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June 01, 2004
Cynthia Tucker is quite courageous 

She waited until mid-editorial to sprinkle the anti-troll pixie dust. I, being less courageous, move said pixie dust into the "Quote of note" segment.

Quote of note:

(Before you begin scripting your e-mail protest, let me state for the record that I know that there are exceptions, including former football star Pat Tillman. Why do think there was so much coverage of Tillman's death? He was a rare example of sacrifice by the affluent.)

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF WORKING CLASS BEAR BURDEN OF SERVICE

Sat May 29, 8:02 PM ET

By Cynthia Tucker

The other day President Bush stated the painfully obvious: "Our work in Iraq has been hard."

But his suggestion of a national mission -- a cause to which all Americans are making a substantial contribution -- was misleading. The hard work of fighting and dying in Iraq has been done by a few -- the sons and daughters of the working classes. The affluent have hardly been troubled unless they tune in to the nightly newscasts.


The frantic calls to in-laws to scrape together child care before shipping out, the desperate planning to keep the painting business together while the owner is in uniform, the wives' attempts to fend off unpaid bills while the soldiers, fighting a distant war, fend off rocket-propelled grenades -- those burdens have been borne by families with modest paychecks and scant savings. So have the grieving and the burying.



Posted by P6 at June 1, 2004 02:17 PM
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Every now and then, she nails one. Of course, this is in contrast to her administration cheerleading post 9/11 and in the run-up to the war. And I'll never forgive her for her treatment of Cynthia McKinney after McKinney was courageous enough to ask legitimate questions of the Bush Administration after 9/11.

Posted by Kamau at June 2, 2004 07:41 PM 

Ms. Tucker is like that proverbial broken clock, yes.

Posted by P6 at June 2, 2004 10:02 PM 
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