Dubya and sportsmanship

[Rose Siding]

via This Modern World...

The above photo, credited to the Yale yearbook (the caption is in the original), appeared in yesterday's Los Angeles Times, alongside a story on the appeal of "bad boys" in American politics. It's not in the Times' online version, and the rest of the country should see it, I think.

Incidentally, while rugby is a contact sport, every player knows that tackling above the shoulders is a foul. So is leaving your feet during a tackle. Either of these is serious enough that the other team is immediately awarded a penalty kick, often directly resulting in points for the other team.

So even without throwing a punch, Bush is already well outside fair play.

Grasping an opponent by the back of the head and punching him in the face is beyond the pale -- I've watched rugby avidly for years, and I've never seen it during an open-field tackle like this, honest -- and will typically result in a player being immediately sent off.

I'm sure by next week Karl Rove will have a collection of rugby players claiming that John Kerry was even worse...

http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2004_08_08.html#001687

[freetobegay]

1. Dubya and sportsmanship?

Isn't that an oxymoron?

[Rose Siding]

2. No!

There's Dubya. And then there's sportsmanship. :D

[enough]

3. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2192247