The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

He isn't saying he is giving up golf starting now. But that he gave it up five years ago, not too long after the war began.

And he also didn't say that giving up golf was the entirety of what he felt he'd done to show support. The question wasn't "how do you support the troops" but rather "why don't you play golf any more."

Like I said, there really wasn't any way to say it that it doesn't come out sounding off and therefore best wouldn't have been said (or he just should have said "because the press and bloggers would jump all over it if I did). But jumping on this isn't really any more justified -- in my opinion of course -- than perceived misstatements by Obama that have recently been jumped on, twisted into something worse than they really were, and taken from there.

Of more interest, from a ridiculing standpoint, is that his tale of the event that made him decide it would be best to not be seen on the golf course any more appears to have been incorrect. At least one report has him playing golf well after the car bomb he says triggered the decision.