Not Your Sweetie

The worst part comes when the president meets a young
mother and child who are desperately searching for their missing father
and husband. President Bush takes the picture of the child's father and
signs his name across it, telling the young girl, "When your daddy comes
back, tell him you met me." For a child and wife facing the devastating
loss of a loved one who very likely has just been burned, crushed and
buried in rubble, meeting the president doesn't rightly matter. Nor does
it matter having his signature scrawled across a photo that you wanted
to display on a wall of missing victims -- something that would have
offered at least a glimmer of hope.