Bush Gets Hit on Iraq on Sports Page

[Rose Siding]

NEW YORK George W. Bush may be the fittest American president in awhile, and he once co-owned a major league baseball team, but as public unease about his country's Iraq adventure grows, is he even losing the sports pages?

Ian O'Connor, in his USA Today column today, blisters the president for his bicycle riding escapades, and other alleged missteps, while Americans are dying in Iraq in greater numbers. He recalls a better Bush moment at the 2001 World Series, after 9/11, contrasting it with the past weeks.

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001020042

Here's the column...

Bush on vacation, out of touch during tough times
By Ian O'Connor USA TODAY

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The president couldn't have looked weaker, more distant, more out of touch with a nation tiring of a war its leader can't adequately define.
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But nobody wants to hear about his impressive pulse rate and body-fat percentages when American boys and girls are dying overseas, and when lawmakers start throwing around the dreaded V-word - Vietnam - in the daily dialogue on Iraq.

Sometimes sports and war are necessary companions under the same dateline - Franklin Roosevelt told Kenesaw Mountain Landis to keep baseball running during World War II - and sometimes they are not - Dwight Eisenhower interrupted one of his countless golf outings at Augusta National to announce that the United States would resume testing nuclear bombs

Bush didn't need to keep his Tour-de-Farce date with Armstrong even if Cindy Sheehan had left "Camp Casey," named for her fallen son, to be with her ailing mother. No president refusing to spend an hour with the parent of a dead soldier should spend a day basking in the glow of a cycling champ.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20050823/sp_usatoday/bushonvacationoutoftouchduringtoughtimes

[Cha]

1. I'm really ashamed of

lance armstrong for enabling bush..it was a bad call.

[glitch]

3. Me too - unless it was a stealth move to highlight callous indifference

of lil boots. Nah, too subtle.

[Cha]

6. It did "highlight" it though,

didn't it?..inadvertant or NOT!

[glitch]

10. Such a sweet backfire - now they are saying he's NOT on vacation, the WH

is being renovated. As if anyone would buy that. Do they renovate every year in August?
The fact that they are trotting him out for his canned speeches and saying he is not on vacation sure says a lot, doesn't it? :)

[Cha]

11. Yeah, it says the bushwa

is looking at monkey boy's ratings(that bush says he never pays attention to) and scuffling fast.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

2. Nice!

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Heheh. He's in trouble when it comes out on the sports page.

[gatorboy]

5. Bravo!

Great article. As far as Lance goes...He might be spending a few weeks on the couch at night over this....

[patdem]

7. I bet Casey Sheehan can beat bush* for body fat percentage!

as well as 1,870 other dead soldiers...their body-fat percentanges cannot be beat...what a freak! :grr:

[progressivebydesign]

8. Bush simply DOESN'T CARE!!

He is a selfish hedonist. He is addicted to exercise, now that he's off the alcohol. People usually trade one addiction for another. The addictive personality does not leave you... only the addiction.

[Larkspur]

9. When an honest history is written about these times, Bush's vacationing

and obsession with physical fitnesss will be put on the same level as Marie Antoinette's saying, "Let them eat cake!"