The White House shows its 9/11 resolve…
…by painting a living room.
Here is the commander-in-chief wielding his mighty paint roller,
via Reuters/Yahoo News Photos:
Notice he’s using whitewash. How appropriate.
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I think Leatherneck has the right idea. President Obama wants us to have a day of service, but we must take it farther than his platitudinous idea. I suggest everyone get in better physical shape, learn how to manage and carry firearms, and defeat the rotten treasonous bastards in office who denigrate the serious nature of this war with radical islam. Be ready, we cannot count on mere painters and worthless community agitators to carry the real weight of true community service such as being a servicemen and women. The strong must always cover for the weak, particularly the pathetic, self-centered and ill-prepared vermin like our current “leadership.”
What a maroon!!
Can’t the President twitter us instead of making all these televised addresses?
That would make him much more easy to ignore.
Fixed it for you.
ECS
Which brings up the real story of the day, which has been burried. Nanny Pelibtard wants to defund Afganistan, and not give them the personnel they need. This is surly going to hit the fan in the next week or two.
If we have a clear objective there, which I think we do, we need to vigorously persecute it and succeed. This idea of staying there but not giving our guys what they need is obscene. Give them what they need to succeed or get them out of there.
Maybe if Barry and MO drop in and paint a Taliban HQ, they will decide they like us and stop being so mean.
I seriously doubt Chappy was ever NOT been drinking when posting here. That much should be obvious to us.
Chappy naturally thinks the extra fifth of gin makes him especially witty. We know differently.
It takes three people to paint one wall, but Dear Leader is painting one wall all by himself, bwess his wittle heart!
Obama’s ulterior motive for establishing a High Holy Day of Service is to divert attention from his murderous muslim buddies.
It’s impossible for him to comprehend how we feel about this day. He’s never known an honest-to-God patriotic American in his entire life!
A real president doesn’t have time for this kind of jackass crap.
Well, I’m not going to let politics get in the way of helping my community. There are untold numbers of pimpstas and ho-hos who need guidance on how to turn their 13-year-old sex El Salvadoran sex slaves into tax write-offs, and I want to help identify all of the ACORN experts who are willing to address that issue. As it is, I’m already paying for this work that ACORN does, but money isn’t enough. Helping provide publicity for the efforts of these community organizers would surely earn the B.O. seal of approval.
WTF?!
ACORN – Pimping out the underage, Central American, female and trans-sexual illegal immigrants that other Americans won’t!
Yes, that is what remembering 9/11 is about instead of making this a fake volunteer day. Or whitewashing it entirely into a day of “service.”
No, I don’t think you get it, Chaps. And I don’t think you ever will. Where’s your freaking concern for those who died or those who mourn? Where’s Obummer’s?
You, RSS, Lgm, are all about partisan cheap shot because your guy is in office now, right? You are better than this but you can’t see past your own partisanship to understand.
I lost two friends on 9/11. And I’m sorry, but fixing up some stranger’s house is NOT going to make me forget or feel better like this imposter-in-chief thinks it will.
Where’s your damn concern for people like me who still have nightmares and mourn those we lost on that day? Do you really understand? Or have you chosen to buy the BS and forget?
Either way, you and those other Americans who want to hide behind volunteerism, have no clue how I feel, or how those 9/11 victims’ families feel. You, who defend this president, should be ashamed.
If they had any shame they wouldn’t be defending him.
One more thing, I would like make clear to both Chaps and Neocon is the following:
I SUFFERED A DEEP PERSONAL LOSS ON 9/11. OBUMMER’S DAY OF SERVICE DIMINISHES THE LIVES OF MY FRIENDS. THEIR DEATHS ARE JUST THE MEANS TO SOME GIMICKY PR STUNT AND THAT IS ALL.
You can go fly a kite or get drunk on some Chaps (a sad monicker of a username for a proud vintage of wine). You have no idea what those of us who mourn suffer, even to this day.
To hell with those who don’t give a damn and prefer to whitewash this event.
I expected as much from BOBO.
