Posted on 08/24/2009 9:39:06 AM PDT by the anti-liberal
Matthew Vadum reports that Obama’s left-wing allies are preparing plans to re-brand 9/11 as a national service/eco-zealot propaganda day.
The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.
This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year’s election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it’s not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.
The administration’s plans were outlined in an Aug. 11 White House-sponsored teleconference call run by Obama ally Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, and Liv Havstad, the group’s senior vice president of strategic partnerships and programs.
Yearwood, who uses the honorific “Reverend” before his name, has been in the news in recent years, usually for getting arrested. After Democrats took back Congress, the rowdy activist was handcuffed outside a congressional hearing in September 2007 when Gen. David Petraeus was to testify. Yearwood told the “Democracy Now” radio program that he wanted to attend the hearing to hear Petraeus give his report. “I knew that when officers lie, soldiers die,” he said.
On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something “positive,” “forward-leaning,” and “productive,” said a source with knowledge of the teleconference.
The plan is to turn a “day of fear” that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.
Makes perfect sense coming from a president who believes that the root of 9/11 jihadi stems “from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers.”
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The provision turning 9/11 into a “National Day of Service” was lodged in the massive national service expansion bill – GIVE/SERVE — signed into law this spring.
Reminder: Only 14 Republicans in the Senate voted against the bill.
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Have you signed up for Project 2996 yet?
FUBO.
Just when you think things couldn’t possibly be any worse...
I really want to thank all those who didn’t vote for McCain and instead sat home with their noses in the air. /s
I am SO pissed!
9-11 victims & heros ! ...screw you, we're making 9-11 ACORN DAY!
The list, ping
Seems Cornyn voted against and KBH voted for it.
The only way 9/11 will be a “National Day of Service” is if your nose is to the charging handle.
After the Ramadan thing, and everything else, how can anyone doubt that he was and is a muslim? Even the independents and lefties must recognize it by now - "we are a muslim nation."
Insanity run amok indeed.
Wrong, Cornyn did not cast vote. ...sorry.
I want to see them suffer for it come election time.
That’s for sure and I hear rumblings here already that there will be more folks staying home if their nominee of choice doesn’t get the nod. How insane can it get??
People are getting fed up and disillusioned with politics and government in general. Many folks, my self included, don’t trust either side of the aisle.
Clue Number 1: 0 is from Chicago. It’s Chicago’s Daley Machine of the 21st century in terms of bully politics.
This is the way totalitarians work. Change the meaning of everything. Surely Obama isn’t a totalitarian!
Obama spends every day giving America the finger.
(I suppose it’s possible that those imbecile Republicans who voted for this assault on the memory of those we lost on that day hadn’t read the bill and didn’t know this insipid item was included. We need to throw them all out of office and elect people with the ability and humility to actually read the effing bills they sign.)
To me, all these leftist groups that are in with Obama are dead, figuratively. I pay no attention to them and their schemes, and their rhetoric.
Celebrate government slavery on 9/11
Then the American people and their country might be safe from Congress as nearly no new bill or law would be passed each session.
Only libs would fail to see the irony.
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