George Bush, offering a unique punishment for Ameri-Taliban fighter John Walker:

"Make him leave his hair the way it is and his face as dirty as it is and let him go wandering around this country and see what kind of sympathy he would get."
-- George Bush on Good Morning America

Funny, I see people who fit that visual description every day on Telegraph outside my apartment. It doesn't mean I treat them the way I would treat a militant traitor, and I resent a president (or ex-pres, or 'first father', or whatever) who implies that I should.

Okay, maybe he's not saying I should, but it's not too bright a president who tries to use Americans' blind-eye toward poverty as a joke touting the bright side of our own class-ism.

I think a good 'punishment' for a president is to spend a week as a homeless person, to get an idea of their problems and how to help them, rather than suggesting homeless-ism as an alternate punishment over overcrowded prisons.

Personally, I think George is just trying to forget that he named his son 'Walker.'