On Thursday, President Barack Obama stated that he will not make a decision on Afghan troop levels until after the Thanksgiving holiday. This development came at the end of President Obama’s eight-day Asia tour, where he took time to stop at Osan Air Force Base in South Korea. While there, he remarked to 1,500 troops, “You guys make a pretty good photo op.”

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That says a lot, doesn’t it? Upon examination, photo-ops certainly seem to be President Obama’s main concern. If you will recall, just a few weeks ago, Obama visited Dover Air Force Base in Delaware as some of our fallen servicemen were brought home to rest. For reasons unbeknownst to many, the president thought it would be appropriate to allow cameras at the event. Most families were made uneasy by this, and in fact, only one family allowed cameras to follow their proceedings.

Because of that, his visit came off as self-serving, especially when contrasted with former President George W. Bush’s visit to Fort Hood, where he insisted that no press be permitted.

The underlying point of all this, is that President Obama only seems interested in our armed servicemen and women when he can use them as a prop to get his picture taken or to get himself on television.

It has been weeks since General Stanley McChrystal requested an additional 40,000 troops for the effort in Afghanistan, and in the process making it emphatically clear that this was indeed necessary, claiming that the effort was not sustainable with current resources. On top of that, General McChrystal was only able to secure a 25-minute meeting to make the request in the first place.

Something is desperately wrong here.

Does anybody remember the campaign, where Obama insisted that Afghanistan was a top priority? The war we should be most focused on, if you will? What happened to that?

The answer to that is simple. It was nothing more than a campaign promise. It has become quite clear that our Commander-in-Chief clearly has no interest in our effort there, and by extension, it shows exactly what he actually thinks of our troops, which is, not much.

You have to pay attention to what Obama is saying here, and the words that he uses. He is saying he will not make a decision until after Thanksgiving. He’s not saying he won’t commit more troops until after then. This is nothing short of him saying “Yeah, I’m going to continue to put this off until at least after turkey is served.”

Brave sons and daughters dying over there on a daily basis, and our president is content to dither and play games with American lives and American security. This is clearly a tactic he is using in an effort to placate his left wing base, military advisors and cost to America be damned.

This man has already made his decision, and deep down we all know what it is. He may finally be forced at some point to send additional resources at some point, but he clearly has no real interest in doing so.

The only future Barack Obama is interested in is his own.

My account of yesterday’s pathetic anti-Bush protest in downtown Toronto. They have lost their fighting spirit, now that their arch-nemesis is a civilian just like you and I.

I don’t know who the Marxists, Socialists, Khadr’s, Stop the War etc have left to live for, now that they have no one to hate.

George. I finally stood in the same room with George.

Our wake-up call at the hotel this morning was at 3:30. Horrible. As far as I’m concerned, that’s still the dead of night. A race to get ready, and then into a cab that was still charging the nighttime surcharge to get to the Omni in time to see the President. We were told to arrive there for about 5am to go through Secret Service. When we arrived there was already a line throughout the lobby of the Omni. Apparently, some people started lining up around 3. There was a moment or two that we worried we wouldn’t even get in. Our new friends (met in the Steyn line yesterday) Gina and Jaycee of Clarion University in Pennsylvania and their crew were already there, and downright cranky. It seems that when they arrived there were no organizers on site to direct people traffic. A line had formed itself, which as it turned out was not in the right place, and everyone who had been in it ended up getting displaced to the back of the correct line. Jaycee especially was livid:

“All these years everyone has hated Bush, but now when we want to see him, everyone loves him?”

Hundreds of people didn’t make it into the ballroom for the 7:15 start. Thankfully, we did.

The anticipation was palpable. I couldn’t help but make the comparison to back in the days when I used to camp out for concert tickets!

When Senator McConnell introduced the president, the crowd erupted.

He thanked us for coming out so early (the speech had originally be scheduled for 10:20, but he had to fly out to TN to survey the tornado damage), cracked a few jokes about becoming “father of the bride” to Jenna as she prepares to marry, and then went on to praise his vice president, calling him the “best Vice President in history”.

The theme of the whole speech seemed to be how history would view the Bush administration. And how at this time, decisions made that many people criticized are already proving to have been right. Stem cells. Court appointments. Afghanistan. The Surge….

You know, since I’ve come to Washington, I’ve been reading a lot of history. Laura notes it’s probably because I’m making up for lost time. (Laughter.) Over the past few years I’ve read three books on George Washington — or as I call him, the “original George W.” (Laughter and applause.)

It is interesting to me that they are still analyzing the record of our first President. My attitude is if they’re still analyzing Number 1, 43 doesn’t need to worry about it.

President George W. Bush warned U.S. lawmakers Wednesday they risk causing “great harm” to America’s relationship with Turkey if Congress passes a resolution declaring the 1915 slaughter of Armenians “genocide.”

George, nobody’s going to buy into your idea that the war is for our domestic protection if you continue to insist on sucking the collective dick of Islam. A million and a half people were killed in the Armenian Genocide - double the amount murdered in Rwanda. It was a genocide. And you’re doing no one - except the terrorists - any favors when you take away from that.

How long before you start agreeing with Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust never happened, all for the sake of some ridiculous Islamic appeasement strategy?

Tammy’s With Fred! My pal Tammy was lucky enough to see Fred Thompson speak in Florida today.

And in other presidential news, Beth got to tour the White House while her husband John was hanging with the Prez.