Having not not come across anything that really fans the flames enough, I have not ranted in this space for quite a while. But I ran across this on the Drudge Report (quoting the whole thing):
"FAMILIES OF AMERICAN TERROR VICTIMS IN ISRAEL LASH OUT AT BUSH SNUB
Tue Aug 13 2002 20:25:00 ET
Distraught relatives of American students killed in a bomb attack at Israel's Hebrew University are furious they haven't heard from President Bush or anyone else at the White House, the WASHINGTON POST is planning to report on Wednesday, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
One sister of a bombing victim tells Lloyd Grove of the POST, according to insiders, how Sen. Ted Kennedy and Sen. Hillary Clinton have both reached out personally to express their condolences; while Bush has done nothing.
Another angry family member fumed in a fax to the president: "The 9 miners who were trapped underground for 72 hours were rescued... A few days later you went to their celebration party... My cousin was murdered and you didn't even make a phone call or write a letter to her family."
Bush did make several public statements expressing anger over the five American deaths.
Developing..."
Now, while I understand that people are used to the Clinton model, where you arrive at the location of a tragedy within hours for the press value of being seen crying with the distraught, I do not know where it is written that the President must be the consoling parent in this relationship. There is no law written that when something bad happens to you everybody must drop what they are doing and stop their lives long enough to try and make you feel better. Get over yourselves and realize that the President is not your father, is not responsible for your mental well-being, and is probably too busy at the moment to stop in and say how sorry he is that you feel bad! Just possibly he might be working on trying to actually catch the clowns that made you feel bad, and he thinks that might make you feel better than him crying with you and doing nothing else.
That's just what I think, I could be wrong
But I'm not.
"FAMILIES OF AMERICAN TERROR VICTIMS IN ISRAEL LASH OUT AT BUSH SNUB
Tue Aug 13 2002 20:25:00 ET
Distraught relatives of American students killed in a bomb attack at Israel's Hebrew University are furious they haven't heard from President Bush or anyone else at the White House, the WASHINGTON POST is planning to report on Wednesday, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
One sister of a bombing victim tells Lloyd Grove of the POST, according to insiders, how Sen. Ted Kennedy and Sen. Hillary Clinton have both reached out personally to express their condolences; while Bush has done nothing.
Another angry family member fumed in a fax to the president: "The 9 miners who were trapped underground for 72 hours were rescued... A few days later you went to their celebration party... My cousin was murdered and you didn't even make a phone call or write a letter to her family."
Bush did make several public statements expressing anger over the five American deaths.
Developing..."
Now, while I understand that people are used to the Clinton model, where you arrive at the location of a tragedy within hours for the press value of being seen crying with the distraught, I do not know where it is written that the President must be the consoling parent in this relationship. There is no law written that when something bad happens to you everybody must drop what they are doing and stop their lives long enough to try and make you feel better. Get over yourselves and realize that the President is not your father, is not responsible for your mental well-being, and is probably too busy at the moment to stop in and say how sorry he is that you feel bad! Just possibly he might be working on trying to actually catch the clowns that made you feel bad, and he thinks that might make you feel better than him crying with you and doing nothing else.
That's just what I think, I could be wrong
But I'm not.
