Probably something to the effect of “Where’s your global warming now, tree-hugger?”

Perhaps they dared not tour the camps, lest the ghosts of nazi victims haunt them for their politically cynical pandering to anti-semitism back home. Or is it that thing about not looking into the abyss and risk having it stare right back into their soul?

Calculating that merely showing up would absolve them, of their miserable failure as human beings to discern good from evil, from karmic payback for stroking the Bush=Hitler meme. Heh

No, the real thing to criticize is the fact that Bush did not see fit to go to the ceremony himself, rather than sending an underling. Putin and Chirac showed up. Bush didn’t.

Ya. Bunch of holocaust survivors.

“Perhaps those who are complaining are more into appearances (style) over substance?”

Probably. I mean, thats why everybody there was dressed for the occasion, rather than the weather. Or maybe they were dressed for the weather and the occasion.

Can you imagine what Republicans would have said if Al Gore had dressed this way. If Cheney’s health is so fragile, he shouldn’t be VP, maybe.

Still, Cheney should be given credit for showing up.

Perhaps everyone else didn’t have a heart condition.
Perhaps those who are complaining are more into appearances (style) over substance?

Either way, this is a dead horse and a non-issue in the grander scheme of things.

Was everybody else not opting to stay warm?

Again this is typical leftist ‘pap’, and again its symbolism over substance.

Of all the whiners from the far left berating the VPs dress there one not one who could give any indication of what IS appropriate dress, if it even exist, perhaps it does in Europe, but afterall we are Americans, and that is all that is needed to be said, and If they don’t like they can stick it where the sun don’t shine.

When are these morons going to realize THEY LOST the election and that is all there is too it.

Speaking of the election has anyone noticed that Hanoi Johns Wrinkles are back, he must have stopped his Botox injection. That man is still a joke.

Mark

As reporters, we each have witnessed more than an average person. This place stuns and saddens us. It wasn’t the the empty old buildings, or the human incinerators, but our imaginations that stirred us. We each in our own way tried to comprehend the inhumanities that took place here a mere sixty years ago. I felt it. I saw it in the eyes of my colleagues. Most of us were in tears. We wandered alone, or in small groups, wondering how a civilized people could kill millions so pointlessly. It was a somber, personal moment each of us will surely remember.
WebSource: http://www.riasberlinkommission.de/rcom-exch/rcus-exch-de2002fall.html

I know exactly what the writer was talking about since for several years, I and some of my friends used to organize and give tours of Sachsenhausen (used to process mostly leftists, Seventh Day Adventists, and moral delinquents, ie anarchists and gays) and Ravensbruck (a women and children’s camp).

Although it’s been 8 or so years since giving my last tour, you could blindfold me and stick me in some of those rooms and I’d know exactly where I am, just from the smell and sense of dread. One of these days, I oughta scan my photo album.

Methinks that on a snowy day between 3 & 17 degrees farenheit, the last thing I’d want to do is be out walking around. But if duty calls, then I might as well be comfortable and practical about it. Keeping in mind that while Auschwitz has changing rooms and showers, I don’t think anyone in their right minds are gonna want to use them to change from touring gear to formal wear.

So what to wear then?

Lessee, I’d want Goretex hiking boots since dem Guccis will be next to useless as far as traction and warmth goes. I’d bet the press would love to get a pic of Cheney slipping and falling down. As big as that camp is, one is gonna put in a couple of miles walking.

A knit cap would be great for warmth retention while allowing the sweat to evaporate rather than clinging to the scalp. and increasing the risk of hypothermia, when you then have to sit still thru an outdoor memorial service.

I’d want a parka, dem GI parkas were made for walking & working in sub-zero weather w/o getting all into a sweat, plus it’d be a heck lighter than a woolen overcoat. And given the somber occasion, a North Face or Columbia outfit would be too bright. Beside’s as mentioned by others, if one is going to wear cold weather gear, wearing a GI parka fittingly serves as mute testimony to the thousands of GIs that sacrificed their lives to put an end to the nazi monstrocity.

Here’s an ironic synonym for “sweating out” auf Deutsch – heraus schwitzen. Drop the leading “her” and the closing “en” and what’s it spell? I’m sure that sweating was therapeutic for the former inmates [/sacarsm]. That’s the last thing a guy with a heart condition needs.

So lets’ talk about properly representing the US. Protocol dictates that either or all of the following persons represent the govt at the highest level. Unless I’m mistaken, the order of precedence would be the President, the Secretary of State or the Vice President. Anything else is second tier. You would be correct in asking “Where was Bush?”. The answer is that he was attending the swearing-in of Condi.

Thanks to racist obstructionism of the DEM “leadership”, they not only managed to insult Blacks, they also inadvertantly (or deliberately?) caused Bush or Condi to miss out on attending a memorial to honor the victims of the holocaust. Taking partisanship that to its logical conclusion, Jews were also colaterally slighted by the sore losers of this past election.

FWIW, President Bush sent Cheney, his daughter Liz and several members of the U.S. delegation that to Thursday’s liberation celebration at Birkenau. One member of the group was Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., who, as a teenager, survived a Hungarian fascist forced-labor camp.

I’d like to know who else representing their respective countries also took a tour of the death camp?

Bush can also be excused for not going, since in May of 2003, he also toured Auschwitz. Afterwards, he said: “And this site is also a strong reminder that the civilized world must never forget what took place on this site. May God bless the victims and the families of the victims, and may we always remember.”

Finally, especially those who question the holocaust, there’s the recent recollections of a nazi who worked at Auschwitz, http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=81689