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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve dietrich who wrote (409702)	5/28/2003 12:20:34 AM
From: Jerrel Peters	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

I know why Steve is so upset at GW's photo op aboard the Aircraft Carrier. I would be upset also had it been a democrap that did it when all I was left was the distant memory of my guy Bill walking along Normandy beach with a quivering lip and finding a nice neat pile of rocks that he could make a cross with...and don't bother mentioning the foot prints going to the rocks or the shadow that kept creeping into view near him as he made his little cross and shed his little tear. Oh yes, I would also be mad about GW showing suave and debonair leadership and thankfulness to our military. On June 6, 1994, Bill Clinton visited Normandy for the 50th anniversary of the invasion. If you recall, Clinton was very nervous about military issues early in his presidency. In fact, he was so ill at ease around military men that he wanted to end the tradition of the President saluting soldiers as he gets on and off his helicopter. A 'salute coach' was brought in to teach the boy genius how its done. It is easy to understand Clinton's hesitancy, after all, he famously wrote back in 1969 that he 'loathed the military'. During his 1994 visit to the hallowed beaches of Normandy, Bill Clinton staged perhaps the most disgraceful photo-op in the history of the presidency. As Michael Hutchison noted, "The lone President arranging a pile of suspicious rocks into a cross on Normandy Beach while a perfectly-framed navy battleship just happens to float in the background." The interesting part of all of this is that photos of the beach only minutes earlier had shown no rocks nearby. They had been planted there by Clinton staffers for the phony photo op. It got even more transparent later on when Clinton "noticed that the small flag on a soldier's tombstone had apparently blown over and then rolled itself up; frowning that exaggerated frown and shaking his head in disgust, he unfurls the flag, plants it and salutes it while photographers shoot video of this "private moment" from behind the cemetary's fence." What a guy. punditreview.com