Rumsfeld not on list of Medal of Freedom Recipients for next week

[BOSSHOG]

Awards ceremony to be held in White House next friday. List of recipients:

Norman Francis - President of Xavier University in New Orleans
B. B. King - Mr Awesome Musician from the Lower Ninth Ward, NOLA
Norman Mineta - Former Transportation Secretary
David McCullough - Pulitzer Prize winning Historian
William Safire - NYT columnist
Natan Sharansky - Human Rights Activist
Ruth Johnson Colvin - Literacy Crusader
Paul Johnson - Historian
Joshua Lederberg - Scientist
John Buck ONeill - First Black Coach in Major League Baseball

bush will no doubt be extremely small and inadquate on many levels in that company.

[LisaM]

1. Why on earth would he have been?

Am I missing something, LOL?

[BOSSHOG]

2. bush's past penchant

for rewarding failure (tenant comes to mind.)

[LisaM]

3. Bush picks them?

I can't believe he's even heard of half those people!!!!

[BOSSHOG]

6. He doesn't pick the nominees

but he approves those nominated to receive a medal.

[More Than A Feeling]

4. Norm Mineta? For masochism, no doubt. n/t

[wryter2000]

5. That must be why he was crying

And after he did such a heckuva job.

[Radical Activist]

7. Bill Safire?

ugh