AmSpec: Why did Democrats choose 9/11 as the national day of service?
posted at 9:27 pm on August 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
The story burns hot with outrageously outrageous outrage, but I can’t lie. I’m not feeling it.
This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year’s election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it’s not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.
On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something “positive,” “forward-leaning,” and “productive,” said a source with knowledge of the teleconference.
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.
“They think it needs to be taken back from the right,” said the source. “They’re taking that day and they’re breaking it because it gives Republicans an advantage. To them, that day is a fearful day.”…
They view Sept. 11 as a “Republican” day because it focuses the public on supposedly “Republican” issues like patriotism, national security, and terrorism.
The boss is right about how this dovetails with Obama’s own insulting, sophomoric reading of 9/11 as being fundamentally about a dearth of empathy, an understanding so facile that it would be cringed at in a dorm-room circle. (Is there any act of cruelty, in any context, about which the same couldn’t be said?) And to the extent AmSpec’s saying that, for many progressives, the big lesson about the attack going forward will be to smile on your brother, get together and try to love one another right now, well, fair enough. But it ain’t the day of service that’s inculcating that outlook; that’s just kind of … how they are. All this does is give them an outlet for it.
What it sounds like, though, is that AmSpec’s claiming this is some sort of nefarious plot to brainwash the country into forgetting what happened that day — i.e. to “reshape the American psyche.” Er, really? Leftist phone banks about gun control are going to dim the memory of jihadists steering jumbo jets into the World Trade Center? That’s kind of like saying that if the left declared December 7 to be Drum Circle Day henceforth, the memory of Pearl Harbor would fade beneath the din of the sweet, soulful tapping on those bongos. Frankly, if there are any political repercussions from this at all (which I doubt), I’d imagine they’d redound to the advantage of hawks. Passing a crowd of college kids chanting about ethanol when you’re busy thinking about people jumping out of skyscrapers isn’t likely to convince you of the merits of ethanol, but it may convince you that those kids are callous douches who don’t have their priorities in order. What am I missing here?
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Uh, yeah. The Left uses empty symbols as verities. It doesn’t matter if no one even knows that 9/11 is “National Service Day” or whatever. They’ve done their thing their way, ipso facto, America has moved on under the leadership of the Nobel Left.
I mean, they don’t hold remembrance vigils on Dec. 7, but on Aug. 6.
Akzed on August 25, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Obama’s Ramadan suck-up seems to be bearing fruit:
‘Obama’ Dates Best-Sellers in Egypt for Ramadan
aengus on August 25, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Possibly Antonio Gramsci, cultural Marxism and the Frankfurt School.
petefrt on August 25, 2009 at 9:30 AM
They are too busy in their Obama hating frenzy to bother reading what you posted.
Magnus on August 25, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Why don’t you guys like national service?
Is it the lack of guns? The fact that you don’t get to kill anyone?
What’s the problem here?
bschmalfeldt on August 25, 2009 at 9:44 AM
drum circles ,,, aaaaack! I’m meeeeeeehlting
bitsy on August 25, 2009 at 9:45 AM
This is the point. Don’t think so short term.
Once National Service Day is established and expounded.
Maybe in 10 years in becomes a day off and in 20 years its just another pre-Holiday Sales holiday.
I think people have done a pretty good job of forgetting 9-11 already ergo our present situation.
WichoFawkes on August 25, 2009 at 9:52 AM
To Hell with the left.
Save your pictures and videos of 9/11.
Starting 8/11, start emailing them to everyone and posting them in your blogs.
On 9/11, when REAL people pause to think, they will pray for the souls lost and the future of our country.
barnone on August 25, 2009 at 10:07 AM
There the Demoncrates go again, changing a historic day from what it is – a reminder that 3,000 Americans were killed for being American and that real freedom is derived from our common belief in each other.
MSGTAS on August 25, 2009 at 10:13 AM
I told you not to be stupid, you moron.
LibTired on August 25, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Bozo signed it. And when was Schumer’s last original thought?
dogsoldier on August 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM
At what point do the Republicans wake up and STOP VOTING FOR THIS SH*T! VOTE NO TO THEIR ENTIRE AGENDA!
marklmail on August 25, 2009 at 10:16 AM
I believe most people already know this. But it doesn’t hurt to remind them.
MarkTheGreat on August 25, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Will the Leftoids have a new Remembrance Day mascot animal , too?
