Pres. Bush campaigns with Rep. Don Sherwood, his wife Carol and daughter Linda (far left)

Did you know that the Senate has proclaimed this week as “National Character Counts” week? No? Well, President Bush was well aware that Americans were celebrating character this week and yet he went to Pennsylvania to campaign for GOP Rep. Don Sherwood anyway.

You may recall that Sherwood is the congressman whose girlfriend called 911 in Washington D.C. one night claiming that Sherwood was trying to strangle her. After being sued by the girlfriend, Sherwood admitted the adultery but denied the strangling attempt and settled with his ex for $5 million.

The president’s campaign stop with Sherwood yesterday during National Character Counts week was too much even for as stalwart a member of the mainstream press as the Washignton Post’s Dana Milbank. Under the headline,”During National Character Counts Week, Bush Stumps for Philanderer,” Milbank wrote:

So it has come to this: Nineteen days before the midterm elections, President Bush flew here to champion the reelection of a congressman who last year settled a $5.5 million lawsuit alleging that he beat his mistress during a five-year affair.

“I’m pleased to be here with Don Sherwood,” a smiling president told the congressman’s loyal but dispirited supporters at a luncheon fundraiser Thursday. “He has got a record of accomplishment.”

Quite a record. While representing the good people of the 10th District, the married congressman shacked up in Washington with a Peruvian immigrant more than three decades his junior. During one assignation in 2004, the woman, who says Sherwood was striking her and trying to strangle her, locked herself in a bathroom and called 911; Sherwood told police he was giving her a back rub.

At a time when Republicans are struggling to motivate religious conservatives to go to the polls next month, it is not clear what benefit the White House found in sending Bush to stump for Sherwood — smack dab in the middle of what Bush, in an official proclamation, dubbed “National Character Counts Week.”

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IF THIS IS THE KIND OF CHARACTER BUILDING THAT THEY ARE CELEBRATING THIS WEEK THEN —COUNT ME OUT! THIS IS SOME MORE OF BUSHES FINE RELIGION!!! THE LYING STACK OF SHIT!

Never yet have I heard of any RESPONSIBLE PERSON accuse George W. Bush of being at all sensitive OR ANY TOO FUCKING BRIGHT, and this is just another example of having a “bought and paid for C-Average frat brat for “the leader of the “(used-to-be)FREE Republic of the USA!

WaPo: ‘During National Character Counts Week, Bush Stumps for Philanderer’

Pres. Bush campaigns with Rep. Don Sherwood, his wife Carol and daughter Linda (far left)

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