Andrew Card, George W. Bush's White House Chief of Staff, says Pres. Obama has been "pounding his chest" too much over getting bin Laden.
I thought his statement was subdued, but I think his schedule is not subdued. Personally, I think it is premature to go to Ground Zero, in New York. I think my role model in this would be George H. W. Bush, when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. It was a day to celebrate, but we did not dance on the Wall.
The former President was invited to the Ground Zero ceremony in New York, but chose not to come. He is said to be miffed that he's not getting more of the credit for bin Laden, even though he himself once said he didn't spend all that much time or energy trying to do it, and had other approaches to terrorism that didn't involve bin Laden.
Card, one remembers, presided over the infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner fiasco. He once referred to the timing of the Iraq War in terms of product roll-out, and keeps blathering on and on about Reagan and Bush always wearing suit coats in the Oval, even though that is manifestly untrue.
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