Wednesday, April 18, 2007

In Tribute

A picture truly is worth a thousand words.

From Mike Ramsey, political blogger/cartoonist extraordinaire, and political cartoonist for the State News.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

33 die at Virginia Tech and we mourn, as we should. We are outraged, we are introspective, we ask 'why?', as we should.

127 were killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad today. And we know that dozens more will die every week.

Where is the "Mourner in Chief" now?

Anonymous said...

Well said Walt. Or the shooting rampage that killed 90 people in the "model" Iraqi city last month. Or the 275 people that died on the day after the shooting in Virginia. Or the hundreds American service men and women that have lost their lives there this year.

I think the sad reality is that there's a socioeconomic distinction between the people in Blacksburg and the people in Iraq. The reporters, and their children, could've been in those classrooms. But, in a society where the President has asked nothing of us, there's no way that their children would be serving in Iraq. It's distant and irrelevant to them.

It's pathetic. But it's life in George W. Bush's America. Perhaps we do need a draft after all.