Never underestimate a housewife from Jersey...

Yesterday, the "Jersey Girls", the five 9/11 widows who fought for the bipartisan 9/11 commission after constant stonewalling on the part of the Bush administration, endorsed Kerry. One of these fine ladies, Kristen Breitweiser, spoke about their endorsement on CNN with soulless Judy Woodruff. It's amazing how inspiring a housewife from New Jersey can be when she needs to be. Nothing more to say. Just read.


BREITWEISER: ...I spent, along with the other 9/11 family members, three years trying to get 9/11 issues addressed by this administration.

And it's been a long fight, and I use the word fight because that's what it was.

And I think it's disappointing to be this far removed from 9/11 and to still not feel as safe as we could be feeling...

...We tried to have accountability assigned, and it's just not happening under this administration.

And I have a five-year-old daughter. I want to know that I'm safer than I am right now.

And President Bush has not put me in that place, and I believe Senator Kerry will.

WOODRUFF: You said that you voted for George W. Bush in 2000. What has turned you around?

BREITWEISER: I think my own personal experience in the last three years...

...I'd hoped that President Bush -- someone that I voted for, that my husband voted for -- would have been my biggest ally in trying to correct the problems that occurred on the morning of September 11th and trying to make this nation safer.

And what I found out, for the last three years, is that he was our biggest adversary.

And I'm very disappointed --

WOODRUFF: Specifically because he what?

BREITWEISER: With regard to the 9/11 Commission, President Bush:

Fought the creation of the commission;

Fought the legislative language to make sure the commission was set up in a bipartisan manner;

Fought the funding of the commission;

Fought an extension for the commission;

Fought access to individuals and documents.

...

WOODRUFF: But in the last analysis, the president did come around on most of that, didn't he?

BREITWEISER: He came around after he was backed into a corner and after a 90-8 vote in the Senate. And it was a long year.

And I wonder, what if the president had started his own commission in the days after 9/11, much like happened in Pearl Harbor.

Maybe this wouldn't be a campaign issue this year. Maybe national security would be taken care of. Maybe I would feel safe.

Maybe I wouldn't be so scared three years since 9/11.

And I think it's terribly sad that it is an issue in this campaign, because it's an issue -- because it hasn't been taken care of.

WOODRUFF: Are you going to get involved in his campaign? Will you campaign for him?

You were just telling me that you haven't flown in an airplane since 9/11.

BREITWEISER: I have not flown in an airplane since 9/11.

When I see planes in the sky, I have flashbacks of the plane entering my husband's building.

I have committed to the campaign that I will travel. I want to get the word out.

I want the people in this country to understand that national security must be a priority -- a priority in action, not just in words.

And I'm willing to get on a plane. And assuming I can do that, I will do that.

And that is how committed I am, and how much I believe in Senator Kerry being our president.

WOODRUFF: Some people are going to ask, were you in any way used by this campaign?

Are they in any way taking advantage of your obvious and understandable emotions in order to get you to --

BREITWEISER: And I can tell you from my heart, I reached out to the Kerry campaign.

I reached out after the Republican convention that was in New York.

And I felt that listening to people talk about 9/11 as incessantly as it was done during the campaign, or the convention in New York --

If you're going to use 9/11, use it to make this nation safer than it was on 9/11.

And that's not being done...

...Don't use 9/11 to go to war in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 -- not on my husband's name.

The war in Iraq has increased recruitment of Al Qaeda. It has increased animosity and hatred toward Americans.

I want to know that I'm safer. I lost my husband. I want to know that my daughter and I are safer.

And President Bush hasn't done that.

Holy F@#%-ing Sh*@ !!!

It seems North Korea might be testing nuclear bombs. A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea, sending a huge mushroom cloud into the air on an important anniversary of the communist regime. It's been suggested by many that it may have been a nuclear explosion.

Oh, good. I don't think we have enough to scare us out of our minds in the world today. So I'm glad that Bush's policy of not directly speaking to North Korea on any diplomatic level and expecting China to handle the situation is working out for everyone.

Because the first Cold War wasn't cold enough for everyone. Man, Kerry's victory party on November 3rd is more important than ever. Liberal party's always have massive amounts of drugs and sodomy. But this one is sure to have punch. And maybe drills to practice hiding under our desks.