Oh please. You don’t have any clue. I had a cousin who was injured escaping from one tower before it fell. She was in a phone booth literally at the base of the towers when the first one started to fall. She has never been the same person and it nearly ruined her. I was blocks away from the Capitol when wild stories about bombs at the State Department, fires on the Mall and another hijacked plane was on its way to DC were being spread over the news. We can play this stupid “I have more 9/11 cred than you” bullsh*t game if you want. But it doesn’t make your argument any less stupid.
Volunteering is not supposed to make you forget your friends and no one ever said it was. That is predicable strawman from you and the rest. It is supposed to invoke a glimmer of the sense of unity we all felt in America on that horrible day and the days following when people sacrificed their lives and helped perfect strangers by giving blood, donating food, time, money or equipment, or simply engaged in public displays of solidarity with those most directly affected. And you all know that. Or you should unless you are so full of hate for Obama that it clouds any good sense you have. I guess some people actually like to remember the good that came out of that terrible event, as well as the evil that precipitated it. But until you suggest a meaningful way in which the average American can personally shoot one of the terrorists involved, please oh please forgive those that might find some meaning in such trifles as community service. For you to claim that a call to community service pushes out in any way the way others choose to mourn or remember is pathetically disingenuous.
By the way, why weren’t you people whining about Bush when he called for people to give 4,000 hours of service to others last year at this exact same time? I don’t see one post mocking such an obvious insult to the memories of the victims. What is that? Let me help. Begins with a “hypo” and ends with and “cracy.”
Actually, I thought that if I dull my cognitive abilities enough with liquor, it might give idiots like you a fighting chance to keep up.
Alas, I discovered there is not enough vodka in all of Russia to handicap me enough for that.
Chapoutier said:
So what community service are you performing today? Other than servicing your liver?
Would that by government (cracy) by hypos? Hypocracy? Or a government of hypocrites? Looks like you coined an appropriate term for the Obama thugs.
Don’t dull those mental abilities too much more, you might get charged with truancy for skipping kindergarten.
Hmm. I see the slime is still trying to stoke up angry feelings around here. Chapoteer, if you really want to feel hatred just look in a mirror. Mostly what you inspire from MM readers is pity, and in the words of Mr. T: “I pity the fool.”
chapoutier said:
Liberals, you can always count on em to point fingers and marginalize everything that does not suit their agenda.
Really? Or is it you? I’ll guess we’ll leave the cluelessness question up as a rhetorical one. Good for your cousin. She escaped. Just like the other tens of thousands who did. My friends did not. A lot of good people did not.
I’m not playing any “9/11 cred” game. This is deeply personal and for you to suggest otherwise really says more about you than any of us could ever suggest. Making 9/11 a “day of service” is meaningless. And stupid.
The call to “service” is disengenuous when it’s being done by a leader who should leave it up to citizens. There is no unity in this country anymore and no amount of volunteerism will bring it back. To suggest that a personal animous has contributed to my opinion is the response that all of us get when we say anything against this administration. How ’bout supporting the military by sending care packages or, I don’t know, thanking a military member for their service. Of course, that’s the more common sense way instead of politically exploiting this day for political purposes (Obummer).
9/11 goes way beyond politics. Have you ever been so numb with grief that nothing filters in? Not even what people say in response to what happened. Let me be clear- I did not support what either party says when they want to turn 9/11 into a volunteerism opportunity.
The only hypocrites here are those who think they can make 9/11 go away. Not people like my sister-in-law who worked in an adjacent building in NYC and saw both towers fall before her very eyes. It changed her life. She quit her job, and adopted a little girl from overseas. 9/11 changed all of us and some of us made deep, impactful changes but a lot of us are just apathetic.
Apathy can take many forms. Such as PR stunts and false calls of “public service.”
When you use the phrase “you people” you’re no better than RSS. At least he’s honest about his hate toward Conservatives. What’s your excuse?
The only people “whining” about 9/11 and people’s response to it are those who can’t stand (like you) that many have legitimate beefs with the president. And when we do make criticisms we’re called racists or hatemongers.
I have to say, I used to respect you on certain matters, but in this matter, you have totally lost me. We have nothing in common except that we have the same citizenship. That is it. Please don’t lecture me on what’s proper “allegiance” to a president who wants total control over everything, even how I GRIEVE for my friends.
How about just a day of remembrance, period?
