On Tuesday night our President repeatedly invoked September 11 as a rationale for the Iraq war, stretching both logic and credibility to the breaking point. I thought you'd be interested in seeing what the principal victims of 9/11 thought of the President's job performance when they got a chance to evaluate it last November. (Figures from Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections)
NEW YORK CITY
Kerry 1,828,015, 75.7%
Bush 587,534, 24.3%
NEW YORK COUNTY (Manhattan, scene of Twin Towers)
Kerry 526,765, 82.1%
Bush 107,405, 16.7%
Others 1.2%
THREE NEW JERSEY COUNTIES ADJACENT TO NYC (Bergen, Passaic, Hudson)
Kerry 430,075 56.9%
Bush 325,679 43.1%
Maybe Bush should stop trying to exploit 9/11 for his own political benefit. It sure seems like the ones who saw it up close weren't terribly impressed by the way he handled it.
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