Thirty American troops came home to Dover Air Force Base last week.
They died when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan by Taliban with rocket-propelled grenades. Many were members of SEAL Team Six, the fabled special operations unit that flew stealth choppers into Pakistan after Osama bin Laden, putting the old monster down in a pile of his porno tapes.
Nineteen of the 30 families asked for no media coverage of the ceremony at Dover — that request for privacy was, of course, honored.
By everyone, that is, except Barack Obama.
He slipped in a personal photographer, who snapped a dramatic photo of the president saluting in silhouette.
Of course he did. He then released it to the media, and posted it on the White House page as the 'Photo of the Day'.
Can nothing be sacred to this jerk? Can nothing escape being used as agitprop, propaganda?
Can't let any crisis go to waste, can he?
Well, here's the photo. As he deserves it to be.
Yep, he's a "Good Man" alright. A Real Good Man.
The humility of the executive is important. Americans are sick of everything in their lives being used for political theater. Obama’s Dover photo is a transparently political artifact, waved energetically at the public in a time of collapsing poll numbers.
This is what happens when war becomes silhouetted against politics, a desperate bid for re-election overrides common sense, and the honor and respect due to our fallen heroes and their families is not the highest priority of the commander in chief.
Is it 2012 yet?
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