Not to point out the very, very obvious, but there is no mandate that service on this day must take any particular form. That’s *kind of* the idea (it’s so bizarre that adults would need this broken down for them): that you should simply do for others in some way, in the spirit of unity, on this day. So, to do what you suggest above *would be* a form of service. If you choose to “serve” through an act of kindness for a serviceman or woman, then that’s your choice. That’s a great thing to do, and have at it! No one’s stopping you. It’s silly (and a little daft) to suggest otherwise.
How is he controlling how you grieve? You don’t want to do something for someone else on this day? Then don’t! Or don’t ever (you don’t strike me as big on volunteering anyway)! Simple as that! But if you think it’s a day to (for example) read the names of those who died at Ground Zero — and many volunteers did today in the name of service — then do that! Or volunteer at a shelter for battered women! Or spend a day helping people in a literacy program! But stop pretending anyone is forcing you to do anything. This self-victimization is just downright ridiculous.
Very obvious to Obama lickers maybe. Obama watchers that are onto his lies don’t trust him and rightfully question his every move and look closely at his statement to find the truth. We know he is a bald faced liar. Ask Joe Wilson. Obama can not be trusted.
Thats the point. It should be in the name of those who died and are still dying, not in the name of service.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, we’re done.
Good.
Yes, you are. That is what you call it when you try to whip out your sympathy card and assume I do not have one to play as well.
Cool. Then say all the things you said about Obama here to Bush. I mean if its not about personal animus, then you must be equally riled up over Bush’s calls to service in the past.
I don’t think that personal animus drives your opinion of his health care plan or the stimulus package or GM or whatever. i do think personal animus is causing you and many others here to get all frothy over something which is at worst, harmless to you and at best, an idea that many people may agree with.
When the hell did someone put a gun to your head. Guess what, emjem…IT IS UP TO YOU! Another predictable strawman you throw out.
Wow. Guess what the only charities I gave any money to last year were? And how about the round of drinks I bought for the soldier who was recovering at Walter Reed and his parents who were visiting that I had the pleasure to meet and talk to, why…just last week? You see, emjem…It is not an either/or thing.
Same old strawman. Who said that? When?
It can also take the form of idiotically lashing out from the comfort of your keyboard at what others think is an appropriate response to 9/11.
Well now I must really have something to grieve on this day. Instead of volunteering in the spirit of 9/11, from now on I will do it in remembrance of the day I lost emjem’s respect on certain matters.
Not true. We both love the Bills. What is the proper protocol here? Can I watch them on home games and you on the away? Whatever happens, i think it is very important we let Trent Edward know that chappy and emjem both love him verrrrry much and that its not about him. We just need some time apart.
I never said anything about proper allegiance to the President and I never told you how to grieve for your friends. What is the Right’s new favorite expression now? “You Lie”? If anyone is claiming any authority on the subject of proper grieving, it is you. You are the one saying that expressions of community service are meaningless. I can’t believe you would be so blind as to not see your rank hypocrisy in that matter.
Ooops. This was supposed to be in response to this:
That was probably obvious, but I thought I’d spell it out for WarEagle.
….
Did he even visit Ground Zero today? Anyone?
He went to the Pentagon, Biden to the WTC.
I have always given the POTUS the benefit of doubt, even Carter and Clinton, simply because of the office he holds. But, this time, I have to agree with what I read from Rush. This presidency will go down as the worse presidency ever. Even the Jeffersonians of 1799 or the anti-Jackson faction couldn’t argue.
Madam President
I believe the One, with Meanchell only visited the Pentagon and then painted a room. Wasn’t it Biden that put in an appearance at Ground Zero.
I’m sure all their efforts were rewarded by a wagyu beef/lobster salad served on arugula, washed down with champagne.
Whaaaaaattttt??!!
The Bills?
He reinvented 9-11…
“Two towers, turned to dust”
“A plane, fell from the sky”
“A single stone of this building, is still blackened by the fires”
Lot’s wife turned into a pillar of salt.
Naturally he had to whitewash.
No, I’m not. You can argue this point ad infinitum. However, people have been sharing their personal stories about their experiences on 9/11. I’m not asking for sympthy, I am sharing my experience as you are.
