play? of course. of course, there is. in any democratic civilized even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there s a hurricane in louisiana, the people of vermont are there for them. if there s a tornado in the midwest, we are there for them. if there s something in the east coast, the people in california are there for us. that is the concept of a nation. you can t do everything alone. we work together, and when disaster strikes, as one people, we come together to help our neighbors out. there is something about disaster that creates a sense of shared vulnerability. i m here in new orleans, and we certainly, you know, yesterday were spending a lot of time thinking about what was happening to our fellow citizens on the east coast, so to the extent we are all one people, once congress reconvenes, do you think problems getting our body,
we watched in horror as the towers came down. four years later, we sat in shock as water poured into the lower ninth ward. the terror of 9/11 was followed by a deep sense of connection, with each other. a sense of solidarity as americans and a recognition of our shared vulnerability. in fact, it made us afraid. and that fear did make us band together, but it also is true that our unified desire to respond to 9/11 helped us to make some disastrous choices. out of fear, we stood and allowed the erosion of america s civil liberties. out of our fear, we followed a misguided president into a war with iraq. fear of terrorism made us afraid to criticize the troubling choices of the bush administration. until, four years later, another crisis reminded us that the politics of fear are not an
making. this is one of the toughest critiques ever. look, i do think there s a way in which clearly vice president cheney is trying to position himself here as, you know, the center of this story, but i wonder why do it at the expense of the party. we ve been ringing our hands about how we can t get bipartisanship in the u.s., but right now it feels like is there something this cheney memoir should be telling us about the republican party itself coming apart at the seams? i think it tells you why all of these republican presidential candidates are not embracing the bush record. rick perry has gone out of his way to say he s a different kind of texan, he s texas a&m, not yale. and as i was hearing dick cheney talk, i thought his theme song is no, i regret nothing,
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hurricane katrina, like september 11th, 2001, was a rare moment when we, as americans, suffered along with our fellow citizens, even as tragedy struck. we watched in horror as the towers came down. four years later, we sat in shock as water poured in to the lower ninth ward. the terror of 9/11 was followed by a deep sense of connection with each other, a sense of solidarity as americans, and a recognition of our shared vulnerability. in fact, it made us afraid and that fear did make us band together, but it also is true that our unified desire to respond to 9/11 helped us to make some disastrous choices. out of fear, we stood and allowed the erosion of america s civil liberties. out of our fear, we followed a misguided president in to a war with iraq. fear of terrorism made us afraid to criticize the troubling