Lost in Simile

The Dems, as I recall, not too long ago were bitching about Tea Partiers using signs and pictures that compared Obama to Hitler, or at least Josef Stalin. "Unfair hyperbole!" they cried.

Then what about this?

British families of 9/11 victims described Barack Obama as ‘cruel’ yesterday for comparing the terrorist outrage to the BP oil spill.

The U.S. president said there were ‘echoes’ between the Gulf of Mexico disaster and the Al Qaeda suicide attacks which killed 2,995 people, including 67 Britons.

He said that just as the events of September 11, 2001, had profoundly shaped ‘our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy’, so the oil disaster would shape thinking on the environment and energy for years to come.

Those who lost loved ones when terrorists flew hijacked planes into the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Centre said Mr Obama’s remarks were yet another attempt to slur the UK.

I don't think he is trying to slur the UK, but I do think trying to compare the oil spill to the attacks on 9-11 shows not simply an amazing lack of sensitivity, but evidences a lack of understanding of history and what actually happened on that day. Negligence and ineptitude is dirtying our beaches now. Caclulated evil prevailed on 9-11.