Obama And 9/11
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:20 PM PT
The Anniversary:
Eight days after terrorism declared war on America, a young state senator blamed it on "a failure of empathy" " yet another reason why Barack Obama should never be commander in chief.
The July 20 issue of the New Yorker magazine got a lot of attention for its cover, which carried a "satirical" cartoon depicting Michelle and Barack Obama that Obama supporters found tasteless and offensive. Buried inside that issue's feature story, however, was a reaction by Obama to 9/11 that all voters should find even more tasteless and offensive.
The article reprised a piece published in Chicago's Hyde Park Herald on Sept. 19, 2001, and written by a then-unknown and otherwise undistinguished state senator from Illinois.
The senator, a former community organizer, wrote that after tightening security at our airports and repairing our intelligence networks, we "must also engage . . . in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness."
According to Barack Obama, the madness that drove terrorists to turn passenger jets into manned cruise missiles aimed at our centers of finance, government and military power "grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair."
As if the answer to the attacks should have been food stamps for al-Qaida.
Sen. Obama advised caution and warned of overreacting. "We will have to make sure, despite our rage, that any U.S. military action takes into account the lives of innocent civilians abroad," he wrote. "We will have to be unwavering in opposing bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle Eastern descent."
We should also be just as concerned, he felt, with American anger and bigotry as we were about al-Qaida.
In an opinion piece in Commentary magazine, writer Abe Greenwald commented on Obama's belief that the 9/11 attacks were rooted in poverty and despair. "Strange," he called it, "considering our attackers were wealthy and educated, connected and ecstatic."
As Greenwald put it, Obama "could have asked (terrorist and colleague) Bill Ayers, 'Bill, did your 'failure of empathy' stem from your impoverished upbringing as the son of the CEO of Commonwealth Edison?" Did poverty and despair also cause the Weather Underground member and host of Obama's first fundraiser to bomb government buildings?
Fact is, the roster of terrorists and their handlers reads like a list of of Ivy Leaguers:
Osama bin Laden, the son of a Saudi billionaire, studied engineering. Khalid Sheik Mohammed, architect of 9/11 and other major attacks, has a degree in mechanical engineering. Mohammed Atta, who flew a jet into the World Trade Center, is the son of a lawyer and earned a master's degree in urban planning at Hamburg University. Ayman al-Zawahri is an eye surgeon. Seven doctors were involved in the London-Glasgow bomb plots.
You get the idea, even if Barack Obama doesn't.
In a speech before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 20, 2001, President Bush pointed out the real reasons Islamofascists hate us: "They hate what they see right here in this chamber " a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other."
Bush aptly called the 9/11 terrorists and their ilk "the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century."
"By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism," he said.
Knowing the nature of your enemy is the key to victory. On the seventh anniversary of 9/11, we should all thank President Bush for keeping America safe. Along the way, he brought freedom and democracy to the Middle East, draining the terrorist swamp.
Bush gets it. So does John McCain. This is one thing we shouldn't want to change.
"Eight days after terrorism declared war on America, a young state senator [Obama] blamed it on "a failure of empathy" "
I hate listen to crickets so let me turn up the music a little louder!
"They hate what they see right here in this chamber " a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other."
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grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair." The leaders might be educated but the follks they are getting to set off IED's and do suicide bombers sure aren't.
They hate a whole lot more then that FM, they hate our support of Israel and our policies in the ME.
