Barack Obama

as he should have been. Also, it is not like we do not take advantage of such things. We all had a lot of fun at GWB's expense years ago, with the "Mission Accomplished" banner. In truth, the banner had nothing to do with his speech that day. It was for the ship's crew, which had just completed their Persian Gulf deployment and were going home. My nephew was aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln that day. But, it was an inconvenient image for Bush at that moment. "Mission Accomplished" became the focus of his whole visit, and no one even remembers what he had to say. All because someone did not pay enough attention to details. History is full of such events in politicians' careers.