George W. Bush Didn't "Spike the Football"

Noticably absent from yesterday's grandstanding by Barack Obama, which including running from tough questions, promising teeny boppers a meeting with Justin Bieber, and a few 9/11 families upset that Obama won't provide the American people proof, was George W. Bush. Bush once again showed class deciding not to enter the public eye and spike the football with Obama in his prolonged end zone dance.

Laura Bush explains why George W. Bush, whose presidency was defined by 9/11, chose not to attend the events at Ground Zero yesterday.

“He’s made the real decision not to enter into politics or the public eye,” Laura Bush told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Bush said she and her husband were out to dinner Sunday night when they received word that Obama wanted to speak with him. The former president went home to take the call informing him that U.S. military forces had killed Osama bin Laden in a raid of his compound in Pakistan, she said.

“We’re very, very proud of our military and our intelligence services. It was risky and it was dangerous for our members of the military,” she said at a Dallas elementary school after announcing grants from her foundation for school libraries.

The former president congratulated Obama and military and intelligence personnel in a statement Sunday night, calling bin Laden’s death “a victory for America.”

She said Bush feels that acting presidents alone should preside over such official ceremonies as the one held Thursday at ground zero. She told the AP that her husband declined an invitation to attend Thursday’s event in New York because “that’s for President Obama to do at this point.”