Uhm..... No, He scolded the idiot bankers who flew in on their corporate jets to beg for a handout.... nothing to do with 9/11....
-- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC 27616 (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 -----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 6:27 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: musings on 9/11, eight years later Eight years of success and you heard one thing and got it wrong. When he said go shopping and live your lives, don't let hide in your basement and hide money in the mattress. It worked. Thenit was Obama's turn and he said don't go to Vegas, and don't fly corporate jets. Nice. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was sitting and thinking about the last eight years today, the good > bits and the bad bits. There have been plenty of both. But the thing > that makes me saddest is that GWB had a moment 8 years ago that he > could have grasped and used to make the country better. Everyone in > the country, hell, 99% of the world, was on our side that day and > waiting to hear what we had to say. And he said, "go shopping". That's > what I remember 8 years later. Go shopping. Not end our dependency on > foreign oil, not anything to make us stronger. Instead it was about > fear, about weakness, about meaningless phrases like "they hate our > freedom", about bland consumerism. No one was asked to sacrifice, > instead they were spied on behind their backs. > > We could have had shared sacrifice, we could have strengthened our > country and our bonds with the other powers of the world. We had a > shining moment to get up off of the mat after getting hit hard and we > blew it. > > We wasted people like Pat Tillman who quit the NFL to go serve his > country because he was so deeply moved by events. There are a lot more > who don't have famous names and we failed them and their sacrifice. > > Al Queda got what they were looking for that day. They hurt us, they > made us afraid, they made us crazy, they made us make ourselves less > free. 8 years later we still haven't recovered. It bugs me that that > is true. And that is what makes me most sad 8 years later. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:303953 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
