Bush’s golf story ‘doesn’t hold water.’

[cal04]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/14/bushs-golf-story-doesnt-hold-water/

In an interview with Politico’s Mike Allen, President Bush claimed he gave up golf after UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello was killed in Iraq. “I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad…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,” Bush said. De Mello was killed on Aug. 19, 2003. The Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin reports today: “Bush’s story doesn’t hold water“:


(T)he Associated Press reported on Oct. 13, 2003, that he’d spent a “cool, breezy Columbus Day” playing “a round of golf with three long-time buddies.

“Bush played at Andrews Air Force Base with Clay Johnson, Office of Management and Budget deputy director, Richard Hauser, Department of Housing and Urban Development general counsel and another friend, Mike Wood.”

On that outing, he was typically full of what passes for good humor at the White House. The AP reported: “‘Fine looking crew you got there. Fine looking crew,’ Bush joked to reporters. ‘That’s what we’d hope for presidential coverage. Only the best.’

“He hit a couple of practice balls before flaring his tee-off shot into the right rough.”

Bush's Idea of Sacrifice
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/05/14/BL2008051401929_pf.html

Thank you KO for bringing this out in your comment

[Redstone]

1. Ha! I just KNEW that someone would do the research and prove that bushyboy

was as full of shit with that lame story as he's been with all of his other lame stories, the lying sack of shit that he is, has always been, and will always be.

Thanks for the research and the post.

Redstone

[malaise]

2. Good liars have good memories

Bush is just bat shit crazy.

[jmowreader]

3. I'm not getting the point here.

Bush said he gave up golf after 19 October 2003, but the golf game you're referring to happened on or before 13 October 2003.

[tkmorris]

5. 19 August 2003

Check the date of death again.

[jmowreader]

16. You're right, sorry.

I was looking on line for evidence of recent golfing, and I can't find it yet...maybe he really DOESN'T golf anymore?

From the tenor of Bush's story, though, it seems he may have given up golf because he was tired of getting pulled off golf courses to do his job, not in any sort of solidarity with fallen soldiers.

[Ilsa]

10. De Mello died in August. Bush's* "recollection" is a lie devised to

invoke respect for his "sacrifice".

[AzDar]

4. They are incapable of telling the truth.

:puke:

[SpiralHawk]

6. Does Commander AWOL have to lie about everything?

Totally twisted republicon...

[spanone]

7. rewriting history so soon...it's legacy time, folks

[KSinTX]

8. He gave up the game, just couln't kick the cart habit

[jmowreader]

17. Google "george w bush in a golf cart" to see the front of this cart

It has a little sign on it, "Golf Cart One."

Y'know, it wouldn't surprise me to find out Bush has a Presidential-seal tattoo.

[samsingh]

9. another one of bush's many many lies

[Richard Steele]

11. If you want to surprise me, show me an important statement by the DictatorTot that was TRUE. K&R,nm

[Poll_Blind]

12. Bush is a lying fuck. I hope the history book makers don't waste any more....

...ink on him than that line, too.

PB

[Disturbed]

13. Busholini is a Silver Spoon Sociopath that lies as easily as

his VP. They are both War Criminals who need to placed on Trial for their many crimes.

[Sydnie]

14. "it just wasn't worth it anymore to do"

translates to "I couldn't get a decent round of 18 holes in before some government stooge would tell me I had to leave the course and end the game early due to some event that had already happened half way around the world. I mean, why play if you can't finish the game to win a bet and take someone's money anyway?" At least that is what I think he left out of that answer.

[WA98070]

15. Bush would rather lie even when the truth would be fine.

[deacon]

18. Gave up his golf game. Mccain flies around in his wifes jet. Elitists? n/t