Bush delivers a turkey - Berkshire Eagle

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101%7E6267%7E1798194,00.html

In what could be generously interpreted as a tribute to the late, great Bob Hope, President Bush visited the troops in Baghdad on Thanksgiving Day. The president was not accompanied by Playboy bunnies, nor did he make Bing Crosby jokes, but the trip did lend itself to photo opportunities, as did Mr. Hope's appearances abroad. For President Bush, who is most happy in campaign mode, it always comes down to photo opportunities.

On May 1, the president donned a flyboy costume and appeared aboard an aircraft carrier with a "Mission Accomplished" banner, producing video footage the Republican Party hoped to use in the 2004 election campaign. Unhappily, the exposure of the administration's ill-conceived invasion plan and the mounting death toll of American soldiers meant that the carrier footage ended up in a John Kerry campaign ad long before it could be used by the president. The president's cameo appearance in Baghdad, with the president costumed this time in an Army jacket, may generate more successful campaign footage, or at least White House political director Karl Rove hopes it will.

To President Bush, America's soldiers are nothing more than props for his never-ending campaign. They were props on May 1 and they were props on Thanksgiving Day....

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It is worth remembering that while the president enjoys being photographed with soldiers he passed on an opportunity to become a soldier himself, ducking out to the National Guard -- and then going AWOL.

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The May 1 campaign appearance produced the Flight-jacket George doll, and perhaps the Thanksgiving photo op will give us Army-jacketed George delivering a plate of turkey. The turkey can symbolize his Iraq policy.

[burrowowl]

1. Damn good

editorial! Should be more like them!

[Myra]

2. "The turkey can symbolize his Iraq policy."

Wow!
That's an effin' great editorial.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Shallow is as shallow does.

Love the headline. "Bush delivers a turkey."

I'm glad the press is finally seeing through all these photo opportunities, or rather, finally writing about them. Really, when you think about it, it's pathetic. Karl's people spend more time coming up with artificial images, than they do actually studying the issues.