Exactly. Bringing up 9/11 before the public is necessary in order to remind the American people that John F*ckin's posture of inaction WILL get us all killed. Which is exactly why Hillary doesn't want President Bush to use the one most powerful issue in his arsenal since it reminds people of the President's qualities as a leader and as a human being. For the Hate Bush crowd, that's verboten. There's nothing wrong with being partisan and if I may be permitted to say so, one of the fundamental problems with our national life is we've tried so hard to obscure the differences between our national parties that we've forgotten they do matter. Their philosophies ARE different and amount to literally a matter of life and death. The GOP should reject Hillary's advice and move to sharpen the differences between themselves and the Democrats on the issue of national security. Its obvious the best way to reply to the Democrats is to put 9/11 front and center and remind the American people we still live in a dangerous time and ONLY one party can be trusted to ensure our national security. Hint: its not the one that met this month in Boston.
If I had 5 minutes with President Bush either in person or on the phone, I would tell him to just ignore the rantings of Hillary Clinton and go forth, let the American people decide in November. I truly believe the American people feel
safer with President Bush in the White House, rather than gambling at the thought of Kerry in the White House and wondering if he's as capable as Bush when it comes to preempting attacks. According to Kerry himself from his own acceptance speech, he'd rather sit on his hands and wait for us to be attacked, just for the sake of keeping America stronger and building alliances.
I wouldn't be surprised if Rudy actually devoted most his entire speech at the upcoming RNC convention to 9/11. Both Rudy and President Bush were deeply affected by the events of 9/11, they've never forgotten, nor should we. It's unconscionable in my mind that Hillary wants to roll back the clock as if it were 9/10 as if 9/11 never happened.