Author Topic: Bush's 9/11 Boasting Backfires (Read 2774 times)

rpm · « **on:** March 04, 2004, 11:21:59 AM »

From CBS News

(CBS/AP) President Bush's use of images from the Sept. 11 terror attacks in campaign commercials has drawn criticism from the families of some victims, who say the ads are in poor taste.

“It's a slap in the face of the murders of 3,000 people,” Monica Gabrielle, whose husband died in the twin towers, told the New York Daily News for its Thursday editions. “It is unconscionable.”

“It's as sick as people who stole things out of the place,” said firefighter Tommy Fee. “The image of firefighters at ground zero should not be used for this stuff, for politics.”

“I would be less offended if he showed a picture of himself in front of the Statue of Liberty,” said Tom Roger, whose daughter perished on the plane that crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. “But to show the horror of 9/11 in the background, that's just some advertising agency's attempt to grab people by the throat.”

“With all due respect, I just completely disagree,"Karen Hughes, a Bush campaign adviser.
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Subtle and compassionate. Sounds like Bush to me.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** March 04, 2004, 11:28:13 AM »

Naturally they draw critics, most of the victims families are from New York, and that is a predominently democratic state.

I said in another thread, if Kerry gets voted in, move out of the big cities.

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #2 on:** March 04, 2004, 11:33:17 AM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort

I said in another thread, if Kerry gets voted in, move out of the big cities.

Funny at first, but not when you think about it a bit...

national security candidste.. tsktsk

SirLoin · « **Reply #3 on:** March 04, 2004, 11:36:44 AM »

And just when I though politics could not get any sleazier...Along comes this...What next?..The Statue of Liberty has it's breast exposed by Sen Kerry?

Thud · « **Reply #4 on:** March 04, 2004, 11:49:23 AM »

Lowlife...

And that from the one who supposedly brought morals back in the whitehouse.
How much lower will he go when the realization he's going to lose sinks in, how much more people will be hurt in the process?

Ripsnort · « **Reply #5 on:** March 04, 2004, 11:53:36 AM »

Tell me exactly whats so offensive of a president, who nursed this nation through one its deepest, darkest hours, to be pictured in front of an event that occured? I don't get it. He *was* the standing president when the tragedy occured. For God's sake he broke a record for an approval rating 3 months after the event that no president had done before him! I think folks are using this as a tool to lash out at Bush, nothing new. Carry on...

Thud · « **Reply #6 on:** March 04, 2004, 11:55:32 AM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
...who nursed this nation through one its deepest, darkest hours, ...to be pictured in front of an event that occured? I don't get it.

Nursed, blundered... it's a fine line, oh wait, it isn't.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #7 on:** March 04, 2004, 12:00:44 PM »

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Originally posted by Thud
Nursed, blundered... it's a fine line, oh wait, it isn't.

Afraid to answer the question? No worries.

Okay, I'll make it easy for you. What exactly did Bush blunder on 9/11 or the few months that followed?

SirLoin · « **Reply #8 on:** March 04, 2004, 12:01:48 PM »

He nursed Haliburton Inc through this..That's for sure.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #9 on:** March 04, 2004, 12:02:40 PM »

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Originally posted by SirLoin
He nursed Haliburton through this..That's for sure.

I can understand why one would try to change the subject on such a difficult question.

SirLoin · « **Reply #10 on:** March 04, 2004, 12:06:18 PM »

Search "Al Capone's Vault" Aces High BBS if you want a simple answer.

"It's for the children"..Right?

LePaul · « **Reply #11 on:** March 04, 2004, 12:07:34 PM »

Rest assured if the Dems were in the White House and this happened, and it was they who showed/referenced 9/11 imagery to show how things have changed from then on, it would be appluaded. Just imagine a Micheal Moore~ish spin and it would be hailed for Academy Awards

The degree of hate people have for Bush, or anything republican, has no bounds.

It just angst these people that Bush responded thoroughly and quickly to the events of 9/11...and yes, he deserves credit for that. That's what being a leader is all about.

Thud · « **Reply #12 on:** March 04, 2004, 12:08:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Afraid to answer the question? No worries.

Okay, I'll make it easy for you. What exactly did Bush blunder on 9/11 or the few months that followed?

He allowed the overt dicrimination of certain foreigners even up to blatant rounding up of individuals based on ethnicity. He had a big part in passing laws that moved the US dangerouly close to a police state and he attacked a country for all the wrong reasons. He lied to the American public about the war and more importantly to the servicemen and women.

Talk about blundering...

Frogm4n · « **Reply #13 on:** March 04, 2004, 12:15:00 PM »

Thats pretty sick.
New low for the republicans, but then again they are holding their convention in New York and moved the date back so it is closer to sept 11th.

Thanks Carl Rove for lowering the bar even more.

Gixer · « **Reply #14 on:** March 04, 2004, 12:23:25 PM »

True Bush has done well since 9/11 US credibilty in the world is probably lower now then it's ever been.

~~...-Gixer~~