Like an Invisible Siamese Jackass, perhaps (to duly “commemorate” both the Democrats and the Twin Towers)?
Anything to change the seared-upon-our-souls meaning of 9/11.
The word Scum is becoming a daily occurrence when considering these feckless, revisionist weasels.
profitsbeard on August 25, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Are you serious . . . because that comment is insane.
rplat on August 25, 2009 at 10:46 AM
It subverts and thus lessens an important day. If you are dividing your attention between the attacks and “service to others” you are not focused on the fact that there is evil out there that hates America because of our freedom.
It is just more Orwellian control the language/control the message.
rbj on August 25, 2009 at 10:46 AM
If he hasn’t gotten it by now, not sure he ever will.
rrpjr on August 25, 2009 at 10:48 AM
hahaha It certainly is bearing fruit!
becki51758 on August 25, 2009 at 10:50 AM
I feel sick.
Urban Infidel on August 25, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Haven’t read thru the thread.
Did someone claim that it was Maobamas idea? The header states “democrats”.
Itchee Dryback on August 25, 2009 at 10:54 AM
“It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.” – Ayn Rand
RadClown on August 25, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Obama wanted to originally name it “Mohammed Atta Day”, but they were going to make the entire month of Ramadan a paid Federal holiday anyway.
TexasJew on August 25, 2009 at 10:55 AM
What are you trying to say?
Itchee Dryback on August 25, 2009 at 10:56 AM
this is why we haven’t been attacked yet, our enemies are biding their time watching the left do their work for them by demoralizing the country and eventually get to the point we can no longer defend ourselves in any significant way and then……BOOM
jp on August 25, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Because they’re poltroons.
What do I win?
mojo on August 25, 2009 at 10:58 AM
BAM!
thomashton on August 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Because when I was a kid, “community service” was something we did whenever one of your troop was about to make Eagle. We did it voluntarily, and didn’t have to be dragged, and it was generally non-partisan. However, if it was partisan, we were free to walk away.
Today, “community service” means enslaving 14-18 year-olds, who are threatened and forced to labor for a school board or government agency on a project that is morally or ideologically unsound.
mabryb1 on August 25, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Priceless!!! ++++1000
lovingmyUSA on August 25, 2009 at 11:07 AM
I suppose that instead of reading the names of the 9/11 victims at Ground Zero, we can expect President Zero to list off the ways we can be of service.
I am.
Disturb the Universe on August 25, 2009 at 11:10 AM
For what it’s worth, here is my wife’s opinion on the subject…
Dear Mr. Obama: It has come to my attention that in April of this year you signed a bill designating September 11 as a “National Day of Service”. I’ve been mulling it over for a while, and I have come to the following conclusion: No, Mr. President.
I know you are not used to hearing those words, so I’ll repeat them. No, Mr. President.
No to a day of service, mandatory or not. For me, September 11 is and will remain a day of anger and mourning and patriotism. America was attacked on that day, not the other way around. Our people were murdered on that day, they were not the murderers.
So, no, Mr. Obama. I will not serve the others you want me to serve on September 11. I will serve the citizens of my country who died that day in fire and collapsing buildings and airplanes used as bombs. And to that end, I will spend September 11 reliving the day by watching the horrifying videos, and by crying as the names of my people who were killed eight years ago are read out, thereby stoking the anger I still feel…and to harden my heart for the battles still ahead. I will never forget, I will never forgive…and I will never turn that day of all days into something it is not.
So when September 11 rolls back around, tell the First Lady to put on those fine tennis shoes and make her way back down to that homeless shelter. As for me, I’ll be firmly planted in front of my television set with a box of kleenex at the ready. I’ll be mourning, and I’ll be angry, and if I can get the vision of the “day of service” out of my mind long enough, I will be swelled with patriotism and pride in this wonderful country.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. President
JackieV
jakev on August 25, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Service this.
davidk on August 25, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Mr. President,
I wanted to sit down with my 8-year-old son on September 11th this year, show him the videos, explain to him the mind-set of the monsters who did it, and fully explain to him why I am away from him, his sister, and his momma as much as I am.
I will not be able to. For the third year in a row on this day I will be away from them again. The Army calls, we as a family harken, and I go. Perhaps he and I can have that talk a week prior.
