Boo on Selling 9/11 to Sell Bush

I think the families who feel aggrieved at watching the president use footage from 9/11 to hype his political campaign have every right to speak out.

What amazes and unnerves me that Mr. Bush's handlers would never begin to understand that for some of these families - as with some of the rest of the country - such footage reminds them that 9/11 happened on Mr. Bush's watch.

He's never apologized. He's never said he wished we had handled it better. He's never said, "I know we're trying to buy families out with this settlement to keep them from suing the airline companies, but we really care anyway." No. He told us to go shopping and then happily surrender our civil rights to "protect us" because he won't.