Posted on 05/20/2004 11:36:27 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
There's something seriously wrong with America when an old fool like Fritz Hollings can be re-elected every six years to the U.S. Senate by South Carolina voters despite his mental lapses, despite his foot-in-mouth problems, despite his senility, despite his lack of sound judgment and grasp on the facts.
He should be an embarrassment to South Carolina, because he's certainly an embarrassment to the nation.
The latest senior moment for the senior senator from South Carolina came earlier this month when he wrote a column for a newspaper in his state in which he claimed:
Those are the central points. His incoherent rambling is further evidence the man is playing with a joker short of a full deck. He contends George Bush took office "imbued with one thought – re-election."
The easy way to be re-elected, Hollings asserts, was to start a war in Iraq to take the Jewish vote away from the Democratic Party.
Now let's consider this: There are reasonable arguments against the war in Iraq. I have arguments myself with the way it was started, the way it has been conducted and with the ultimate goals for the country. But can any responsible, sane, rational American reasonably contend that a surefire scheme for re-election was to start a war in Iraq or anywhere else?
War is always risky business – they're much easier to start than they are to win. Everybody knows that.
Bill Clinton thought just the opposite was true. He conspired to withhold information from the American people about terrorist attacks on our soil – some of them involving Iraq – so he could purposely avoid politically risky foreign entanglements and responses to acts of war against this country. Politically speaking, he was probably right. He won re-election. But, strategically speaking, his irresponsible actions led directly to a series of escalating terrorist attacks on America and the inevitability of war for his successor.
About Hollings' contention that Bush took action against Iraq to win favor with American Jews:
No. 1: The U.S. Jewish vote is very small. In fact, Israel gets far more support within the United States from evangelical voters representing between 30 million and 40 million people.
No. 2: I know of no polling data that suggests American Jews were broadly in favor of the invasion of Iraq. Hollings cites a few Jewish-sounding names among the architects of the plan to invade Iraq. He does not bother to cite any Jewish-sounding names among the many critics of the war – before it began or after.
And that brings us to the central point.
Hollings is not only an old fool unworthy of sitting in the U.S. Senate – let alone casting votes on matters of life and death for U.S. troops and U.S. civilians – he is a blustering bigot. He is a raving racist. He is an inartful anti-Semite. He is playing the old, thinly veiled anti-Jewish card to score political points in an election year.
It's pathetic.
Not to mention the way he is adding to the demoralization of our troops bravely and heroically fighting right now for the liberation of Iraq and the defense of this nation against the terrorists who have attacked us repeatedly in the past and who will attack us repeatedly in the future.
For that he should be censured or summarily relieved of his duties by his colleagues.
But, don't hold your breath.
His colleagues in the U.S. Senate also continue to sit alongside even bigger disgraces – people like Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Farah must have been watching Foghorn today on the Senate floor too. I agree, Hollings is an abject embarrassment. Hollings was saying we need to live together with Muslims, get out of our alliance with Israel, and that will end the War On Terror.
'Deah is too much Israel supportin' goin' on out 'deah.
Hollings and radical Muslims share one thing very much in common: Hatred of the Jews.
You could definately sense his hatred for Israel today on the Senate floor.
I think Warner Brothers used Hollings as a real life inspiration for Foghorn Leghorn.
Gracias, amigo.
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I was going to say "you crackered the code," but I thought that pun was a stretch.
heh!
Bill Clinton thought just the opposite was true. He conspired to withhold information from the American people about terrorist attacks on our soil – some of them involving Iraq – so he could purposely avoid politically risky foreign entanglements and responses to acts of war against this country. Politically speaking, he was probably right. He won re-election. But, strategically speaking, his irresponsible actions led directly to a series of escalating terrorist attacks on America and the inevitability of war for his successor
READ THIS CAREFULLY:
He conspired to withhold information from the American people about terrorist attacks on our soil
Jayna Davis in "The Third Terrorist" carefully documents that there were 8 Iraqi's involved with the OKC bombing. A second man got out of the truck with McVey minutes before it exploded. That man then went on to work at Boston's Logan Airport, and was there on 9-11-2001. Sma;; world, isn't it?
Jamie Gorelick was involved with the investigation and changed it from looking for two middle eastern men in a pickup to two white guys, McVey and Nichols. Now, stop looking for the middle eastern men per PRESIDENTIAL ORDER. Gorelick made it happen.
Flash ahead to July, 1996: A plane goes down off Long Island. Numerous witnesses see a missle. Richard Clark comes up with the fuel tank exlosion scenario. Yeah, that's it! Jamie Gorelick steers the investigation toward fuel tank explosion.
Remember: Bill Clinton's 1996 election hung in the balance.
Gorelick's place on the 9-11 commission should now be a bit clearer: Keep the focus off 1995 and 1996 middle eastern terrorists.
Now the silly Richard Clark book should make more sense too.
We need term limits.
Are you listening Mr. and Mrs Jewish voter?
Hollings is Pat Buchanan with white hair.
He certainly is.
Hollings isnt worth the ink written about him. He is history anyway. Better for Farah to invest his time and research into Inez Tanenbaum, the Dem who is running to replace EH.
Hey Mikey, Heston was marching SIDE BY SIDE with Martin Luther King at the 1963 civil rights march while Hollings was out PROMOTING the importance of segregation and lashing out at blacks and jews. Stuff that in your pie hole. I guess you think only Republicans can be bigots, eh, Mike?
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