OUR DYING MEN NEED SOME ATTENTION

• In the past month, the president has found the time to play golf – four times.
• He’s had links legend Arnold Palmer and other top golfers over to the White House.
• He’s shot some hoops with friends and yukked it up with hockey’s Pittsburgh Penguins.
• He’s celebrated Ramadan at the White House
• Eulogized newsman Walter Cronkite in New York City
• Attended several fundraisers (including Thursday afternoon’s luncheon)
• Appeared on David Letterman’s late-night show (one of eight interviews)
• Delivered two speeches to AFL-CIO rallies
• And the brief jaunt to Copenhagen to buttonhole members of the International Olympic Committee on behalf of Chicago’s 2016 Olympics bid was Mr. Obama’s seventh trip out of town since Sept. 1.
• Yet still no decision on strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
• The rest of the establishment press constantly bellyached about George W. Bush’s “vacations” in Crawford. No such general noise is present now.
• SINCE BECOMING PRESIDENT, HE HAS MET WITH THE GENERAL FIGHTING THE WAR ONCE - FOR 20 MINUTES ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE. AND THAT WAS ONLY AFTER THE GENERAL MADE PUBLIC HIS NEED FOR MORE TROOPS TO GET THE JOB DONE.