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.
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).