A year ago, I wrote a blog about the death of Osama bin Laden, "Today is Not a Day of Celebration for Me."
I wrote the blog after witnessing so many Americans celebrating, fist-pumping, dancing, and reveling in the streets about the death of bin Laden.
Seeing so many Americans acting like that was too much of an uncomfortable reminder of those who celebrated in the streets during the attacks of 9/11 while men like my husband either burned alive, were crushed alive, or horrifically jumped to their deaths.
A year ago, what drove me to write was my sadness in bearing the sight of Americans celebrating the death of anyone -- even the man largely responsible for the murder of my husband.
Now one year later, I am once again driven to write due to witnessing President Obama resort to the same campaign tactics as George W. Bush.
Frankly, for what it's worth, it sickens me; and it saddens me.
President Obama, have you lost your way so much that you now believe that the murder of anyone should be your most defining moment? A moment for which you want to earn votes?
Respectfully, Mr. President, perhaps you should relinquish your Nobel Peace Prize.
In the end, I guess I should not be surprised.
President Obama, when it comes down to many things, you are not much different than George W. Bush. To name a few: You drew back on your promise to close GTMO. You did away with the use of Article III courts and our Constitution in favor of military tribunals. You kept the Patriot Act. You expanded Executive power. You didn't release the 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry of Congress' Report regarding possible Saudi complicity in 9/11. And, in one area, drone attacks, you've actually far exceeded the realms of both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, combined. You really must be so proud.
And to all those Democrats and progressives out there who are now celebrating this campaign ad, those who are supporting its use, saying that its about time Democrats fight dirty like the Republicans; level the playing field so to speak. Congratulations. You, too, must be so proud.
What great heights we've all soared to in the past 10 years.
A friend once said that it's hypocrisy that ultimately does a candidate, a person, (and maybe even a country) in.
I guess we'll find out if he's right.
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| Obama | Romney | |
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| Electoral Votes (270 to win) |
332 | 206 |
| Obama | Romney | |
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| Total | 65,899,660 | 60,932,152 |
| Percent | 51.1% | 47.2% |
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| Current Senate | 53 | 47 |
| Seats gained or lost | +2 | -2 |
| New Total | 55 | 45 |
| Democrats | Republicans | |
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| Seats won | 201 | 234 |
I have read your book. I consider you and the other Jersey Girls to be true American heroes. You got the 9/11 investigation going. But it was just a coverup. Not one word about the WTC 7. What do you think about that?
You are apparently unaware of the abundant evidence that Osama died in 2001, and the lack of evidence that he was killed in 2011. Bushco kept Osama "alive" using fake videos and tapes in order to keep the wars going and Americans in fear. Obama had to close the book on the scam - with another scam. It should be obvious when the facts are considered.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. Read his analysis of what appears to be the Bin Laden fairy tale.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2011/05/13/creating-the-bin-laden-reality/
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts303.html
Very well written, thank you for sharing.
Obama's despicable campaign ad boasting of accomplishing the killing of bin Laden as "the man largely responsible for the murder" of Breitweiser's husband on 9/11/2001 is as ugly a lie as Bush with the banner of "Mission Accomplished" and his invasion of Iraq.
And Obama is not bragging about killing a man. He didn't just have a man's life end, but he had an organization crippled and shown to be as vulnerable as we were that day. FDR did not live to see the end of WWII, but he would have had a right to be proud of what he did to bring a monster to his death.
Enough. Let's move beyond this petty political pandering that everyone does using 9/11 and that goes for everyone, period.
But the fact of the matter is that politics are politics. And I found the ad itself to be only slightly bothersome, compared to what I KNOW would have been played by Bush had his administration taken bin Laden out.... And sometimes in politics you need to use whatever weapons are available. That's why Obama got a SuperPAC. That's why Obama is using bin Laden's death.
BO has done no celebration. Where's the celebration?
Using the event for politics? How could he NOT? Pretend he didn't get him? Pretend he wasn't President?
What do you freakin' WANT????
Libel laws should apply to lies about public officials or candidates (maybe even celebrities, except a lot of that drivel helps both paparazzi and the celebrity).
Then, maybe the political operatives would not do it so much, and their 'journalist' lackeys would check their sources, before they repeat the lies.
But we don't get much of that from our elected representatives. We get plays to emotion, distortions of fact, childish "gotchas" and distractions from pressing issues. It would not be so bad if we did not have to live with the consequences.
The trouble is that when we allow our own ethics to slide, it validates the game in which the most skillful manipulators win. That is a game in which the public invariably loses, unless we reject the game itself.
To the partisans here who vainly try defending their own favourites: The truth hurts, doesn't it?
The author notes the hypocrisy of G.W. Bush and politicians during his administration and fairly points out that it is equally hypocritical for Obama and others to do likewise now.
Thousands died on 911 in part because our government had no effective plan to prevent 11 amateur terrorists armed with box-cutters from hijacking 4 jumbo jets and flying them into
targets. The security was mostly smoke and mirrors, as it is now. All the political bravado
came only after the whole world saw the ineptness of our officials. Their response was an
exercise in CYA - to protect their reputations and avoid accountability. Yes, we remember.
None of these politicians are heroes. The heroes are the first responders and those victims who courageously worked to save the lives of others. No politician - then or now - is on the front lines protecting us.
I'm totally fed up with politicians masquerading as our "heroes" or "protectors".