Jarrett: Dover A Reminder of How Deep the Sacrifice Is

Is this the only time our returnig heroes will be seen on tv.

Sam Donaldson is a sad individual who never served anything but his mouth. If you can’t understand the important of the President of the United States paying respect to a fallen military member don’t comment please. If you don’t think that a grateful nation should show and allow its commander –n-chief paying respect then keep you SAD and OBSCENE COMMENTS to yourself. I ASSUME YOU SUPPORTED x-PRESIDENT Bush policy to send these men and women there and forget it. WRONG!!!!! This is coming from someone who served 24 years of my life to allow you to make these sad comments about this was a Photo opt.

Sorry Earl - Donaldson wasn't on 'This Week".
Guess you were referring to George Will. Interesting how easily the facts can be distorted by Obama's followers.
I obviously agree with George Will. Obama could have gone to Dover and respectfully requested "no cameras" to maintain the dignity of this event.
Or, the coffins could have been shown, without HIM.
Obama appears everywhere, always a photo op for Obama. I actually used to like him. Now I'm sick of seeing or hearing him. Can't wait for 2012!!

This WAS just a photo opt. If this was out of respect for the troops or their families, the camera's would not have been there and this "show of respect" would have been made monthes ago and be an ongoing event.

McCain during the campaign went to walter reed every few weeks. He was there over a dozen times. He didn't take the media with him when he went there. Families reported how he was there all the time.

Obama on the other hand went to walter reed once during the campaign and made a big media spectacle taking all the reporters on his campaign there.

One of the relatives there said she didn't want Obama there.

Obama should have let the families greive alone.

And if Obama did want to go he shouldn't have taken dozens of repoters and photographers and cameramen. To make this a media spectacle is an outrage.

This is a the same CIC who is putting severe restrictions on what force our troops can use even when under fire.

This is the same CIC who the 9 troops who were killed a few weeks ago in a remote village would have left before the attack without the delay of obama's decision which held up the overall strategy and also a lack of helicopters hurt. Notice Obama didn't go to Dover then because the focus would have been on his delay putting troops in danger.

His whole strategy is a quagmire. Now we are going after the drug runners. What an absolute mess.

Obama and the dems have also gone after the CIA calling them liars.

Obama took away the CIA's interrogation powers to the FBI and the CIA have let bad terrorists they have caught in afghanistan go because they were worried it wouldn't be ok to hold them so long in a remote area.

We should have a limited presence with more CIA but this is who the dems leading with Pelosi are calling liars.

pcafe let read who posts the comments it wasnt't earl. Sadly we always blame the wrong party, tell the media to quit following trying to always get the scoop. Maybe If you served you'd understand!!! Maybe if we had a President over the previous 8 years you'd understand the responsibilty on a commander-n-chief. Go listen at Rush.

President George W. Bush spent many, many hours with the families of our war dead. He did the same with the 9/11 families.

It is wholly appropriate that President Obama do the same. The fate of these brave men and women is the Commander-in-Chief's ultimate responsibility.

Let's not politicize such solemn moments.

Obama never served our country in uniform yet in the campaign said McCain didn't care about the welfare of our troops when McCain's own son was on the front lines. McCain has two sons in service and yet Obama still said this.

Then Obama said McCain didn't know what average people were like because he grew up in privilege as his father was an admiral. Well admirals didn't make much money then and McCain's mom moved them from rental home to rental home.

Well admirals didn't make much money then and McCain's mom moved them from rental home to rental home.

So you are saying McCain came from humble beginnings? McCain's mother is very wealthy, she had much more money than his father. Please do your research before posting.

Were the families consulted before the President showed up on Thursday morning? One family (I think) did give permission that morning for photos to be taken and the others declined.

If they had been consulted in advance some of the families might have chosen to allow photos, or they at least could have said in advance that it was a private time that they chose not to share with the public.

Appearing and expecting to be welcomed with open arms by grieving families is a questionable choice to have made, even if you are the President of the U.S.

This is the same "noble" Obama who cancelled a trip to Landstuhl to visit the troops while in Europe during the campaign because he couldn't take his own photographers with him, and instead spent the morning in his hotel gym. The same "noble" Obama who showed us all the soldier's bracelet he was wearing during one of the debates, and then couldn't even remember the name of the soldier on his bracelet. His use of the return of the bodies of our best and bravest for a photo op and political manuevering is nothing short of breathless, and a most heinous act from a man without a soul.

Obama is a disgrace he during the campaign had the dems in congress bring up a bill that made waterboarding illegal and also said the CIA had to follow the army field manuel.

The dems did this so they could say McCain was pro torture.

McCain had actually the year before lead the fight against torture and banned the policies of using dogs to scare prisoners and his bill the year before had already made waterboarding illegal under the geneva conventions.

McCain was for the waterboarding provision being illegal but was against having the CIA have to follow the army field manuel letter by letter since one is an intelligence agency. Following it letter by letter would mean you could only use one interrogator instead of two issues like that which had nothing to do with torture.

But Obama campaign and the dem congress put the bill foward to then lie and accuse McCain who went through hell of being pro torture.

Obama spit on McCain's service.

I would have had more respect for Obama's going to Dover..if he had done it privately. Our fallen do not deserve to be a political backdrop for Obama. Shame on him.

Obama IS a photo op! Everywhere he goes he makes sure he has his own photographers and leaves anyone that doesn't view him with "awe" behind. Bush & McCain went many times without allowing pics because they cared more about "who" they were showing respect for than their own political careers. There are some that still place value on others and not careers. Buy the way, exactly what does McCain's mother having money have to do with anything??? He still served his country above and beyond and it didn't keep him from being tortured! True heroes are those that give and serve, not Hollywood self serving children or political self-promoting mouths!