Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: March 07, 2004 – March 13, 2004 Archives: On the notion (apparently under consideration) of using Ground Zero for the president’s acceptance speech.
The question is whether it’s possible to imagine anything more crass. Isn’t ground zero something like a graveyard?
What could be more worse? The president addressing the crowd wearing a pelt from a recently executed Guantanamo prisoner? Personally executing Saddam on stage with a scimitar?
Not to be flippant, but could anything be more crass than accepting a presidential nomination on ground that is still mixed with the bodies of thousands of Americans?
Lincoln dedicated a cemetary at Gettysburg; he didn’t hold the 1864 Republican convention there.