Obama's "9/11 Problem"

Poor Barack Obama. Life is so difficult for him, you just can’t appreciate. For example, did you realize that choosing how to honor 9/11 will be a real problem for Obama? In fact, no matter what he does, he will be criticized. At least, so say various Obama apologists. Get this. . .

This issue first came to my attention through a Politico article titled “Few options for Barack Obama on 9/11.” Nice title huh? I’ll bet you can’t imagine what this will be about. Check out this intro:

“Every year it’s a challenge for the White House: how to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.”

A “challenge”? Really? You have got to be kidding me, Pyle! Americans have been commemorating tragedies and outrages in pretty much the same way for 200 years now. Basically, the President goes to a relevant location, looks sad, and reads a speech honoring those who died. Every President from Washington to Bush has done this. Obama himself did this to commemorate Hurricane Katrina recently. So what’s the problem now? Is 9/11 somehow uniquely difficult? Bush managed to do it for seven years without a hint of a problem. So why should this be a challenge for Obama?

Well, according to Politico, this year it would be “awkward” for Obama to travel to New York to look sad and read a speech because “right-wing” groups are staging a rally against some obscure mosque. And if Obama shows up, that might be mistaken as support for their rally. Or else, he would need to state his support for the mosque, and that would violate Obama's policy of not commenting on local issues (unless you arrest a black college professor. . . or you're Arizona. . . or you're trying to put a triumphal mosque at ground zero).

So why not go somewhere else? Maybe the Pentagon? Well, Obama already did that and doing the same thing twice just wouldn't be right. He could go to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed, but his wife Marie Antoinette Obama will be doing that with Laura Bush, and it wouldn't be right to be seen with the old ball and chain at yet another five-star resort on an occasion like this. He could stay at the White House, except he did that last year when he “held a moment of silence on the south driveway of the White House.” Talk about low class! At least he did change out of his bathrobe before giving that non-speech. Lazy bastard.

So if he can’t go to Pennsylvania or New York or the Pentagon or his driveway, what can he possibly do? Don’t you see the dilemma? Doesn’t it almost bring a tear to your eye to think of how agonizingly difficult this will be for poor, helpless Barack?

What’s worse, the article continues, no matter what he does, one thing is certain: “No matter where he goes, the president’s critics will likely speak out.” Ok, now I’m crying. Poor Barack boo hoo hoo.

What this really is, is an attempt to inoculate him from yet another bad decision in the making. Obama has shown an utter lack of sensitivity to the things Americans (and our allies) care deeply about. No doubt, he’s not interested in talking about 9/11 any more than he was interested in D-Day or our British, German or Polish friends. And the left is terrified that he is about to demonstrate once again that he doesn’t have a patriotic bone in his body. . . right before an election.

Indeed, a quick perusal of leftist websites shows the calculation that is really going on here. Many are worried that if Obama doesn’t do something, then the hicks in Hicksville will accuse him of a lack of patriotism and will punish his equally unpatriotic party. At a time when the polls could not get any worse (until they do each week) and when leftists are quietly worried that a couple of Democratic Senators might change parties in the event of a landslide, an Obama 9/11-flub would pretty much be a finishing blow to their (already finished) electoral chances.

Yet, on the other hand, they are worried that any recognition at all by Obama of the events of 9/11 might cause the racist hicks to act on their prejudices and start hunting Muslims. Moreover, Obama runs the risk of offending Muslims if he recognizes what happened on 9/11. So they really do see him standing between a rock and hard place.

What’s disgusting about this is how these jerks view the rest of us. They see middle America as ignorant racists, and they view patriotism as a thing to be used to project an image. They always accused Bush and the Republicans of trying to politicize 9/11, but they are the people who really view this as a political event rather than a national tragedy.

In any event, I honestly hope that Obama does spend the day golfing or hiding out in his bedroom. I don’t think this insincere jackass can do any honor to the people who died, no matter where he is, how sad he tries to look, or what words he reads. So let’s remember 9/11 without him.