Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Where was President Obama on September 11th, 2001?
www.wbez.org ^ | Septemeber 2, 2011 | Sam Hudzik

Posted on 09/10/2015 7:52:41 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

#1 quote

Back in my law office, I watched the images from New York - the plane vanishing into glass and steel, men and women clinging to window sills, then letting go. Tall towers crumbling to dust," Mr. Obama said. "It seemed all the misery and all the evil in the world were in that rolling black cloudblocking out the September sun."



easy enough to parse

The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others," Mr. Obama wrote. "Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity.

It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair."

my choice of italics and bold text

(Excerpt) Read more at wbez.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911history; egypt; historic; israel; obama; obama911; russia; syria; waronterror
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-64 next last

1 posted on 09/10/2015 7:52:41 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

I don’t believe BO wrote this. It sounds more like Bill Ayers


2 posted on 09/10/2015 7:54:46 PM PDT by Mamzelle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey
Likely stoned out of his mind in a bathhouse.

Of course, noted that he identifies with the muzzie attackers, not the Americans being killed.

3 posted on 09/10/2015 7:55:39 PM PDT by doorgunner69
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mamzelle

Me too. Has anyone ever seen anyhting the guy ever wrote during his college days? Where ia it?


4 posted on 09/10/2015 7:58:09 PM PDT by Fungi
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

His “ law office”?

Is that what they call the broom closet at the University of Chicago?


5 posted on 09/10/2015 7:58:09 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

Man’s Country.


6 posted on 09/10/2015 7:59:05 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mamzelle

Isnttn Billy Ayers Obies go to guy for all written memoir material?


7 posted on 09/10/2015 8:00:40 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: doorgunner69

It appears he may have been busy formulating a jobs programs for jihadists within hours of the attack...


8 posted on 09/10/2015 8:01:50 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: silverleaf

Obie had toilets to clean and floors to wax....


9 posted on 09/10/2015 8:02:35 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Steely Tom

I wonder if he will in his unique way..... invent a New Story....to relate to us tomorrow?


10 posted on 09/10/2015 8:03:36 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

Since September 11th, I’ve often heard it said that it brought us together as Americans. This is not what I remember. To me, it illuminated a glaring chasm between those who “took it personal”, such as myself I hardly need add, and those who considered it philosophically.

IIRC, there was film from the street that night of some young white hipster types who were fretting that it was going to rile up the right wing crazies.

Seared in my memory.


11 posted on 09/10/2015 8:04:59 PM PDT by dr_lew
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dr_lew

The more or less invisible chasm Illumined and Illustrated....Yes!!

I remember the Iranian grocer who told me that we... The West Had It coming ...for messing around in the Middle East...I walked out on him without so much as a WORD,,,and never returned!


12 posted on 09/10/2015 8:08:16 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

Saw some coverage on youtube from a local new york station back on 9/11/01. If obama was _resident then I doubt we would have retailiated the way Bush did.

Hearing Bush promise retribution made me realize what a terrorist symathizer we have in obama. Makes me sick.


13 posted on 09/10/2015 8:12:29 PM PDT by RginTN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RginTN

Obie would have begun a year long Apology Tour..commencing on 9-12!!


14 posted on 09/10/2015 8:14:50 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

A more important question is where was Obama the night of Sept 11, 2012?


15 posted on 09/10/2015 8:16:03 PM PDT by Vic S
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

HIs “law office”

Snort


16 posted on 09/10/2015 8:16:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

It sure doesn’t sound like the typically stuttering and incoherent Obama we have all heard speak.


17 posted on 09/10/2015 8:17:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

I wish I could remember any of the names from the long list Of Comedic Law Firm Names from years gone by.


18 posted on 09/10/2015 8:18:05 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

If Hussein wrote that, I will eat both my pen and my phone...


19 posted on 09/10/2015 8:19:34 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

there was nary an Mmmm or and uh or and ah....in the entire brain-dead screed was there/

I do hope Obie addresses us with his personal memories tomorrow...Im betting hes got an entirely new story to “share”..th’s year


20 posted on 09/10/2015 8:19:56 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-64 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson