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Time to decide who we want to be
Washington Times ^
| 10/01/04
| Wesley Pruden
Posted on 09/30/2004 10:42:38 PM PDT by kattracks
In the cool early light of the morning after, there's a question American voters must ask themselves, a question more important than any posed last night to George W. Bush and John F. Kerry.
Who are we? Who have we become? What kind of people do we want to be? These are questions for the debate that counts.
The extrusions of that vile species (erectus porcinus) who murdered 35 of their own children yesterday in the streets of Baghdad in the name of a malignant theology of an eighth-century religion, imagine that we're no tougher, no more resilient, no more courageous than the French, who can never even defend themselves; the Germans, who can't push themselves away from a plate of sausages long enough to recognize peril; or the Spanish, who demonstrated in the aftermath of the Madrid railway bombing that when the going gets tough it's time to cut and run. [snip]
Smug and vain, John Kerry presents himself as the John Paul Jones of the Mekong, the war hero who fears no foe. Maybe he doesn't. But he can't reconcile himself to the harsh and unforgiving fact that we're at war again, and this time against an enemy more vile, more depraved and more wicked than any America has faced before. Maybe he knows that. Whatever he may think, or feel in the marrow of his bones, he cannot jettison the dead weight of the leftmost elements of his party, either now, when his candidacy falters, or later, in the unlikely event he becomes the 44th president. He must be the cut-and-run candidate, just as he would have to be the cut-and-run president.
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; debates; napalminthemorning; pruden
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To: kattracks; Howlin
But he can't reconcile himself to the harsh and unforgiving fact that we're at war again, and this time against an enemy more vile, more depraved and more wicked than any America has faced before. If you don't mind, I'd like to cross link another thread that got lost tonight in all the *other* ones!!!
S.D. school crisis plan is found on disk in Iraq
Now, before you brush this aside as a San Diego "problem", a California only "problem", please note that it reads U.S. Department of Education web site. San Diego being ONE of the schools.
We MUST NOT let this man become President. EACH of us has a duty to fight for our country. Clinton hurt us, he hurt us badly. Kerry will take us over the edge.
To: jwalsh07
"Global Test" is here to stay and Dubya picked up on it immediately. Like a hunting dog on point.
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Americans may like the idea of the UN (without facing the reality of the UN's objectives)...but when the rubber meets the road, they trust Bush to do what is best for our national security, not the UN...It will come back to haunt Kerry again and again.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:25:51 PM PDT
by
MEG33
(John Kerry has been AWOL on issues of national security for two decades)
To: MEG33
This piece by the always outstanding Wesley Pruden nails it - we're voting for a leader and a national direction, not who gives better press conference (it's not a debate, after all.)
To: Howlin
You're right......a must read and Wes hit it outta the park!
To: Brad's Gramma
Now, before you brush this aside as a San Diego "problem", a California only "problem", please note that it reads U.S. Department of Education web site. San Diego being ONE of the schools.
I'm certainly not brushing it aside. IMO, if we let up at all in the war, the Islamofacists will over in the US trying to pull-off a Beslan, Russia-type atrocity at one of our schools. They already caught one terrorist in Minnesota applying for permits to transport hazardous waste materials and school busses. This was a hard-core terrorist, one that had been in Chechnya. Maybe he was planning to pack a school bus with children and explosives and ram the whole thing into a school with some of his terrorist brothers.
We MUST NOT let this man become President. EACH of us has a duty to fight for our country. Clinton hurt us, he hurt us badly. Kerry will take us over the edge.
Kerry would be like having Carter as president again, only this time we're at war and the enemy will have nuclear weapons in about two months.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:35:51 PM PDT
by
Retief
To: kattracks
erectus porcinusBy my reading and lousy latin, that should mean "upright walking pigs".
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:36:10 PM PDT
by
Cold Heat
(http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=20040531140357545)
To: kattracks
Kerry and his liberal cronies are still living in the 60's and every war to them is the Viet Nam war.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:38:11 PM PDT
by
TOUGH STOUGH
(Go Swifties!!!!!!!)
