Our Maximum Leader’s secret mission to Iraq<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, described as bold even by some of his critics, had all the trappings of a novelty act<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>. Anyone who believes for a minute that the White House arranged it for the troops is living on another planet. <\/P> The lights-out landing, Our Maximum Leader in the cockpit of Air Force One watching the pilots bring him in, his And how about those historical sidebars? The Consequently, with POSTSCRIPT from the Good Call department:<\/STRONG> “Can a stealth holiday trip make us forget the premature ‘Mission Accomplished’?” That’s the pullquote of the lead article in the Week in Review section of Sunday’s New York Times. But you’ll have to take Our Maximum Leader’s secret mission to Iraq, described as bold even by some of his critics, had all the trappings of a novelty act. Anyone who believes for a minute that the White House arranged it for the troops is living on another planet. The lights-out landing, Our Maximum Leader in the cockpit of Air […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nwaiter<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> serving turkey on a platter, the widely reported tear on hischeek (stilted grin notwithstanding) had satirical “Daily Show” skit written all over it. (See
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\nRichmond during the Civil War, Roosevelt’s shipboard meeting with Churchill during World War II and Johnson’s wartime trip to Vietnam were so informative it sounded (even if it wasn’t) like a story idea fed to the press by the White House PR staff. So what if the Thanksgiving surprise was less scary or momentous? The story gets Our Maximum Leader’s name in lights on the same marquee: Lincoln, Roosevelt, Johnson and now Bush. That’s showbiz.<\/P>
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\nvisit that lasted 10 hours, which put her in a bolder category than Our Maximum Leader, whose boldness lasted two and a half hours.<\/P>
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\nmy word for it. The pullquote is writ large above the fold in the print edition. It has disappeared, however, from the