As an Army officer it is not my place to criticize you or your policies. I’ll just say this, I will be serving on September 11th. I’ll be in the uniform and will have my family and all Americans on my mind. That may not be the service you envisioned, but it is what we all need these days.
LT Ashton
thomashton on August 25, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Allahpundit, would it be just as ok to celebrate a “National Day of Service” on the third Monday of January each year?
I think some people – both left and right – might have an issue with that idea. After all it would serve to defocus the national mind from the intent of the original day of remembrance.
9/11 is akin to December 7th and the third Monday of January. It happened and we don’t need superficially obvious attempts to excise the pain, horror and intense focus that these days bring.
Leave 9/11 alone.
DrDeano on August 25, 2009 at 11:27 AM
9-11 is ordnance inventory day.
Never forget, never forgive.
Hotel1 on August 25, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Sorry about your accident (where you lost your balls…), now, have you started your therapy to help you reverse you position? (You know, the one where you have been bent over for so long that you a$$ is coming out your mouth?
lovingmyUSA on August 25, 2009 at 11:36 AM
My I humbly suggest the day be moved to May 5th? Karl Marx’s birthday.
kurtzz3 on August 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM
People in office need to stop worrying about naming days and bridges and streets, roll up their sleeves and
GET TO WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bridgetown on August 25, 2009 at 11:42 AM
One possible issue here is that we may very well end up having 2 different grups of celebrations on 9/11. Lefties will gather and sing Kumbaya, and give thanks for the trees. The rest of us will thank God for the men and women who gave their lives for their fellow U.S. citizens, on 9/11 and now.
How does creating an ideological conflict, or at least tension, on Sept. 11 foster togetherness and unity?
hawksruleva on August 25, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Ahhhhh… amazing how the Left takes over days of solemnity…soon July 4th will be the National Day of Wishing We Were Under British Healthcare Day!
April 15th will be Joyous Giving Day!
December 25th will be Winter Frugality Day!
December 31st will be Tax Freedom Day!
And January 1st will be Rejoice to the New Tax Year Day!
Yes, I can see these coming to pass… much like how the French Revolutionaries decided to change the months and seasons all to the benefit of Man. Shortly after that they all got lowered by a deep haircut…
ajacksonian on August 25, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Does anybody doubt with Obumbler in the WH, that we Won’t have more attacks that will make casualty count on 9/11 look quint by comparison?
Chainsaw56 on August 25, 2009 at 11:51 AM
Does anybody doubt with Obumbler in the WH, that we Won’t have more attacks that will make THE casualty count on 9/11 look quint by comparison?
(Thatt’s better)
Chainsaw56 on August 25, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Out of 365 days in a year there are about 10 federal holidays. This leaves roughly 355 days and they pick September 11th as a national service day and you’re not feeling it? Maybe you ought to re-feel it.
moonsbreath on August 25, 2009 at 12:00 PM
“I’m a dick,” -bschmalfeldt.
Akzed on August 25, 2009 at 12:01 PM
Allah, with the crappy day(s) I have been having.. this made me smile! Nice analogy and I agree.
upinak on August 25, 2009 at 12:11 PM
“What am I missing here?”
What you are missing, is the simple fact that no one should dare in any way, shape, or form place anything on the day that 3000+ people were brutally killed. I don’t care if it’s “celebrate bubble gum day.” We need to start having a bit more empathy-do any of us think for one second that the people who lost loved ones don’t suffer to this very day?
dave_ross on August 25, 2009 at 12:16 PM
He wants to turn a day of mourning into a day of volunteerism. There’s a time for everything, and 9/11 is not the time for volunteerism, it’s a time for honoring the dead. Obama is a bastard.
Simona on August 25, 2009 at 12:17 PM
That he wants to co-opt all things–large and small. That’s what megalomaniacs do.
baldilocks on August 25, 2009 at 12:22 PM
A day of fear? The emotions are disgust and anger, you disingenuous scum.
Blacklake on August 25, 2009 at 12:24 PM
I enjoy listening and watching liberals talk about service. There are usually more chiefs than Indians trying to out organize one another. WAIT! Can I say Indians? Is that racist?
AASLT on August 25, 2009 at 12:24 PM
I saw 9/11 unfold on TV and that memory is burned into my brain, nobody should ever forget it and do everything in our power to never let it happen again.
I am so sick of this admin.efforts to destroy this great country.
