I can boast (thankfully) I don’t suffer from the ignominy of having voted for our current chief executive but simultaneously, I don’t buy into the vitriolic statements of many of his opponents:
Too often, I find the people screaming the loudest at GW’s shortcomings are the very same people who turned a blind eye to the indiscretions and failures of our previous president (and many they were indeed).
I’d like to make a decision based more on arguments made in a calm, well-reasoned fashion. One of the things I think the opposition could take our current president to task on is the hypocrisy of the following:
Dear Vince:
While the president of the United States is never completely on vacation, most commanders-in-chief manage to enjoy a respite from the daily grind during their stay the White House. George W. Bush seems to have taken this to the extreme early in his tenure as president. A humorous, fake resume for Bush suggests that he set the record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history — a bit of an exaggeration, but still cause for some teasing.
As opposed to:
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says about 20,000 U.S. troops will stay in Iraq three months longer than had been expected. The Pentagon says the soldiers — a quarter of whom serve in National Guard and military reserve units — are needed to cope with renewed fighting in Iraq. The troops had been told they would return home this month, part of a Pentagon promise that Iraq duty would be for 12 months only. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.
Seems to me if a president is going to send troops into harms’ way and then extend their time of service in a war zone, the least he could do is forego his own vacation while they’re over there. Show some kind of acknowledgment and reciprocity for their (the troops) sacrifice.
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