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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Someone just might have gotten into the eggnog a few days early, and his name is George W. Bush.
UPDATE, 10:15: Fire is said to be under control; no one injured.
For the first time in recent memory, the White House has sent out an Old Testament religious quote (Nehemiah 9:6) within the First Family’s official Christmas card:
No snickers, please. A must-read article appears in Hustler magazine’s February 2008 issue, which has just hit new stands. Called “Bush’s Secret Plans,” the piece explores whether the president could “suspend the Constitution and cancel the 2008 election.” The editors say the unthinkable is a very real possibility. And after all the political secrets Larry Flynt has helped uncover this year alone, who can argue with them? In the spirit of muckraking, 