So roughly eight years ago, as President Bush was getting ready to golf, reporters peppered him with questions about suicide bombings in Israel. Holding his driver, the President said, “There are a few killers who want to stop the peace process… and we must not let them. I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers.”
Then he said, without missing a beat: “Thank you. Now watch this drive.”
What an idiot, right?
Eh. Not so much, I think.
See, this memory springs to mind (thanks to a Fox News producer), after hearing about our current President’s outing at Nancy’s, a waterfront restaurant in Oaks Bluff, Massachusetts.
As President Obama walked toward the entrance, a few reporters tried to ask him about Iraq. After ignoring them for a bit, he turned and said, “We’re buying shrimp guys… C’mon.”
And there you have it: one president who can play golf and talk terror – and one who needs his shrimp.
Look I get the point: it’s a vacation. And shrimp is delicious.
But it can’t be that hard to answer a simple question – especially one that’s kinda important. I mean, if that dim bulb George Bush could do it, I think Obama could too.
Granted, some say buying shrimp is harder than lining up a decent drive. Shrimp are small, slippery and they have those annoying shells on their tails. Frankly, I find them disgusting, and if I had my way, I’d imprison all of them in tiny shrimp jails.
You could say I am shrimpaphobic. And you’d be right.
Anyway, as Obama delicately sucks the meat out of a tiny crustacean, Vlad Putin harpoons a whale with a cross bow.
I know that says something…about something.
And if you disagree with me, you’re a racist homophobe who stole my underpants.
Andrew W.K!
Paul Mecurio!
Diana Falzone!