“You Ought to Be in Commercials”


Well I am woefully behind on the hot topics in the White House race. Once in awhile at this Blog I dip into politics only to get emails from a certain South Jersey law student who debates what I say and instant messages from a certain “Reverend” who tells me how wrong I am on everything from any topic from A-Z. So I am going to tackle the hot story of a few weeks ago.

Since Kerry is now officially up to the challenge to take out Bush the whole election race is really heating up. Bush came under fire recently for his political commercials. Bush used the aftermath of 9/11 and how he kept the country united (although only briefly he didn’t mention) against terrorism. From the commercial I saw it showed images off flags being hung right after the attack on the US.

Now I was greatly affected by the events of 9/11 as was every American. To this day I still have recurring dreams about the horrific incidents, but I can’t imagine what is was like to lose someone that horrible day 2 and half years ago. That being said I certainly can’t get into their mindset. Obscene amounts of fireman were lost that day. However a lot has changed since Bush put his arm around the one fireman and shouted into a megaphone. The NYC fireman union has come out in support for democrat John Kerry.

Many of the democrats and fireman were horrified that Bush would use images (although I didn’t see any shots of the Towers in flames just sentimental patriotic stuff and sad music) or mention the events. Now in Bush’s defense he will forever be remembered for being the 9/11 president good or bad. One of the most important moments in American history happened on his watch and all he was trying to say is that he did a good job handling the situation and that’s why he should be able to sit in the White House for another 4 years.

Now I run the risk of looking like a “right wing whacko” by kicking dirt in the face of the media again, and I am sure my harping on them can make me come off as a cook sometimes. However how can the most media outlet even sleep at night? For months after 9/11 cable channels and newspapers used actual images of people running for their lives, the towers going down, balls of fire and told us we should tune to their station because they did such a great job covering the events of 9/11. Telling us how important is now to have your TV turned on their network and read their endless web-crawl. Flipping the channel might make you miss why and how you and your loved ones are going to poisoned by Anthrax or blown to bites by some crazy Arab.

The Courier-Post actually used a ball of fire coming out of the WTC as their logo for the War on Terror articles for about an entire year. They also were counting the number of the days of the War on Terror was on. I guess when they realized that the war could wage for ages they decided to stop counting (they replaced the image right around the anniversary with a flag). But honestly all they were doing is telling us how well they did under pressure the same thing Bush did.

Now I am not really a big fan of any union leader telling their workers who they should and shouldn’t vote for. Granted often times they have a reason to benefit their workers in the long run if someone is elected, but honestly that shouldn’t be any of the union leaders business who their workers vote for. Perhaps they have other reasons to vote for that candidate and many instances bully people or flat out threaten people to vote a certain way.

With all do respect to the people who lost their loved ones on 9/11 is it really any different when the democrats talk about 9/11 or give examples of how Bush fouled up? All 3 debates are going to include discussion about 9/11 and order to Bush to win an election he has to convince the American people that he is the man to have running the country in a post 9/11 world. So how he is supposed to acheive this?

I almost don’t think as many democrats were as “offended” as they say they were and almost would go as far as to say the fireman who are speaking out are being used as pawns to a certain extent.

It is going to be un ugly elections with a lot of ugly issues. Now if Bush was showing planes slamming into the sides of the WTC than I would have a problem with it, unless I saw a different commercial than what was so hot a topic. I am sure it is just as rough for the people who lost loved ones in the war in Iraq who will be told maybe not directly but clearly by democrats and critics of Bush how their loved ones died for no good reason.