Newsday: Bush's Pig Tales Show Disengagement

[Mark E. Smith]

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.

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.

"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?"

"I thought you were going to ask me about the pig," bush replied blithely. Then he brought up the pig again -- for the fifth time -- before giving a long answer that ended with his saying Israel needed to protect itself.

"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."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wobush0716,0,7903869,print.story

Certainly not out of character for Disaster George. He's played his fiddle through so many fires now that the strings are all broken and the neck is bent.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Bushies Brain not engaged?? Not in Gear, Neutral? Oh My...But he is the

Decider...the War President....how can this be if he has no brains...

[MADem]

2. You know, I thought I was a bit sensitive, because I found the PIG

nonsense, juxtaposed between this Lebanon (and the attending Muslim/Jewish players) deliberate, crude, childishly absurd...and yeah, you could say "disengaged" but to me the bastard came off as clueless.

But I guess I wasn't excessively sensitive; I am glad someone noted it besides me, though!

[Cha]

8. bush changed the subject

from the "All Hell breaking loose in the Middle East to a pig..how fucking disingenous can you be?

[Beetwasher]

3. This Has Gone WAAAAY Beyond Mere Extreme Incompetence and Abject Failure

Into some bizzarre, surreal Kafkaesque nightmare realm, pumped up on acid and steroids.

[stellanoir]

4. Every time I think he couldn't say anything any more

inappropriate or idiotic he astounds me by saying something more so.

[Mark E. Smith]

5. Georgie is one banana step ..

.. from being crowned the new Hans Arp.

Or maybe the anti-Arp.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R for HeLLO oh vast NON-VOTING masses! We've got Nero here!1

[Cha]

7. bush doesn't know

a fucking thing about the Middle East except they told him not to call a cease fire from Israel.

bush knows from pigs.