Comments on: Bush at Walter Reed: Between Chicken and Egg, I’ll Go with Chicken http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:41:43 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: BooRadley http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769797 BooRadley Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:30:55 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769797 <p>Thanks Gregg.</p> Thanks Gregg.

]]> By: acquarius74 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769775 acquarius74 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:03:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769775 <p>I searched Google and found some sites say Shrub is a lefty, but the more reliable sites say he is right handed. Poppy, GHW Bush is left-handed.</p> I searched Google and found some sites say Shrub is a lefty, but the more reliable sites say he is right handed. Poppy, GHW Bush is left-handed.

]]> By: Molly http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769748 Molly Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:34:55 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769748 <p>Possibly anticipating this, John Solomon at Washington Times published an “exclusive” story about Bush and Cheney <a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/22/bush-cheney-comforted-troops-privately/" rel="nofollow">“comforting”</a> the troops and their families privately.</p> <p>I’ll say good for him for meeting with them, and in the spirit of the holidays I’ll try not to think about whether or not they were hand-picked to not confront him.</p> Possibly anticipating this, John Solomon at Washington Times published an “exclusive” story about Bush and Cheney “comforting” the troops and their families privately.

I’ll say good for him for meeting with them, and in the spirit of the holidays I’ll try not to think about whether or not they were hand-picked to not confront him.

]]> By: acquarius74 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769731 acquarius74 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:08:55 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769731 <p>Check me on this, cinnamonape: I think Shrub is left-handed.</p> Check me on this, cinnamonape: I think Shrub is left-handed.

]]> By: Waccamaw http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769703 Waccamaw Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:12:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769703 <blockquote><p>Will he claim an injury due to ducking from shoes? </p></blockquote> <p>Beat me to it, you did. *g*</p>

Will he claim an injury due to ducking from shoes?

Beat me to it, you did. *g*

]]> By: HadEnough http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769692 HadEnough Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:53:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769692 <p>These clowns typically go to Bethesda so they don’t have to deal with the broken riffraff. He probably got lost and played the “oh well, while I’m here” card.</p> These clowns typically go to Bethesda so they don’t have to deal with the broken riffraff. He probably got lost and played the “oh well, while I’m here” card.

]]> By: tbsa http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769691 tbsa Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:44:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769691 <p>I can’t imagine having to look those men and women in the eye knowing you were responsible for what happened to them because you wanted to line the pockets of your friends. There is a special place in hell reserved for this kind of evil.</p> I can’t imagine having to look those men and women in the eye knowing you were responsible for what happened to them because you wanted to line the pockets of your friends. There is a special place in hell reserved for this kind of evil.

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769690 cinnamonape Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:44:00 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769690 <p>Well, I was worried that it was his right shoulder that had been acting up…that might imply he’s been busy signing thousands of <strike>pardons</strike> autographs.</p> Well, I was worried that it was his right shoulder that had been acting up…that might imply he’s been busy signing thousands of pardons autographs.

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769689 earlofhuntingdon Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:43:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769689 <p>Glad you highlighted this. The MSM accepted the White House meme without a murmur, “Bush Visits Wounded”. His purpose in visiting the hospital at all was to get free medical care, not to improve the conditions in which he keeps our wounded. </p> <p>Same old, same old. Bush has been taking photo-ops with those whose funding he’s about to cut since someone told him to sit in a corner of the Oval Office.</p> Glad you highlighted this. The MSM accepted the White House meme without a murmur, “Bush Visits Wounded”. His purpose in visiting the hospital at all was to get free medical care, not to improve the conditions in which he keeps our wounded.

Same old, same old. Bush has been taking photo-ops with those whose funding he’s about to cut since someone told him to sit in a corner of the Oval Office.

]]> By: Teddy Partridge http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769688 Teddy Partridge Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:42:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/bush-at-walter-reed-between-chicken-and-egg-ill-go-with-chicken/#comment-1769688 <p>Deb Howell still holds up that Priest/Hull series as an example of the best WaPo journalism, without ever acknowledging the irony: that there wouldn’t be any Irak war-wounded if they’d put Walter Pincus on page A-1 during the runup to Clusterfuck’s Great Mess-O-Potamian Misadventure.</p> Deb Howell still holds up that Priest/Hull series as an example of the best WaPo journalism, without ever acknowledging the irony: that there wouldn’t be any Irak war-wounded if they’d put Walter Pincus on page A-1 during the runup to Clusterfuck’s Great Mess-O-Potamian Misadventure.

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