Monday, August 15, 2005

One Life to Live

The Village Idiot has sunk to new depths. On Sunday, he was returning from a 2 hour bike ride when a reporter asked him how he can take 2 hours to ride a bike but can't spend a few minutes with the woman camped out in front of his drive way. A woman whose son was killed while serving in Iraq. That would be one of thousands of sons and daughters who have died in Iraq or as a result of injuries sustained there. Bush's response on how he sets his priorities: "I've got my life to live."

WHAAAAA!?!?!?!?! Really? That's the best you can come up with? No wonder his handlers prevent him from ever having to deal with people that have contrarian points of view. I think if you were to list the Top 100 TERRIBLE answers to the question, "Why can you not spend 10 minutes with a woman whose son died in a war you manufactured," the answer he gave, "I have my life to live," would certainly fall in the top 10. It might fall between, "Becasue she hasn't said the magic word," and "Because she's married and I don't think I'd have much of a shot at getting in her pants."

The level of insensitivity and incompitance one would have to show to say that speaks volumes as to his level of idiocy.

The real reason he will most likely not meet with her is becasue the Iraqi invasion is unjustifiable and probably illeagal. He's not capable of providing actual answers to the questions she would pose. He could give talking points but those do not actually answer direct questions. He really has to handle such questions and when he does, nevere very well. That's obviously demostrated by his answer on Sunday.

If given the option to trade his life for the life of one soldier, I'm not sure a majority of people would be in favor of that, but I'd have to think there'd be at least 2: mine and Mrs. Sheehan.

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