Pre-Emptive Strike

Interesting note from the Chicago Tribune's Washington Bureau.  Pretty much a pre-emptive strike on a Presidential Photo Op.

Bush warned against politics at Walter Reed

President Bush is scheduled to be in full photo-op mode with a visit Walter Reed Army Medical Center this afternoon to talk with injured troops recovering from wounds sustained in Iraq and Afghanistan, a visit also meant to highlight his administration's attention to fixing the deplorable bureaucratic and residential problems some of the wounded were subjected to. Sounds pretty straightforward, doesn't it? But in Washington, politics complicates everything. A Democratic-leaning organization called the National Security Network just issued this [...]

UPDATE:  From the same source, word that the President behaved well:

At Walter Reed, Bush eschews the partisan

Tags: Waler Reed Army Medical Center, George W. Bush, National Security Network

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