When they talk about the health care and Trojan horse, I think we missed the whole thing. OBUMMER IS THE TROJAN HORSE AND HAS ENTERED THE CITY.
concernedsenior on August 25, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Using 9/11 is no different than images of concentration camps, Pearl Harbor or any other symbol of tragedy hijacked to suit the emotional kidnapping the Democratics love to play with.
Funny how when these images are used against the Democrats, the people showing them are all insane or criminally divisive.
Never steal from a thief.
Hening on August 25, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Can I quote you?
Yes, I can.
profitsbeard on August 25, 2009 at 12:28 PM
This flew under the radar–I never saw anything about it–or maybe it was because we were all worrying about the clusterfark of TARP, and the Porkulus Bill, and we didn’t hear about it. We are up in arms over it now, because it is getting close to 911, and most of us just found out about it!
I intend to let my congressmen, who voted for it, know how disappointed I am–even though I imagine they “bought” the “service of our heros” language…
If you can’t undestand that comment–then it’s too dark where your head is…
lovingmyUSA on August 25, 2009 at 12:41 PM
AND
I’ll be doing what Jackie said and LT Ashton will also be on my mind.
Using 9-11 this way is just an assternative motive to pull attention away from the slaughter on American soil. Pitiful.
Parade on August 25, 2009 at 12:42 PM
There is a CONFLICT OF INTERESTS given that Eric Holder’s former law firm provided the legal defense for GITMO terrorists. THAT explains his disloyalty to the USA and turning the prosecution away from ACORN and the NEW BLACK PANTHERS in order to destabilize the nation’s security via his (along with Obama, Pelosi and the ACLU) take down of the CIA.
How can you go from defending enemy combatants to protecting our nation’s interests? You don’t, and that explains further Holder’s insistence to use the Dept. of Justice to defend our nation’s enemies and prosecute our national government.
maverick muse on August 25, 2009 at 12:52 PM
This is what I wrote on that Nat’l Day Website:
I plan on REMEMBERING…watching the video’s of that day, because they won’t be shown on tv. I will watch the video of Obama bowing to the Sheik.–and the new video of Obama giving a special message for Muslims, commemorating Ramadan. THEN i will remember that Obama skipped the National Prayer Day ceremony, and that he didn’t want to wear a flag pin, or that he attended a church where they said “G-d D–n the USA!” repeatedly for 20 years.
Yes, it will be a special day of REMEMBERANCE–not “service in Obama’s name”…
lovingmyUSA on August 25, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Haven’t read the whole thread, but I will be in Washington, D.C. on September 11, and I will attend the memorial in the evening at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
http://912dc.org
Mary in LA on August 25, 2009 at 1:11 PM
“An outlet for it,” but not a desecration. Yeah, right, it’s okay, because that’s just the way they are. What pap.
rlwo2008 on August 25, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Warning–strong stomach needed…
http://www.youtube.com/whitehouse#play/uploads/1/eY18RoU0zsU
Mark Tapscott:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-issues-YouTube-Ramadan-message-53960477.html
lovingmyUSA on August 25, 2009 at 1:16 PM
I just wonder what 9/11/09 has in store for us.
Farfed on August 25, 2009 at 1:20 PM
Why? Because it has Arabic subtitles? Are you really that puerile? Wait, don’t answer.,
Yes you are.
Grow Fins on August 25, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Grow Fins, pay attention.
No one is saying that 9/11 belongs to the right besides the leftists organizers in the article. They think it belongs to the right because for the most part, those on the right remember the day and wish to honor the dead more than leftists.
Why does the right show more attraction to remembering 9/11? I’m sure you think it’s because we are using it as a political tool to dupe the rest of the country into never-ending war against dudes in turbans. And you are sadly very incorrect. We remember 9/11 because we identify with the country, the flag, and we are proud to be Americans, unlike so many on your side of the political spectrum. The attack on 9/11 was an attack on the country, and on us, as countrymen. We hold those who died in high respect and wish to honor them each year on the day they died. Also, it is a day to remember that what happened was no accident, no fluke of history, and that we are, if we like it or not, the mortal enemies of radical Islam. It’s a day to wake up out of the consumerist, materialist, mind-numbing fog of American culture and see reality as it really is, with its very evil people intent on doing very evil things to innocents.
