Oh for Christ’s sake.
Back in April, President Obama signed a law establishing September 11 as an annually recognized “National Day of Service and Remembrance.”
Reaction on the right? Uh, about what you’d expect:
The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.
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The plan is to turn a “day of fear” that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.
I swear, if Obama reinstituted slavery, volunteered to put himself and his own family on the auction block first, and handed the keys to the White House to Michele Bachmann, these people would still find something to complain about. It’s what they do.
What surprises me is the bald statement that, to Republicans, 9/11 is a “day of fear.” Not only did they milk the fear out of 9/11 every day for seven long years, now they come right out and admit it! As if fear is a virtue! As if self-sacrifice and service to others is a sin! As if America became first among nations by being fearful! Do they even hear what they’re saying?
I am just staggered. You really cannot reason with people like this. As Jon Stewart said to Betsy McCaughey, the woman behind the death panel lies, “I don’t understand how your brain works.”