I see. You want met to go through some warped expression of tit for tat by mentioning this to an “ex-president.” I see. I already told you that I don’t like when any politician does it. Didn’t that suffice?
This day should be a day of REMEMBRANCE. Just like the day that the Japanese attacked the USA during WWII. Why do we need the President or the government or even politicians to remake or reshape 9/11? Why? Are they so condescending of the American people that they need to reinterpret 9/11 in their own vaunted image?
Good for you. Too bad many liberals don’t feel the same. Don’t want to seem too supportive of the military industrial complex, a notion that I’ve seen expressed by many liberals at HuffPo and DailyKooks.
What about the truthers? What about liberals trying to assert that it’s time to move on with a “day of service.” Look no further than Ellen Ratner’s column on Fox News.
Really, like you’re lashing out at your “fellow Americans” who don’t like your president’s notion of remembrance, right? The only thing that I object to is the government trying to recharacterize 9/11. Silly me, talking about my friends to others who never knew them makes them live on in my heart. The same goes for those who want to talk about the loved ones that they lost on that day.
So, you’re going to mock my grief and the grief of others? I never had your respect and you never had mine. I don’t even know you. I think it particularly pathetic that you can volunteer “in the spirit of 9/11″ but can’t do it the rest of the year. I’ll say it again, 9/11 is a day to remember, not paint some stranger’s house.
Really? To reciprocate, I support the Bills in “the spirit of their once winning ways.” Perhaps, if Americans weren’t so tribally devoted to sports figures instead of getting to know their neighbors, we’d be a lot different as a country. Okay, I’m done channeling Obummer. I gave up on the Bills a long time ago.
Why do we have to do any kind of “community service” on a day that remembering an act of war as a united country should be more important? What does community service have to do with remembering 9/11? Is painting somebody’s house really going to help me grieve? Or is it more a sentiment by people in this country that my grief is inconvenient and uncomfortable to those who have forgotten 9/11 already?
I’d like to know how I’m being hypocritical. You seem very well-acquainted with what hypocrisy looks like. You’ll have to explain it to me.
By calling for a national day of service, he gave ammo to critics, who think he’s trying to diminish the significance of 9/11. Even if it is a complete harmless attempt to create unity, it is ill advised, not only for the reason I just mentioned, but it doesn’t give the level of respect that one would expect after 3,000 people lost their lives.
To be honest, it seems like Obama’s answer to everything is community service. Of course, when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Oh, I don’t trust most charities. I’ll donate to the Salvation Army, my alma mater, and care packages for the troops, but that’s it
Chaps speaks only for himself. I swear!!
I’m not really interested in has-beens (cinematically or athetically speaking).
Right on. Don’t forget that just a week or so ago, he observed ramadan, but can’t bring himself to observe our National Day of Prayer.
His 9-11 remarks almost sounded like they could have been given by George Bush, at least until we get to the ridiculous diversion into a “day of community service”…oh, and it seems I’ve heard that tripe before, say at the D-Day anniversary ceremony?
His idea of “remembering” 9-11 was made clear when he authorized the fighter jet to buzz through Lower Manhattan.
h/t John Deaux: you said it…his answer to everything is community service, but what else should we expect when the bulk of his resume revolves around being a community organizer?
chap, I think the point is that there are three-hundred-sixty-five days in the year (plus one in leap year). Obama could have chosen another day in that substantial calendar to designate as National Service Day or whatever the heck he’s calling it.
I have friends and family who were directly impacted by that act of war – no, it wasn’t a criminal act, like BO said in his speech today. It was an act of war. Calling it something else doesn’t alter that fact.
Trying to distract us by designating 9/11 as a community service day is an affront to us all.
I sincerely hope you can understand why so many of us are offended; unlike some here, I think you’re decent human being – even though we tend to disagree on a lot of issues.
One consolation: this is Obama’s first honest day’s work in his life.
If I had an award to hand out, you’d get it for that insightful comment. I think there is a quote that says something similar, about a person’s real character being revealed by what is done when no one is looking (must go look it up…).
BTW people seem to forget that W and his Lady Laura (yes, IMHO she earned the capital in that word) would go to homeless shelters to serve dinner, and would stay to talk to people even after the cameras and reporters had all gone away. Criticize him for what he did (or didn’t do) right, his character (and hers) was revealed in moments like that.
