Can you imagine Ronald Reagan during the memorials of Pearl Harbor and D-Day spinning those events as reflections of himself? Of course, the Dead Tree Media of the time did, on too many occasions, try and do just that, but President Reagan wouldn't have even begun to think that way.
What twits he and his people are. He's going to try elbow his way into the narrative at every step.
Such a small personality, he's the embodiment of television itself, reducing the depth of meaning of everything he comes in contact with, except for government patronage and oceans of deficit spending.
By the way...Where was Barack Obama on 9-11-01? We all remember where we were and what we were doing. Where was HE and what was he doing?