Dems Say GOP Exploiting 9-11 Attacks

Yahoo ^ | 12/5/03

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Democratic leaders accused Republicans on Thursday of exploiting Sept. 11 by holding their presidential convention in New York less than two weeks before the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

"All indications are that the Republicans have gone to New York to exploit a terrible moment in our country," Rod O'Connor, chief executive officer of the Democratic National Convention Committee, told hundreds of journalists who came to tour the site of next summer's convention. "We are here to re-ignite a movement in our country."

Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) Chairman Terry McAuliffe echoed the charge in interviews with reporters.

The Republicans begin their gathering in New York on Aug. 30 — later than most nominating conventions — and end it on Sept. 2, nine days before the third anniversary of the attacks.

Organizers of the Republican convention did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

Democratic leaders ridiculed the Republicans' canceled plan to house some convention guests on a luxury cruise ship rather than at a New York hotel. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay dropped the plan after city leaders and labor groups protested.

"The American people want to hear about our plans for the economy, for health care, for education and for national security," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who will chair next July's convention in Boston. "The Republicans just care about holding their convention on a cruise ship."

[anniegetyourgun]

Waddabunchawhiners.

[MissVeronica]

I am new to this forum. Testing, testing....

[.cnI redruM]

We need an ad showing the Howard Dean - Diane Rhem interview. The voice over could go like this: "Listen to this and ask yourself. Where do Democrats get off accusing US of exploiting 9-11?"

[alloysteel]

"Dems Say GOP Exploiting 9-11 Attacks"

And their point is....

[anniegetyourgun]

Welcome to FR today.

[xrp]

"All indications are that the Republicans have gone to New York to exploit a terrible moment in our country," Rod O'Connor

I'm far too young to remember, but did Woodrow Wilson use the situation in Europe to his advantage at all in 1916?

Did FDR use the situation in Europe to his advantage in 1940? WW2 in 1944?

Did LBJ use Vietnam to his advantage in 1964?

"The American people want to hear about our plans for the economy, for health care, for education and for national security," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who will chair next July's convention in Boston. "The Republicans just care about holding their convention on a cruise ship."

That's the problem. The Democrat mantra for everything is "HIGHER TAXES, MORE MONEY!". Other than that, they have no ideas and no solutions! The last 30 years has shown that higher taxes and more money is not the solution. And the cruise ship would have been paid for by private donations. Democrats are just jealous.

[knak]

Welcome to FR

[alrea]

BETTER HEADLINE:

SINCE 911 VOTERS FEEL MORE SECURE WITH REPUBLICANS FAVORING SECURITY, MILITARY SPENDING AND ANTI-TERRORISM INITIATIVES

[suzyq5558]

welcome to FR miss veronica.

[xrp]

Even better headline:

SINCE 911 VOTERS FEEL SAFER WITH REPUBLICANS PROTECTING FREEDOM AND LIBERTY, MILITARY SPENDING AND ANTI-TERRORISM INITIATIVES

[suzyq5558]

Bill Richardson is a whine bag or is he a gas bag? I love it that the republican convention will held in NY.

[antivenom]

Terry McAwful and et al...are only concern about ANY event that has excluded them...namely all news that has either GW and Dean's name in it.

Hell even Scott Peterson and Michael Jcakson are getting better press than the 9 dwarfs...

The DEMS are panic stricken due to the Clinton's weakening grasp on the Dems and controlling the news.

Next thing we will hear is that the Repubs and GW are exploiting the GOOD economy news...

The Dems are pathetic.

[My2Cents]

Dems Say GOP Exploiting 9-11 Attacks

Translation: "We're miffed that because our Party is so full of appeasers that we can't exploit 9/11 ourselves."

[My2Cents]

Did FDR use the situation in Europe to his advantage in 1940? WW2 in 1944?

I'm too young myself, but I think FDR used WW2 as the main reason he ran for a third and fourth term.

