Never Forget

I'll never forget 9/11 or the lessons of 9/11.

The primary lesson, of course, is that who the President is matters. Whether or not the President was a good student or a C student matters. The person I vote for for President needs to be smart. The President needs to read his memos. If the CIA flies all the way to the President's vacation home to deliver an urgent memo, the President needs to take that seriously.

President Obama is annoying me mightily these days by acting as though he skipped negotiations in law school. His "fight" for healthcare seems a lot more like McClellan and a lot less like Grant. (C students, feel free to look up those Civil War generals.) But I know he's smart. And if the CIA goes to him with an urgent matter -- as they may have already -- he's not going to tell the briefer "You've covered your ass now." He won't go fishing afterwards. Obama will go to work on the problem.

So we as a nation have finally learned the lesson of 9/11. But we must never forget that having a stupid person as President can be deadly.

President Celebrates 7th Anniversary

commondreams: AUGUST 2001: OFF FOR A MONTH OF JOGGING, FISHING & CUTTING BRUSH
President Bush, right, talks with staff at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in this Aug. 6, 2001 file photo. That day Bush jogged, fished, and received a memo from the CIA with the title 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US'.
(Photo/The White House, Eric Draper/ File)

ThinkProgress: Flashback: Seven years ago today, Bush received ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.’ memo.»

President Stupid told the CIA briefer who had flown to Crawford to deliver this warning: "All right, you've covered your ass now."

And then he went fishing.

On 9/11, "[e]xcluding the 19 hijackers, 2,974 people died in the attacks. Another 24 were missing and presumed dead."

Unbelievably, those were not even the worst days of Bush's presidency, as on March 20, 2003 he launched the war of lies on Iraq that has resulted in the deaths of millions of innocents.

Murderer.