Dumb and Dumber (and Dumbest)

Who needs Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels when you've got George W. Bush? Consider...

Dumb: In a softball interview with Politico magazine, George W. Bush reveals how he shows his support for the hundreds of thousands of US troops who are under fire in Iraq:

I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal... I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.

Yeah, that's gotta be a real comfort to the family and friends of the 4,000+ U.S. soldiers (and 90,000+ civilians) who've been killed in Iraq -- "You think you've got it tough? The President doesn't play golf any more!"

But wait, it gets better worse...

Dumber: As it turns out, Bush's "sacrifice" amounted to diddly-squat, as intrepid amateur historians quickly noted that Bush was back on the golf course less than a month later:

While [Bush] dates his decision to abjure golf to Aug. 19, 2003 -- the day a truck bomb in Baghdad killed U.N. special representative Sergio Vieira de Mello and more than a dozen others -- the 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."

Is it any wonder why Iraq veterans are pissed? I suppose it'd be too much to ask someone wave a putter around the next time George mouths empty platitudes about supporting the troops...

Extra-Special Historical Trivia Dumbest Bonus Entry: Proving that he is as tasteless as he is deceptive, yesterday George W. Bush decided to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Israel by comparing opponents of his let's-just-nuke-Iran-already policy to appeasers of Nazi Germany:

Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.

We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided." We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

Not only is it tacky and tasteless, it also convenitly glosses over the fact that his own family's fortune was built because his grandfather helped finance the Nazis. Whoops...