Poor Harry. Apparently, some of that buckshot must've lodged in his brain, too, 'cuz he's been saying the most inane things since leaving the hospital. For example:
"This past weekend encompassed all of us in a cloud of misfortune and sadness that is not easy to explain, especially to those who are not familiar with the great sport of quail hunting."
I'm sorry... did he say quail hunting was a "sport"? Well, in a broad definition, it may be. But it's not a very "sporting" sport. It would be like me playing a round of golf with Tiger Woods. A sport, sure, but unless someone sprayed Tiger with buckshot, I wouldn't stand a chance of winning. Let's give the quail some guns and maybe even that playing field a little.
Okay, try this one:
"My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this past week."
Awww... yeah, I feel so bad for Dick. He shot you, and took a little flak for it. Yeah, let's send him some flowers... he's been through so much. Unlike, say, someone who'd just been shot in the face!
Okay, finally, we have this gem:
"[Y]ou can see what a lucky person I am."
No, Harry. "Lucky" would be going to retrieve your quail and finding that they'd landed in a big pile of money. "Lucky" would be returning from retrieving your quail, losing your way back to your hunting party, and straying instead into a grotto full of nude co-eds. "Lucky" would be being missed by your friend's .28 gauge shotgun!
I know people are just trying to make the best of a bad situation when they say things like this, but come on. There's optimism, and then there's idiocy. Call me a "glass is half empty" kinda guy, but when something bad happens that could've been worse, I don't think how "lucky" it was that the worse thing didn't happen.
There are extreme instances of this incomprehensible point of view, too. Like the person who thanks God for allowing them to be the sole survivor of some nasty accident, for example. Me, I'd be more prone to wonder why God was so torqued off at everyone else that he killed them... if I believed in a God at all.
So no, Harry. I don't consider you lucky. I consider Cheney lucky that you don't return the favor.
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