{"id":11125,"date":"2007-06-14T13:39:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11125.html"},"modified":"2007-06-14T13:39:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T17:39:28","slug":"bush-isnt-on-the-frontlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-isnt-on-the-frontlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush isn’t on the ‘frontlines’"},"content":{"rendered":"

February<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Q: Do you believe it’s a civil war, sir?<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: I can only tell you what people on the ground, whose judgment \u2014 it’s hard for me, living in this beautiful White House, to give you an assessment, firsthand assessment. I haven’t been there; you have, I haven’t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Q: Are there any members of the Bush family or this administration in this war?<\/p>\n

SNOW: Yeah, the President. The President is in the war every day.<\/p>\n

Q: Come on, that isn\u2019t my question \u2013<\/p>\n

SNOW: Well, no, if you ask any president who is a commander in chief \u2013<\/p>\n

Q: On the frontlines, wherever\u2026<\/p>\n

SNOW: The President.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the record, I’m not terribly impressed with the question. Whether members of the president’s immediate family are in the Armed Forces right now or not isn’t entirely relevant. I understand the point — maybe if Bush had loved ones in the line of fire, his policy would be less irresponsible — but the question nevertheless strikes me as rather unfair.<\/p>\n

Indeed, if Snow had answered this by questioning the fairness of the inquiry, I’d be inclined to cut him some slack. But he didn’t. Instead, he suggested the president is on the “frontlines.”<\/p>\n

I suspect there are several thousand troops and their families who might take issue with that characterization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February: Q: Do you believe it’s a civil war, sir? THE PRESIDENT: I can only tell you what people on the ground, whose judgment \u2014 it’s hard for me, living in this beautiful White House, to give you an assessment, firsthand assessment. I haven’t been there; you have, I haven’t. Today: Q: Are there any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}