Bush Senior has given up golf for troops

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My colleague Mike Allen scored a sit-down interview with POTUS today -- to be carried live tonight on Yahoo -- and comes away with a striking news nugget.

You can be sure that this will launch a thousand liberal jabs and late-night jokes.

The question is who jumps on it first -- Clinton or Obama?

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.

“I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man's life,” he said. “I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, ‘It's just not worth it anymore to do.’“

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmart...for_troops.html

Edit: It was GW Bush...not GHWB (Senior)

...now watch this drive.

[Marc and Olga 0]

I just saw this on Yahoo, it's Junior, not senior. He doesn't want the families of the troops seeing the commander in chief playing golf ... about the most respectable thing I have heard him do in almost 8 years!

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