So B. Hussein and wife Michelle are swinging paintbrushes for HH on September 11th. Maybe they should have been down in the “hole” in Manhattan working to rebuild what Islamic terrorists murderers blew up on this day EIGHT YEARS AGO.
Let’s give credit where credit is due.
from a well-known nutroots site:
nyk said:
Let me see, if I got this right, if there is no mandate for “service” then why is this president even suggesting it? Doesn’t the president “suggesting” anything give it some kind of importance and weight? Are you suggesting that community service really promotes “unity?” Do you have any evidence to back this up?
Wasn’t a bill signed into law that recognizes this day as the first Day of National Service and Remembrance? Would that be considered harmless? Or not?
I think there is growing apathy and the notion by many in our country, in and outside of Washington, that it’s time to move on. I’m not big on volunteerism since most of my life I’ve worked very hard and cherish my free time, especially now that my husband may be deployed overseas. I think many Americans resent the suggestion that volunteering on this day really is remembering it in any way. I’m not that naive.
Why is it that when anyone suggests that the government is “forcing” you to do anything such as pay taxes, go to school that we’re “self-victimizing?” I think when a leader of any government suggests citizens do anything to remember a day, that carries a lot of weight.
There also seems to be the notion, on your part, and on the part of many liberals, that those who don’t like paying taxes (or feel like we’re paying too much) or don’t volunteer, that we’re somehow either selfish or uninvolved. I’ve met many people who like to tell me how “involved” they were in various “causes” (other people call them charities). Yet, when you look deeper into some of these people, volunteering is something that makes people feel better about themselves, not necessarily because they’re helping others.
I volunteered a lot in my 20′s, when I had time. I loved it, but I was pulling down multiple jobs and going to school at the same time. Now, I’m just trying to take care of my family, get settled in a new location, and find a new job.
Also, as a tax-paying, hard working, and voting American citizen, I think I already do far more than citizens at any other time in this country’s history have ever had to do to support this country. I support institutions, with my tax dollars, such as public education, that I know to be failures. I’ve already become acquainted with several charities who may say they’re doing honorable work but whose administrators and execs take in a lot of the money, or who muck things up like the handling of people’s money who contributed to 9/11 charities or even the Susan J Komen foundation that raises money for breast cancer yet, like many of these healthcare-related charitable foundations, is in bed with socialized healthcare.
I don’t have a problem with people donating their time to others. But on 9/11? Is this a good way to remember those who died? Or to blot out the loss? How many Americans are running from the memories and prefer to ignore this day entirely? I just think it inappropriate to use 9/11 as a day of service when we owe the victims and their families more than that.
Over the course of the day I have been in and out of leftist sites. They never surprise me. I have seen threads with people commenting that they cannot understand why, with all the people who die everyday, the victims of 9/11 are so special. They especially object to 9/11 being a day of rememberance. They never get it, and they never will. True liberals. No souls at all.
…they would likely be painting a mosque.
Either way, as long as they stay there.
His smarmy proclamation and his actions in commemorating what happened on 911 is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen.
I drove through many small communities today, and in every one in which there was a fire department, every one had some kind if display for remembrance of those who died on 911.
…and this raving jackass thinks painting a house is an appropriate way to remember?
More like a desperate attempt to ignore and forget.
Oh, I forgot to mention. If they are sitting at their computers all day making fun of 9/11, they certainly are not out “volunteering” anywhere.
He certainly could have picked another day, like MLK day which may have been more fitting, and he would have had more volunteers from all the government employees who would have had the day off.
Trying to ignore the day in an attempt to move on and not remember what happened is what the left has been trying for 8 years.
By drawing attention to 911, it reminds everyone of what happened, and what we are doing in Af’stan and around the world.
Remembering makes it harder for Ninny Peloosi to refuse to fund our soldiers, and harder to cut and run from wherever our military is fighting his mooselimb buddies.
Exactly.
The socialists, collectivists, statists, existentialists, humanists have an irreconcilably, 180-degree different worldview.
As has been said before…this is yet another example of something they will never – never – understand.
