Oh but our president is a funny one, he is. I’m sure everyone remembers his “finding the WMDs” gag he did a while ago, much to the delight of everyone who forgot how monumentally disastrous and internationally damaging the inability to find WMDs was.

Apparently keen on continuing the tradition, our Mighty Leader decided to once again continue the tradition of making jokes about things that aren’t particularly funny.

“A year ago my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone,” President Bush said Wednesday night during the annual gathering.

“Ah,” he said, “those were the good ol’ days.”

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Noting that Vice President Dick Cheney was not in attendance, Bush said: “He’s had a rough few weeks. To be honest, his feelings were kind of hurt. He said he was going on vacation to Afghanistan where people like him.”

Cheney’s recent trip to Afghanistan was marked by a bombing near where he was meeting with officials.

The first bit is fairly benign, though I enjoyed that more because he’s laughing about how disastrous his presidency has become. It’s no “look under the cushions for WMDs” doozie, but it’s certainly up there. No, I’m more worried about that second one (I ignored the cracks on Webb and his mother, those were fine).

See, it’s one thing to make a joke about a personal emergency or crisis most of the time. It shows that such things don’t rattle you. Think a comedian joking about their plane crashing or a fire in their building, or an abusive relationship. Laughing at your own misfortune is generally a good thing.

Problem: it doesn’t count when the bad situation is entirely your fault. The fact that Afghanistan is still such a warzone that our Vice can be nearly hit with a suicide bomber over five years after what was supposed to be a cakewalk war is simply tragic. Laughing at the fact that the war has been such a mess that the country isn’t even secure for our Veep just strikes me as sick on some level.

Posting’s been sporadic these past few days, I know. Life’s been hectic, hopefully it’ll calm down soon.