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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
The source of your quote speaks volumes for its quality.
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I find her, at times, horribly bitchy, and, at times, bitingly (and insightfully) funny. She's the right's Dowd.
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Its not the liberals who are most pissed by the autopen thing, bilmore -- its the family members and some senior military and former military officers.
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Actually, from reading the various blogging soldiers in Iraq, as well as the military-family group blogs and sites, my impression is that the group you purport to protect here is mostly just pissed that the anti-war, anti-Rummy groups love to jump on this kind of blather in the hopes of turning people against what they themselves hold dear. Go read all the blogs connected in Warbloggers. The auto-pen was a non-issue, but the gleeful way people who really couldn't care less jumped on it for agenda purposes was more important, and more infuriating. As one blogger said, who gives a f*** how that letter gets signed when they overwhelmingly respect and support Rumsfeld?
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If its no big thing, and if I'm wrong about the "tin ear" comment -- why did the White House immediately confirm that Bush personally signs his condolence letters, and why did Rumsfeld announce that he had instructed all future letters to be prepared for his personal signature? Why bilmore, why?
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He should have signed the letters. Big deal. Why is this primarily important to people who are always looking for a slam on Rumsfeld, and (seemingly, from what I've seen) unimportant to the supposed victims?
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P.S. You never addressed the admiration question.
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Incredibly sharp and focused, with aims and goals that match up well with mine, a no-nonsense way of dealing with things, and an unwillingness to allow form to triumph over substance. How many people would have even tried to give an honest answer to the soldier's question about armor? I can think of several in his position in the past who would have stammered a quick "we'll look into it" non-answer.