It is not a day to forget. It’s not a day just for conservatives or liberals. It’s a day for Americans. Many Americans died, both conservative and liberal. No one party gets to claim it as their own. It just so happens that we conservatives actually want to remember the day while you leftists couldn’t really give a damn. So when you try to erase that day from any significant meaning for your own political purposes, it is to be rightly met with strong outrage and resistance. You will not dumb it down into a celebration of leftist community organizing and forget what actually took place that day. You may have taken Christmas and stripped it of all historical meaning in the popular American culture but you won’t get 9/11. I know that won’t stop you from trying so do go ahead. It will be our pleasure to stop you.
alteredbeat on August 25, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Why don’t you guys like national service?
Is it the lack of guns? The fact that you don’t get to kill anyone?
What’s the problem here?
bschmalfeldt on August 25, 2009 at 9:44 AM
You first…….
Jason58 on August 25, 2009 at 1:42 PM
How the Middle East interprets this:
1. Weakness
2. Weakness
3. Weakness
Thanks a lot, Zero!
Lady Heather on August 25, 2009 at 1:43 PM
No, that’s not racist. But I think you meant to say “too many maharajas”.
Dominion on August 25, 2009 at 1:55 PM
National Service? What does that mean?
Like many conservatives and a few liberals, I practice philanthropy (to the extent my paycheck allows) and community service – they kinda go hand in hand. I’ve been doing this since high school, where I first got the motivation. Volunteering at hospitals, church, Habitat, etc. It’s fun. You get back more than you put in, and it helps you feel as though you’re doing something that’s a little bit more than just getting along.
But philanthropy and service seem to be increasingly conservative ideals and decreasingly liberal ones. In fact, I think liberals actually find these ideals to be annoying competition. When volunteerism solves the problem they seek to fix through coercion, it bugs them.
Liberals vest their compasion in the state and so do not pick their own pocket to help others. But it goes beyond a personal choice with them. They want to prevent the rest of us from having a choice in charity or service. That’s why they like National service day. The use of that word is not an accident.
When you look at what they’re doing at a policy level, it’s hard to deny that liberals are trying to limit choice and suppress philanthropy for the sake of their nationalist causes.
1. Efforts to eliminate the income tax deductions for charity
2. Sending out inspectors to regulate sellers of used personal items on recall lists (what will this do to Goodwill and Salvation Army, hmmmm?)
3. Demands for a “National Service” day.
4. More to come.
It’s not a conspiracy or a planned attack – it’s the way these people think. They cannot imagine compassion without coercion.
Cricket624 on August 25, 2009 at 2:04 PM
I will always remember the day the towers came down and use it as a reminder that we are the target of many groups that hate the US. Liberals want to forget 9/11 because its reality conflicts with their “can’t we all be friends” approach to foreign policy.
dpierson on August 25, 2009 at 2:43 PM
You’re confused. I was in service to the nation from 1986 to 1989, and even though I was at a hospital there were definitely guns associated with my service… I didn’t kill anyone, though, that belief is just an ignorant prejudice of the lefties.
malclave on August 25, 2009 at 2:56 PM
It’s taking a major administration intiative and using a patriotic day to push it. Totally against forced service, which is the ultimate goal, and don’t think 9/11 should be used for it.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, most of this stuff was covered in great detail in Z. Brzezinski’s (Mika’s dad) book, Second Chance. And if you wan’t to get a better idea as to foreign policy look to his book with Scowcroft. It would do all of you a great service to read these things, many of the tea leaves will become recognizable.
LevStrauss on August 25, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Er, really. As in, yes, really.
The goal overall as revealed so far by Barack Obama is to remake the U.S.A. into something else. In so pursuing that goal, he’s maligned and now attacked (“weakened,” “underserved,” “refused” call it whatever similar, as to respective targets) a number of “founding blocks” or core principles as our Constitution defines this nation. Most especially, Capitalism as our economic process, and, the Constitution itself as defining document of our nation.
If one wants to fantasize through a gauzy lens about a Faery Godman in the President, you’d have Barack Obama doing ‘whatever’ to accomplish ‘whatever’ by just being ‘cool.’ In reality, however, removing the fantasy-inducing lens, one has to examine the man himself based upon his behaviors and statements and what’s defined in doing so is a man who does want to “replace” the U.S. with something else. Lurking in the depths of that man are ideologies that sympathize and empathize, to use one of his favored words, with the Nation of Islam and with race-based, race-defined organizations (including the Nation of Islam as it’s developed in the U.S. and that is via race-based groups).
