Remember the story a little while back about Mark Maida, a Marine who was killed in Iraq? His parents apparently joined Cindy Sheehan in her protest outside the White House, and here's what happened:
Madison's Ray and Diane Maida say they were treated to an example of how President Bush just doesn't get it as the participated in the anti-war protest in Washington.
The Maidas, who lost their son, Mark, to a roadside bomb south of Baghdad last May, were standing outside the White House Monday morning when they saw a motorcade approach. The quickly donned T-shirts emblazoned with pictures of their dead son as an act of protest.
The president, spying the couple on the sidewalk from his limousine, smiled and waved.
"He was waving like a maniac," Ray Maida said. "He thought we were there to support him. He was clueless that we were there to show him the face of war."
Simply amazing. Waving like a maniac. Well, they got that part right. Maniac. I guess that when you live in a bubble and travel in an armored limo all your life you're gonna think, like Preznit Hermetically Sealed obviously does, that everyone on the streets just thinks you're awesome. Especially when you're wearing a T-shirt displaying a picture of a soldier. Because all those soldiers, they're just loving them some bush.
posted by Jo Fish on 09.29.05 at 01:22 PM
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Commander Clueless.
This is the same guy who waved back at Stevie Wonder, right?
posted by: Lurch on 09.29.05 at 10:40 PM [permalink]
