Taking cues from GWB and Rudy, Hillary shows that she too can exploit the 9/11 tragedy for political gain. According to this article, HRC has a new ad running in Iowa and New Hampshire that would make Rove proud.
Here's the a description of the ad:
Mrs. Clinton's new 30-second ad, which is running in Iowa and New Hampshire, includes a black-and-white still photograph of firefighters walking through the rubble and another of Mrs. Clinton wearing a dust mask as she met with rescue personnel.
"She stood by ground zero workers who sacrificed their health after so many sacrificed their lives, and kept standing until this administration took action," an announcer says over the post-attack images, which are the first to appear in television advertising from a 2008 presidential candidate.
What's worse is that HRC publicly recognized in the past that this is a cheap tactic that trivializes the suffering of 9/11. In fact, here's what she said when GWB ran similar ads in 2004:
The President has said in the past that he would do nothing that would politicize this terrible tragedy," Mrs. Clinton was quoted as saying in the Daily News on March 6, 2004, shortly after Mr. Bush's ads were released. "I hope that they would be more sensitive going forward."
Families of 9/11 victims are understandably upset:
Our message to all politicians is, ‘Keep your hands off Ground Zero,'" the brother of one of those killed, David Potorti, of Cary, N.C., told USA Today in 2004.
Reached yesterday, Mr. Potorti said he was not familiar with Mrs. Clinton's ad but still opposes use of ground zero imagery by any politician.
So while we dem loyalists criticize Giuliani and GWB for exploiting 9/11, HRC makes hypocrites of us all by doing the same damn thing.