Posted on 05/04/2011 1:35:09 PM PDT by jazusamo
Unconscionable. Politicizing. A slap in the face. Those were the kinds of phrases the left deployed against President George W. Bush to suggest he was exploiting the memory of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. These same voices are now giddy with delight at the prospect of President Obama’s “mission accomplished” visit to Ground Zero on Thursday. Such hypocrisy is par for the course.
Under other circumstances the planned wreath-laying would invite less controversy. Honoring those who fell on 9/11 days after Osama bin Laden’s demise is fitting. Given the care Mr. Obama ordered be given bin Laden’s remains, it would be unseemly if the killer received more respect than his victims. Yet liberal Democrats have poisoned the well over the past decade, lending Mr. Obama’s actions the appearance of opportunistic political theater - particularly given the approach of the 2012 campaign season.
In the spring of 2004, Democrats and liberals were outraged at images of 9/11 responders that appeared in a Bush campaign ad. “It’s a slap in the face of the murders of 3,000 people,” said Monica Gabrielle, whose husband Richard died in the attacks. “It is unconscionable.” Mrs. Gabrielle helped run a group called September 11th Advocates and was then-Senator Hillary Clinton’s guest at the State of the Union address in 2006. No politics involved in any of that apparently. When John Kerry ran an ad later in 2004 featuring widows of men killed in the attack the left was fine with it. “There’s a big difference,” the Kerry campaign blustered, “between using footage of ground zero, which is hallowed ground - and politicizing it - and someone coming to us wanting to pursue intelligence reform and advance our country’s security.” Sure there is, tell us another one.
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They were threatening GWB with impeachment and war crimes trials for the very policies that led to OBLs death. When GWB captured Saddam Hussein, they cheered for the guy the threw a shoe at him yet they raise BHO up on their shoulders and tout themselves as the “national defense” party. Hypocrites one and all.
That hypocrisy is one of the reasons I am no longer a democrat.
I think it’s jealousy. Those on the right are willing to stand up to the evil that makes the left cringe.
They really want to be more like us than they care to admit.
Wouldn’t this celebrating and cheering have been considered “swagger”? Remember how THAT term was thrown around?
If it weren’t for double standards the left wouldn’t have any.
There aren’t words for how hideous, how cynical, this is.
Of course, President Bush would not be part of it.
And I wish, hope and pray that no one victimized by the terrorists on 9/11/2001, none of the heroes or their families, would be a part of it.
If the media ever stopped justifying the double standards, contradictions and hypocrisy of the Left the Democrat Party would implode overnight.
just another day in Obamaland.
they’re liars, cheats, and hypocrites and we need to keep pointing that out;furthermore, we need them to respond to their lies and hypocrisy even if it’s just a long string of denials. It’s time to let the conspiracies take a back seat and time to beat them over the head with the undeniable truth.
It was said that Obama did not have a weapon and was shot because he resisted, can anyone imagine if this was on Bush’s watch and this info came out???
No doubt this monica will be wearing her knee pads when visiting with the princess boy.
Indeed.
Wanna bet that not one of the 40 SEALS votes democrat?
I wonder if 0 will give the CIA credit for pulling the trigger on UBL.
Maybe that is why they want the military gay-friendly.
The Left Cheers Barack After Jeering George”
Scu&bag Progressives will always be scu%bag progressives.
IMHO
Freudian slip there?
A little wishful thinking, perhaps?
I wonder how many of the Obama supporters of Bin Laden’s execution would support the death penalty in general for convicted murderers? How about the death penalty for Bin Laden himself if we had captured him alive? I bet none.
AMEN!
I'm not sure any other event has blown the cover off the shameless hypocrisy of the left more clearly than this has.
Do they really, really think that Americans don't remember the constant drumbeat of hatred against President Bush for doing the very things that they are now praising Obama for carrying out?
I know the left is filled with elitist morons, but do they actually think we're THIS stupid??
(Don't answer that... ;)
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