Tears Of Joy

During Dubya's January 26 Press Conference, his reaction to the news of the Iraq helicopter crash was that "any time we lose life it is a sad moment."

Yet the transcript notes nine times that the President's words elicited laughter (and an additional three times that a correspondent's words did the same). Rather a jocular mood for what one might have thought would be rather a somber day, no?

Kinda reminds one of the President's fist-pumping prior to his speech announcing the invasion of Iraq.

For George Bush, it's all a big video game -- or so it would seem. Maybe, just maybe, rather than working on his comedy routine, the President ought to spend some time trying to figure out how to get the troops out of "harm's way".

Posted by Eddie Tews at January 27, 2005 04:40 PM