I am sorry if you think that we in this country do not care about others lost on that day. I am sorry that you feel we are not cognizant of your losses. It is just that so many of us saw it either first hand or on tv as it happened and it has left a lasting impression on us. IMO, the election of Obama as our president had noting to do with 9/11. Many of us are stunned by his suggestions as to how we should remember that day.
Thank you for your sympathy. President Obama has the approval of over 50% of your citizens so Americans are not sick and tired of him, you are. And what about the 47 million Americans who cannot afford adequate medical care? How were his plans to give them medical care “harmful” to their physical or emotional well-being? I have a family in the US and their medical stories are a nightmare to someone from a country with free medical care for all.
Do you actually realise how much the election of President Obama and his actions have done for the US? He has restored your country’s reputation on the world stage, something that the previous administration had all but destroyed. I think he has immense pride in his nation and it’s best interests at heart, he is willing to risk his life for it after all, as everyone knows that as the first Black President, he is at high risk of assassination. President Obama has given you something to be so proud of, he is looked up to by the whole world. We all see a man who is very proud of his country, who is trying to revive its economy but is being blocked by those who refuse to accept that you need to spend money to get out of recession.
Do you think the rest of the world didn’t watch with equal horror? Do you think I wasn’t on my knees in front of the TV begging God to let the person I loved, and others who worked there, be ok? Do you think I didn’t scream when the tower he worked in collapsed? For everyone around the world, 9/11 is our “where were you when you heard Kennedy had been shot?” moment. I vividly remember seeing Yasser Arafat being interviewed that day, he had the look of dazed horror that we all had, and he symbolicly donated blood for the survivors, before we knew that there weren’t going to be many.
Obama is a joke on the world stage. Everyone knows it except a few die-hards and real believers who refuse to admit they made a mistake by voting for him. Everything you have said is exactly the opposite of what happens in the real world. If they came out with an Obamamobile, would you buy one?
Parasites feed well off their host.
Remember the scene in the movie The Ten Commandments where the pharaoh banished Moses? “Let the name ‘Moses’ be struck from every tablet and scroll; let it be struck from every pylon and obelisk; let the name ‘Moses’ never be spoken again; let the name ‘Moses’ be forgotten from the memory of men.” This was an attempt to ban him from the after life since the Egyptians believed that a person lived as long as his name was spoken or remembered. We know this doesn’t work, and we must remember people like Obama so as not to repeat the colossal mistake of putting such a loser in office ever again. The biggest lesson IMHO is to equate eloquent oratory for capability.
Capisco. And you’re absolutely right.
I agree. It regret the fact that I will have to walk around with the memory of this pathectic vaudevillian, this Commie-loving, snotty elitist twit actually having been President of the United States (!!!) and having run my country for four years. God, what a low, low point in our history.
Yes, but I’m afraid in this case it’s the hyenas that are feeding off the decaying corpse that died of a self-inflicted disease.
I agree with you about a day for reflection—and reflect I will: to feel pride for what my country once was, distress over what it has become, and to mourn for how it will inevitably end up, should current trends continue----and regrettably I see no way of changing them.
On December 7, 1951, how many Americans do you think “reflected” on the attack on Pearl Harbor ten years prior? If it isn’t zero, it is very close to it because the American people had more than enough common sense in those days than to blame the victim, IOW, themselves.
The only things I will “reflect” on this September 11 are the immortal words of Winston Churchill: how to “rid the world of their shadows.” oocities.org/vvswarup/churchillspeech.html
What polls are you going by? Here’s the Rasmussen rating on Obama:
Who is taking about blaming the victim except you?
What does this have to do with 9/11, least of all, the Jews?
Each to his own reflections.
I know liberal Newspeak when I encounter it. In the days following 9/11, the usual liberal, blame-America-first talking heads were all saying that we should reflect on “What did we [Americans] do to them to deserve such an atrocity?”
Haven’t you been listening to what the terrorists have been telling us since as far back as the early 1990s?
True or false: All opinions are equal.
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The reflections I was referring to are to reflections we might make now, ten years after the attack. Perhaps you had a friend die when the WTC collapsed or knew someone made sick as a responder. I knew both - a young woman who died and a fireman who had to retire because of the toxicity. I’ll be thinking about them as well as including them in my prayers at Mass.
Are the terrorists talking about guidelines for September 11 observations per the topic of this thread?? If not, it is irrelevant.
On this Forum, with all our self-appointed experts, true.
I see our Scottish friend has given the Tea Party credit for bringing down our credit rating. What a knee-jerk reaction. Obviously this economist has no idea what the Tea Party is. He also fails to know that S&P and other credit rating organizations have been warning us for quite some time that the spending has to stop. It always amazes me when people who do not live here and from their posts, do not know what is going on here, have so much to say slamming the US. Some of those same people come with their hands out when they have a disaster.
You expect them, riding on white stallions, and swinging scimitars to come charging off red-sailed dhows in New York and Boston harbors sweeping all before them?