Subject: [big campaign] Just Golf...
From: "Brad Woodhouse" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 17:22:57 -0400
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www.americansunitedforchange.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                          CONTACT: Jeremy Funk,
202-470-5878

DATE: May 14, 2008

Bush's Sacrifice...Just Golf

http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/page/invite/bushgolf

Washington -- This week President Bush revealed he had given up playing
golf to honor the soldiers fighting in Iraq. Americans United for Change
and the Bush Legacy Project examine that sacrifice in this new video.

  <http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/page/invite/bushgolf> 

http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/page/invite/bushgolf

 

Q Mr. President, you haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that
related to Iraq? 

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, it really is. I don't want some mom whose son may
have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I
owe it to the families to be as -- to be in solidarity as best as I can
with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong
signal.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3p9y_OEAdc

 

May 13, 2008
Categories: Misc
<http://dyn.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/index.cfm/category/Misc> 

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0508/Bush_has_given_up_golf
_for_troops.html

Bush has given up golf for troops

My colleague Mike Allen scored a sit-down interview with POTUS today --
to be carried live tonight on Yahoo -- and comes away with a striking
news nugget. <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10314.html> 

You can be sure that this will launch a thousand liberal jabs and
late-night jokes.

The question is who jumps on it first -- Clinton or Obama?

For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried
to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families: He has
given up golf. 

"I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the
commander in chief playing golf," he said. "I feel I owe it to the
families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think
playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal." 

Bush said he made that decision after the August 2003 bombing of the
United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed Sergio Vieira de
Mello, the top U.N. official in Iraq and the organization's high
commissioner for human rights. 

"I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as
a result of these murderers taking this good man's life," he said. "I
was playing golf - I think I was in central Texas - and they pulled me
off the golf course and I said, 'It's just not worth it anymore to do.'"

 

By Jonathan Martin 05:42 PM

 

Brad Woodhouse, President

Americans United for Change

202-470-5858 

202-251-5669 (cell)

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