Posted on 09/04/2010 6:15:30 AM PDT by McLynnan
Former President George W. Bush was at Ridgewood Country Club on Friday morning for a charitable event to raise money for the education of spouses and children of service members killed or catastrophically disabled in the line of duty.
Bush was named honorary chairman of the inaugural Patriot Golf Day Weekend, started this year by the Folds of Honor Foundation to raise money for the organization’s scholarship fund.
The foundation’s name refers to the U.S. flag-folding ritual during a military funeral. Former President George W. Bush jokes with onlookers after one of the members of his group at Ridgewood Country Club hit an errant drive off the first tee Friday morning. Former President George W. Bush jokes with onlookers after one of the members of his group at Ridgewood Country Club hit an errant drive off the first tee Friday morning. Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald
According to the foundation, thousands of golf courses across the country are asking golfers to add $1 or more to their normal greens fees for the program.
“Thank you for allowing me to associate myself with such a worthy cause,” Bush said during a brief statement to reporters before he teed off. “First, I like to play golf. And secondly, I admire our vets and their families and this is a way for citizens to contribute to a scholarship fund for children who have lost a parent in combat or whose parent is severely wounded.
“People all across America can play golf this weekend and support the children of our vets and that’s a noble and worthy cause.”
Bush did not take questions from local TV news crews cordoned off behind the first hole, but he brought “FOX and Friends” anchor Brian Kilmeade along to start the round.
Rounding out the presidential fivesome were retired Army Staff Sgt. Heath Calhoun, a double amputee and Iraq War veteran; Oklahoma Air National Guard Maj. Dan Rooney, who founded Folds of Honor; and Jim Remy, president of the PGA.
Calhoun lost his legs after his Humvee was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in Mozul in 2003.
Bush had awarded Calhoun a Purple Heart, and his children have received future scholarships through Folds of Honor.
Bush was the first in the group to tee off, after several members declined to go in front of a former president.
Bush was in a jocular mood during the event, ribbing Kilmeade for an errant drive and winking at the bank of TV cameras.
The president’s first drive was low to the ground and to the left of the fairway and Bush asked for and received a mulligan, golf-speak for a do-over.
His second attempt was also low and leftward but it curved back toward the fairway before dropping out of view below a decline on the course.
Several notable Wacoans came out for the charitable event and to watch the former president on the course. They included Waco Mayor Jim Bush and Waco Tea Party co-founder and vice president Michael Simon.
mshapiro@wacotrib.com
Ping to LaWoman3, and if anybody can make the photo slide show link active I would be very grateful.
I saw W yesterday on Fox and Friends yesterday. I miss him, and he looks great, and seems relaxed.
While the current president and his wife make headline news while flitting off to various exotic destinations on a weekly basis, President Bush’s activities are rarely reported. This man has class and an honest love for country and the military, but those qualities are ignored by the mainstream media. They would rather report every time this president takes a dump.
Here you go:
http://www.wacotrib.com/photos/George-W-Bush-plays-golf-in-Waco.html
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for the post. A breath of fresh air after reading all these articles about Doofus Obama and Michelle Antoinette.
Thanks. After all these years I still don’t know how to do that!
He did sign the first TARP bill into law, did he not?
Thanks for NOT MUCH.
Photo #6—those Secret Service agents can sure make those weapons hide, can’t they? Why can’t I do that with my . . . uh, I’m on a high-carbo diet.
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OFGS! Get a life and get a clue!
Bush’s $350 Billion TARP is About to Break Even
by Gregory Hilton March 27, 2010
http://diplomatdc.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/bushs-350-billion-tarp-is-about-to-break-even-by-gregory-hilton/
Once again, the bottom line is that Bush’s TARP will break even or will result in a small profit. This is a far different outlook than what was predicted during the final months of the 2008 campaign.
Was the Bush TARP Program a Mistake?
by Gregory Hilton March 28, 2010
http://diplomatdc.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/was-the-bush-tarp-program-a-mistake-by-gregory-hilton/
The infusion of $350 billion by the Bush Administration was the best way to slow the nation’s slide to the financial edge. The program worked and the Republicans should be glad it did.
wow...it only took you this long to Bush Bash.
Gosh, how brilliant.
thanks for responding better than I did..reasoned, articulate and with facts...
these Bush Bashers are sooo clueless...might as well be Libs for all the ‘perspective” they have.
I’d be willing to venture that Presidents Bush (both of them - although I don’t know whether HW plays golf anymore given his hip problems) have fewer rounds of golf between the two of them since 1/20/2009 than Obama does.
Dittos. I miss him !
Excellent reply, Just A! Good for you!
In a word....
Y E S!!!
We can agree to disagree. I am not impressed by his lapses of judgment.
Harriet Miers? Let Dubai operate the US ports? Puh-leeze.
I don’t agree to disagree.
You are just boring and irrelevant....and wrong.
And why you feel the obssessive need to hop on an obviously Fans-of-Bush thread to talk about Harriet Miers...? Guess its just in the Bash Bush DNA...HA!
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