", civilian deaths (theirs and ours), etc.)
- rrouse, on 05/14/2008, -30/+65Golf must mean a lot to him, he must love it like a favorite pet or a loved one. It seems silly to most people because we have to work for a living and don't have time for golf but I guess for GW its a big deal because he never seriously worked at anything.
- EatingPie, on 05/14/2008, -65/+108This article is exactly why Democrat/Republican politics sucks.
What Bush did is a GOOD thing. The only reason it's being portrayed as something bad is that the Huffington Post and Diggers at large hate the President. Were it someone else, this sincere gesture would not have been made to look so idiotic.
The one thing that's good about the Huffington Post article is that it quotes Bush directly, and as already pointed out, the quote was a totally reasonable thing.
-Pie - treehugger87, on 05/14/2008, -6/+36Far be it from me to defend this President, who is a war criminal and who I could not possibly loathe any more than I already do. However, Pie is right. The full context of the question changes the entire conversation. And Bush is right, the golf course is not the right place for the President to be when receiving the news about the latest tragedy from the war that he started.
This is a tactic used all the time by the right wing propagandists. They take a statement out of context and turn it into a reason to lynch the (liberal) person who said it. We would all be better off if it stopped altogether. - wendelgee2, on 05/14/2008, -7/+37You're right Keyman. You're the only one who really cares. None of the rest of us are Americans with friends and family over there. Only you.
- EatingPie, on 05/14/2008, -26/+57He was asked.
"Q Mr. President, you haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?"
So he DID keep quiet about it until he was asked. And, as I said, now that it's out, it's been turned into some sort of terrible thing when his reasoning is totally legitimate.
-Pie - inactive, on 05/14/2008, -40/+73Talk about being blown out of proportion. Not to mention there's not a single reference to the question that Bush was asked which got him talking about his golf game which was: "Mr. President, you haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq? "
What the *****!!! He says no he's not been golfing, and goes on to say that he didn't feel that it looked good to have a president playing golf during a war. He didn't say "I felt I should make the great sacrifice of quitting golf to support our troops."
Buried as inaccurate *****.
Buried for Huff Post
Buried as mindless anti-Bush rhetoric
If you're going to hate the guy, you don't need to make up ***** reasons by taking quotes entirely out of context. He's got enough shortcomings to go around without completely fabricating more. - luchid, on 05/14/2008, -5/+30So people who want them to come back home and be safe hate them?
- logicalnoise, on 05/14/2008, -13/+38***** lied his way into a war....of course I'm going to hate him.
- Rahodeb, on 05/14/2008, -5/+32He was asked why he hasn't been seen golfing. This isn't some proclimation of great sacrifice, just answering a question.
Also, he didn't say "I gave up golfing for the troops." he said it didn't seem right golfing during a time of war. - sizzzzlerz, on 05/14/2008, -4/+28I'm sorry if I missed the part where he referred to them as psychopathic mass murders. Maybe you could point that out to me?
- Gazoo2001, on 05/14/2008, -8/+29What do you mean? Plenty of people have "Support Our Troops" bumper stickers on their cars. That's doing something, isn't it? Isn't it?
- rblancarte, on 05/14/2008, -4/+24"This will be ridiculed for years."
Just THIS? - Julik, on 05/14/2008, -8/+29That is exactly what the publication is trying to do... It is just something he said in passing... He did not say My sacrafice to the troops is that I will stop playing golf. He just said that he realizes that him out playing golf while soldiers are fighting for the country looks bad. Which is does... He was not asking for a nobel prize for it...
- DaDrake, on 05/14/2008, -33/+66"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."
When you read his comment, it sounds sincere. Not sure why everyone is jumping on this. I am sure the President has allready sacraficed much more... just look at how he aged in a few years. - bicyclethief, on 05/14/2008, -12/+28Except for the nagging fact that he unnecessarily sent the troops into Iraq in the first place...
- MadKennyP, on 05/14/2008, -4/+19Ah, so you don't actually mean ME, but some fictitious entity known as "people like me." I guess that makes your arguments easier.
- ScienceDoc, on 05/14/2008, -11/+26They showed a clip of this on CNN like it was a great heroic gesture. The corporate neocon press is dangerous.
- MadKennyP, on 05/14/2008, -22/+40Amusing. I assume you'd prefer more soldiers die in Iraq? I will never understand people like you who so blatantly hate our brave soldiers.
- Garlik, on 05/14/2008, -19/+33Giving up something like golf seems more like an insult than respect
- postalblowfish7, on 05/14/2008, -6/+19there are no sigs in digg. spare us your "-Pie."
-blowme - QsheiK, on 05/14/2008, -3/+16No, please don't let him give up watching football. That'll make him stop eating pretzels.
- FredFredrickson, on 05/14/2008, -3/+15My hate for Bush will keep me warmer at night than your blissful ignorance of reality.
- MrWhite7, on 05/14/2008, -2/+16wait... if you work you don't have time for golf?
- ryan631, on 05/14/2008, -10/+24Why surprised? He finished his children's flipbook after hearing the towers being hit.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -10/+24So?
I can see what he means. People are dying, and him playing golf just isn't appropriate in that kind of a situation.
A more extreme example would be if we were in a war, people are dying, and the president is going to six flags every week riding roller coasters.
That's all it is, and I think it is a respectable gesture.
If you can't see that, and you're trying to make this into something it isn't, then I feel sorry for you because you're letting your utter hatred for our leader blind you and make you retarded.
Think!
Don't just go along with anything that is anti Bush because you don't like him. - bemenaker, on 05/14/2008, -7/+22support our troops, BRING THEM HOME!!!!!! And pass the new GI BILL
- h3lx, on 05/14/2008, -9/+22Nothing the man says or does is going to pull him out of the world of suck he's in now. He could ***** 300,000,000 pink twinkies and 2 dozen frosted snowballs and his name would still be *****.
***** him, ***** his opinions, if this America is the America he's always dreamed about, then ***** it too. - LonesomeFighter, on 05/14/2008, -0/+13and the ones who are family or in a relationship to military personnel. I know my girlfriend misses me when I am gone doing stuff for the Army
- Dumbledorito, on 05/14/2008, -14/+25Funny you should mention that. I just got a copy of "Constitution II" authored by Dick Cheney. It arrived with my "stimulus" check...
- Gazoo2001, on 05/14/2008, -9/+21Ah, so you think that Bush's giving up golf is a moving and significant sacrifice? And that people who hate Bush for this, or for other reasons, are ridiculous and have no basis for it? Man, your head is in the sand.
- banderwocky, on 05/14/2008, -5/+16I gave up prostitutes, cocaine and drunk driving. I figured politicians would need them more during this trying war.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -5/+16"Anyone else in the White House would have stood by after 9/11 and did nothing."
And by do nothing, I presume you mean not invade iraq? -
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