A Royal Slap In The Face, If There Ever Was (Updated)

In a story so embarrassing, disrespectful, and self-centered that it may make you want to regurgitate when you read it, get this:

Former President George H. W. Bush, who has enough stamina to sky-dive each year on his birthday, apparently doesn't have the stamina to attend Sen. Ted Kennedy's (D-MA) funeral.

The elder Bush's spokesman told the AP Friday that the 43rd president decided not to attend when he learned that his son would be going.

What a pathetic family they are.

Because he is so ashamed of being in the same building as his son (which someone of us can ironically understand of course), a man who has time to sky drive at his age won't even attend one of the great legislators of this nation (and the world) he worked with in his time of being president.

Both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, who definitely had their frosty times with Kennedy, as we all know, would possibly be the only, ONLY former Presidents who maybe, MAYBE, would be more likely to not attend this funeral, if you just haplessly looked at those past events and saw them as not mature adults.

But of course they are mature adults and they ARE attending, and that's why they are going to be there tomorrow.

Meanwhile, this blowhard has the time to throw his body in the air and all but yet won't attend a funeral of a political legend he knows just because he doesn't want to be seen in public with his son.

I wonder if the favor would be returned by Caroline Kennedy if he passed next, and she declined to attend his funeral?

Either way, the classlessness is awfully shocking, and terribly appalling.

Updated: Maybe he didn't just want to go in the first place....either way, it is quite shocking.