Nope, Certainly Not.

[x-1013-x.livejournal.com]

So the Obama administration and the lovely, competent folks in Congress have come up with a great way to honor the memory of September 11th. MichelleMalkin has the article here. Look you tools, what happened on September 11th isn't something that should be used as a political bargaining chip. September 11th as a National Day of Service? No, it's a day of reverence; a day to think about how fragile life and freedom really are. If someone wants to spend that day helping people, fine, but the government needs to stay out of it.

My message to Obama and Congress: Stick your disrespectful butt thousands of feet in the air and have to choose whether to burn to death of jump, then we'll see how political you feel.

These people are seriously getting on my last nerve.

Comments

[athousandsmiles]

The plan is to turn a “day of fear” that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left.

I'm... speechless. Stupefied. How the bloody hell does it help Republicans? It has nothing to do with either party. It's a day of remembrance for those who lost their lives.

Why doesn't Obama have another random flyover of NYC while he's at it.

Tool!

[coldblossom.livejournal.com]

How the bloody hell does it help Republicans?

It helps whomever is strong on national defense. Since the Democrats are the party of appeasement who believe that Islam helps bring equality and justice to the world (per President Obama's recent Ramadan radio address), September 11th doesn't help them.

[athousandsmiles]

I think I get what you're saying, but I still can't wrap my mind around how spending the day memorializing helps any one party over another. This is not even an election year. Not to mention that the left has spent the entire eight years blaming every Republican who's been in office since the dawn of man.

[coldblossom.livejournal.com]

What I was trying to say is that it reminds Americans that there are people out there who hate us enough that they want to kill us, both abroad and now at home. It also reminds Americans that the homeland is not invincible and thus we need to be proactively defending ourselves -- the best defense is a strong offense.

The Democrats believe that September 11th can only help Republicans by reminding Americans of the above because the Democrats know that their party has historically been percieved as weak on national defense. So its not so much that it benefits Republicans as much as it can hurt Democrats, I think, especially in light of Obama's Apologize for America 2009 World Tour. The Democrats blame Republicans because the attacks fell under a Republican President's watch with a Republican Congress, etc. They blame Republicans to divert attention from the fact that multiple terrorist attacks occured on American targets overseas and all the major intel leading up to that point was gathered under and ignored by a two-term Democrat President. President Clinton had eight years to gather information and take action; President Bush had less than eight months.

It *is* a day of rememberance. However, it would be blind of us as we remember that day to simultaneously forget how we arrived at that tragedy, so there is absolutely no way to shut politics out of it. It can be removed from the services themselves, for sure, as it should be, but it can't be scratched from our memories.

[athousandsmiles]

I agree with you. The point, that I didn't get across at all, is that the very idea that they think it would "help Republicans" is ridiculous in that no one eight years later is going to go "oh hey it's 9/11. *makes mental note to vote Republican in next election because obviously they're better on self-defense." People's opinions are way more complex than that. Conversely, if their argument is that simplistic, then it could be said that 9/11 "helps Democrats" because it reminds people that America is evil and needs to apologize to the world for all its evil ways.

People have already made up their minds about the events of 9/11 and those leading up to it. And those who haven't aren't going to be swayed by whether or not it "helps" one party over another, unless they're complete idiots. (Though I shouldn't underestimate the amount of those out there.)

I'm not trying to shut politics out of it. I'm just saying, it's not that simple.

[autumnjoy.livejournal.com]

Obama's Apologize for America 2009 World Tour

I want to be able to laugh at this, because it's clever. But I can't, because it's true.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

As I noted on Michelle's site, it's Soviet-style whitewashing.

[onceuponapillow.livejournal.com]

It's like Obama is trying to outdo himself at every turn. How low can I sink today?

I have to say, I'm not sure this is a move he is gonna be able to top.

[coldblossom.livejournal.com]

I hate when people try to exploit September 11th. However, I also hate how its been swept under the rug. If we close our eyes to what happened and look away, it doesn't change the fact that it happened nor does it help us to take action to prevent it happening again.

Americans are afraid of radical Islam now and that makes radical Islam the winner as we kowtow to it via President Obama's Policy of Appeasement. Obama acts like its OUR FAULT we got attacked and because nobody talks about September 11th anymore Americans BELIEVE him. Also, the rightous anger from that day has mostly gone as the event slips further and further into the not-so-distant past. Do you think Americans would have been nearly as determined to win WWII if they forgot Pearl Harbor? Its not that we have the attention spans of gnats, its that everyone has gone into denial about what happened, why it happened, and how so many thousands of people died that day. The Port Authority can't even get the damn memorial in place for the ten-year anniversary because they're too busy squabbling -- there is no sense of urgency, no desire to give the terrorists the finger by building a bigger, better building and moving right back in.

This action by the Obama Administration is just another grevious insult in a long line of them regarding Septemeber 11th.

[caromiofic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it amazes me how the people have just moved on, like it's just a note in history. Any previous decade, and we would've been hell bent on making them pay, and coming together for a big F-you at the enemy.

[autumnjoy.livejournal.com]

Obama acts like its OUR FAULT we got attacked and because nobody talks about September 11th anymore Americans BELIEVE him.

Yeah, I think that's true, on a subconscious level, for a lot of Americans. When you hear yourself vilified by other countries for so long, maybe it's bound to eventually pervade your thought processes. But then when you start to hear it, in slightly more tactful ways, coming from your own country's leadership....