To George W. Bush, everything is a joke. He jokes about the Iraq fiasco. He jokes about Hurricane Katrina. And now he's joking about Cheney's shooting accident.
He is laughing and having fun while people are being injured and killed.
This is the leader of the free world.
From an article at PERRspectives:
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A sense of humor has always been an invaluable tool for presidents. Self-deprecating humor helped endear John F. Kennedy to the press and allowed Ronald Reagan to disarm his critics. But for George W. Bush, humor provides only a occasional glimpse of the truth and a rare window into the dark soul of a man who apparently views his fellow citizens with disdain. President Bush's performance Saturday at the Gridiron Club was no exception.
Bush used the roast last night to poke fun at his Vice President. Bush delighted in Cheney's friendly fire quail hunting accident, declaring of Cheney's middle initial (Richard B. Cheney) that "B. stands for bulls eye." The light-hearted Bush also jokingly scolded the press "Good Lord, you'd thought he shot somebody or something."
The President's ribbing of Cheney, the supposed man behind the throne, extended to Bush's own disastrous mishandling of the Dubai ports deal and his calamitous response to Hurricane Katrina. Bush claimed that it is in fact Lynne Cheney who is the woman behind the man behind the man. Bush went on to the punchline:
"Lynne, I think you're doing a heck of a job. Although I have to say you dropped the ball big time on that Dubai deal."
Bush's attempts at comedy might actually be funny if there weren't so, well, tragic.
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