I think Henry would agree with your assessment that both sides do it, and that it is reprehensible. But the tone of a lot of posts seems to be that the left has taken it too far this time. This time it is over the line. When the Right exploits 9-11 for more defense spending and two wars, that is OK. Why? Because they waited longer than a day? Is that it? Political opportunism is fine as long as there is a waiting period at least as long ss it takes to get a hand gun?
I realize we have grown numb to it, but political opportunism in these situations is disgusting and both sides should be above it. That one side takes the opportunity to bash the other side for going "beyond the pale" is laughable to me, and to me indicates that side is angry they couldn't think of their own way to capitalize first.
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Goaldie......3000 people were killed on 9/11. was the United States supposed to sit on its hands and use quiet diplomacy to unsuccessfully root out terrorists its intentionally weakened intelligence agencies couldn't inhibit? are you suggesting that the acts of a crazed gunman and a group of terrorists supported by Nation States in the Middle East are equivalent? Are you suggesting that the current exploitative responses on the part of the Left and the Congressional/UN processes that were engaged in are equivalent in scope, depth and participation?
speaking of a hijack! nice try.
no...here's what's really going on: anyone who has paid attention since at least the run-up to the last Presidential election - who has followed the white hot verbal violence promulgated on Leftist web sites and blogs, anyone who has watched fundamentally corrupt processes like Obamacare legislation unfold, anyone who observed the near treasonous actions of Democrats in the two years leading up to the election while their friends were in the field fighting the wars you so object to, anyone who has observed hijacked elections in states like Minnesota, anyone who has paid attention to the backgrounds of all these Czars populating the administration, anyone who has observed the complete lack of culpability by Fanny/Freddie execs now littered throughout the administration, anyone who is appalled at the political language games played by our DHS head and in the immediate aftermath of the Nadel terrorism, anyone who has listened to explosive phraseology employed by Obama/Pelosi/Reid et al, anyone who rejects the pornographic and ineffective "security" at our airports, anyone who observed the incompetent and politically exploitative handling of the BP spill, anyone who has observed the incompetent safeguarding of State secrets, anyone who has observed a failing Middle East policy, anyone who has watched Iran methodically develop nuclear weapons, anyone who has watched this President alienate traditional allies, anyone who has seen films fantasizing about assassinations, anyone who has noted Congressional corruption whizzing by with hand slaps, anyone who has observed an administration violating bond holder rights wholesale, anyone who has watched State courts overturn the results of Democratic elections for political reasons, anyone who has noted the INCREASED polarization under this administration, anyone who has paid attention to the vulgarity of a media and political class that demonized millions of people as "Tea Baggers", anyone who had to survive "teachable moments" based on incorrect factual understandings, anyone who took the time to think about large groups of Left leaning "professionals" collaborating on Juornolist to manipulate political commentary, anyone who accorded even passing credibility to manipulative actions at East Anglia, anyone who saw how many of the benighted have been making a ton of money during all of this, anyone who has taken an interest in which names are most frequent on the White House visitors list, anyone who followed what amendments were actually proposed during the health care debates (as opposed to the media implied inaction), anyone who watched the sham health care summit, anyone who has watched the deficit explode, anyone who observed early on how the new President sent his wife to politically divide the military, anyone who has seen the exorbitant and profligate habits of the Obamas/Pelosis/Clintons on taxpayer dime, anyone who watched such as Henry Rollins' violent and obscene rants on Left leaning cable channels, anyone who has noted the politicization and corruption of the arts, anyone who has watched the totally excessive assaults on Palin, anyone who tracks who is actually writing many of these huge legislative packages, anyone who has been tracking the money flows from such as Soros, anyone mildly concerned about justice at the Justice Dept, anyone who is mildly interested in the murky connections between our President and ACORN/SEIU, anyone wondering why it is ok for senior administration officials not to pay taxes, anyone wondering what happened to transparency and performance based government service, anyone wary of a White House soliciting Americans to report other Americans on its web site, anyone who has a pulse......
might think things have gone somewhat awry since 2008....and that the time has long passed to clean house. I'm not a Tea Partier, but what do you think that movement is all about?