Photo Op? Or attempted murder?
Current Affairs, Politics 08/04/2004 |Pratridiot Watch takes Bush to task for using the recent security alerts as a photo op for Laura and the twins.
The day after Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge announced with great urgency an fanfare that they had specific information on terror targets in New York, New Jersey and Washington, DC, the Bush campaign is using the targets for photo ops with Laura and the Twins.
First Lady Laura Bush and her twin daughters paid a surprise visit to the Citigroup Center yesterday, joining Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki to cheer on employees who ignored the terror threat and reported for work. The lunchtime crowd erupted in applause when Mrs. Bush and her daughters, Jenna and Barbara, stopped to chat over coffee at a table of Citigroup employees in the atrium.
“I wanted to thank people for coming to work and I’m really glad to be with them today,” the first lady said to a roar of approval from the crowd.So the Bush administration took information that al Queda looked at these buildings three years ago, issued an urgent alert that the Citigroup building is a target of terrorists, then sent Bush’s wife and daughters in for a campaign photo op to rally the troops.
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p>Actually, I think that’s entirely the wrong way to look at it. It wasn’t a photo op — Bush was actually just hoping the terrorists would attack, killing his wife and children in the process, so he could play upon the sympathies of the nation’s people to re-elect him next November.
Big honkin’ disclaimer: No, of course I’m not serious. I just have an occasionally very black sense of humor, and this popped into my head. I don’t wish Laura, the twins, or anyone else any harm — I don’t even wish George Bush any physical harm, merely the ego blow of losing the upcoming election, and maybe a few solid kicks to the shin for being a complete and total putz.
I do very strongly agree that using this alert as a photo op is rather disgusting.
(via Len)
iTunes: “Complacency” by Noxious Emotion from the album This Hallowed Ground (1995, 4:11).
[See also: Okay, so I guess it’s a real warning | Can Bush do anything but lie? | Bring ‘em on! | I want a Big Wheel! | Ballard Locks Photo Workshop ]
3 Responses to “Photo Op? Or attempted murder?”
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Ryan Waddell
August 4th, 2004 at 12:50 pm
oooooo the Secret Service is gonna get you. Been nice knowing ya!! HA
August 4th, 2004 at 6:15 pm
Secret Service notwithstanding, I’d be willing to see the entire primary Bush family and the Bush dynasty’s mother (Barbara - she should have had a total organ removal job at birth - we’d then never have had any of the Bush kids) undergo some form of public admonishment - like being put in blocks or a stockade and lining up the crowd so anyone who wanted to could get up close and personal with them and then give them whatever insult, admonishment, invective or lecture that pleased the crowd. I’d also be willing to let this go on for Kerry’s entire first term. They really don’t deserve even the slightest respect in passing. Bush Jr. makes the office of the President of the US appear to be just another college frat position. (UNINTENTIONAL INSULT TO FRATERNITY BROTHERS - NO, INTENTIONAL).
August 5th, 2004 at 10:03 am
“Everybody be afraid of the potential terrorist acts that we are warning you about! How serious are these threats? I’m willing to put my wife and children directly in harm’s way to prove that we are safe!”
I’m very confused.