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Is there any wonder this guy’s<\/a> favorables are in the toilet? He quit playing golf??? How out of touch can you be? Let’s just crown Obama and get Bush off the stage, he’s done.<\/p>\n

\nUS President George W. Bush said in an interview out Tuesday that he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of US soldiers killed in the conflict in Iraq, now in its sixth year.
\n“I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” he said in an interview for Yahoo! News and Politico magazine.
\n“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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