Hillary Clinton Uses 9/11 In Ad After She Attacked Bush For Doing The Same Thing

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How surprising:

Senator Clinton, who is using images from ground zero in a new television ad for her presidential campaign, sharply criticized President Bush when he put pictures from the World Trade Center site in his campaign advertising.

“The President has said in the past that he would do nothing that would politicize this terrible tragedy,” Mrs. Clinton was quoted as saying in the Daily News on March 6, 2004, shortly after Mr. Bush’s ads were released. “I hope that they would be more sensitive going forward.”

Mrs. Clinton’s new 30-second ad, which is running in Iowa and New Hampshire, includes a black-and-white still photograph of firefighters walking through the rubble and another of Mrs. Clinton wearing a dust mask as she met with rescue personnel.

“She stood by ground zero workers who sacrificed their health after so many sacrificed their lives, and kept standing until this administration took action,” an announcer says over the post-attack images, which are the first to appear in television advertising from a 2008 presidential candidate.

And this won’t shock you either:

The Bush campaign’s use of the ground zero pictures drew criticism and condemnation not only from Mrs. Clinton, but also from firefighters and family members of victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks.

“Our message to all politicians is, ‘Keep your hands off Ground Zero,'” the brother of one of those killed, David Potorti, of Cary, N.C., told USA Today in 2004.

Reached yesterday, Mr. Potorti said he was not familiar with Mrs. Clinton’s ad but still opposes use of ground zero imagery by any politician.

But I’m guessing they won’t be raising too much of a stink about it seeing as how the International Association of Firefighters is wholeheartedly backing Clinton:

I did want to pass along some information about
IAFF’s PAC, if you don’t have it already. The article noted that it
failed to criticize Clinton, though it blasted Bush. Well, IAFF’s PAC
has donated over $8,000 to Clinton, with it being one of the 25 most
active federal PACs in the nation. It donates overwhelmingly to Dems.

In 2004, instead of asking union members directly which candidate
they wanted to support, IAFF sent out a list of ideals, allowing
members to select which they wanted in a candidate. The union bosses
then decided which candidate they felt best met the description.
Several union insiders claim Bush was never even considered.

Because we all know Bush was behind 9/11 right?

Sigh….

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Hillary Clinton hypocrisy watch

Josh Gerstein at the NY Sun reports that Hillary is (surprise) doing something she slammed the president for doing 3 years ago:
Senator Clinton, who is using images from ground zero in a new television ad for her presidential campaign, sharply criticiz…