Appropriation
Via Memeorandum, I noticed one of the more irritating traits of the left; they're irritated by Bush "appropriating" 9/11 at the GOP National Convention...
...because they think it's theirs to appropriate.
The blog quotes a GOP delegate from Ohio, and then responds:
"I left God's country," said Leon Mosley of Waterloo, Iowa, co-chairman of his state party. "They could use a bunch of people from Iowa to come here to show New Yorkers what life is all about, what being patriotic is all about, and what country is all about. I'm as confident about Bush being re-elected as I am that eggs are going to be in New York tomorrow morning.''
Kindly go f&&k yourself, Mr Mosley. Please don't simultaneously pimp my home state's tragedy for your own gain while accusing us of being less alive, less patriotic, and less American than you are.
"My home state's tragedy?"
Your home state's tragedy?
Was Pearl Harbor an attack on Hawaii?
Was the signing of the Declaration of Independence a great day for Philadelphia?
No. 9/11 was not a "New York (state or city) tragedy". It was an attack on the US. All of us. New York had the biggest, most ostentatious (to a Moslem fundie) displays of American commerce, but it was built by people from all over, both literally and via the investment markets - which is exactly how it'll be rebuilt.
Americans from all over died there - non-Americans, too. Minnesotans, Dominicans, New Yorkers, North Dakotans, whatever.
9/11 was everyone's loss, just like the war on islamofascist terrorism is everyone's war.
Grabbing and appropriating victimhood is the Democrats' main selling point. Preventing it is the GOP's. That's why we're in New York; we're not wrapping ourselves in 9/11, any more than exhorting people to "remember Pearl Harbor" is chaining yourself to the hulk of the U.S.S. Arizona. We're pointing at Ground Zero, and showing the nation the comparison, between those who go out to find and kill the perps, and those who would wait patiently while the Belgians debate letting us go do it.
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August 31, 2004 07:46 AM
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Mitch,
Posted by: Jo at August 31, 2004 09:59 AMDead on, balls to the wall reply my friend. No one could have said it better!
Nice to see that Malkin brought up some of your work as well. You Northern Alliance guys are getting so huge, there's not gonna be enough room in this state for other bloggers.
Congrats!
The name Leon Mosley (from Waterloo) rang a bell for me, couldn't remember where I had heard of him before. So I googled. I'm pretty sure I remember him from some campaign event when I lived in Iowa.
What a surprise, he was misquoted:
http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2004/08/31/news/top_news/670eb1e2b793733e86256f01004e9429.txt
Info about Leon Mosley:
Posted by: Steve Meyer at August 31, 2004 01:50 PMhttp://www.co.black-hawk.ia.us/departme.nsf/0/02275ce202209fce8625670b00763652?OpenDocument
Okay, fine and dandy, but isn't it a bit curious of the right to go to New York and tell New Yorkers that they don't know about sacrifice?
Yes, 9/11 was a national tragedy, but let's not forget that the epicenter of that tragedy was New York City, not Minneapolis or Cincinatti or Waterloo.
New Yorkers were the bulk of the 3000 people who died that day. And to assert that those people are not Americans--as Mr. Mosley purportedly did--is offensive.
9/11 is neither a Republican nor a Democratic issue. The terrorists struck the bluest city in the Union--but they weren't striking at Democrats, they were striking at Americans. A Republican was in the White House--but they weren't striking at George W. Bush, they were striking at Americans.
What offends Democrats is that somehow, the right does think they "own" 9/11, that the Republicans have more right to that day than the Democrats because George W. Bush was in office.
That's wrong. That day belongs to all Americans, and ever it shall. And I'm as sure of that as I'm sure that Wall Street will open tomorrow.
Posted by: Jeff Fecke at September 1, 2004 12:52 AM