I'll offer a mixed signal to the discussion. Butch-at-work has a rather in-your-face finger-pointing way of stating himself that I would normally set aside as partisan, and I find Bush pretty darned contemptible, but even I, a liberal democrat, have trouble picking on him for choking. It's not like no one of us has never choked on anything before, or felt pretty stupid about it afterward. I'll pick on Bush for his voluntary stupidity, not his involunatary accidents.