"On this occasion, we celebrate the holy month of Ramadan and we also celebrate how much Muslims have enriched America and its culture in ways both large and small," Barack Hussein Obama.
Posted on 09/02/2009 4:52:01 AM PDT by OK Right
Liberals have a penchant for revising history, but some of their recent rewrites are especially alarming.
Look at the sanctification of Sen. Edward Kennedy, which is moving beyond whitewash and into fantastic territories. Modern liberalism strikes again in blogger Melissa Lafsky’s Huffington Post article, “The Footnote Speaks: What Would Mary Jo Kopechne Have Thought of Ted’s Career?” (8/27/09). Incredibly, Lafsky wonders what Kopechne, the young woman Teddy left to drown in Chappaquiddick, would think about Kennedy’s life and career. Lafsky’s conclusion: “Who Knows – Maybe She’d Feel It Was Worth It” (The Huffington Post, August 27, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-lafsky/the-footnote-speaks-what_b_270298.html). You read that right: Lafsky speculates that Mary Jo might think Kennedy went on to do so much good that it was worth her drowning to advance the man’s career!
She’s not the only female championing Teddy. Another who should know better and who at one time slammed him in a book, Joyce Carol Oates, all but praises the departed senator for the success of his second act (Joyce Carol Oates, “Kennedy’s redemption from the depths,” August 27, 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/27/edward-kennedy-usa).
Then we have President Obama’s National Security Advisor, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), who claims that Obama’s rhetorical skills are doing more to punch out international terrorism than any move enacted by the Bush administration. According to Jones, because of the president’s willingness “ to discuss things with other rulers to enhance the working relationships with law enforcement agencies” America is making more headway in the war than ever before (Jake Tapper, “ABC News Exclusive: National Security Adviser Says President Obama is Having Greater Success Taking Terrorists Out of Commission Than Bush Did,” ABC News, August 31, 2009, http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/08/abc-news-exclusive-national-security-adviser-says-president-obama-is-having-greater-success-taking-t.html).
(Right. That’s why al-Qaeda is making a startling comeback in Afghanistan; why Pakistan’s terrorist incidents are on the upswing; why last Friday, Pakistan diffidently released nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan, who many intelligence officials in America and India consider a serious threat to international peace; why Iraq just lived its most violent month since the days of the surge; why Scotland released the Lockerbie bomber; why the UAE just intercepted a ship carrying weaponry from North Korea to Iran.)
But maybe the most disturbing revision of history that’s in the works is the watering down of September 11. It’s tempting to blame Obama for what seems to be an egotistical usurping of the day to advance one of his pet causes. To do so, however, would make us guilty of our own quibble. We don’t want to revise history, but rather track the blame. To do so, we need to return to Ted Kennedy and the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. The bill called for Americans to volunteer their services as a way to honor the fallen on September 11. On April 21, 2009, Obama signed the bill into law (surprise, surprise), but even before that, President George W. Bush and some conservative members of Congress supported the idea of volunteerism on September 11. That doesn’t make it right. Instead of remembering those whom we lost and the ramifications of this most egregious attack on our country, liberals want us to showcase ourselves as meek citizens behaving in a penitent fashion. This besmirches the memory of that horrific day.
It also reminds OK of an incident at our own university the day after the Towers fell. The students got together and wanted to sing “The Star Spangled Banner.” Liberal professors cried foul. They said that to do so was to send out the wrong message. They believed students should sing “America the Beautiful” instead. OK disagreed. We believe the students had the right idea. What was wrong with singing a song affirming our nation’s resilience in the aftermath of the blow that had just been leveled upon us?
Conservatives should fight against this damaging revision of the history books. September 11 should not be a day in which we pretend that nothing happened. It should be a day to remember our dead and one of the most violent attacks on American soil.
Disgusting. No other word for it. It is disgusting how liberals, who consistently consider themselves "more enlightened" than everyone else, have this hero-worship complex over their elitist leadership. What is it about the liberal mindset that needs to elevate their perceived leaders to such heights that they literally worship them? Do they want or need some self-serving elitist {expletive} telling them what to do? Are they that weak of will and character that they need "adult supervision?"
Then we have President Obama’s National Security Advisor, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), who claims that Obama’s rhetorical skills are doing more to punch out international terrorism than any move enacted by the Bush administration.
Gen. Jones is either laughably naive or simply attempting to toe the party line for the far left of the 'rat party. History shows, to those that bother to learn from it, that attempting a "soft" approach or appeasement to thugs, dictators, and terrorists has a 100% failure rate. Think about it, the foreign policy adopted by obama is known-to, heck, guaranteed-to fail. Yet obama and his cohorts have gone down this path anyway. Why? Do they want international terrorism to become stronger? Do they want America attacked, our interests damaged across the globe? What possible reason could obama give for adopting a policy we all know is going to ultimately fail? I think he just doesn't give a da*n about America. He is only concerned with advancing his own perceived greatness, and attempting to impose the obama agenda on America. His foreign policy is just a sop to the far left in the 'rat party.
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We must never forget those almost 3,000 innocent Americans who were murdered by the Islamists.
Don’t let Obama desecrate the memory of those who lost their lives at the hands of his fellow Muslim murderers. Every American should view this video made by a New Yorker who lived through the attack:
http://attacked911.tripod.com/
This video has been viewed by untold millions and is now in the Smithsonian. (Sadly, the New Yorker who made the video has since succumbed to lung damage sustained during the attack)
The video includes the planes crashing into the buildings and victims jumping. There are pictures of many of those who lost their lives, and president Bush’s aftermath speech set to the haunting background music, ‘Only Time’ by Enya. Awesome.
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"On this occasion, we celebrate the holy month of Ramadan and we also celebrate how much Muslims have enriched America and its culture in ways both large and small," Barack Hussein Obama.
Excellent video. I have seen similar, but none as good as this one. We should make sure history is not rewritten, nor should be allow those who kept us safe to be punished. ARE YOU LISTENING OBAMA!!!
Never forget, but more importantly, NEVER AGAIN.
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