Posted on 05/03/2011 4:46:53 AM PDT by Huck
Yesterday should have been a glorious day around here. There should have been fireworks and celebration. There should have been somber remembrances. There should have been patriotic tributes. There should have been shared joy at the news that our guys had finally gotten Bin Laden.
Instead, when I visited the site, what I found was a lot of carping. I found people focused more on the political spin than on the great news. I found people transferring their birther mentality onto this event, talking about Obama faking this news, photoshopping information, etc. It wasn't everybody, but it was a LOT of people. It made me sick.
Yesterday Free Republic seemed like DU. It makes me wonder what the hell is going on. Are Freepers getting younger? I always assume that DU is so pathetically immature because they must be younger. Free Republic has always been a place dominated by great class, and wit, and decency. Not this time. What I saw yesterday was a pathetic embarrassment and totally unworthy of this great forum.
As some of you may know, I was in lower Manhattan on 9-11. I was just across the street from the WTC when the first plane hit. I still remember the beautiful clear blue sky that day. I remember walking in between the towers just a minute or so before 8:46am, on my normal route to work. I remember my co-workers screaming in panic when they watched from an office window as the second plane hit the south tower. I remember women crying and screaming hysterically. I remember not being able to contact my wife to tell her I was OK. I remember people jumping to their deaths. I remember seeing the north tower go down with my own eyes, hearing it with my own ears. I remember fleeing Manhattan. I remember it was a Tuesday.
I remember returning to work the following Monday, riding the ferry passed the site, noxious smoke still billowing from the wreckage. I remember armed troops on the sidewalks. I remember wearing a breathing mask inside my building because the foul odor was seeping in through the ventilation system. I remember thinking we'd really gotten kicked in the teeth. They had killed innocent people, they had traumatized our women and children, and I really wanted revenge. I hung a picture on my wall of the American eagle sharpening his talons.
It has been a long time since that day. It's hard to believe how fast time flies. Then again, if you lost your loved one, I imagine time hasn't gone so fast. I love my wife so much, I can empathize with anyone who has lost the one they love. I can't imagine how that would be, and don't want to know, but I can cry for those people because I know what it is like to find your one true love.
I'm not an Obama fan. I hate socialism. But I am so happy that Bin Laden is killed, and that we have exacted some real revenge. It's about time. The politics don't even play into it for me. I still have the little flag, now tattered, that I flew on my car antenna after 9-11. I want to take it out of storage and put it on my car. I want to see American flags on cars like we saw back then. But it's not going to happen, and partially because the normally patriotic conservatives such as the ones here on Free Republic are instead focused on the politics and the fact that a socialist Democrat was president and will get some of the credit.
I guess you all would have been pissed on D-Day too. FDR was as big a socialist as anyone. I guess VE day and VJ day would have chapped your hides, since Truman was a DEM. I don't mean to paint with a broad brush. I know it wasn't every Freeper acting this way. But when I went on the board, that was the general impression, and it was really disappointing. It should have been a great day here. Instead, I saw a lack of patriotism and a lack of class. Free Republic should be better than this. If conservatives lose their patriotism and class, then what will happen to those virtues? I hope we can get them back soon. In the meantime, thanks for reading.
Respectfully,
Huck
And Here.
Just take a little time and look around. There are a lot of Freepers who were very proud of what our amazing military and our previous president accomplished.
A friend of mine was in one of the Twin Towers on 9/11/2001, killed merely because he went in to work that day. He was in the broadcast television business and was certainly knowledgeable about the way a newsroom works. I know he would have been celebrating OBL's death but would question this administration's veracity nevertheless.
Sorry about that. It WAS unintentional.
I heard that expressed about five times today in various media interviews. Some caught their error but many did not.
For whatever it's worth, the otherwise great occasion was spoiled by the attitude of the Great American Rat, and his arrogant smarmy attitude... I...I...Me... and "...it really happened, trust me.
You peons not in DC don't need any more information than that!"
So get over it.
“Absence of proof is not evidence of a conspiracy.”
Actually, absesnce of proof PROVES just how good the cover-up actually is. . .
(Gabbing my tin-foil hat)
I guess it’s only natural, but it can be very embarrassing.
I’ll bet the talking heads were mortified, especially if they were Lefties.
Since the picture included a general, an admiral, and the secretary of defense, that seems unlikely.
You're right . . . my indefinite pronouns was too inclusive.
Howz' about "All non-military people in that room photo where Obozo was wearing his golfing outfit hate the military with a passion."?
That makes no sense; we only look weak by failing to get the story straight to start with. I also don’t trust a gubmint like the one we have now that continually BS’s us and tries to redefine history. Jay Carney even said that it was “strange credulity” to think that an 8 yr old intel break on bin laden’s courier eventually led to his downfall, yet that is exactly what has been reported by the CIA and DoD for two days now. Carney is a lying little weasel!
JC
Of course.
There are many poster names that I unconsciously skip on automatic pilot.
It doesn't take long to identify Freepers who are either ignorant, or educated way beyond their intelligence.
Invariably, they confuse opinion with facts and actual argument.
Your comments were well stated anyway, as always.
I count nine "I"s and three "my"s. Of course there could have been fewer and more mention of the troops and each little "I" or "my" might have stung, but that number isn't completely beyond reason.
I guess a lot of how people think about this depends on how plugged in they are to political opinion -- and nowadays more and more people are, so their reactions reflect political considerations.
I missed President Obama's speech and didn't find out about what happened until the next day. I was glad we got Osama and that a chapter may have come to a close.
Sure Obama gets a bump up in the polls, but it wasn't about him. It was about America, about all of us. Too much focus on him one way or the other takes away from what's really important.
Hmmm ... 6 "I"s. That's enough.
Well said. Lots of loonies bubbling to the top now.
Thank you Arasina. I appreciate it.
Thanks the info...I took the “count” from some editorials I read...they went just “I”s, but 24 personal pronouns.
IOW, if everything was all different; then - everything would be all different.
That is the standard talk radio Bush-apologist narrative that leaves out a few small details of what GWB was doing:
All you have to do is search and all these references to Bush taking credit for promoting home-ownership to those minorities that couldnt afford it or even read the contracts (probably many illegals too.) . Then when it crashed these poor bad credit minorities blamed Republicans. Compassionate conservativism was a disaster.
President Bush Mortgage Speech 2002(Helping those w bad credit buy houses)
Early in George W. Bush’s first administration, a home ownership initiative was introduced, sometimes referred to as the Blueprint for the American Dream, to close the homeownership gap by 5.5 million minority families. Along with this homeownership initiative, there were other policies implemented to dismantle barriers to homeownership in minority communities.” from :
The Great American Mortgage Scam & The Latino Community
Here’s a good editorial on Obama’s raging, out-of-control, over-the-top narcissism:
The ‘it’s all about me’ President’:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/03/the-its-all-about-me-president/
Here’s a quote:
Second, it was stunning how frequently Obama used the words “I,” “me” and “my” in his speech. He made it all about himself.
Thank you...
The first two links are the same article, and not what I’m talking about. The last one—with the 20 measly replies—is the kind of thing I was looking for. Of course, on a big news day around here, there ought to be many threads like that. But not this time.
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