My daughter, Emma, got upset with me when I suggested she take a copy of  my well worn copy of “Chicken Soup for the Soul of America”… the best selling book that contains her name and a bit of the story of her experience as a four year old on  September 11, 2001.

Her teacher wanted the children in her fourth grade class who actually remember that momentous day to bring photos to class - “No, Mom, that embarrasses me. I just want to bring pictures.”

I read my words that were published in this very popular series of books  this Saturday during my poetry performance at the (burn the witch) all woman’s art show at the Empty Space theatre… and it made me cry… my message, so deeply embedded in my heart… held up against all that has transpired since that day, five years ago.

I am finding it a bit challenging to focus today. I’m remembering………..

Can't you whiners take even ONE day off? 

What does an SUV or a cell phone, have to do with this day ?  

Hindsighted people like Randomfactor wanted 9/11 treated like a law enforcement problem.  After the towers were bombed in 1993, and Clinton did nothing, liberals were satisfied that we had a trial and put an old blind turd in jail.  They have too many old blind turds that they will exchange for skyscrapers.  When somebody f's with us, they are going to get their desert turned to glass.  

"...it could have been mostly over by now."   We have to be more careful now.  Wars are more complex. That number that some bozo keeps putting up about the death toll in Iraq doesn't even realize that while that number seems horrifically large to us now, it would have been nothing in past wars.  Wars are messy.  Diplomacy doesn't solve everything.  Why didn't England negotiate with Germany?  Oh; they did.  As Chamberlain said "Peace in our time."  Boy was he wrong, and so are you. 

Funny thing; if we really had a "liberal media," we'd be hearing speeches like this three times a week.

It's that last part that gets to me.  It sums up so much in so few words. For context, he's speaking in front of the World Trade Center Site.

When those who dissent are told time and time again — as we will be, if not tonight by the President, then tomorrow by his portable public chorus — that he is preserving our freedom, but that if we use any of it, we are somehow un-American…
When we are scolded, that if we merely question, we have "forgotten the lessons of 9/11"… look into this empty space behind me and the bi-partisanship upon which this administration also did not build, and tell me:
Who has left this hole in the ground?
We have not forgotten, Mr. President.
You have.
May this country forgive you.

Really though, the whole thing is worth the read.  Even more worth watching, just to get the sense of how painful the day is for him since he lost four friends.

Let's see:  "They'll never get Saddam.   They'll never get  Zarqawi.  They'll never hold an election in Afghanistan.  They'll never get a constitution in Iraq."  When Bin Ladin is captured, you will all say "What took so long?"  

DNC strategory this November:  We hate Bush, we hate WalMart,  we hate Bush,  gas is too high,  we hate Bush,  global warming, we hate Bush.  

Oil now below 64 dollarsa barrel.  6 weeks ago, Democrat ninnies were saying it was going to go to $100.  I am still waiting for Lieberman to crash, as you guys said should have happened by now.  Maybe not the windfall you had hoped for? 

A fake copy of a real document?  Confirmed over the phone.   Was she in Area 51 at the time?  Maybe Dan should have first gone public with the story on Art Bell.  

You clowns don't see everything falling into place:  Dow approaching all-time high, gas 50 cents lower than 2 months ago and falling, Ken Lay dead, Arnold signing minimum-wage bill.  By the time November is here, gas will have fallen even more and Iraq troop numbers will go down.  The only thing Democrats can do is reach into their old tired bag of tricks and pull out the old standards:  class-envy and race-baiting.  With more Blacks and Hispanics joining the middle class, this too shall pass.  

The last century gave us the death of communism; this one will give us the death of another failed system - liberalism. 

Let's see: "mission accomplished".  We knew they'd get Saddam.  We controlled half the country and the last time we attacked Iraq, Iraqi soldiers were surrendering to camera crews.  Don't set up straw men.

DNC Strategy this fall: are you safer now than you were six years ago?  Are you better off now than you were six years ago?

Oil is going down, no doubt.  Funny how that happens before every election.  Oil will go to 100 dollars a barrel, just not during an election season.

Lieberman is now the Republican candidate, for all intents and purposes.  He'll lose this fall along with 7 or so other Republican incumbant Senators.

The story on Bush is right.  He left TANG during Vietnam to work on a campaign.  Notice how the attack was on the document, not the facts of the story?

As for things falling into place, I do see it.  The Dow has been close to it's all time high since Bush took office.  You'll need a Democrat to get it moving again. Arnold may win, but it'll be close.  If he can run far enough, fast enough from Bush, he might hang on for another term.  Here's what you should look at: Anyone who supports Bush or can be painted as supporting Bush is going to lose this fall.  If Bush keeps giving speeches, his numbers will keep falling.  He's one disaster away from falling below 30%.  It may be another port deal or another hurricane, one of the many illigal things he's involved with going to court or something bad in Iraq.  He's spent his political capital and now he's dragging his party down with him.

People are tired of incompetance.  They're tired of laziness.  They're tired of the all hat and no cattle Republican leadership.  They are tired of being told to be afraid.  A lot of Republicans who are great people have seen this President skip from one disaster to the next, leaving a trail of broken cities, broken countries and dead bodies in piles behind him.  New Orleans, Iraq, even the hole in the heart of New York City, this are all the legacy of NeoConservativism.  You'd better hope liberalism doesn't fail, or soon enough the whole country is going to look like the Gulf Coast does a year after Katrina.

Jimthewatcher?  Any errors of mine you'd like to correct?