9/11 was a watershed for Obama as it ushered in his refusal to wear a flag pin or recite the Pledge of Allegiance without his hand over his heart.
But, when Obama made his finishing touches to that polarizing speech he spoke at the 2004 DNC, Obama made special mention of alleged hate crimes that had only bgone against Arab Americans after his 9/11. IN his keynote address for Kerry at the 2004 Democratic Convention, He puposefullly ignored millions of Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian-Americans, Native Americans, and Polynesian Americans, when Obama said that he would stand with Arab-Americans should the political winds take an ugly turn."
Does that mean Obama is only going to step a side with the Arab Americans terrorists of the "political winds take an ugly turn."
How nice for them to shield only the Arab Americans during the next terrorist attacks, and how not nice for Jews, Christians, Hindus, and all of the multi-ethnic majority.
It’s an ill wind that blows no good, I think that’s how it goes. One beneficial side effect of 9/11 (not that it would ever justify what happened) is that it forced public persons to take a side. Bush took one side. Obama took the other. Many of our politicians, pundits and other celebrities have been revealed for what they are by how they reacted to 9/11. And we have been able to react to them as we see fit. Just off the top of my head I can think of Bush, Obama, McKinney, McCain, Guiliani, Powell, the Dixie Chicks, that repulsive pundit whose name escapes me but he made the comment about the “courageous” hijackers, O’Donnell, Rev. Wright, Penn, etc. We now know where they stand.