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Its a typical reaction- stigmatize your opponents, stigmatize certain points of view -make everything that happens about YOUR issue. Politics 101 on all sides.

Of course the president is going to politicize everything- he is a politician and his job is to make sure his message resonates with those he is appealing too.

Even Paul Krugman in his Keynesian zeal couldnt resist getting in his plug for economic stimulus just three days after 9/11
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/opinion/reckonings-after-the-horror.html

smaulgld says

Even Paul Krugman in his Keynesian zeal couldnt resist getting in his plug for economic stimulus just three days after 9/11

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/opinion/reckonings-after-the-horror.html

It seems almost in bad taste to talk about dollars and cents after an act of mass murder. Nonetheless, we must ask about the economic aftershocks from Tuesday's horror.

I got laid off from an engineering job 2 months after 9/11. The fuckers had the nerve to cite 9/11 in my pink slip letter as a driving force to the tanking economy.

JH says

I got laid off from an engineering job 2 months after 9/11. The fuckers had the nerve to cite 9/11 in my pink slip letter as a driving force to the tanking economy.

Yep companies blamed 9/11 a lot back when in many instances it was their own fault but 9/11 was convenient to blame

smaulgld says

Politics 101 on all sides.

To support your point...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, one of the strongest proponents of a ban on assault weapons like the AR-15 that suspected shooter and military contractor Aaron Alexis is believed to have used, issued a statement Monday asking "When will enough be enough?"

"Congress must stop shirking its responsibility and resume a thoughtful debate on gun violence in this country. We must do more to stop this endless loss of life," the California Democrat said in the statement.

Read: Death by Gun Control. Oh I forgot, that might interfere with the liberal agenda. Its not about guns, nor safety, its about control.

Both sides act really stupid sometimes. Politicizing tragedy is a sign of failure of morality within a group.