Skimming through the text of President Obama’s Labor Day speech yesterday in Cincinnatti, a few days before the anniversary of 9/11 and with the president facing a decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan, I was struck by Obama¹s failure to mention the war, or our servicemen and women. Not that they would be central to a Labor Day speech — but, surely a fair number of the audience at the AFL-CIO picnic in Cinicinatti have relatives in the service, and they might have appreciated a mention. I wondered whether President Bush routinely mentioned the military in his Labor Day remarks. His 2006 Labor Day remarks came up first when I googled “Bush Labor Day speeches.” Near the end of his remarks in Maryland, Bush says: