Posted on 04/04/2003 7:45:29 PM PST by Big Okie
Thank you Senator Kerry.
Thank you for further clarifying and segregating yourself from the overwhelming majority of Americans who are very proud of, and grateful for our current President and his administration.
Thank you for further clarifying and segregating yourself from the overwhelming majority of Americans who are very proud of, and grateful for our current President and his administration. It goes without saying, too, that this country is honored to have such an honest and forthright individual at the helm of liberty and freedom as we weather through this threatening storm. Your statement now affords you a reserved seat on the bus to Irrelevantville with stops along way in Paris, Brussels and Berlin. You'll be seated next to Senator Daschle, and, The Dixie Chicks will be playing on the CD throughout your journey (descent, actually).
You view this President and his administration as a regime? What does that make the so called leaderships of all but one Arab country? How about North Korea? Cuba? Your carefully selected phrase, describing a sitting U.S. President and his administration, during a war to relieve the world of a murderous, tyrannical terrorist with un-Godly designs for the future, is telling of your character.
If you're so disgruntled and oppressed here in America may I suggest you throw your Vietnam medals over the fence and onto the lawn of the White House…as you did about 30 years ago. You still have your Vietnam medals, though, because the first time you threw Vietnam medals over the White House fence to protest a war they weren't your medals.
Come on Senator Kerry. A "regime" this bad should surely warrant tossing your own war honors over the fence this time. They're on the wall in your office. Stand up! Rip them down! Disown the horror and imperialism they represent! Throw them back to the country that foisted them upon your chest!
You're not that brave. Perhaps you're waiting for a brave young man or woman currently serving in Iraq, eliminating a world threat and freeing a country starved of the smallest morsel of freedom or dignity, to come home and lend you their medals. Yours look good up there on the wall and they give visitors the false impression that you're a man who was proud to serve his country and defend a deserving people.
So, again I thank you. Thank you for further clarifying why the people of this country should assign deep discounts to your service, your positions, and your ambitions. By pushing so hard to stand out in a crowd you have succeeded. There aren't many standing with you, though, for a reason.
To check your effectiveness, touch base with the campaign finance regulators and behold the balances over at the NRSC. They just got another $25 from a Joe-bag-o-donuts in Northridge, Ca. That'd be me.
Thanks, again, Senator Kerry. I mean it. Thank you.
Give yourself a medal, man.
Michael K. Smith Northridge, Ca
During the Revolutionary War, Benedict Arnold served the nascent American Republic as an officer in the Continental Army. He was viewed by many as a genuine American hero. However, when Arnold decided it was in his best, personal interest to change sides, he did. His treasonous behavior is a blot upon American history.
Senator Kerry should remember that, just as Arnold's prior military service to the Republic did not expiate his treasonous behavior, neither does Kerry's.
Kerry is treasonous because his choice of words, 'regime change,' coming as it does after a major war whose purpose was regime change, is INTENDED to suggest violent overthrow of the government. It's not an accident; it is a call for civil disobedience on a scale we haven't seen, for the purpose of forcing a change in government...away from our constitutional government, to one controlled by a single party (democRATs). DemocRATs are as close to a Baath party as we have in America.
Ludicrous, totally ludicrous. Kerry simply wants Bush to be replaced in the next election by a Democrat, preferably him. That is the American way, totally American. But he did put his foot into it, and thus gave some leash to folks like yourself to vent. Over the top rhetoric reduces the credibility of this site. Think about it.
But consider that he probably did us a favor. In fact, consider how fortunate we have been in our enemies. They are practically writing and producing "Bush 2004" ads for us.
I hope Kerry's statement was captured on video tape. It needs to be preserved, and it needs to be exposed to the public.
Here are a few statements and images, some by politicians on the campaign trail or in the Capitol; one by a media figure; and some by leftist demonstrators -- which, while distasteful to look at, may prove to be of much more use to "us" than they are to "them":
"I'm saddened, saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war. Saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country." -- Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), March 18, 2003.
Desecration of British war graves in France, April 2, 2003:
"What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States." -- Senator (and Presidential candidate) John Kerry (D-MA), April 2, 2003.
Sign at an anti-America rally in Boston, March 29, 2003:
"Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. Now America is reappraising the battlefield, delaying the war maybe a week and rewriting the war plan." -- Former MSNBC Commentator Peter Arnett, on Iraqi TV, March 30, 2003.
Sign at an anti-America rally in San Francico, late March, 2003:
You are underestimating Kerry's choice of words and seeking to gloss over it. Free speech is not the issue. Intended meaning is the issue. Kerry's use of 'regime change,' now, is intended to signify an upping of the stakes in the political arena and an increased willingness to tolerate civil disobedience as a political tool. You don't believe me? Does it matter? Either you recognize democrats for the disloyal opposition they have become, or you become their accomplice.
Was Kerry really calling for the violent overthrow of the United States government? Of course not. In my judgment, it was a combination of red meat for the lefties as he tries to extinguish a nasty Dean flareup in New Hampshire, and an attempt to "bait" the Bush operatives into saying something intemperate.* The statement was a miserable failure on both counts. Which is why I like to mostly just get out of the way when my opponent says something idiotic.
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* That was a rare triple mixed metaphor, by the way.
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