NO importance to the issues: flabbergasted with daughters on a leash

[Windy]

Yes, granted its not about issues, but boy does it speak volumes about his character.. His daughters must have been horrified.

[deadparrot]

1. Holy crap, I just about died when he said that...

and Kerry came back with, "Well, I don't put them on a *leash*," or something to that effect.

[juslikagrzly]

8. He said "well, I'm not that kind of dad (or father)

ROFLMAO. Gotcha rat bastard!

[Carolab]

11. He SAID

"Yeah, well I've learned not to do that"

[juslikagrzly]

12. SORRY

guess I heard it wrong.

[deadmessengers]

2. Andrew Sullivan pointed out

"JUST ONE THING: (Much, much more soon). No president who has presided over Abu Ghraib should ever say he wants to put anyone on a leash. That's all. Stay tuned."

[CarolynEC]

4. Yoiks! I hadn't thought of that!

Seriously, with that prisoner abuse photo etched into the public's consciousness, what a grotesque and horrible thing to say!

[jmags]

6. I heard that and cringed...when you put the Abu Ghraib

photos with that...let's just say, if this were Howard Dean or a Democrat in that situation, we'd be dealing with gaffe-gate.

[crispini]

7. oh, yeah. wow, didn't think of that.

but I DID notice exactly how crass the comment was.

[Kanary]

14. EXCELLENT!! Gotcha, Georgie!

[Eye and Monkey]

3. I didn't hear the whole debate - what was that about daughters on a leash?

???

[antigone382]

5. Yeah, the instant I heard that I thought

"Abu Ghraib...Lynndie Englund...prisoner on a leash..."

And if I thought it, I know Joe Undecided Voter thought it.

[Invalence1]

10. Wish I knew how

somebody should PhotoShop a GW head on Lynndie E. and a Genna head on the poor bastid in the Abu Ghraib "guy on the floor on a leash" photo...Nahh. Not fair to the guy on the floor. Momentary evil thought. delete thought. delete. delete. delete.......

[Smacker]

13. I am Joe Undecided Voter. . .

(actually I'm Harry Smacker) and I stand before you tonight to say that if I weren't standing here before you tonight, I would be standing somewhere else tonight, looking for somewhere to stand, tonight, in order to say to you, tonight, that from where I am standing. you look marvelous. But is Abu Ghraib impeachable? If only. . .

[Smacker]

9. Let's be sensible about this lease thing. . .

Daughters horrified?

I'm not. Let's step back and think about this - here's someone with allegedly less than half a brain, according to Smacker, yet for the last three years (can he count that far? Probably) has expected the majority of voters to see the merits of a war on terrorism as the same thing as invading Iraq. And all that time, he was on the neo-con leash! Who's horrified now?