[kattracks]

Notice that both the title and the content have changed from this earlier report. Did the AP rush out to find the other people whose positive remarks are added in the second report, or did they just not bother adding them in the first?

9/11 Victims' Kin Angered by Bush Ads (Big time media bias alert)

Could the fact that the AP's bias was so very obvious and truly angered so many people have had this result.

[My2Cents]

Are the naysayers the ones who also rejected the first government 9/11 settlement because they considered it too low (thereby wanting to profit from the loss of their family members)?

[My2Cents]

"It makes me sick," said Colleen Kelly, who lost her brother Bill Kelly Jr., in the attacks and leads a victims families group called Peaceful Tomorrows. "Would you ever go to someone's grave site and use that as an instrument of politics?

Isn't this what John Kerry is doing, dancing on the graves of those who fought and died in Vietnam, trying to make his service there a political plus?

[NetValue]

Nine-eleven belongs to all Americans. Liberals cannot accept that because they are not Americans. They certainly object to free speech.

[My2Cents]

But the images in the Bush ads have sparked a furor.Yeah, because the furor is orchestrated.

I would think the families of 9/11 victims would be more angry with the Democrats, whose attitude seems to be, "9/11? Let's move on..."

[Mike Darancette]

leads a victims families group called Peaceful Tomorrows.

And who is Colleen Kelly and Peaceful Tomorrows? Read on.

Colleen's Excellent adventure to Iraq - Human Shield Alert

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1090784/posts

Sept. 11 Families Disgusted by Bush Campaign Ads
Yahoo (Reuters) ^ | 3/4/04 | Mark Egan

People that protest this ad would rather forget about 9/11. Guess what? It did happen and during Bush's presidency. Not only does he have a RIGHT to reference the event, he has an OBLIGATION to do so...

These people put their own political agenda ahead of the country's safety.

Doyle and Willett--

"Quite honestly, he probably would have gotten booed," Bill Doyle, who lost his son Joey in the attack, said of a Bush visit.

 The 9-11 Visibility Project.

Meet the Willet family.Willets..

Mr. Doyle is in the liberal media rolodex. Every time they need a quote attacking Bush, he's there with fresh new material: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/05/17/families.htm
Willett is a real piece of work: A letter to the FTC.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I'm just about sick of the 9/11 families pissing and moaning about everything. I'm sorry that they lost family members and I take it very personally myself, but I'm tired of them bitching that nothing they get is ever good enough and they alone should hold sway over public opinion, media coverage, and memorials of that fateful day. They greatly over-estimate the number of people who really give a crap what they think. Take the $1.6 million, go buy a condo and a Mercedes, and shut the hell up. Their settlement is more than anybody else's survivor benefits and they've received more public sympathy than any other group of victims in American history with the possible exception of concentration camp Jews. Enough already. < /rant off >

[Libloather]

...a firefighters union...

Aren't these gubmint workers? And would it really be proper if they become partisan - like this?

[Tacis]

Many of the kin of the survivors (and their lawyers) are still jockeying for big bucks. All this "I am offended" stuff is just posturing. New York City unions are ultra dem and a union member from NYC is unquestionably going to speak for the dems (some might actually vote correctly, but, if they talk at all, it'll be for the lefties).

[GreenHornet]

The Democrats prefer that 9/11 be forgotten. We will never forget.

[fight_truth_decay]

Jennie Farrell, who lost her brother, electrician James Cartier, called the ad "tastefully done," adding: "It speaks to the truth of the times. Sept. 11 ... was something beyond the realm of imagination, and George Bush ... led us through one of the darkest moments in history."

... one other point of view..well said!

[Mark]

I want to see an ad with a thousand police, firemen,relatives of victims of 911 supporting Bush and calling Kerry's complaints disgusting and shaming the firefighters' union.

[Ann Archy]

Bush just BREATHING angers Colleen I'm sure.

Hey B*TCH....men have DIED to avenge your brother's death...Perfect STRANGERS have DIED so that wouldn't happen to anyone else in your family...B8TCH! I am sick of these professional Democrat victims that Bush has tried to help...he gave them our HARD-EARNED MONEY also!!!

I apoligize in advance.

[faithincowboys]

I am amazed by this. After all the money and support (emotional and otherwise) that has been given to these families-- the way that some are acting so nakedly partisan and petty is sad.

We didn't give the people of OKC anything and they have never behaved in this manner. It's a real shame how some 9-11 families are behaving.

[Jorge]

Nobody should be surprised that there are some liberal Bush haters among the relatives of some 9-11 victims, and they will blast Bush no matter what he does.

The fact remains that 9-11 and the war on terrorism are enormously important issues to ALL Americans and must be considered in this election.

The Dems are really upset about this because they know that national security is Bush's strong point and it is their weak point.

They might even remember that after 9-11 many Dems openly admitted they were glad Bush was in the White House. Including my very liberal Dem mother!

[pgkdan]

The problem I have with these 9-11 family groups is that they act as though 9-11 happened only to them...it was an attack on our nation, not just their families. I'm truly sorry for their loss, but we were all affected by 9-11 and President Bush is ABSOLUTELY justified in using that footage. I love the ad and he should play it for two week s now, do anther rotation this summer and another beefore the election.

[pgkdan]

Kristen Breitweiser, of Middletown Township, N.J., whose husband, Ronald Breitweiser, died in the World Trade Center, said Bush should not use the tragedy as "political propaganda."

"Three thousand people were murdered on President Bush's watch," Breitweiser said. "He has not cooperated with the investigation to find out why that happened," a reference to the effort the Bush administration has made in working with the Sept. 11 commission investigating the intelligence failures.

That's a bald faced lie from an ungrateful b*tch!

[jaz.357]

[small voice in the wilderness]

Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who lost 700 constituents in the attacks, sent a letter to Bush, asking him to pull the ads.

Frank luatenberg, who shouldn't even be a Senator, dares to open his pie-hole and pass judgement on a President who inherited this crap from a lying, pass the buck ba**ard, who never met a situation he couldn't exploit, ignore, or blame on someone else? Excuse me, I have officially had enough. This is just the most disgusting political ploy of desperate democrats I have seen to date. Pathetic POS. All of them.

[TC Rider]

It makes me sick. The same old 9/11 activists banging the drum, and union hacks for Kerry.

Does it bother anyone else that the firefighters are:
a: Unionized?
b: supporting Kerry?

We were in the UK, back in November of '02 when their fire brigades went on strike and locked down their equipment. Military forces with antiquated equipment were on call for fire duty. Is this what we have to expect?