"It's the ultimate sacrifice, really"

The President welcomes new members of Congress:

I want to welcome you all here; Laura and I are so thrilled you're here. We want to welcome your spouses. I particularly want to say a thanks to your spouse for having supported your run for the Congress or the Senate. Laura and I know how hard it is on a family to be in the political arena. It's the ultimate sacrifice, really: sacrifice your privacy; it's a sacrifice of time with your kids. But you're going to find it's worthwhile -- serving this great country is an unbelievable honor, and both the elected official and the spouse are serving our great country.

No, sir, "really" the ultimate sacrifice is what we've gotten from 1500 troops in Iraq so far, and the penultimate one is what we've gotten from the many, many more who left body parts behind.

And for the living ones still there, ask them about giving up their privacy, and plenty of time with their kids. Especially once they've been redeployed. But they don't have the compensation of being one of the most powerful members of the government of the most powerful nation on the planet.

And last I heard, no one was smuggling bombs into the Congressional Dining Room.

It'd serve him right if this comment got blown into major scandal status by the veteran's groups, but I bet it will just fall into the media noise and vanish. After all, we have to pay attention to Amber Frye now.