The daughters of President and Mrs. Bush have graduated from college, and are beginning the campaign trail in support of their father. They are to be congratulated. Their conduct had been near-exemplary, apart from a curious practice involving the protrusion of the tongue when being photographed in public [perhaps they thought they were in Tibet], and they are a credit to the first family.
That said, we have a suggestion concerning how they could most help their father’s campaign. Posing in a Vogue Magazine layout may not have harmed the President’s support among, as he once phrased it, “the haves and the have-mores.” But the public as a whole would be far more moved if the Misses Bush traded their debutante attire for khaki and camouflage.
What more perfect way to express support of their father and his policies and steal the thunder of Mr. Bush’s critics—such as Michael Moore—than for one or more of his daughters to enlist in the U.S. Army.
I am reminded of Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, age 57, son of one president and cousin of another, who despite severe arthritis and a heart condition that would kill him later that year, was the only general officer to land with the first-wave troops in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and stand in the path of enemy fire. He landed on Utah Beach. His son, Capt. Quentin Roosevelt, landed that day with the 1st Division on Omaha Beach. [Both later bcame members of a most elite group, fathers and sons awarded the Medal of Honor.
You cannot push a string, and you do not lead from the rear.
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