You are absolutely correct.
I see Chapoutier still has not disclosed what service he performed in conjunction with his holier than thou defense of it.
Just flappin’ his lips; nothing else there.
I think there should be a national day of service, just not on September 11th. I also think it would be a good thing for people graduating from high school to serve 2 years in the military, work in a hospital or some other form of service to others so that they can appreciate the blessings they have in this country. I don’t know a lot about the Mormon Church, but I have met with and spoken to the young men on their missions as they rode their bicycles around my town. We’ve talked about a lot of things other than religion and I was impressed by how they all say that they’ve enjoyed meeting other people less fortunate than them and feel it is important to help others. I know serving 4 years in the Navy after high school really made me appreciate my good fortune of being an American. So I think the Demos have a good idea, just the wrong date.
emjem wrote:
A “mandate” is an imposed requirement; a “suggestion” is an idea that’s presented which can be taken up or refused. There is no government mandate that Americans participate in service on 9/11. Despite fevered right wing paranoia about death camps and other nonsense, I’m certain no men in black came to visit anyone that didn’t volunteer today. President Bush suggested I shop ’till I drop after 9/11. Similarly, in that situation, no one was apprehended for not maxing out their card in the days following. It was merely a suggestion, not unlike the one made by our current POTUS.
Further, I’m going to quote myself, because I don’t think you understood what I was saying:
To clarify: There is no mandate that you volunteer, and there is no mandate that if you do opt to volunteer, that your service take any particular specific form. If your service takes, for example, the form of doing a “good act” for our troops — which you can do on 9/11 and every single day for the rest of your life (even better!) — then that works! Service is service.
Yes, it does! Not sure where you’re going here. But I think that just as most people can walk and chew gum, they can also grieve and offer service. Not sure it’s an either/or kind of thing. I have to question the general functionality of those who can’t do both simultaneously. Plus, everyone grieves in their own way. Some people attempt to help others as a way of countering tragedy. Others, like most of you here, not so much.
Yes! As a New Yorker, I can tell you that in the days and months following 9/11, there was a spike of service. People gave blood in numbers that created lines so long they had to send people home, they volunteered in every venue, they offered support to neighbors previously unknown. It was an unprecedented show of support that people still remark on today. The city, through all that shared effort, bonded.
I agree with you here (first time ever!). And yes, that’s problematic. But why would a reminder of the importance of this day — by reemphasizing the principles that so many people upheld in the days and months after 9/11 — be a bad thing? The overwhelming majority of Americans have lost a visceral connection with the day. To emphasize the need for this to be a day of recognition can’t possibly be bad, particularly when it challenges the growing apathy you lament above.
Well, the government does, indeed, “force” you to pay taxes and, at least until age 16, go to school. There are serious punitive consequences to not doing so. Not volunteering on 9/11? No punitive consequences at all. I don’t quite get the parallel you’re attempting to draw.
Sure. And?
I don’t really care why people volunteer. Whether it’s to satisfy some deep narcissistic pathologies or out of genuine benevolence, I believe helping other people is good. That’s where it ends for me. What people take from it is their own business.
Is Michelle wearing her $450 sneakers in that photo?
Michelle Obama, that is.
A day of remembrance and service, huh? Okay. I remembered and serviced my firearms after I got home from work.
ECS
So what, according to liberals, are we supposed to do with Pearl Harbor Day? Go out and paint a fence? That would be inappropriate.!
Chapoutier, GW Bush at least could separate an encouragement of voluntary community service versus a day to remember war dead in his actions as President-and I’m not a Bush fan. What Obama did was cheapen the suffering of 9/11…
I’m certain though this would be different for the Big Zero, the El Presidente, if it was 3000 gay-loving Marxist college professors that got wiped out while on vacation (from their monopolistic rent they receive from their teaching positions) while visiting the Twin Trade towers. Why the bellyaching from MSNBC would be overwrought!
You and I both know it.
I’m late to the party. My whole county had a power outage.
If I didn’t know any better I’d swear DC is asking for another terrorist strike.
What rubbish.
I don’t think we’d have much to say about a ‘suggestion’ of ‘service’ from the Prez on Sept. 11, if his rhetoric wasn’t tainted with the subliminal text of who is deserving of said service.