[My2Cents]

I think New Yorkers love it too. If the Dems were so concerned about the spin the GOP would put on their convention in NYC, the Dems should have had their convention in NYC as well. It's their own fault they're so stupid.

[BamaAndy]

Thanks for the post. Hateful, miserable, perenially complaining democrats and liberals say anything in part because they know they lose--and they'll lose big next year.

[Tai_Chung]

Democrat Convention on July 26 exploits the memories the World War 1, World War 2, Korean War, and Pee Wee Herman.

1847 - Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society becoming Africa's first sovereign, black-ruled democratic nation.
1863 - Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender
1914 - Austrian-Hungary condemns Serbian ultimatum
1917 - J Edgar Hoover gets job in Justice Department
1926 - Philippines government asks US to plebiscite for independence
1939 - Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs
1941 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named commander of U.S. forces in the Philippines.
1942 - RAF bombs Hamburg
1942 - RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism
1943 - Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome
1944 - Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
1945 - Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender
1945 - Japanese government disregards US ultimatum
1945 - US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb
1945 - Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's PM after his party's defeat against the Labour party
1946 - President Truman orders desegregation of all US forces
1947 - Department of Defense established
1947 - President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1948 - Pres Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in armed forces and federal employment.
1953 - Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime; Fidel was captured and sent to prison
1953 - Korean War Armistice
1956 - Egypt under direction of President Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes the Suez Canal
1957 - Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200
1957 - USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1963 - Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
1963 - US Syncom 2 1st synchronous communications satellite launched
1964 - Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling of a union pension fund.
1965 - Republic of Maldives (Falkland Islands) gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
1971 - Apollo 15 was launched from Cape Kennedy, Fla.
1974 - USSR's Soyuz failed to dock with Salyut 3.
1975 - Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
1982 - Canada's Anik D1 comsat launched by US delta rocket.
1984 - Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single
1984 - Soyuz T-12? is launched with a female cosmonaut
1984 - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson became the first network television show to be broadcast in stereo.
1986 - Kidnappers in Lebanon released the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, an American hostage held for nearly 19 months.
1990 - President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
1991 - Secretary of State James A. Baker III addressed Mongolia's first legislature chosen in multiparty elections, applauding the rise of democracy and promising millions of dollars in aid.
1991 - Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater
1992 - England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war
1992 - Iraq backed down and agreed to allow a U.N. inspection team to look for documentation on weapons of mass destruction.
1993 - Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
1994 - Cambodia's Khmer Rouge surprise attack on train, kills 13
1994 - Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed
1994 - A dozen people were injured by a bomb blast near the Israeli embassy in London.
1995 - The Senate voted 69-29 to unilaterally lift the U.N. embargo on arms shipments to Bosnia.
1996 - President Clinton rejected a clemency plea from Jonathan Pollard, who'd spent more than 10 years in prison for spying for Israel.
1996 - Amy Van Dyken became the first American woman to win four gold medals at a single Olympics as she captured the 50-meter freestyle in Atlanta.
1999 - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her Russian counterpart, Igor Ivanov, announced a second Washington-Moscow hot line would be installed to help avoid misunderstandings like those that had developed over Kosovo.
2000 - George W. Bush and his just-chosen running mate, Dick Cheney, set out on their first joint campaign excursion as they visited Cheney's former hometown of Casper, Wyo.
2000 - A federal judge in New York approved a $1.25 billion settlement between Swiss banks and more than a half million plaintiffs who alleged the banks had hoarded money deposited by Holocaust victims.
2000 - In a major victory for the recording industry, a federal judge ordered Napster to stop allowing the digital trading of copyrighted music over its Web site.

[BigSkyFreeper]

OK, so Terry McAwful chose Boston over New York City, even before the GOP announced they were planning on holding their convention in New York City.

The way I see it, just more whining from the Democrats. If I was a Democrat, and thankfully I'm not, I'd be complaining my party is run by a punk and a rapist.

[MamaB]

I have been thinking the same thing since I first time I saw this story.