President Bush attends wake for newsman Tim Russert

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Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush and his wife, Laura, went to a wake for Tim Russert, the television newsman who died last Friday.

Bush and his wife rode in a short, unmarked motorcade to St. Albans School in Northwest Washington, where the wake was being held Tuesday in the refectory.

White House press secretary Dana Perino said that Bush wanted to pay his respects and offer his deepest sympathies to the Russert family.

The funeral for the 58-year-old of NBC's "Meet the Press" is scheduled to take place Wednesday.

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Bastard can't be bothered to go to a funeral for any of his 4000+ soldiers, but he'll go for his toady.

[MadinMo]

1. His priorities are showing..........

[ClassWarrior]

5. He loves the liburl media, but hates our brave men and women in uniform!!

NGU.

[Supersedeas]

12. showing for political photo-ops

[hadrons]

2. Honestly, Tim did carried a lot of water for them ....

[Malikshah]

3. I take it he fit that little homage in after visiting Iowa and Indiana??

Nah...didn't think so.

[seafan]

7. He's going to *survey* the damage in Iowa on Thursday, according to media.

Disgrace.

[aquart]

17. From a plane?

[MaineDem]

4. It was a nice thing to do

I can't fault Bush for this one.

[aquart]

18. Of course not. One shouldn't miss a friend's funeral.

[seriousstan]

22. SHHHH! You are talking sanely while brave keyboard warriors are busy

dancing on a grave. Let them have this proud moment. They rarely get to show their true selves in public.

[Submariner]

Draft dodging chickenhawk chickenshits honor each other this way

Screw the Troops as far as that ilk is concerned.

[Cleita]

6. If the funeral is in a Catholic church, they might accidentally

sprinkle holy water on Bush and he might dissolve.

[lonestarnot]

8. I would pay to see dat! Sizzle!

[az chela]

9. Has he been to Iowa????

[superconnected]

10. Russert was a Dem. A passionate one. Bet he wouldn't be all to happy to have

the war criminal at his funeral.

[happygoluckytoyou]

11. all day long.... hit the ball and drag Tim... hit the ball and drag Tim...

poor bush prob'ly had to skip another game of golf for this one

[HelloDubya]

13. Attends? DESECRATES!

There is no grieving event event he can attend that doesn't
fill me with disgust - Tim Russert, MLK, Jr., or a fallen
soldier - wait, strike that, Bush hasn't been to any of their
funerals.  Cannon fodder doesn't deserve his time - no
photo-op.  Every time I see Bush at Arlington, I see a monkey
relieving itself on a white cross.  We'll miss Russert - Bush
blesses his departure.

[DogPoundPup]

14. Tim said all he could to make Lil Bush look good, on the other hand

those who died following Lil Bush's orders just make Lil Bush look worse and worse.

Lil Bush can't tolerate anyone making him look bad.

[Phred42]

15. No - really. Can I Puke NOW?

:puke:

I'm sick of this now.....

[northzax]

16. hey, I went too

of course, my office is fifty feet away, and this place is such a madhouse I might as well (no, I do not work at or for St. Alban's)

[KamaAina]

19. Score: Inside-the-Beltway journalists 1, our troops 0.

Boooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[Phred42]

23. Damn good point

Had'nt thought of it in those terms

If our soldiers KIA got this much media attention - they would have been brought home by now.

Damn - now I'm really pissed off about all this Russert crap

:grr:

[tomg]

20. Christ, I thought that shithead was still

out of the country. I don't know which is worse: dying or having Bush show up the funeral.

[LibDemAlways]

21. Tim was a mouthpiece for the Bush Crime Family. It was

the least chimp could do, and he didn't have to put himself out to do it since it was local.