Special Comment on the GOP's Trademarking of September 11
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Sep 09, 2008 8:50pm
Keith was visibly upset after the GOP ran their 9/11 "tribute" ad during last week's convention. Tonight, that outrage manifested itself in yet another scathing Special Comment aimed at John McCain and the rest of the 9/11 exploiting GOPers.
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This is supposed to be a day of remembrance. Remembrance of the attack, remembrance of the national unity which followed it.
Most important of all, remembrance of the dead.
But 9/11 has become…... a brand name. A Republican campaign slogan. Propaganda of the lowest form.
9/11 has become… 9/11, with a trademark logo.
FLASHBACK: Keith's 2006 Special Comment from Ground Zero.
Full transcript below the fold:
This is supposed to be a day of remembrance. Remembrance of the attack, remembrance of the national unity which followed it.
Most important of all, remembrance of the dead.
But 9/11 has become…... a brand name.
A Republican campaign slogan.
Propaganda of the lowest form.
9/11 has become… 9/11 **with a trademark logo.**
9/11 (**TM**) has sustained a president who long ago should have been dismissed, or impeached. It has kept him and his gang of financial and constitutional **crooks** in office without - literally - any visible means of support.
9/11 (**TM**) has made possible the greatest sleight-of-hand in our nation's history.
The political party in office at the time of the attacks, at the local, state and national levels, the party which **uniformly** ignored the warnings -- and the presidential administration already through twenty percent of its first term and no longer wet behind the ears -- have not only thus far escaped any **blame** for the malfeasance and criminal neglect that allowed the attacks to occur, but that presidency and that party, have managed to make it seem as if the **other** political party would be solely and irredeemably responsible for any similar catastrophe in the future.
Thus, Senator McCain, were you able to accomplish a further inversion of reality at your party's nominating convention last week.
There was the former Mayor of the City of New York -- the one who took **no counter-terrorism measure** in his seven years in office between the first attack on the World Trade Center, and the second attack.
Nothing, except to insist -- despite all advice and warning - that his Emergency Command Center be moved directly **into** the World Trade Center.
Yet there was this man, Sir - Rudolph Giuliani -- quite succinctly dismissed as "A Noun, a Verb, and 9/11," and repudiated even by Republican **voters** -- transformed into the keynote speaker, Senator McCain -- at **your** convention.
And his childish, squealing, braying, Tourette's-like repetition of 9/11 (**TM**), was greeted not as conclusive evidence that he is consumed by massive guilt - hard-earned guilt, in fact - but rather as some kind of political tour-de-force, an endorsement of your Vice Presidential nominee, a rookie governor -- a facile and slick con artist.
The blind endorsing the bland, to a chorus of 9/11 (**TM**), 9/11 (**TM**), 9/11 (**TM.**)
Your ringing mindless cheer of "We've Kept You Safe Since Then"...
While nobody asks "doesn't **then** count?"
All of this, sadistically disrespecting the dead of New York, and Washington, and Shanksville…
**Endorsed**, Senator McCain…
**Exploited**, Senator McCain…
**Trademarked,** Senator McCain… by **you.**
And yet of course **the** exact moment in which Senator McCain's Republicans showed the nation exactly how far they have fallen from the Better Angels of Mr. **Lincoln's** Nature, came the **next** night.
The television networks were told that the Convention would pause, early in the evening, when **children** could still be watching, for a 9/11 **Tribute**, and they were encouraged to broadcast it.
What we got was not a tribute to the **dead** of 9/11, nor even a tribute to the responders, or the singularity of purpose we all felt.
The Republicans gave us sociological pornography… a virtual **snuff film**.
Years ago, responsible television networks, to the applause of the nation, and the relief of its mental health authorities, voluntarily stopped showing the most graphic of the images of the World Trade Center, except with the strongest of warnings.
And yet, the Republicans, at their convention, having virtually seized control of the cable news operations, showed... the worst of it.
This is **all** anyone with a conscience can show you of what the Republicans showed you.
The actual collapse of the smoking towers.
A fleeting image of what might have been a victim leaping to his death from a thousand feet up.
And something new.
From this angle, ground-level, perfectly framed, images -- of the fireball created when the second plane hit the second tower.
It was terrifying.
After all its object **was**… to **terrify.**
Not to commemorate, not to call for unity, not to remember the dead.
But to terrify.
