{"id":140,"date":"2008-06-27T23:42:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T05:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2008-06-27T23:42:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T05:42:26","slug":"bush-not-a-golfer-in-wartime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/bush-not-a-golfer-in-wartime\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Not a Golfer in Wartime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stealing this from <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicvanajr.com\/blog\/\">SonicvanaJr&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush said yesterday that he gave up golfing in 2003 &#8220;in solidarity&#8221; with the families of soldiers who were dying in Iraq, concluding that it was &#8220;just not worth it anymore&#8221; to play the sport in a time of war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,&#8221; Bush said in a White House interview with the Politico. &#8220;I feel I owe it to the families to be as &#8212; to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other than that lol-factor, I think the best quote from that article is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But [Presidential Historian Robert] Dallek, who is critical of the current president&#8217;s legacy, said Bush&#8217;s remarks about Iraq &#8220;speak to his shallowness.&#8221; Dallek added: &#8220;That&#8217;s his idea of sacrifice, to give up golf?&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup.  Giving up golf is such a huge sacrifice.  No wonder this country is in such good hands.  :|<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/13\/AR2008051302783.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stealing this from SonicvanaJr&#8217;s blog. President Bush said yesterday that he gave up golfing in 2003 &#8220;in solidarity&#8221; with the families of soldiers who were dying in Iraq, concluding that it was &#8220;just not worth it anymore&#8221; to play the sport in a time of war. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want some mom whose son may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/bush-not-a-golfer-in-wartime\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush Not a Golfer in Wartime<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowing-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}