Obama’s people have scheduled a partisan push for his health care bill on September 11. From The Foundry:

Today, President Obama’s campaign organization “Organizing for America” sent out a notice to its “grassroots” supporters. It asked them to wage a coordinated phone campaign for health care by calling their U.S. Senators on September 11 – also known as Patriot Day – in honor of the thousands of Americans killed by Al Qaeda terrorists eight years ago. It goes on: “All 50 States are coordinating in this – as we fight back against our own Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists who are subverting the American Democratic Process, whipped to a frenzy by their Fox Propaganda Network ceaselessly re-seizing power for their treacherous leaders.” Please read that again.

A Louisiana blogger exposes the liberal ploy. From And So It Goes in Shrevenport:

Via The Foundry, I first read today about this apparent effort to reframe 9/11 by liberal Democrats and by the perpetual Obama Campaign Machine, Organizing For America. This is not the first report I’ve seen about the effort to rewrite the story of 9/11. The effort last year to make 9/11 “A Day of Service” was the first time it actually struck me as truly likely that the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on American soil was soon to be whitewashed….

Matthew Vadum at The American Spectator was on to something earlier this week … Vadum’s take was that 9/11 as a day of remembrance rekindles the fear, works against the liberals, and that’s why they’re trying to reframe the day. He could be right.

The bottom line is that it’s just wrong to politicize the day EITHER WAY. I don’t think Republicans have done that; I could be wrong, but I don’t recall the Republicans marshalling supporters to capitalize on the day to accomplish a political objective.

Vadum says “With the help of the Obama administration, the coalition is launching a public relations campaign under the radar of the mainstream media — which remains almost uniformly terrified of criticizing the nation’s first black president — to try to change 9/11 from a day of reflection and remembrance to a day of activism, food banks, and community gardens.”

Okay, so maybe those things – food banks, community gardens, activism, even political lobbying for your own personal cause – maybe those are all laudable. But why 9/11? As Vadum asks, there are 364 other days in the year to designate for that.

The bottom line is that it’s difficult to ignore the move by the left, and by Obama, to rebrand the day. It does seem as if they are trying to whitewash … the patriotism we felt immediately afterward; the America First coming-together attitude we all felt. Then, we WERE one. Then, we bonded together.

Now, we are ripped apart. And the Organizing for America post today further divides us.

The post has been scrubbed now, but don’t let the liberals live this one down. This event was planned for all 50 states. It’s a shame they are exploiting 9-11 for lobbying, and even more sickening they have forgotten what the day means. They have compared their political enemy to their real enemy….on the anniversary of the day their real enemies attacked our Nation no less. Think the MSM will report this outrage? Don’t bet on it.

Related:

Ed Driscoll — And Speaking Of Reframing 9/11

Huh. Curious that that an Obama Website uses languages that conflates politics and warfare. Didn’t see that coming!

The American Spectator — Obama’s Desecrators of 9/11

President Obama is counting on two Marxists who blame America for the 9/11 terrorist attacks to help turn Sept. 11 from a day of solemn remembrance into an unseemly celebration of radical environmentalism and Big Government. The two men charged with this politically correct exercise in desecration and icon-smashing are the boorish, self-absorbed Rev. Lennox Yearwood and the comparatively suave, articulate Van Jones. Jones is adept at concealing his radicalism; Yearwood is incapable of doing so.

A TowDog’s Blog — On Obama’s re-branding of 9/11

Let’s just make this “about me” instead…. Weak on national security as Democrats invariably are, it simply wouldn’t do to have the rascally Republicans continue to own the issue. What to do? Take the issue away by making 9/11 about Obama’s issues, Obama’s people; in short about Obama.

From the other side:

Idealist in NYC — September 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance

911 Day Of Service — Official Website