May 14, 2008 - 9:28am
Tornoe's Toons: Bush sacrificed golf for the troops
By Rob Tornoe
As the violence continues in Iraq, George W. Bush told Politico and Yahoo News in a joint online interview that he in fact made a great sacrifice in the name of our troops: 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."
According to the interview, Bush made the decision after the August 2003 bombing of the U.N headquarters in Baghdad. The attack killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was the top U.N. official in Iraq, as well as the organization's high commissioner for human rights. 21 other members of his staff also died in the bombing.
The whole thing kind-of reminded me of this famous Bush statement after announcing his serious stance on global terrorism.
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On Thursday, John McCain at last did away with all above-the-fray pretense and added his voice to the right-wing chorus now openly trying to portray Barack Obama as a fundamentally anti-American figure. The McCain campaign is going for maximum emotional effect, hoping that voters in the post-9/11 era will be sufficiently suspicious when they are told that a black candidate with a Muslim-sounding name has “ties” to a “terrorist.” And actually, the technique really isn’t new.
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Nothing in the presidential campaign so far has been as instructive as its swift descent into the politics of personal destruction. Although voters have probably heard little lately that they did not already know about Senator Barack Obama, they have learned something very important about Senator John McCain.
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As the McCain campaign ratchets up the intensity of its attacks on Barack Obama, some black elected officials are calling the tactics desperate, unseemly and racist. “They are trying to throw out these codes,” said Representative Gregory Meeks, a Democrat from New York. “He’s ‘not one of us?’” Mr. Meeks said, referring to a comment Sarah Palin made at a campaign rally on Oct. 6 in Florida. “That’s racial. That’s fear. They know they can’t win on the issues, so the last resort they have is race and fear.”
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It's sad, everyone in the military is working 18 to 20 hour days, 7 days a week - and Bush lies about not playing golf! JFK and LBJ were focused on one goal, accomplishing the mission and getting our troops out of harms way!
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