Question: where were the tea-baggers on that day, the day of September 11, 2001, with their protests and indignation at the POTUS* directly interacting with a class of second-graders?
"At approximately 8:48 a.m. on the morning of September 11, 2001, the first pictures of the burning World Trade Center were broadcast on live television. The news anchors, reporters, and viewers had little idea what had happened in lower Manhattan, but there were some people who did know. By that time, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon, the White House, the Secret Service, and Canada’s Strategic Command all knew that three commercial airplanes had been hijacked. They knew that one plane had been flown deliberately into the World Trade Center’s North Tower; a second plane was wildly off course and also heading toward Manhattan; and a third plane had abruptly turned around over Ohio and was flying back toward Washington, DC.
"So why, at 9:03 a.m.—fifteen minutes after it was clear the United States was under terrorist attack—did President Bush sit down with a classroom of second-graders and begin a 20-minute pre-planned photo op? No one knows the answer to that question. In fact, no one has even asked Bush about it." (emphasis added)
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http://www.historycommons.org/essay.jsp?article=essayaninterestingdayRemember?
Where was the outrage of the tea-baggers that day? The only outrage I remember on display came from the left who could not help but wonder didn't George W. Bush* have more important things to do at that moment.
Any thinking person today realizes that the manufactured outrage over Obama's address to children returning to school is an attempt to deploy a political maneuver designed to embarrass and/or attempt to humiliate the Obama administration.
The failure of the so-called tea-baggers' campaign to protest the "brainwashing" by the President of the United States* to school-aged children on
that day but not
this day demonstrably illustrates one of the characteristics most often railed against by the right-wing religious extremists: hypocrisy. Isn't that a bit odd?
Beyond that one wonders why some feel is it okay for a George W. Bush* to interact with school children while the Country is under attack but it is not okay for a Barack Obama to interact with school children while the Country is not under attack. I will leave that statement at that....
But another answer might possibly be that this is a blatant attempt to distract from the health care wars being fought this day. Look this way (and not our way) while we continue to work in the dead of night to derail that which takes from the rich instead of the poor -- the Robin Hood-in-reverse syndrome. Ahhhh, could that possibly be it?
Sam
Note: POTUS* = Bush*