To open again the horrible wounds, to brand the skin of this nation with the message -- as hateful as the terrorists' own -- that you must vote Republican or this will happen again and you will die…
And just in case that was **not** enough, to also dishonestly and profanely **conflate** 9/11 with the 1979 **Irahn** Hostage Crisis -- to stoke the flames of paranoia about **another** Middle Eastern Nation.
This **was** a 9/11 Tribute.
Not to the dead, nor to the unity.
But a tribute to how valuable 9/11 has been as a political tool for the Republican Party.
9/11... (**TM.**)
Senator McCain, you had promised us a **clean** campaign.
You could be Snow-White the rest of the way, Sir, yet that manipulative videotape from **your** convention should tar you always in the minds of decent Americans.
And still, as this seventh 9/11…(**TM**)… approaches -- that, Sir, is not the worst of your contributions to the utter politicizing of a day that should be sacrosanct to all of us.
Hard to believe, but the Senator has done worse with 9/11 and the evil behind it.
We heard it last week in Minnesota… we've heard it off and on since January…
But Senator McCain said it most **concisely** in June.
"Look," he said. "I know the area, I've been there, I know wars, I know how to win wars, and I know how to improve our capabilities so that we will capture Osama bin Laden -- or put it this way, bring him to justice. We will do it. I know how to do it."
Senator McCain seems to be quite serious -- that he and he alone -- not the CIA, nor the U-S Military, nor the current President -- can capture Bin Laden.
Thus we must take him at his word, that this is no mere ludicrous campaign boast.
We must assume Senator McCain truly believes he is capable of doing this, and has **been** capable of doing this, since last January.
"We will capture Osama bin Laden… we will do it. I know how to do it."
Well then, Senator... you'd better go and **do it**... **hadn't** you?
Because, Sir, if a man or woman in this nation, Democrat or Republican, had a clear and effective means of capturing or killing Osama Bin Laden…
If that person had been advertising his claim, Senator… for **eight** months…
But if that person not only refused to go to responsible authorities in government and **advise** them of this plan to catch Bin Laden, but further announced he would not even begin to **enact** this secret plan to corral the world's most hated man… until the end of **next** January…
What would be **your** description of such an individual, Senator?
Charlatan?
**Do-nothing**?
**Opportunist**?
Senator McCain, if you have -- if you have **had** -- a means of capturing Osama Bin Laden, and you do not immediately **inform** some responsible authority of the full scope of that plan, you are to some degree great or small… **aiding and abetting** Osama Bin Laden.
If you could assist in **capturing** him now, Senator McCain, but you have chosen not to… you, Sir, have helped... Osama Bin Laden... stay **free.**
**Free** to inspire and supervise the terrorists.
**Free** to plan or execute attacks here.
**You**, Sir, are **blackmailing** some portion of the American electorate into voting for your party, by promising to help in the capture of Bin Laden… **only** if you are made president!
I'd rather win an election than catch Bin Laden!
No more cynical calculation has ever been made in this nation's history, Sir.
If you **lose** the election, Senator, are you **not** going to tell the President-Elect?
Are you intending to keep this a **secret** until the next election and your party's next nominee?
Senator, as you and your Republicans shed your phony, crocodile, opportunistic tears tomorrow on 9/11 **TM**, in front of the utterly disingenuous banner "Country First"….
The **fact** is, you have shown that it is **John McCain** first, and the country **last.**
The **fact** is, Sir, by **holding out** on your secret plan to catch Bin Laden...
By searing those images into our collective wounded American psyche at your nomination last week...
Terrorists are not what you, John McCain, **fight**.
Terrorists... are what you, John McCain, **use.**
Good night, and good luck.
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It sure is : it is a sign of absolute failure , and nothing else.......................
Great Job, Keith. But ya' forgot to mention the REAL ‘Pig in Lipstick’
Failure that may work . . . UNbelievable
Don Davis @ 2:
aw man, it's dinner time.
shit.
Nice, but please don't paint Rudy with the Tourette's brush: people with Tourette's syndrome cannot help their tics, whereas Rudy has cultivated his.
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Like this should come as a complete surprise to anyone...
I've said it before, I'll say it again...the right-wing has been using 9/11 since the beginning & and they will continue to do so regardless of who gets elected...
Holy crap! How does he continue to so eloquently say what I'm feeling?
