JERSEY CITY, N.C. (AP) — The start of the Presidents Cup gave golf a new “Big Three” — former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton posing with players and wives on each team in an opening ceremony unlike any other.
It was the first time three U.S. presidents have attended the matches at the same time since this event began in 1994, named after the highest office in the land.
The U-shaped grandstands around the first tee at Liberty National were at capacity more than an hour before the first tee time Thursday. Most of the players were warming up on the range. Phil Mickelson, in the fifth and final match, came over early to shake hands.
Then, Mickelson took out his phone for a selfie he might not get again.
Considering the circumstances, even Dubya’s looking better these days…
Hell I get all warm and fuzzy when I look at W these days.
gods help us all.
Don’t let the unprecedented awfulness of Trump seduce you into looking back at the mere incredible awfulness of W with nostalgia. He did manage to lead us into the worst economic crisis since 1929, not to mention a misguided and unnecessary war. Plus his ditching of Clinton’s agreement with N Korea (for no other reason than a Demmycrat did it) gave them a nuclear bomb by 2006.
And hey, remember those alert warnings they used primarily for political purposes just to make sure we were all scared shitless and cowed into complacency as they trampled our civil rights?
Ain’t gonna say the man was amazing, but if I gotta choose between the naive, incurious, and easily-manipulated puppet of an international threat to global stability and the naive, incurious, avaricious, viciously-narcissistic and easily-manipulated puppet of an international threat to global stability…
… fuck, Darth Cheney ain’t lookin’ that bad.
Despite the fact that George W. was the worst president of my lifetime, I also find myself cutting him a little slack. It was his last 30 months that sort of improved George W.'s standing (and the firing of Rumsfeld and heeding the retired generals, etc.).
Of course, I said “was” because Trump has more than easily replaced him as the worst. The Republicans clearly have work to do. Meanwhile, too many Republican voters have no institutional memory and therefore no clue how much they’re damaging themselves, and the nation.