Boehner tries to rationalize his party's double standard on war images

[cal04]

Bush's re-election campaign in 2004 aired an ad that showed firefighters carrying a flag-draped coffin from the ruins of the World Trade Center.

Questioned by reporters on what the difference was, Boehner seemed tongue-tied. "These were American citizens killed by terrorists. That is a very different policy issue than American soldiers dying on the battlefield protecting the rights and freedoms of American people."
"How so?" a reporter asked.

"How so? You want me to describe the difference between men and women of the military out there defending the American people, and victims - victims - of terrorist activities?" Boehner asked.

"They were both killed by opponents, right? Terrorists or Islamic insurgents?" a reporter pressed.

An exasperated Boehner said: "The World Trade Center victims were victims of a terrorist act here on our shore and I think all Americans were appalled that this did in fact happen. But I think the differences, in terms of the images, are as clear as night and day."

http://www.dailykos.com/
http://www.prospect.org/horsesmouth/2006/07/post_232.html#003257
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060717/NEWS01/607170327/1056

[mconvente]

1. if clear as night and day means not clear at all...

what a BONERHEAD! haha

[Hubert Flottz]

2. AS stupid as Bill Frist!

And that's really stupid...

[xchrom]

3. boners are wonderful -- boehner is not.

even when he has{although rumour has it -he never does} a boner he is not wonderful.

[everythingsxen]

6. *giggle* You said boner!

[xchrom]

9. ...

:spray:

[MissWaverly]

5. Yea, clear as night and day

9-11 was Bush biggest photo op, so he owns everything about it, no one is allowed to have any
right to privacy or dignity, splash those photos everywhere, but Iraq is an embarrassment to
Bush so of course we start worrying about right n wrong and feelings and stuff, just like
we feel about torture, it's okay to do it, but no reporter has the right to show what we're doing.

[TomClash]

8. Pardon the pun

. . . but his reasoning seems a bit . . . . dusky. :freak:

[Monkeyman]

4. Taken talking leasons from Dubba

[msongs]

7. dems took the image down. boner wins who cares what he thinks nt

[fearthem]

10. Boehner -- every time I see him, want to mess up his perfectly coiffed hair.

would like to see him get his perfectly manicured nails dirty -- he's just too prissy.