The Black Republican

President Bush said Friday he will take the vaccine along with U.S. military forces but was not recommending the risky inoculation for most Americans. The inoculation will be free for those who want it, Thompson said over the weekend.

"The president is doing it because he is the commander in chief, and he believes that if he is ordering his troops ... to get this vaccination, he should do it as well," Thompson told CNN's "Late Edition."

This one is for all those people who tried to insinuate George W. was a wimp, or that character didn't matter. I'll bet it'll make it a lot easier for the kids in uniform (and the officers that have to drag them into the infirmary) knowing the C-in-C is first in line.

Incidentally, I don't recall Little Bill ever volunteering to come in close contact with a deadly disease. Syphilis isn't fatal, is it?