Let’s face it–we know he wants to redistribute wealth.
That’s his ultimate point, and I will not go along with it.
Regardless of the ‘but it’s a good thing, right?’ argument.
We need to keep on the right track and fight with all we have and not leave any stone unturned. The left have had us over a barrel in years past, because we were too polite (or intimidated) to call them out when they rate and rave about the unlearned, unwashed on the right. It is time, and we are doing it now, to not take it anymore.
A few years ago, I had a nice old democrat, tell me that he was afraid he would not get his social security check when Bush was president. I didn’t say anything because it seemed so ridiculous on its face, and I did not want to embarrass him. But now I would not stay silent, I would ask him how he could think such nonsense. No more silence! I am going to in your face for freedom!!
I am not unlearned or unwashed and I have the facts on my side.
The symbolism seems obvious enough–if you paint over it, perhaps people won’t see it anymore, and thus forget about it. And this how our President chooses to remember those murdered on 9/11. The photograph isn’t just shameful–it’s despicable.
He’s wearing a dress shirt, dress slacks and dress shoes to paint. How phony is that? I dont think I can get any sicker of this bunch than I am right now. And we have three and one half years (decades?) to go. God help us.
I’m waiting for The Politically Incorrect Guide To Liberals, Politicians, Racism and The Obama Administration book to come out.
Until then, any comment I may have will get me kicked out of the comment club.
It’ll be a -40 degree day in Hades before I volunteer for any of Obama’s socialist crap. there it is – take it of leave it.
Folks, you really shouldnt give the liberal nutcases like lgm and chap the time of day. It just encourages them.
Has anyone mentioned that photo was taken before he was president. Did it while he was campaigning.
Bruce, are you saying that Reuters is lying when they appended this caption to that photo?
Oh goody. Atheling, Queen of the Pitiably Oblivious.
The only people being holier than thou are all the ones that are insulting the idea of service as a legitimate means of honoring the dead. I couldn’t care less if someone does something, or nothing, in remembrance of 9/11. Some choose community service, others can choose to thank a soldier in the field. Still others, like you, probably chose a different route.
But if you must know, I donated several hours of time to the MMCAAAP. It is a small, but growing organization, that really does wonderful work.
This piece of South Chicago gutter slime is beyond description.
This is a hideous DIS of the thousands that lost their lives on “this day of infamy”
“O”s absence at “ground Zero” on this day speaks volumes. His failure to commemorate this horrific deed, to mourn the lives lost, and to renew our pledge to hunt down and eliminate the forces of Jihad and bringing the perpetrators of this crime to “Justice”
is unconscionable.
PC is Thought Control
LEE
This may shock you but there was actually more than one “Ground Zero” on 9/11. He was at one of them. I guess that is unless you hold the lives of those lost at the Pentagon in less esteem than those lost in NYC.
His failure to observe a moment of silence or to attend a ceremony at the Pentagon? You’re right. That is horrible. Oh wait! Those are things he actually did!!!
I know. Totally inexcusable. He should have said something like this:
Seriously, do you even bother to do the slightest bit of fact checking before spewing such idiotic, and easily disprovable, statements?
MO may have had some potential disciplinary problems as attorney…
http://radarsite.blogspot.com/2009/0…that-isnt.html
Amen!
For too long, I’ve rolled my eyes and sighed rather than get into an argument with an
enlightened, compassionate, intellectually honest, caring,arrogant, know-it-all, holier-than-thou liberal.I’m just a guy living my life. I know what I believe and why I believe it, however I’m live-and-let-live, not political. I don’t want to spend every day in arguments with smug, self-righteous leftists.
However, our silence has allowed the libs to think that they are right, they are winning. and they are in the majority. This nation is waking up and I pray that it is not too late. I speak up in the hope that it is not so.
In 2003, the university I attended had a service on 9/11. A liberal arts, Catholic university, they were, of course, opposed to the military response. Their sole efforts “in memory of” consisted of donations to a local food bank; there were no such donations to the USO, Navy/Marine Corps Relief, or any of the other military support organizations. Thus, the Administration’s “call to service” is no real surprise…apparently, it’s the standard M.O.