9/11 as a day of Memorial that defines the culprits responsible as Muslims insults Obama’s ideology. He wants that date and those events to be one of “introspection by Americans” about “how we just may be responsible” or so his deranged mind works.
Lourdes on August 25, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Additionally, reworking the annual recurring date of 9/11 to one of “service by Americans” emphasizes Obama’s rather underhanded, if not lowdown, opinion of Americans: that the date should be one of, literally, doing not in memorial of those who suffered and died, but in service to those who murdered.
Lourdes on August 25, 2009 at 3:02 PM
As Bugs Bunny once said to Fudd:
“Could be YOU , Doc!”
getalife.
Del Dolemonte on August 25, 2009 at 3:24 PM
You have obviously been in the water too long–or you are swimming in Koolaide…”Why? Because it has Arabic subtitles?” Good grief!!! That’s like saying that I am racist because I don’t like Obama…Lets’s kiss some more Muslim a$$$–THAT is what turned my stomach.
[..we are to be conditioned to respect Muslim immigrants and accept their culture.
Obama appears to be more than comfortable with this deal with the devil as he abets the institution of an Islamo-Christian ethic, which would destroy the very foundation of this great country. Never mind that Muslims persecute Christians in every country they finally dominate. That is of no importance.
Why is this immense effort necessary? We act as if we were a slave of the Muslim world. This sickness of licking the boots of an ideology that wants to destroy us is incomprehensible.
Burt Prelutsky said it best:
"What is wrong with our leaders? Are they worried that they won't be invited to those cool Ramadan parties? The Islamists have been actively at war with us for 30 years and generally at war with western civilization for well over a thousand years, and still we pay lip service to these people in a way we never did with Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan or the Soviet Union. Is it because the Muslims commit sadism and murder in the name of religion and not country? If anything, I would think that would make their evil acts all the more contemptible."]
Pamela Geller
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/obamas_state_department_submit.html
lovingmyUSA on August 25, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Dang, here comes Martial Law. Then again, would that make me an Alex Jones conspiracy theorist nutcrack?
Obama always tops whatever he does. I wish I was writing about an ice cream sundae.
ProudPalinFan on August 25, 2009 at 3:42 PM
I have questions about this ‘national day of service’.
Has the czar been appointed yet? Cuz we all know, O cannot do anything without one of those in place.
Oi!!!!
skeedro on August 25, 2009 at 3:43 PM
One more idiot, stupid, offensive action by a born sh*thook. FU Bambi. I’m making a pennant to fly below my 50 Star American when it’s at half staff on 9/11. One more place I HOPE you fail.
Flying Betsy Ross
Caststeel on August 25, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Wait, I thought liberals were full of HATE HATE HATE. You’re saying they’re capable of love and fellowship? Not possible. That’s not what Rush tells me.
orange on August 25, 2009 at 3:44 PM
You’re almost there…. try to open your mind up even more.
Sure, there are a lot that are capable of love and fellowship… these are the dupes (“useful idiots”) that just don’t know any better.
The leaders are the ones full of hate, and would never push anything like this except for political gain. QED
malclave on August 25, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Obama checklist for Ramadan speech
1. Make sure teleprompter works so I don’t thank myself like I did for St. Patrick’s day
2. Don’t make dumb joke about Cinco de Cuatro, instead of saying Cinco de Mayo.
3. Make sure the Arabic subtitle teleprompter says what I am saying–don’t need any shoes thrown at me..
4. *****Make damn sure I don’t forget and bow towards Mecca, when my speech is over!
lovingmyUSA on August 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Bill Whittle does an overview of the the Frankfurt School in this awesome video.
baldilocks on August 25, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Of course they are, for the enemies of the U.S.
“Progessives” just hate Republican-Americans. Everyone else is just a friend they haven’t met.
NoDonkey on August 25, 2009 at 4:53 PM
And, no, of course that would not be the case, no matter how hard the left wished it so. But, Allah, that’s not the point. The insult lies not in the possibility that somehow turning 9/11 into National Kumbayah Day will make all of us forget what happened on that day. No, the final straw, the one that snaps the camel’s back completely in two, is the amount of effort expended by the left to do so. Why choose the eleventh of September – out of 365 possible choices – to set as a National Day of Service? It’s a cold, stinging slap in the face, not only to those who lost loved ones on that day but to everyone who watched in abject horror as Islamic terror touched down in the heart of the American dream. So, I ask again…why September 11?
