by Wolfmoon Lady » Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:31 pm
Here's a recent example of W offering inappropriate responses to serious questions. (Poor impulse control?)<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> <br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wobush0716,0,7903869,print.story" target="top">Bush's pig tales show disengagement</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br>BY TIMOTHY M. PHELPS<br>Newsday Washington Bureau Chief<br><br>July 15, 2006, 9:03 PM EDT<br><br>WASHINGTON -- As Israeli warplanes were preparing an attack on Lebanon Thursday afternoon, and a Lebanese militia was aiming a rocket at the ancient Israeli city of Safed, President George W. Bush was bantering with reporters in Germany about a pig.<br><br>Bush kept bringing up the roast wild boar he was about to dine on at a banquet that night, even when asked about the swelling crisis in the Middle East, where pig meat is forbidden to religious Jews and Muslims.<br><br>"Does it concern you that the Beirut airport has been bombed?" a reporter asked. "And do you see a risk of triggering a wider war?"<br><br>"I thought you were going to ask me about the pig," Bush replied blithely. Then he brought the pig up again -- for the fifth time -- before giving a long answer that ended with his saying Israel needed to protect itself.<br><br>"He was asked a serious question," said Ian Lustick, a Middle East expert now at the University of Pennsylvania, and his answer "epitomized his disengagement in the Middle East."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->View the Daily Show video <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ov05Jm_1sZU&mode=related&search=george%20bush%20pig%20merkel" target="top">here</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=wolfmoonlady>Wolfmoon Lady</A> at: 7/16/06 12:40 pm<br></i>