Oh My God, It's genetic.

Mo Dowd's column today

How could President Bush be cavorting around on a long vacation with American troops struggling with a spiraling crisis in Iraq?

Wasn't he worried that his vacation activities might send a frivolous signal at a time when he had put so many young Americans in harm's way?

"I'm determined that life goes on," Mr. Bush said stubbornly.

That wasn't the son, believe it or not. It was the father - 15 years ago. I was in Kennebunkport then to cover the first President Bush's frenetic attempts to relax while reporters were pressing him about how he could be taking a month to play around when he had started sending American troops to the Persian Gulf only three days before.

Add that to Barbara Bush's comments regarding the war dead in Iraq:

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths," Barbara Bush said on ABC's "Good Morning America" on March 18, 2003. "Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

There it is folks. We are just the hired help. Got it? Again, Maureen Dowd:

On Saturday, the current President Bush was pressed about how he could be taking five weeks to ride bikes and nap and fish and clear brush even though his occupation of Iraq had become a fiasco. "I think it's also important for me to go on with my life," W. said, "to keep a balanced life."

Iraq is spiraling downward, the economy is on life-support, two plane crashes have taken the lives of hundreds of people, but hey, why worry, we have the fittest president on record, doncha know? you will forgive me if I am not comforted. After all, we managed to win World War II, establish Social Security, get out the Great Depression with a leader in a wheel chair. Low heart rate does not a great leader make

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