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I ask because Bush, you see, has already had the first laugh.

Democrats Call Bush’s Comedy Skit Tasteless

At the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association event in Washington on Wednesday, Bush playfully provided mock captions to a series of photographs taken in and around the White House.

One series of photos showed the president in awkward positions—on his knees, looking behind draperies and moving furniture in the Oval Office—accompanied by such comments as “Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere,” “Nope, no weapons over there!” and “Maybe under here?”

A crowd of about 1,500 politicians, journalists and celebrities generally laughed along with the president’s presentation.

This is Bush’s idea of a good laugh, is it? I hope you’ll pardon me if I don’t laugh along with the others. These weapons weren’t so funny last year, when he was warning the entire world that we had to invade Iraq right away—or else! Apparently they are pretty funny now though.

Kerry’s campaign issued a statement late yesterday charging Bush with “a stunningly cavalier attitude” toward a serious subject. “George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven’t found them, and now he thinks that’s funny?” the statement said.

This, to me, seems like a pretty straight-forward, legitimate criticism of the president’s behavior—which, aside from being profoundly offensive, is really inappropriate in light of the fact that one of our few remaining allies, Poland, has been saying that it was misled on the WMD issue. How does Bush plan to respond to that, with jokes about “Freedom kielbasa,” perhaps?