The Feld-Blog

President Bush has been summoned to jury duty in Waco, Texas. While it's true that Jury Duty is an often annoying but important civic duty, even I will readily admit that it is likely Mr. Bush has more important issues to tend to than flying to Texas to sit in a waiting room waiting to be screened to sit on a jury. I will also admit, though, that this whole situation is just a little bit funny.

Just to throw in a pinch of seriousness into this post: it is true that John Kerry was called to and served on a Massachussetts jury last month. With an upcoming Congressional recess, serving on a jury was probably a bit more feasible for Kerry than for Bush. Still, Kerry's willingness to serve his call to jury duty is an impressive showing of his sense of civic duty (he was actually elected foreman of the Suffolk Superior Court jury). Afterall, Bush is known to take long vacations for no apparent reason. Maybe this would be a good reason to head home for a bit.

The Texas court judge quipped that he is not about to send the sherriff after Bush to drag him back to a Texas courtroom, which is probably reasonable, but still sorta funny.