Would FDR Run Those 9/11 Ads?

Greetings loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader was just reading over the Washington Post website when he came across this very interesting David Broder column. Your Maximum Leader himself was thinking this very same thing while watching the Today Show at the Villainschloss this morning. Your Maximum Leader seemed to remember reading something about FDR using WWII as the justification for a fourth term. Now thanks to Mr. Broder and Mr. Faler, you can read all about how FDR never showed up for the 1944 convention.

Of course, the current war is not like WWII. (Although it must be waged just as aggressively.) But the war, and its causes and conduct, are legitimate issues that must be discussed. Using imagery of the World Trade Center is a legitimate tactic in the discussion of the issue.

As other bloggers and commentators have noted, Americans seem to fall, generally, into two categories. The September 10th people, and the September 12th people. Many would prefer to revert back to their mindset that existed on September 10, 2001. This is easy, since there have been no further attacks on American soil. To the Sept 10th-ers, the imagery is a painful reminder of something they are trying to repress. To the Sept 12th people, the Sept 10th people are aggrevating. The imagery to them gets their blood up and makes them remember why we are in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Your Maximum Leader would like to have a sensible discussion of this very important issue. But to do so on the national level would require both campaigns to act a little more grown up.

Carry on.