With President Bush's poll numbers sinking faster than a New Orleans Public School bus, it's time to break out the administration's perennial lifesaver -- 9/11.9/11 remains the highpoint of public support for the President. And polls continually show Americans approve of his handling of terrorism. He's tried linking 9/11 to the Iraq War -- and today, President Bush invoked 9/11 in talking about Hurricane Katrina.
The administration has tried repeatedly to connect 9/11 to Iraq -- in an effort to move support for the War on Terrorism over to the Iraq War. The President tried that in a speech on the Iraq War on June 28 at Fort Bragg. The link failed miserably in the polls.
Speaking at the State Department swearing-in of Karen Hughes (left), President Bush started speaking about the hurricane recovery, then sequed quickly into how Afghanistan was helping with donations, and began comparing the similar "outpouring of sympathy and support" following 9/11. "Sympathy" is a key word here. And it appears the President is looking for sympathy in the polls as he sees sympathy pour out for the people on the Gulf Coast.
A friend of mine, listening to the President's latest link said it reminded him of one of his friends' little dog. The dog broke its leg as a puppy. Everytime he limped, the dog's owner would pamper the pooch and take pitty on it. For the rest of the dog's life, everytime it was scolded, it would limp -- obviously hoping to evoke sympathy over scorn.
After Iraq and the Katrina aftermath, 9/11 has become the President's sympathy limp. (FOXNews)
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