Posted on 10/01/2004 4:56:45 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
America will NEVER seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country!
Good morning!!
Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
Senator John Effin Kerry demonstrated last night why he should never be granted admittance to the White House, even as a guest, let alone as President.
First and foremost--there has to be a "global test" to protect America. Get that! If this country had information in its possession that a reasonable person (and remember that's the test that was used and its threshold exceeded for Saddam) could interpret as being a threat, this Nation would forego even the defense of its citizens with John Kerry as President!
Think about this, let it sink in. Now let's make it personal for a moment. You would not be allowed, for example, to take a different way home even if you knew on your normal route there was an individual with a weapon ready to kill you! In John Kerry's world, you would take that route--AND YOU WOULD SURELY DIE! But that's all right--you did not do anything to protect yourself, so you died nobly.
John Kerry had the unmitigated temerity to say the President didn't do every thing he could to protect our soldiers in Iraq, even accusing Mr. Bush of withholding the body armor that would make our soldiers safer under enemy small arms fire. This despite the fact that SENATOR KERRY VOTED AGAINST THE $87 BILLION PACKAGE THAT WOULD HAVE PROVIDED SUCH MATERIEL.
Senator John Effin tried to duck the word "lie" with regard to President Bush, saying he would never reach down to that level and use that term in reference to the President. An interesting show of deference that is most unusual for the Senator. In a September 2003 campaign appearance, Mr. Kerry said: This Administration has lied to us. They have misled us. And they have broken their promises to us. In the Boston Globe, Sen. Kerry was quoted as saying: Bush has lied about his reason for going to war in Iraq... [Source: Patrick Healy, "Kerry Camp Leaves N.H. Expectations Behind in Polls, Senator Now Seeks Spot in Top Two," The Boston Glove, December 18, 2003. Emphasis in original.]
And then there was the quip about the NY Subway being shut down. KERRY: That's why they had to close down the subway in New York when the Republican Convention was there. (Making a point that Bush has been inadequate in protecting America.) FACT: THE NYC SUBWAY DID NOT CLOSE AT ALL DURING THE CONVENTION!
The Senator also is geography, religiously, and ethnically challenged. He made a reference to looking at KGB records in Treblinka Square. TREBLINKA WAS ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS NAZI DEATH CAMPS!
Now some of the minor details--Sen. Kerry stated the Bush tax cut only went to the President and himself! Being fair and realizing that he was using the two of them as a metaphor for the rich, he's still wrong. The tax cut was across the board.
Kerry says we spent $200 billion on the war on Iraq. We've only spent $120 billion. Sen. Kerry only arrived at the higher number by including what has been appropriated by Congress to spend in the future if needs require!
Senator Kerry even seemed to know where Bin Laden was! He indicated he was in Tora Bora and US forces could have nailed him. Problem is, there was no evidence he was there [maybe the Senator would have known this had he bothered to make time to attend intel briefings!].
He still thinks he knows where The Evil One is, making reference several times to his being in Afghanistan--if he knows where Osama is, why doesn't he tell US military forces?
Senator Kerry talks as if bilateral negotiations would work in North Korea. Senator, they were tried. That's how they got the Bomb!
The Senator continued to vacilate on the issue of Iraq--during the 90 minutes he was saying it was the "wrong war," then the right war, then the wrong war, then the right war, then the wrong war, before finishing up with it being the right war (it's difficult counting the flips and flops). On Iraq at the beginning: And he rushed the war in Iraq without a plan to win the peace. Now, that is not the judgment that a president of the United States ought to make. On Iraq at the end: I'm not talking about leaving. I'm talking about winning.
But that statement is another lie. He wants out of Iraq in four years, and starting to pull away in six months. He said so earlier in the debate.
And that's just what can be crammed into an hour's typing this morning. There are certainly others!
Now the end was notable. President Bush respectfully solicit the listeners for their vote, just as he did in the 2000 election. Senator Kerry ended without even bothering to ask. Small point, but it shows a lack of humility on the behalf of the Senator that smakcs of arrogance.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
Excellent stuff on Hewitt's blog today:
http://www.hughhewitt.com/index.htm
I gave up on the debate, but about 10:45 listened to the clip of K saying this on Fox News' post-debate show.
