I live and work in downtown DC, and felt 9/11 very keenly. I recall vividly reading on FR that Tuesday AM, about the towers being hit, then the Pentagon, and just leaving my ofc and fleeing to retrieve my 3 kids from their elementary school in VA. Sunday PM, the Caps had just lost a close playoff game, and i read that Obama wanted to speak at 10:30 pm and they were saying that bin Laden was dead. i wanted to be happy. i was nonplussed and wary. i wanted to feel patriotic and jubilant. but i just didn’t have it in me. i am suspicious of everything that this president says and does because i know he is totally self-serving. it is not a good feeling to want to be happy about it and yet not be able to muster the feelings.
That flash mob in front of the White House looked, suspicious to me. Am I the only one who got that vibe?
I know exactly what you mean. Even having this discussion this morning I almost feel guilty not feeling more joyous but I just don't. I feel very doubtful, like I'm being scammed somehow.
I also want to say that I was on FR yesterday morning, early, but not the rest of the day. I don't know how conspiratorial it got as the day progressed but the posts I saw didn't reflect poorly on FR given the utter lack of information we had available to judge the situation.