Be the media. Spread the Truth.. YouTube of Keith Olbermann's Special Comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odb09esH8z4
Always remember 9/11 and the people who let it happen.
Damn fine work Keith. Thank you.
Bless you, Mr. Olbermann. Your country will thank you in due time, once the blinders are fully off.
Folks, keep talking. Keep up the dialogue. Keep pushing for positive change. Be that change.
TPRA
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Remember, remember,
come 4th of November
The Neo-Con treasonous plot.
I know of no reason
Why the Neo-Con treason
Should ever be forgot.
killin it, keith...
Remember the "purple cross" bandaids the trolls wore in the Kerry election? They should be wearing the bleeding TwinTower badge on their lapel to show their patriotic feelings. No, never mind. How 'bout a bronzed turd?
republicans own 911 because they were warned it would happen and did nothing to stop it.
i dunno. That was kinda disappointing. He didn't come down as hard as i expected- maybe it's because of this whole neo-con MSNBC crackdown? i wish he'd used the word "traitor" or something...
thanks, Kieth
you are a good person
on the other end of the spectrum glenn beck
who is lying is ass off tonight to cover for palin
and mccain...he is a bad person
Even more disgusting is the rebranding of 9/11 as 'Patriot Day.' We will be sure to be treated to scenes of Bush Administration notables laying wreaths and looking solemn. They will talk about how they knew people would forget, and that they alone have some magical formula for remembering 9/11.
The fact that we've sprouted surveillance programs that would make Felix Dzerzhinsky proud, engaged in torture and then covered it up, created holidays like 'Patriot Day' and 'Loyalty Day' should make a true American stand up and ask WHY, and not settle for convenient slogans and flag-waving.
It's OUR safety we're talking about, after all. We're the ones who are making the sacrifices, while a bunch of wannabe tough-guys tell us we don't have the guts for the fight, and that they do. Funny, though, how they don't want to meet with the families, they don't want to see those flag-draped coffins ... they hide in their offices and take comfort in busts of Winston Churchill, or paintings of horse thieves, then make shiny speeches about the charges they have to keep.
And where was this fervor before 9/11? We're really to believe that George W. Bush's favorite hymn, and favorite painting (though the subject has, as noted above, been put in its proper context) inspires him with this sense of duty, and it was nowhere to be seen before we were attacked?
Do we really want a man known for his temper, and a woman who believes smiting Muslims is 'God's Will' with the authority to order the release of nuclear weapons, let alone occupy the White House?
I sure as hell don't.
Nice work, Keith. It is shameful how the GOP continues to dance on the ruins 9/11 for political purposes. I wonder how much money Rudy Guilani Inc. stands to lose when Obama is elected?
Olbermann's words must feel like acid when Republicans are forced to listen to them.
Holy Shit!!!!
Finally the truth!! I'm tired of being the pussy party............................bring'em the fuck on!!!!!
Ooooops!
Keith and the Dems have fallen for Karl Rove's bait that he has had McCain dangle for several months.
Osama Bin Laden has been sitting in a prison cell for several years, waiting for the right time to be pulled out as the real October surprise and nail down an overwhelming Republican election victory.
Barack Obama has the opportunity to pre-empt this trick by announcing at the debates that "some say" that Bin Laden has been in captivity for years to be used for cheap political gain.
But is Barack gutsy enough to actually say it?
kit wilson @ 15:
How 'bout an actual turd?
Another....'Going going ...gone!' hit out of the park for Keith. What a pro at saying what we all feel. Divert,distract just won't work on us at all, repub lies are just that, lies. Wanted a OBL look-a-like, call John McSame at once!!!
Milford Loudermilk @ 22:
Damn straight.
THis Friday if Obama doesn't pull way ahead in a majority of polls Obama should go to plan B.
.....and when you pass the link on and somebody fingers him and/or you a librul, partisan hack, etc, remember that the only reason anyone would do that is because they would rather dismiss out of hand what they refuse to acknowledge.
or in simpler terms, killing the messenger.
someguy @ 26:
What *is* plan B?
Chuckling Canuck @ 23:
I always thought the Shrub would tackle him on the White House lawn during the easter egg roll. Good Tee Vee, that.
OK. So, let's put it out there.
One of two things will happen in November: McCain or Obama.
