WTF Is It Now?!?

Bush exploiting tragedy in campaign ads
Firefighters are pissed.

Firefighter Tommy Fee in Rescue Squad 270 in Queens was appalled. "It's as sick as people who stole things out of the place. The image of firefighters at Ground Zero should not be used for this stuff, for politics," Fee said.

The International Association of Firefighters released a statement Wednesday calling the unspeakable boob on the carpet for using images of firefighters and the 9/11 attacks in his ads.

"Bush is calling on the biggest disaster in our country's history, and indeed in the history of the fire service, to win sympathy for his campaign," Harold Schaitberger, the group's president, said in a statement.

"I'm disappointed but not surprised that the President would try to trade on the heroism of those fire fighters in the September 11 attacks. The use of 9/11 images are hypocrisy at its worst. Here's a President that initially opposed the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and now uses its first anniversary as cause to promote his re-election. Here is a President that proposed two budgets with no funding for FIRE Act grants and still plays on the image of America's bravest. His advertisements are disgraceful.

"We're going to be aggressive and vocal in our efforts to ensure that the citizens of this country know about Bush's poor record on protecting their safety and providing for the needs of the people who are supposed to respond in an emergency."

Reminder: while intelligence reports were flying back and forth that something was about to happen, Bunnypants was on vacation for a month, playing cowboys and horsies at the Lazy W, his faux ranch/stage set. During and immediately following the attacks, he sat pole-axed in a classroom before bunker-hopping his way across the country, lying that enemy planes had him targeted. He didn't even get to Ground Zero till days later, then tried to screw NY out of disaster funds.

Osama and al Qaida are still out there.

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9/11 survivors are pissed
'The coward won't even testify fully and under oath to the 9/11 commission. He could have prevented 9/11 and now he is trying to get elected off of the memories of the dead.'

"It's a slap in the face of the murders of 3,000 people," said Monica Gabrielle, whose husband died in the twin tower attacks. "It is unconscionable."

'In scary/gauzy images, the president does his best to shift the blame, take the credit and transmit concern about regular folks - waitresses, welders, firefighters, black children, black seniors, middle-class families - when he really spends more time helping his fat-cat corporate friends.

'Mr. Bush continues to imply that we should be scared because we're not safe, so we need to keep him to protect our national security. Which seems like a weird contradiction. If he's so good at protecting us, why aren't we safe?

'The president doesn't hesitate to exploit 9/11 in his ads, even as he tries to keep 9/11 orphans and widows in the dark about what really happened.' - - Maureen Dowd.