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It wasn't conservatives that hi-jacked this day of national mourning and rememberance to promote the left's agenda. That was liberals, and it's revolting. It seems BO is incapable of seeing the people for whom he works as anything but servants to be organized and sent to do his desires. Everything is always about him and his megalomanic world view, even 9/11.
Holy Crap. Please do as all a favor and go back to Free Republic. As New Toli pointed out what Obama is doing is enacting something the Families and Friends of 9/11 victims have been asking for years.
Sometimes all it takes is a push to get people to volunteer - just like the AVON breast cancer walk.
It's a fantastic idea and something a lot of people have been working very hard to accomplish for years.
The day has NOT been "changed" to entirely 1 day of service.
Again: A DAY OF SERVICE AND REMEMBRANCE
Help others in honor of those who lost their lives on 9-11 - our loved ones would appreciate that a million times more than using their deaths for HATE.
As someone who lost loved ones on 9/11 - I urge everyone to donate their time volunteering if they can, as people seem to have forgotten that's what we all did in the days following 9/11.
MyGoodDeed is an organization run by family members of the 9/11 victims and this is a great success, as they've been attempting to get a day of service on 9/11 in remembrance for quite some time now:
Bringing the country together to help rather than hate is a far better way to remember everyone who died on that day... and there are still thousands of people here in NY suffering from health problems related to being a first responder that could use your help.
STOP trying to politicize this day of remembrance and volunteerism to further your anti-Obama agenda and stop and HELP. Instead of using this to rail against Muslims, stop and HELP your fellow Americans who need it.
This is an example of exploiting their deaths for hate.
Muslims along with Jews, along with people of all races, were passing out water with me on 9/12.
But, you use their deaths to direct hate towards all Muslims. It appears by your posts in this thread that you think 9/11 should be a date of remembrance towards HATE.
Shame on you.
I implore everyone else to use their deaths for something positive, and volunteer on 9/11.
These are the actions of an America hater..doesn't surprise me at all...take the focus off of his Jihadist friends and place it on Socialism...good God
These are the actions of an America hater..doesn't surprise me at all...take the focus off of his Jihadist friends and place it on Socialism...good God
I guess the families of the 9/11 victims are "America Haters".
Come to NY on 9/11 and tell that to their faces and see what happens.
Quote:
"Today President Barack Obama created a historic, enduring and compassionate
legacy that truly honors the 9/11 victims and their families, first responders
and rescue and recovery workers, the soldiers who have take up arms to defend
our freedom and safety, and the many volunteers who spontaneously contributed
their efforts in the immediate aftermath of 9/11," said David Paine, founder
and president of MyGoodDeed.org, the nonprofit group that led a seven-year
campaign to formally establish 9/11 as an annually recognized day of service
and remembrance. "There isn't a better or more fitting way to remember 9/11
than for all of us as Americans to voluntarily set aside time on the
anniversary of the September 11 attacks to help others in need."
"As a 9/11 family member, I cannot think of a more inspiring, appropriate and
constructive tribute to my late brother and all those who perished, were
injured or rose in service -- to rekindle at least for one day each year the
remarkable spirit of compassion and service that unified our country," said
MyGoodDeed.org co-founder and vice president Jay S. Winuk, whose younger
brother Glenn J. Winuk, an attorney, volunteer firefighter and EMT, died in
the line of duty in the collapse of the World Trade Center. "This
groundbreaking national service legislation will greatly benefit the nation in
so many meaningful ways as we face these challenging times."
The families and friends of 9/11 victims are the ones who have been pushing for this since 2002, but you apparently think their opinions on the matter don't count. If you did a little research, you'd find out that this has been in the works for years.
The goal is for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 to become the largest day of volunteerism in history - the purpose is to bring something positive and good out of their untimely deaths.
The goal is to hijack 9/11 for the administrations own nefarious purposes.
On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something “positive,” “forward-leaning,” and “productive,” said a source with knowledge of the teleconference.
The plan is to turn a “day of fear” that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.
The goal is to hijack 9/11 for the administrations own nefarious purposes. These people are souless.
On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something “positive,” “forward-leaning,” and “productive,” said a source with knowledge of the teleconference.
The plan is to turn a “day of fear” that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.
So the people behind mygooddeed are soulless? The families of the victims? As usual, Malkin fails to mention that the families are the ones who have been pushing for this for years now.
THEY ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE TIRELESSLY WORKED TOWARDS THIS FOR SEVEN YEARS.
I'm going to say it again - this is not a right v. left issue unless you want to twist it to support your own side... as Malkin did by not bothering to mention the reason this entire Day of Service was proposed.
I guess you see something wrong with trying to gain something positive out of our loved ones unnecessary deaths. That's sad.
Holy Crap. Please do as all a favor and go back to Free Republic. As New Toli pointed out what Obama is doing is enacting something the Families and Friends of 9/11 victims have been asking for years.
Have they been asking that AmeriCorps be tripled in size?
I have no problem with people volunteering to help victims of 9/11, but as someone said we should be volunteering and donating and being good to our fellow man in need 365 days of the year. The goal is for 9/11/10 to be the biggest volunteer day? Why not December 7? Or August 29? Or even April 19? The point is this country has faced, been hit, and survived a whole lot. And not one life lost was more important than another. And not one single person alive is more important than any dead or alive. we have to help each other everyday. Not just one day. The goal shouldn't be the be the biggest but to help as many people as possible. Would it matter any more if 100 people volunteered and only helped 10 people? Or for 10 people to help 20?
we didn't gain the lesson of being able to help each other out. we have been doing that for years. what we did learn was to be more vigilant and not take our safety for granted. we learned that we aren't safe in our little caccoon in far away from everyone else. That we too are vulnerable. That's what was learned. Not how to help people. I don't know about others, but where I come from we didn't need 9/11 to teach us how to help out our fellow neighbor. We already did that.
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