If Obama: we can surmise that the Republic will go into a massive economic decline courtesy of the idiocy of the past 8 years, compounded by the Republican congress of 1994 - 2006, and triple whammied by peak oil, the federal debt, and the deindustrialisation of the USA. Obama will have the greatest challenge ever presented to a president, ever. Period. Lincoln had the secession to deal with, but at least the gold mines in California were on all cylinders, pumping money into the treasury. Obama's inheriting a bankrupt nation. But he's a real leader and I am convinced he will be able to patch some mitigations together to prevent an all out collapse. He's very smart and he surrounds himself with smart people.
If McCain: Then what? Even if its a democratic congress, the gridlock would be terrific, and the Dems, as usual under the likes of Reid and Pelousy will cave and cave and cave. McCain will inherit the same deck of cards: a mismanaged economy, peak oil, massive debt, and no industrial base. What will be his choices? What will be the reaction? The international reaction will certainly be deeply negative. China's been buying up all the dollars it can. It has $1.8 trillion in cash. It could waltz in and buy a huge amount of the American infrastructure and what little remains of its resources. Oil production peaked in 2005, and it looks to drop and continue dropping. It might go up, but not much before it really dives. The debt is simply unpayable.
If McCain, then what? The collapse of the USA as a political entity? Will the South Rise Again, only along with the Northeast and West and Texas and Midwest all rising up doing rearguard actions to protect themselves?
We are on an historic cusp, and mark my words, these next two months are the most critical in the history of the USA.
It's not the end of the world, just the end of the world as you have come to know it. The amount of change between 2000 and 2020 will be as great as that between 1900 and 1920. Only in the other direction...
ZERO: An investigation into 9-11
ITALIAN MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3kBn1usddI&feature=related
NO MORE LIES MR MCCAIN!
Hello all on this blog,
On the eve of the tragedy that was 911, I'm posting a link to something that I created shortly after the attack.
It's posted on my newly created blog.
The blog is not what I want you to see, per se, but if you scroll down to the picture, and then go to the link to my flickr slideshow you can see the picture in more detail.
If you so wish, check out the blog as well.
Anyway, please don't lambast me about a shameless plug.
It is a plug, yes, but if you get as far as the picture itself, and my description on flickr, you'll see why I created the picture and what it meant to me at the time, and still does today.
Here it is.
www.argueblog.blogspot.com
{OK, e-mail the site and ask next time OK? SiteMonitor}
KO really is on the GOP crony-squad case - a slam dunk to say the least.
If only KO's SC's were translated into real investigative action and impeachment, Bush and Cheney would've been gone possibly sooner (if not later) than Nixon.
The **fact** is, you have shown that it is **John McCain** first, and the country **last.**
That was well said, anyone who votes for McGrampa is a fool.
We all remember 9/11 ,so what is the problem with the Republicans remembering in their convention ? The Democrats can too ... Their choice, but they didn't.
I think that Rudy Giuliani will have to sue the rest of the Republicans for infringement. 9-11™ belongs exclusively to Rudy. I'm sure he has between 9 and 11 reasons why that is so.
Freedom of speech is wonderful......Thank you for speaking the truth!
Oh snap. Bet that leaves a mark.
Milford Loudermilk @ 22:
Totally. Feels good to be Patriotic.
He went a bit OTT at the end, but that's Keith. But really, what's McSame going to do to catch Bin Laden? Crash (another) jet into the mountains in Pakistan on his solo Team America reconnaissance mission, get captured by the Taliban and spend five and half years making Taliban propaganda films before coming back, cheating on Cindy and marrying Palin? He'll be nearly eighty years old by then!
Seriously, Keith should have mentioned that McCain wanted to have Walter Reed Army Medical Center as the backdrop for his speech at the convention. The place where wounded soldiers from the misguided war come to terms with their broken bodies, missing limbs and traumatized minds -- all in conditions that have been reported to be scandalous.
Even though the GOP couldn't even get that right (just like the war and capturing Bin Laden), the sheer audacity of these people is incredible. McCain has no honor left. They're absolutely shameless.
I wonder how much Bush and Cheney should've been impeached like how Reagan could've possibly been impeached during the Iran-Contra scandal.
someguy @ 21:
Most of them will never hear the words. Fox will not air them so most of the really ignorant will never hear them!