WOW! It struck me like a thunderbolt. I immediately felt better, have been emailing it all cyberspace this a.m.
Okay. OKAY!! Come back and you can talk all you want about the Packers!!;^))
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Took me a while.
Yeh, I was so blasted mad when I first produced it, I didn't get it right!
Thanks Molly! I'm really going to enjoy Hugh's show today!
Nah, sKerry would hire Superman to examine all cargo holds of every plane, ship and trane in the country with his X-ray vision. Yeah, that's his plan.
Prairie
And all this time I've been sitting here thinking John Effin was superman.
Well, I did consider that too. But decided that sKerry wouldn't go out and x-ray cargo holds himself. Too lowly an occupation for His Loftiness.
LOL the radio guys that follow Rush in my area are siding with Bush. They said that Bush looked like they do when their wives drag them to a party that they subsequently can't wait to get away from. They are taking Kerry to task on his weak positions. LOL
Freeper on the live thread last night related a good analogy, I wish I'd copied it. Went something like:
Last night Kerry looked like the brightest kid in the classroom. Bush looked like the seasoned and astute teacher who'd seen everything in the classroom. (That's close)
Prairie
Yes, we are still having huge problems with the computer.
I am going crazy w/o my FReeping. Just absolutely nuts. But it can't be helped.
This weekend hubby will re-format the hard drive. I have no idea what that means. But it sounds scary.I just hope it helps.
Pfc. Boychild just left for drill. Girlchild is slumping a bit. Older boychild continues to process pickles and other condiments. Hubby is fine. I have a bad cold but otherwise am okay.
I have 25 minutes before I have to leave to go home and teach.
Off to check threads/breaking news/etc.
Good afternoon! Just checking in. I gave my husband's secretary a pep talk about the debate, and she felt much better. She was just so afraid of all those words...but when we started talking about the lies, and the arrogance, and the rudeness, she suddenly realized Kerry wasn't that great. HA!
Chin up MozartLover. All will be well in computer land.
AF....glad you find the links helpful.
Understand completely about the pressure of time and how to get the most info the most efficiently.
I enjoy going thru the overnight stuff, and finding the links for the a.m. thread. Then others often pick up and post new links during the rest of the day.
I do have time often to go thru the News/Activism forum, & if there's anything in particular your interested in, let me know, and I may be able to ping you.
So yes, ATRW is a good thread for all-purpose info. That was the idea of the thread and its predecessor thread in the old Clinton days.
Did you find out how to subscribe to ATRW? Also, using the sidebar is another way to find topics of interest to you...
Hope this helps...
Leaving for a trip next week, so there'll be several days w/o my links.
I remember all the threads this time 4 years ago It was so hard to keep up then....and now!!!
That means it will be wiped clean and EVERYTHING on it will be lost. It is a last resort.
We are in last resort territory, unfortunately.:(
We had an episode with Mom today. Her breathing was very hard and labored.....the lung doctor was in with her when we walked in and asked us why she was breathing hard.....we told him we didn't know.
Seems her chest drain had become disconnected when they moved her to a chair earlier in the morning....and none of the nurses noticed it.
When we arrived at 11 am we noticed the machine wasn't making its normal sounds and asked a nurse she said it was normal......but then saw it had become disconnected and tried to hide the fact from us.... as she plugged it back in.......and then we went nuts.
They also had not changed her bed or given her a bath ....and Doggie went postal on them.
Then the same nurse asked my Mom if she wanted 2 percosets for her pain.....2!!!!
It would have killed her.
Then as they were getting her back in bed one of them yelled at my mother to stand up in a very loud tone......not a brilliant move on his part.
The Head of Nursing will be called.
But his motto is "Drink water & drive on"..........which was the motto for the first several weeks of AIT......later it was changed to "Drink water, take a saline IV, and drive on.";^)
My time here is up. Off to teach a few lessons and collapse for the evening. Day 6 of this rotten cold with no end in sight. Everybody around here is sick. Must be football hangover.(Losses will do that.)
Hope to be FReeping again regularly soon. Take care Johnny.
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