Taking bets that Bush will accompany Pres. Obama to Ground Zero Thursday.

[WinkyDink]

Edited for correct day!

Sometimes this retiree gets the days confused!

[KansDem]

1. And he'll say, "So who are we honoring here?"

As the mother of an Army specialist who was killed at age 24 in the Sadr City section of Baghdad on April 4, 2004, Ms. Sheehan's story is certainly compelling. She is also articulate, aggressive in delivering her message and has information that most White House reporters have not heard before: how Mr. Bush handles himself when he meets behind closed doors with the families of soldiers killed in Iraq.

The White House has released few details of such sessions, which Mr. Bush holds regularly as he travels the country, but generally portrays them as emotional and an opportunity for the president to share the grief of the families. In Ms. Sheehan's telling, though, Mr. Bush did not know her son's name when she and her family met with him in June 2004 at Fort Lewis. Mr. Bush, she said, acted as if he were at a party and behaved disrespectfully toward her by referring to her as "Mom" throughout the meeting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/politics/08crawford.html

[rfranklin]

5. Behaved as if he were at a party....the Yalie frat boy lives on!

Party on dude!

[blm]

2. IF he does it will demonstrate the part of Obama that I can't tolerate - If I wanted Bushasskissing

to be WH policy, I'd have voted for Clinton. I voted for Obama in hopes of BREAKING the Bushasskissing and rehabbing that Bill Clinton put into heavy play the last two decades.

[HopeHoops]

3. What? Did the shrub hear that there would be free booze?

That's the only thing that seems to motivate him.

[Donnachaidh]

6. can you imagine the late night begging on the phone to Obama?

Drunken, slurring fuckwit whining about how his book sales would do so much better if he could come to the Towers....

[HopeHoops]

14. Damn I'm glad that drunken idiot is mostly a footnote on stupidity in America.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. I see no problem with it

Not bringing Bush along would look petty and self-aggrandizing to many. You stand side by side and let the people decide. If anything, it highlights the differences.

Strikes me as a non-issue, only likely to anger extreme partisans.

[rfranklin]

7. Except that Bush may risk arrest by leaving Texas...

There are so few places left that he can travel to.

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. True dat

:rofl:

[dhill926]

8. +1..................

yep.

[phleshdef]

9. I think it would be completely appropriate if George Bush and Bill Clinton were both at his side.

From a completely objective perception, all 3 Presidents had to deal with Osama Bin Laden. This kind of event SHOULD NOT have partisan and ideological strings attached to it. We have plenty of time to fight Republicans on how Bush started neglecting the search for Bin Laden later in his term and how President Obama resumed the search and saw it through to success. An event like this is not designed to be a celebration of liberalism and the Democratic party. Its an all American type of event and whether some like it or not, George Bush and his supporters are just as American as the rest of us (something they won't admit about us, but I'm not about to treat anyone with the kind of fear mongering, bigoted regard they are guilty of, not even them). The fact of the matter is, Bush IS a former President and he IS one of the Presidents that were, at least for a time, on the forefront of the fight against Bin Laden. Thats not meant to be any kind of praise. Its just a historical, undeniable fact.

[louslobbs]

11. Big mistake if the President invites that shit onto his stage. Bush is a complete and utter failure

Lou

[RevStPatrick]

12. I think it's a given.

As I much as I can't stand anything about the Bush family, Obama is a gracious person, and will probably invite the whole clan. Along with assorted Clintons, Giuliani and others. I think it's appropriate. Hopefully, Dubya will keep his trap shut.

[monmouth]

13. President Obama should be here either alone or with members of

his situation team that did the planning. Don't give bush an inch, he'll take a mile and so will the repubs.

[Jack Rabbit]

15. My bet is the Frat Boy will be there at the President's invitation

Again, Obama is simply being magnanimous to a fault. Personally, I wish he weren't so magnanimous to these war criminals. The Frat Boy deserves no credit; he completely fucked up America's response to September 11.