From Yahoo! News:

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.’”

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There are ways to be much less obvious.

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…on national television, no less. But will any TV producers/hosts take him up on his offer?

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In a recent written statement of support, Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor said that Hillary Clinton was “not a flibbertijibbet” (or flibbertigibbet, if spelling is important to you), which is a word that was more commonly used in the late Middle Ages.

Some will say that Taylor and John McCain grew up in that era, but they’re not that old.

For those still wondering, modern dictionaries define the word as “a frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person.”

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UPDATE, 2:00 a.m., from Larry Sinclair: “Please feel free to post this if you so wish. I personally find nothing offensive or inappropriate with your recent post. If nothing else I find you have asked a question out loud that I am sure many have asked silently for some time. The tragic demise of Ms. Palfrey only put your question more up front. I will be posting this in the comments on my blog to inform how I feel about your post. Continue being you and having guts that so many other sites lack in their questioning.”

Original post, 6:44 p.m, May 2: In light of Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s sad, sad passing, many people have been writing in to Big Head DC, privately asking whether we think Larry Sinclair, the man who claims to have used drugs with Sen. Barack Obama in 1999, would ever consider suicide. Considering the political, cultural and other dark forces that Sinclair continues to face everyday, who can really say for sure? After all, when we interviewed Palfrey just a few short months ago (and regularly talked to her all the way up until early April), she always seemed strong, defiant, resilient and said in no uncertain terms that she would never consider killing herself. Yesterday, according to police, she went back on that word, put a noose around her neck, and jumped. She told us many times over how much she loves her mom; that she allowed her mom to find her dangling and lifeless makes the situation all the more shocking.

A recent post on Sinclair’s blog may tell us more about the inner demons he struggles with better than we could ever get via a direct answer from his mouth at any particular point in time:

Today, I actually finally for the first time since all this started broke down crying and just wanted to bungee jump off the Blatknic Bridge without the bungee cord. You have to be crazy to stand up to power and money in this Country. There is no such thing as “liberty and justice for all” in the United States of America any more.

I am even starting to wonder why I ever thought it was important for the truth to be told about anyone seeking to be President of the United States. Whats the point? If Michelle Obama can sleep with a man that she knows is laying in bed and car seats with other men, and raise her children with that man, then what does it matter? What does it matter if Obama gets in the White-house and fires up a crack pipe?

I am signing off for the night. Maybe I will log back on tomorrow and maybe I will not.

Should Sinclair keep up his battle for what he believes is right? Or should he try to move on and make it to another tomorrow — a tomorrow that Palfrey will never see? Only time will tell.

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A video attempting to bring down the Hillary Clinton campaign was exposed as a fabrication today. The video, which spread rapidly across the Internet due to promotion from political blogs and over 4,000 users voting for it on Digg.com, claimed that long-time Clinton family friend and adviser Mickey Kantor used derogatory language to describe residents of Indiana in 1992.

The Clinton campaign told CNN the clip was “doctored” and an upset Kantor asked The Huffington Post to stop running the story because it helps to extend the libel. The video has since been removed and hidden on YouTube.

We’ll let you guess which candidate’s supporters were behind this blatant attempt to influence voters in hotly-contested Indiana.

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By now you’ve heard about Barbara Walters‘ affair with Sen. Edward Brooke. Brooke, married and in his early 50s during the couple’s dalliances, hooked up with Walters multiple times in the 1970s. Walters is 10 years younger, and photos taken from the time period make the news a little less bizarre.

Oprah, we hear, is licking her chops over the exclusive tell-all Walters interview that will air Tuesday. Will it help revive the talk show’s struggling ratings or will it be another issue that upsets Oprah fans, who are increasingly seeing the diva in black and white?

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Long-time Big Head DC friend Deborah Jeane Palfrey passed away this morning at her mother’s home in Florida. Police reports are classifying the death of the “D.C. Madam” as a suicide. Palfrey had previously been found guilty of racketeering, money laundering and two counts of using the mail for illegal purposes. It is believed that Sen. David Vitter and other politicos used the services of Palfrey’s escort business, which she always defended as a “fantasy” escort business.

Earlier: Big Head DC’s Exclusive Interview with Palfrey

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