More Evidence That During Crises, Bush's Attention Wanders

[JABBS]

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On Friday, I questioned whether, in the midst of a growing crisis between Israel and the terrorist group Hezbollah, and the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it was appropriate for President Bush to take time out to have a photo-op with the singers from the just-completed season of Fox's American Idol.

Turns out, Bush found time not long after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks for similar moments of questionable appropriateness.

On page 120 of Feeding The Monster, a new non-fiction book about the Boston Red Sox baseball team by Seth Mnookin, there's this tidbit:

MNOOKIN (discussing the events of Dec. 19, 2001): (Prospective Red Sox owner Tom) Werner arrived, fresh from a dinner he'd attended with Katie Couric at the White House. President Bush, who'd gotten to know Werner when Werner owned the Padres and Bush owned the Rangers and had personally lobbied Bud Selig on behalf of (prospective Red Sox owner Joseph) O'Donnell ...

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No one is suggesting the president should be Superman. But less than 100 days after one of the worst points in American history, it bothers me to think the president spent meaningful time on the potential ownership of the Red Sox. And I'm a Red Sox fan.

[kentuck]

1. This is part of the Bush psychology...

His Daddy would do the same thing. He would go out on his cigarette boat during the most critical times. They pretend nothing is bothering them. They are on top of it. etc..

[Felinity]

2. Pretense/bravado or ???

Perhaps they just don't care. A sociopath is comfortable in almost any situation. Denial is superfluous, it's just breakfast, then torture, maim, kill, destroy some property, then "How about lobster for lunch?"

[JABBS]

6. Denial is superfluous

that's an understatement.

[JABBS]

5. he smoked a cigar with "bandar bush"

while the WTC and the pentagon burned. Michael Moore found that odd for the Saudi angle, but from the WTF angle, it fits with the American Idol and Red Sox tidbits.

[El Fuego]

3. He brought the American Idol finalists to the White House last week

Even as war raged in the ME and the media talked about the start of WW III.

He has his priorities. :eyes:

[JABBS]

4. right

mentioned above