Anyone else think KO should run for office? I love his passion, honesty, and fearlessness. He's not afraid to call out the fear mongering lying bastards. Anyone with any sense of decency would not have invoked any of our emotions by using that video for political gain. Who didn't go there? The Democratic Party. Obama and Biden. Hillary Clinton. Name one that did. [chirp, chrip]
Disgraceful and shameful are the only words I can come up with. I'm sorry for all the families and friends who lost someone on 9/11/2001. I have friends who lost friends. I'm sorry for New York and I'm sorry for America. This could have been prevented had G.W. Bush not wanted it to happen for his oil family and Saudi friends.
I still can't believe Clinton got impeached for trying to cover up his infidelity while George Bush remains unaccountable for the hundreds of thousands of DEAD innocent lives he's responsible for! This country needs an enema.
tweakerbell @ 30:
Thank you, Keith. You helped me get through the last four years.
He has a BAZOOKA!!!
One thing we need to remember is that the people behind 9-11® we're organized in Afghanistan. We had a pretty good ally in Musharraf on the Pakistan side of the war, and left Musharraf pissing in the wind for 4 years while we pursued this folly in Iraq. Yeah, so while the Republicans use 911, lets remember that it wasn't so important that they couldn't put in on hold to nation build in Iraq.
Important judgment question to be considered during the campaign - "If you knew then, what you knew now, would you repeat the invasion of Iraq"? McCain would. (We already know that Obama wouldn't have invaded the first time - Bill Clinton declined PNAC's request to invade during his presidency.)
Sounds like Nixon's secret plan to end the war in Vietnam. A war Henry Kissinger prolonged for the sole purpose of getting Nixon reelected by CREEP ( The Committee to Re Elect the President.)
And CREEPS they were. Organizing a break in at Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel just the most famous of their crimes.
McCain has no plan to capture Osama Bin Laden. He has a very cynical plan to get elected and if he wins we will all lose.
Fantastic job on the special comments tonight.
Tomorrow's headlines? Pelosi's new offshore oil drilling deal. Thanks for nothing Nancy.
McPale's Navy @ 43:
Yes, but he may have a better forum and purpose where he is now.
I'd sure vote for him, and Imagine how Rachel Maddow could be KICKING some ass as well.
Maybe a future "tag team" red frog/green frog, f'ing frog STOMP.
thanks for posting this...I will need to watch it a few more times....
Why is KO the only one on tv to call stuff like this out. Is everyone that oblivious to what is really going on. Special comments like these give me hope that reality might prevail. No BS, the truth........how refreshing!!!
Wouldn't it be great if, everywhere McSame and Caribou Barbie appeared there were hundreds of folks carrying signs saying "Republican = Country Last". *Sigh* Well, I can dream, can't I?
enigma4ever still digging through the Moosepoop @ 51:
Hi Enigma. :)
Like your new title. :)
Morganifitz @ 52:
Did you notice that everyone in the media today said that McCain was lying about Obama's program to teach kindergarteners about sex, but instead of condemning it they said it was working?
This is from NPR to Fox.
What a piece of shit this country has become.
God Bless Keith Olbermann. He is what newsmen are supposed to be.
xoites defends Constitution @ 48:
Right on! The GOP just uses 9/11 and terrorism to help boost their political campaign for themselves and thereby only use the war on terror, as opposed to fighting it in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
There certainly is a huge difference between seeking truth and justice, and waging a political campaign.
Its the same old repeat a lie enough times and it becomes the truth..... How does that work? A lie is a lie. It becomes depressing when you feel more informed than the national media. I feel sorry for those that only get their news from the tv......regurgitated lies......yummy.
Guitar Man @ 50:
I thought about that, but now that's he's been "demoted" it feels like he needs a new path to make some more gains. Rachel is great, and I think she could fill his shoes in the meantime. In a perfect world, Olbermann/Maddow would be my pick this November, but no one really believes in ideologies yet. Unless this country is willing to go to war with itself again, we're stuck with the same old, same old.
I'm ready tho'. I have nothing to lose.
I was just getting on C&L to see if they had tonight's Special Comment posted. Holy crap did he lay into the Cons.
obama voted on 'age appropriate sex educaton' not
sex education. the program he approved of was to help children identify a predator scenario.
the mccain should be ashamed of themselves. the
mccain campaign has taken lying/deception to a level i can't ever forgive.
