Bush's Shameless Exploitation of 9/11

[Zynx]

Why are we not making this a bigger issue? This is extremely potent on both political and moral grounds that the President of the United States would try to take advantage, for political purposes, of the greatest tragedy this country has seen since Vietnam. As you may have seen, Bush wants to watch the convention from a New York Firehouse: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/225960p-194099c.html

He also earlier sought the endorsement of not the entire Firefighter's union, but just the local New York City Firefighters. Not to mention the fact that the entire Republican convention is built around the idea "Bush made you feel safe after 9/11" and will center around the moment on the rubble. Why else do you think he is having Rudy Guiliani and the governor of New York(George Pataki) in primetime speaking spots? It's not because he likes them so much personally. It's because he's trying to exploit 9/11.

Please tell me that we are just waiting for the convention to start to bring this up on national media and that we are not going to drop the issue entirely. This is too important to not attack him on this point.

[babylon_system]

1. Where are the 9/11 Families Against Bush?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/17/dems.rnc/

New York Dems: Bush exploits 9/11

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Less than two weeks before the Republican National Convention convenes in Manhattan, a group of congressional Democrats from New York on Tuesday charged that the Bush administration exploits the 9/11 attacks for political gain.

"The Republicans chose to hold their convention here, I think most of us believe, to continue the political exploitation of 9/11, which this administration started almost immediately after 9/11," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, whose congressional district in Manhattan includes the site where the World Trade Center once stood.

"They want to wrap themselves in 9/11 and wrap themselves in the flag. But the fact of the matter is they don't have the right to do that."

[Zynx]

4. National Democrats should attack this then.

Every pundit we get on should hammer this point. Don't let them get away with this. I would say exactly the same thing if a Democrat did this.

[apnu]

2. because nobody is surprised by this at all.

its expected, in fact, and was hashed out months ago when they announced the whole RNC 9/11 love-in/death-fest in NYC.

The families spoke out, the cops spoke out, the firefighters spoke out. and they announced it so long ago (and moved the date crassly to as close to 9/11 as they could) that this stuff is old news.

Media heads who bring it up now will just be seen as recycling old news, and it would die a horrible death. In a way, its a brilliant move on the GOP's part. Pay the political price a year in advance so that when it gets down to the wire, all they have to do is reap the profits with none of the cost. A rather, un-business-like thing to do, IMO.

[Zynx]

3. Kerry should come out aggressively and attack this.

He should say something like "September 11th does not belong to the Republican Party and George Bush. It was a tragedy that we all shared in together.".

[apnu]

6. he should...

... and I wish he would. Kerry should show strength on this and be a bit of an asshole to the GOP for whoring the deaths of 3,000 Americans for political gain.

But Terry McCaulf (sp?) and the DLC (ruiner's of all) won't allow that. See today's Boondocks for more on this concept. Blearg.

[Zynx]

5. *kick*

:kick:

[seabeyond]

7. it'll show itself

trust me, grinnin.

it just will, and it willbe ugly i am sure. that is not going to be a hard one