A real Shocker, NOT!!!

As nobody who reads the piece regularly knows I certainly did not watch the presidents address to the nation last night. As I had stated on Sunday night that I was already sick to death of the media’s coverage of the 5th anniversary of 9/11, and I saw absolutely no reason for the president to address the nation, other than further dividing the country with partisan politics and that is what he seemed to achieve.

As I log onto Yahoo today, I saw the following headline: Democrats accuse Bush of exploiting Sept 11, before I even read the story; I was like “no shit, really.” I was shocked that this president would use this solemn occasion to play party politics. (I hope you notice the deep sarcasm). The same thing can be found at CNN, 9/11 speech sparks partisan squabble.

“Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said Bush should have tried to recapture a spirit of national unity in a televised Oval Office address on Monday night.

Reid told reporters Democrats had been so confident the Republican Bush would be nonpartisan that they had not sought equal time on television to offer their party's response.

"Sadly, it was a missed opportunity for President Bush, who apparently was more consumed by staying the course in Iraq and playing election year politics," Reid said, accusing Bush of once again trying to "conflate and blur the war in Iraq with the response to 9/11."

Once again, this just shows the complete stupidity, and how out of touch that the leaders of the Democrat party actually are. They are continually and seemingly easily mislead by the majority party and are constantly made to look they could not lead their way out of a wet paper bag. How I long for an alternative mid-stream party to take control and address the needs of Middle America, not the nut jobs on the right or the equally nutty crackers on the left who seem to dominate both party platforms.

As a complete sidebar, I was absolutely disgusted that ESPN did a whole halftime tribute to 9/11 during the Redskins and Vikings game. As soon as I heard Chris Berman talk I knew it was time to change the channel. It was a disgusting display of American over indulgence.