Bush Visits Ft. Hood Wounded While O Chills at Camp David

Obama Quietly Visits Wounded Troops

There were no television cameras trailing President Obama on Friday afternoon as he visited wounded soldiers and family members at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

It is a standard practice for the president the same rule his predecessors followed when visiting troops injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. For nearly two hours, Mr. Obama spent time with 19 soldiers and three families of soldiers in the intensive care unit. He also awarded two Purple Hearts.

The White House said the trip was unrelated to the massacre at Fort Hood, but the afternoon visit certainly drew more notice because of the shootings in Texas.

He did not speak to reporters when he arrived at Walter Reed.

"The president looks at these as generally private affairs," said Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary.

As early as next week, Mr. Obama is planning to attend a memorial service for the victims of the Fort Hood tragedy, which Mr. Gibbs said "would be scheduled for the convenience of the families that suffered the tragic losses."
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Oh, damn him! Damn him to hell! Why can't he love our troops like George Bush did? Bush loved them so much he sacrificed them on the Great Altar of Hubris. Hard werk? You betchyerass it's hard werk! "There were no televisoin cameras trailing" him? Of course there weren't. He's a shapeshifter. I know. Just ask me. Every night, under my bed, that thing that lurks there? It's the Obama Monster, a tall, gaunt, dark man who scares me. Oh, Mommy, he scares me!
~Crock-a-fish

"Your obsession with me is very unhealthy"

Oh, poor witto Crock-a-Fish no like it when him post boolshit thread and get ridiculed? Poor witto fellow, whose most memorable (and most often repeated line) is, "TURN ON THE NIGHT LIGHT!"

Actually, the mix of hate, envy, rejection, and unrequited love that together help account for your obsession with Obama is -- and this is putting things as delicately as I can at the moment, Crocky -- weird. There you sit, in your fetching tutu, makeup smeared with tears, typing away in the tool shed back of the Monkey House, grimacing at super-size posters of Obama secured to the wall with duct tape and covered with lipstick smears.

#39 | Posted by American1st

Oooooh, not getting enough attention this morning, bumpkin?

Clear the hardened glue fumes out of your eyes, cupcake, because your reading-processing- comprehension skills suck.

#39 | Posted by American1st | Flag: Primitive Life-Form Touchingly Leaps to Mate's Rescue

Are you nurturing your damaged, lockstepping comrade-in-arms back to health in your lair as we speak, AmericanLickspittle? How cute!

you can fall out of the closet...it's acceptable these days...
#44 | Posted by American1st

Even though I'm neither in a closet nor an exiter from one, let me say I'm glad to hear from a real, honest-to-goodness pioneer. I hope your friends and colleagues appreciate what you've done for helping reder the previously unacceptable acceptable. It's only through the hard work and personal sacrifice of those such as yourself that society makes those significant changes that herald real progress.

If Obama flew from D.C. to Berlin this weekend and the bill failed, then the same lockstepping mantra chanters who condemn him now for not going to Berlin would condemn him for "ignoring his responsibilities as POTUS in favor of another *sniff* photo op."