The Associated Press has published a moving piece about the emotional toll Barack Obama is facing as a wartime president. It was definitely moving, but good manners does not allow me describe what in me was moved.As a Gold Star Father I am very suspicious of politicians posturing themselves for personal aggrandizement with the caskets of our fallen military.  The AP story reports on the president's October visit to Dover, Delaware to greet the caskets of our fallen soldiers.What the AP fails to report is the never-before and piquish posturing of a US President "greeting" our fallen heroes becoming just another powerful photo-op for history's most glamour-conscious government official.  Mr. Obama said in an ABC interview when discussing his dilatory decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan:"With this one, you feel it viscerally. You lose sleep. You think about families. You think about history.""You think about history."  Hence the...(Read Full Post)