Republicans do not “own” September 11

Dear George:

While you are currently the president of this great country I love and therefore deserve some modicum of respect, I find it difficult to offer. I especially find it difficult to offer after watching last night's cable coverage of the first evening of the Republican Convention. Knowing how totally involved you are in this current campaign, I find it difficult to stomach your obvious approval of the “slant” of the night's activities. Republicans do not “own” September 11. Anyone who was president at the time would have gone there and supported the people. That you were the one who was given the political opportunity - I call it such as you have obviously chosen to portray it in that light - is an accident of fate. To politicize that awful day in our country is an affront to everyone of us who suffered that day.

Darlene
Age 57
New Hartford, NY