My you have such nice teeth

The debate as to whether George W. Bush actually served on the Home Front during the Vietnam War has taken on some bizarre dimensions of late. First we were treated to paystubs of the one time National Guard pilot, being waved at a news conference by his press secretary. Cashed paycheques apparently a definitive answer, to the recently revived question of war time service. Not enough apparently for the well known media contributor, Michael Moore, who went positively apoplectic over the press conference and the issue of paystubs.

That press conference by the way, was a rather surreal experience as well. It's as though the White House Press corp had just awoken from a four year slumber, the assembled Rip Van Winkle's trying to upstage each other with the most earnest, tensely delivered question. As Jon Stewart said on his Daily Show, "Where the F&^%% have you people been". Indeed, it has been almost four years since the guy first ran for president, nobody think of checking any of this out before now?

The latest little bit of insanity is the release of his dental records, it seems that the Lt. had some dental work done while keeping Alabama from harm. The dental chart shows that the man who would one day be President, probably needed to brush a little more regularly and he should have been more intimate with the dental floss as well. Other than that, not sure how it's going to quell the uproar over whether he served or didn't.

The president's bad week started with a less than stellar appearance on NBC's Meet the Press with Tim Russert. A show that Russert wasn't particularly a pit bull on, still the President was a tad detached and seemed to be searching for answers. Many political pundits feel it was not one of Bush's best appearances, leaving more questions than providing answers. Next up was, Bill O'Reilly of Fox, who piled on and started edging towards the exit of the Bush bandwagon. Then followed the war time service question, complete with pay and dental records.

His week of bad news continued, as the Democratic party got closer and closer to nominating John Kerry, a Democrat that many feel could give Bush a serious run for the White House. While there will no doubt, be many questions to come about Kerry's ability to lead the nation. One thing is probably certain, nobody is going to be asking for his paystubs or dental records from his time in Vietnam.