Morganifitz @ 58:
We are not more informed. They know perfectly well what is going on. They choose not to report it or to report it in such a way as to trivialize it.
constituent @ 61:
It's just about all of Karl Rove's ploy, as he is substantially the man behind the curtains.
constituent @ 61:
If only they had the integrity.
james Ratliff @ 42:
We all could send this vid to all of our local GOP HQ and all the Independence or moderate Republicans we know.
McCain is a Neocon and his "branding of 9/11" while repugnant to any sane American shouldn't come as a surprise to any of us.
You can judge a man by the company he keeps and look at who McCrazy has as his foreign policy adviser....
Randy Scheunemann... McCain's Foreign Policy Adviser
A.K.A. Randy Neocon
Scheunemann's résumé as a War Party apparatchik is lengthy. He signed the PNAC (Project for the New American Century) letter to President Clinton urging war on Iraq, four years before 9-11.
He signed the PNAC ultimatum to Bush, nine days after 9-11, threatening him with political reprisal if he did not go to war against Iraq.
He was executive director of the "Committee for the Liberation of Iraq," a propaganda front for Ahmad Chalabi and his pack of liars who deceived us into war.
Now Scheunemann is the neocon agent in place in McCain's camp.
The neocons got their war with Iraq. They are pushing for war on Iran. And they are now baiting the Russian Bear.
Is this what McCain has on offer? Endless war?
Why would McCain seek foreign policy counsel from the same discredited crowd that has all but destroyed the presidency of George Bush?
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence ... a free people ought to be constantly awake," Washington warned in his Farewell Address. Our Founding Father was warning against the Randy Scheunemanns among us, agents hired by foreign powers to deceive Americans into fighting their wars. And none dare call it treason.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan95.html
xoites defends Constitution @ 62:
It's all about Karl Rove as the man behind the curtains who we're not supposed to pay attention to.
John Bram @ 35:
Are you joking? Are you trolling? It happened on their watch. They had intel that it was going to happen. They didn't capture the guy who did it -- he still mocks them! They attacked the wrong country with predictable results. They blew the world goodwill they had after it in record time. Seven years later and they still need to send more troops to the first country they invaded! They war-profiteered. They diss the veterans who come back. They diss the community workers who help the veterans who come back. Rudi 9u11iani has made a living from 9/11. Let me put it this way for you, seeing that you have a sensitivity chip missing: It, and the aftermath are collectively the most shameful events that have ever happened to a US government. Yet they still think it's alright to 'own' 9/11. If you still think that's ok, you're wasting your time posting on a website like this.
Rasputin @ 65:
I'm really liking your style. Thank you for jumping in head first.
wow.......keith was hardcore tonight. i have to say i have some agreement with him regarding how the right talks about 9-11.personally i don't worry about it. people have
to understand blow back we fxxk with people they're
going to fxxk with us.
It's off to Gitmo for McCain(and the rest of the GOP). Thats where we put people that USE terrorism right?
tezza @ 67:
John Bram knows all this and every John Bram in America knows all this. They just refuse to admit it.
I have no idea why, but they stuffed their brains up their anuses and called it cherry pie and claim it tastes good.
steve b @ 70:
Depends on how long the power and corruption lasts under GOP rule.
Its just sad that the truth that everyone should be able to hear is garbled and mixed with as much misinformation as information. Its control of the masses, I know that but its sickening to see such success with such large groups of people.
America is on the verge of electing a bald faced liar for the third or fifth or eighth time in a row (take your pick.)
Americans are living in a fantasy world. They have no use for reality whatsoever.
xoites defends Constitution @ 74:
People are not smart, not to mention failing education and the No Child Left Behind act go up in smoke.
it's obvious why they moved KO out of the way for the debates.
"We must speak the truth about terror." -- George W. Bush
I didn't see much of the RNC so I had never viewed the 9/11 "tribute." I did that just now. Downright creepy. Creepy narrating voice and creepy footage. Did people actually shout 9/11! 9/11! during Rudy's speech?
I guess that when reality gets so unbearable....people just shut down and begin to develop their own reality to fit their own comfort zone. After the last decade I can see why that is happening, but it doesnt work.....if you shut your eyes the world doesnt stop.
"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings" ~ bob dylan.
peace @ 78:
No, "USA! USA!"
Orangutan. @ 77:
Not to mention he said, "you are either with us or with the terrorists".
And we all say, "Amen."