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New McCain Is An Old Unifier Turned Divider Investor's Business Daily:
By E.J. DIONNE JR. | Posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 4:30 PM PT
Once upon a time, John McCain promised to be a different kind of politician and a different kind of Republican. He was about straight talk, reform and nonpartisanship, a resolute foe of the slashing politics of the slaughterhouse. McCain wants voters to remember that man. But that man has disappeared. His convention, including his running mate Sarah Palin's big speech on Wednesday, dripped of divisive ridicule as speaker after speaker worked to aggravate the country's cultural schisms and replay worn-out lines about weak liberals who are soft on terror. The Republican crowd here gleefully played into the very worst stereotypes of their party as a privileged class resistant to social change. When Rudy Giuliani referred to Barack Obama's past as a "community organizer," the crowd broke into ugly, patronizing laughter. These, presumably, are people who never needed a neighborhood advocate. Imagine if Democrats ever reacted to someone who worked as, say, an entrepreneur or a church leader as these Republicans did to Obama's old line of work. And it's unlikely that even a convention of the American Petroleum Institute would erupt into raucous chants of "Drill, Baby, Drill!" McCain has not changed this party because he has not even tried. To win the presidential nomination, McCain has pandered to a Republican right wing he once disdained on issue after issue, from oil drilling to immigration to tax cuts for the wealthy. Just as important, he has decided that his last chance for the presidency rests on a systematic effort to make the old politics of demonization work one more time. No matter how much McCain talks about his desire to transcend Washington's partisan divides, his campaign and his convention will leave behind a bitterness that will turn his promise of a new day into ashes. His single most cynical act was choosing Palin as his running mate. And "cynical" is precisely the word that his former adviser and friend, the Republican consultant Mike Murphy, used about the pick in an unguarded moment caught by an open microphone. McCain knows perfectly well that the first requirement in a running mate is preparation to succeed to the presidency. The choices he preferred, by all accounts, included Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge, both of whom could be seen as plausible presidents. But when it became clear that their support for abortion rights rendered both men politically toxic, McCain veered toward the last-minute pick of Palin. She was someone McCain barely knew, and his campaign misled reporters about the extent to which she had been vetted. Palin was a quintessentially political choice. She could help McCain bid for the votes of women and appease social conservatives whose views she shares (and who have never been enthusiastic about McCain). Palin's address here got boffo reviews from many of the very "reporters and commentators" whose good opinion the Alaska governor dismissed as irrelevant. But her speech was as cynical as the decision to put her on the ticket. She joined in the campaign's fake populism by deriding legitimate concerns about her record, her knowledge and her governing style as the carping of the "political establishment" and the "Washington elite." She ran as the tribune of "small town" Americans by way of suggesting that worries about one person's readiness to be president amounted to an assault on all who hail from localities of modest size. She dared to compare herself to Harry Truman. She then proceeded to distort Obama's views on taxes, mock his eloquence and accuse him of wanting "to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world." She also demonstrated how little she respects constitutional rights with this chilling declaration: "Al-Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America; he's worried that someone won't read them their rights." But these thoughts, of course, were not really Palin's. They were words prepared by the campaign of John McCain, the unifier turned divider. McCain will certainly try to remind us of the man he once was, to draw on his past as the maverick statesman-politician willing to join his Democratic colleagues in grappling with some of the country's most difficult issues. It will be a hard sell because McCain has capitulated to the very Washington he so often condemned and is employing the very tactics that were used so ruthlessly and so unfairly against him when he first ran for president eight years ago. It's possible that the new McCain could claw his way to the White House. It's the old McCain who deserved to be president.
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"I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade, which would then force women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations." Senator John McCain
Source: Ron Fournier, Associated Press Aug 24, 1999
On the seventh anniversary of 9/11, we should all thank President Bush for keeping America safe. Along the way, he brought freedom and democracy to the Middle East, draining the terrorist swamp.
That right there is one of the bigger pieces of BS I've had to kick off my boots in awhile.
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America hasn't been attacked by terrorists since 9/11 the way we were under Clinton, and they now vote for elected office in Iraq, to include women voting. Factual statement.
America hasn't been attacked by terrorists since 9/11 the way we were under Clinton, and they now vote for elected office in Iraq, to include women voting. Factual statement.
We were attaked WORSE on 9-11 under Bush that anything under Clinton - fact, even after the whitehouse ignored the memo warning of an impending Bin Laden attack - fact.
We also had a second attack, the DC sniper, who was an Islamic terrorist who took American lives - fact.
It doesn't have to involve airliners to count Doug. Terrorists use many weapons.
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"I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade, which would then force women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations." Senator John McCain
Source: Ron Fournier, Associated Press Aug 24, 1999
Obama and 9/11
I would say Obama was right on everything he said, I would have to say Bush and McCain were wrong. These things we can see now, after the fact.