Because it doesn’t mean anything to them. They don’t care about you, or me, or anyone else. They have an agenda, and they are either too stupid or too caught up in their own imperial existence to notice that we’re not buying it.
uncivilized on August 25, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Fascist Tactics
Just one of many articles on changing the meaning of holidays to advance The Agenda
Reality Check on August 25, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Hey Besemalt,,,, sorry about the spelling but I personally don’t have any guns but I do have history books and bibles. As a Christian everyday is a day of service for we are instructed to be servants of others but you probably being an athiest would not know that. Further, I have no problem of a day of service but lets move it to another date such as Brezhnev’s Lenin’s or any other communists birthday. Defending ourselves is not wishing to kill others and don’t forget the Muslims still want to control the world and therefore destroy the west including the USA. Rememeber conservatives lead in donating their money freely so they lead in serving others. I love the leftists friendliness here as they say they don’t hate.
garydt on August 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM
So a leader who on 9/11 encourages national service is full of hate and only interested in political gain? Interesting.
orange on August 25, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Thanks … one of her better pieces.
gh on August 25, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Hey Orange, you miss the point by the conservatives that they are saying any other day is ok for national service but they just want 9-11 to be left for other reasons. Who knows they may also have a fresh attack planned on this coming 9-11 and then that would change everything again. Remember there are other days that could be used.
garydt on August 25, 2009 at 6:29 PM
You’re confusing motives and actions.
Liberal leaders are deceitful and untrustworthy…. just look at Obama, and measure his words versus his actions.
If it appears that a liberal elite is ever doing the correct thing, you need to look further and find out why. It may be innocuous (for example, to pacify the dupes among his or her followers), but it would be dangerous to assume so.
malclave on August 25, 2009 at 6:45 PM
*Sigh* Do we have to explain EVERYTHING to you? President Bush didn’t usurpt 911 as a day of rememberance, and as service to the greenies…Obamabots want to claim this day for their community organizers, and as a day of reflection about himself…Look what he did to MLK Day. He wants to have every holiday as a reflection of himself…
lovingmyUSA on August 25, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Oh, I’m sorry. I forgot.
Whenever anyone remotely left-like does something – no matter what it is – it’s because that person is evil and hates us all.
Whenever a conservative does the exact same thing, it’s because that person is a good civil servant.
Whew, thanks for clearing that up.
orange on August 25, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Vadum’s article overlooks the fact that the idea to link the 9/11 anniversary to volunteerism was originally promoted by President George W. Bush, and the bill to make it law, passed this spring, had bipartisan support.
Seventy House Republicans and 22 GOP senators voted for the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education (GIVE) Act, which established the National Day of Service and Remembrance on September 11.
“America came together in the aftermath of 9/11, reminding us what it truly means to be part of this great nation,” wrote Republican Congressman Peter King of New York, in a press release supporting the National Day of Service and Remembrance. “By making 9/11 a national day of service, that same spirit of giving will continue in a day of remembrance, unity, and selflessness.”
Bill Blizzard on August 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Public serpents–no longer servants!
chickasaw42 on August 25, 2009 at 7:42 PM
One of the most moving posts I have ever read. God Bless America; may the Holy Mantle of the Blessed Virgin Mary cover us and protect us from all evil.
The time is coming, is harking and the trumpets are about to call.
ProudPalinFan on August 25, 2009 at 7:43 PM
This is how the takeover begins…I intend to write my congressman ask him WTF he was thinking!
lovingmyUSA on August 25, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Bill Blizzard at 7:17 PM:
And it’s *still* a bad idea!
Let me ask you this: Why, after reading this blog for a while (as I assume you have), would you think that even the staunchest Republicans here automatically approve of everything legislators in their party do? Why in the world would you think that?
If anything, we rake the GOP legislators over the coals even more than we do the Dems, because we expect better of the ones on “our side” (God knows why, when they disappoint us and p*ss us off continually…). Just check out the McCain thread if you don’t believe me.
Mary in LA on August 25, 2009 at 8:16 PM
What a nut. Do you weep at Hallmark cards too? Oh wait – the Palin crowd doesn’t think to highly of ‘book learnin’.
simplesimon on August 25, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Yeah, like we’ve done SO well with that IVY LEAGUE group in charge.
Jeff from WI on August 25, 2009 at 8:28 PM
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