Posted on 08/03/2004 4:59:07 AM PDT by rhema
More like 50 years ago, I was in a History class taught by Mr. Peterson and inadvertently blurted out the nickname "Pete" that was standard usage on the basketball team he coached. There is no need for scare quotes around the term when I say it was an accident. If a hole had opened up in the classroom floor I would have dived for it.
"I agree, but then I get criticized when I say I stopped reading World Net Daily when they started hawking Kyle Williams."
You're not alone. WND often makes the appeal for the sensational. Facts are as important as they once were for WND.
Thanks for posting this. I do believe that the Left's irrational hatred for this administration arises from fear and ignorance of how "grown-ups" react to problems.
No more "give peace a chance" rallies, no more candlelight vigils. The lefties and hippies that gathered in the small park in Greenwich village, lighting candles, chanting, plucking guitars on the night of September ll and later, looked bewildered and frightened, while blocks away grown-ups clawed through burning rubble for a hand, an ear, some piece of flesh that would confirm that, yes, your father, brother, daughter, son did not make it out.
When President Bush addressed the nation and the congress after 9/11, our boomer congress members reached out to touch him when he passed, swarming in the aisles, pleading with their eyes for their president to "make it all go away."
He couldn't make it go away and he did not pretend that he could.
He did what grown-ups do, made tough decisions, and stuck to them.
Now Senator Kerry soothes the troubled dreams of our citizen-kids, promising to talk with his pals in Syria and Iran, to make the bad stuff go away. Gerhardt Schroeder, who just last week released a group of 9/11 terrorists, saying "Let them [America] scream," is another of Kerry's chums, as is Jacques Chirac, who is presently blocking humanitarian aid to the Sudan because of stinking America insisting the aid go directly to the suffering Sudanese and not to the French administrators.
Senator Kerry will make it all go away. Allahu akbar!
But on Sat. AM's call in show on Fox re: the now-21-year-old who had been raped by his 34 year old teacher, most the callers and commentators were glued on the true love issue. Republicans most, they could not see the adult-child distinction.
Yet when you see him interviewed, he has the vascillating, unsure mind of a 10 year old: "Where would you like to go with Mary Kay?" "Someplace warm, tropical, the Caribean maybe, or someplace cold."
Wasn't Kyle Williams writing at twelve? Or fourteen?
Now discussing the liberal response to this article right now (0915L Pacific)
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