To: TOUGH STOUGH
Kerry and his liberal cronies are still living in the 60's and every war to them is the Viet Nam war.
That's right. Furthermore, those idiots LOST the Vietnam war. I really don't think we need those idiots to also lose the present war.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:40:25 PM PDT
by
Retief
To: kattracks
As I watched the first Presidential Debate it became readily apparent, that despite all of his flip flops in between, John Kerry is still at heart the same anti-war activist he was during the Viet Nam War. He would submit the United States to the whims of the United Nations and sell out our country and the free world to terrorist henchmen. He would cut and run from our allies, and bring the terror to our shores and the heartland of America.
Mr. Pruden in his article "Time to decide who we want to be" tells the American people with eloquence of the vast implications of the decision we will make on November 2nd when we cast our vote for President of the United States. We can and we must show courage in the face of those who would tear down the American ideals of Freedom and Liberty and follow a steady course against those who would destroy us. President Bush is the only candidate who has the leadership, courage, and conviction to uphold the beliefs we hold so dear. Our choice is clear on November 2nd.
I hope the rest of America can see this too!
To: Howlin
I just can't figure out how you can be a war hero when you've been against every single war or conflict this country has ever been involved in.We've got to put this one to rest but, before I do, I need to find the answers to the following questions. As a preface, I believe that men find themselves "fighting for their country" for a variety of reasons, not all of them noble. Hell, I personally know of one who, when younger, had the choice of jail or enlisting. Anyway, I need to find specifics about the black muslim who chucked a few grenades under the tent and killed a few of his fellow soldiers, in 1993, I think.
Did he enlist? How long was he "in country"? Longer than Kerry? Has he made any claims to exceptional insights about the wrong war in the wrong place... blah blah blah? Perhaps Jon Effing can give him some rhetoric lessons?
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:46:08 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(I, also, don't do diplomacy.)
To: nopardons
"global test" of approval be damned.
I like it.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:46:57 PM PDT
by
Robert_Paulson2
(the madridification of our election is now officially underway.)
To: Retief
Hugh Hewitt played many clips of Kerry's testimony before the Senate Committee when he returned from the Viet Nam war. One of Kerry's comments was that if we pulled out of Viet Nam, there would be no blood bath like many were predicting. Was he ever wrong.
If as president, he implements a similar policy, he will have caused the loss of two wars, was my thought. (Great minds think alike. : ))
There is no indication his thinking has changed and every indication that it hasn't. No way can we risk him at the presidential helm, particularly not now but also not ever.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:50:00 PM PDT
by
TOUGH STOUGH
(Go Swifties!!!!!!!)
To: Robert_Paulson2
To: Howlin; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; Carry_Okie; Dog Gone; tubebender; blam; SunkenCiv; ..
Thank you for the ping!
More must see it!
I really liked the closing statement:
We must determine again to show our enemies just who we can be, and passing a "global test" of approval be damned.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:52:17 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: kattracks; RonDog; DoctorZIn; FairOpinion; farmfriend; A CA Guy; StoneColdGOP; Coop; Cap Huff; ...
This is a must read piece.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:58:16 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; blackie
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:59:36 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: Howlin
Oh My!!!
This one is going out in email
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posted on
10/01/2004 12:06:00 AM PDT
by
Mo1
(Why is the MSM calling the Vietnam Vets and POW's a suspected group??)
To: lodwick; Cuttnhorse; operation clinton cleanup; Servant of the 9; catpuppy; null and void; ...
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posted on
10/01/2004 12:07:47 AM PDT
by
Mo1
(Why is the MSM calling the Vietnam Vets and POW's a suspected group??)
To: kattracks
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posted on
10/01/2004 12:54:24 AM PDT
by
spodefly
(A bunny-slippered operative in the Vast Right-Wing Pajama Party.)
To: Howlin
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posted on
10/01/2004 1:49:18 AM PDT
by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
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