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Name Calling (Pat Sajak calls out JF'nK)
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Posted on 01/31/2005 2:16:20 PM PST by bikepacker67

I am about to call someone a name.

This is not a decision I’ve reached lightly. Name-calling is not in my nature. True, I have cast more than my share of aspersions on others, but I have tried to do it with humor, or, even when I was seriously upset, I tried to modulate my tone.

This is not to say that I don’t get angry, but I’m not a screamer. I tend to sulk and plot revenge. I’m sure there must have been times when, as a child, I called someone “stupid” or “ugly” or “fat” or some of the other hateful things that children often say, though I don’t remember specific instances.

And, yet, I’m about to call someone a name.

I’ve always been interested in politics, a rough-and-tumble field where name-calling is not unusual. I enjoy reading and writing about politics, and I have some strong opinions, some of which I’ve shared on this page. However, I try to keep my politics in context. I discuss the subject here, or at overtly political venues. My quarrel with celebrities and politics is not that they voice opinions, but that they often foist those opinions on others in inappropriate settings. I’ve had some tough things to say about people when I’ve spoken at some of these events, but, again, I don’t think I’ve ever just flat-out called someone a name.

Until now.

This sudden shift in my policy is a result of the Iraqi elections. I’m not sure how anyone could look at the lines of voters who, quite literally, risked life and limb to exercise a right many Americans tend to take for granted even without terrorist threats and suicide bombers. I don’t care what your opinions of George W. Bush, the Iraq War or the War on Terror might be, this was, on a strictly human level, a moving event for a region of the world where democracies are not exactly flourishing.

Every voter in those lines was, in ways big and small, a hero, and should be admired and supported. How could anyone look at voters dancing in the streets and proudly holding up their blue fingers to indicate what they had so bravely done, and not be moved? It seems to me that Sunday was not the time to attempt to minimize or trivialize what millions of Iraqis did that day. That could wait at least 24 hours, couldn’t it?

Enter Massachusetts Senator and former Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry. Here’s a man who should know something about heroics, as he reminded us a thousand or so times during the campaign. On the very day Iraqis were voting, most of them for the first time in their lives, here’s some of what Kerry had to say on NBC’s “Meet the Press”: "It is significant that there is a vote in Iraq, but ... no one in the United States should try to overhype this election. This election is a sort of demarcation point, and what really counts now is the effort to have a legitimate political reconciliation, and it's going to take a massive diplomatic effort and a much more significant outreach to the international community than this administration has been willing to engage in. Absent that, we will not be successful in Iraq,"

More Kerry: "It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote." (Sound familiar?)

What a marvelous way to pay tribute to those trying to embrace democracy! I know he’s bitter, and I know he’s not going to say anything that would appear to endorse any of President Bush’s policies, but couldn’t it have waited a day? Or couldn’t he have at least included a kind word of encouragement or congratulations to the millions of Iraqi citizens who voted before he began to belittle the process and the turnout?

His dour demeanor on “Meet the Press” and in another interview Sunday contrasted sharply with images coming from Iraq, and his comments sounded small and petty. You would expect something more from a man who, less than three months ago, lost a race for the Presidency of the United States. It was a despicable performance. So now it’s time for me to get this off my chest.

Mr. Kerry, you are a jerk.

There. I feel better.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: jerk; kerry; kerryurajerk; pissant; sajak
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To: bikepacker67

41 posted on 01/31/2005 2:45:25 PM PST by ErnBatavia (ErnBatavia, Boxer, Pelosi, Thomas...the ultimate nightmare Menage a Quatro)
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To: SandRat

Good reading.


42 posted on 01/31/2005 2:46:30 PM PST by Marine Inspector (Customs & Border Protection Officer)
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To: BlueNgold

She still looks good in 2005, IMHO.


43 posted on 01/31/2005 2:48:07 PM PST by pissant
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To: bikepacker67

Kerry: "Pat, I'd like to buy a pair..."

Pat: "Why, so you can get them cut off again?"


44 posted on 01/31/2005 2:48:16 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel ("Senator, we can have this discussion in any way that you would like.")
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To: ErnBatavia

LOL! And he seems to be intent on demonstrating it at every opportunity.


45 posted on 01/31/2005 2:49:13 PM PST by livius
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To: Marine Inspector

jmo, mr kerry should go hype himself...


great article Pat


46 posted on 01/31/2005 2:50:13 PM PST by MrsTn
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To: bikepacker67

Wow - LoL! Sajak can barely say 'darn it' without wincing.


47 posted on 01/31/2005 2:51:38 PM PST by demlosers
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To: neocon1984
"Again, it's a phrase. A phrase. Joe Voter, it's your turn..."

"I'll spin, Pat."

"Look at that. $5,000."

"Can I have an 'R'?"

"Two 'R's! Spin again?"

"I'll solve, Pat."

|# U C K Y O U , K E R R Y

48 posted on 01/31/2005 2:53:32 PM PST by StAnDeliver
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To: bikepacker67

Pat is a great conservative and VP of the Hillsdale College Board of Trustees http://www.hillsdale.edu/trustees/


49 posted on 01/31/2005 2:54:14 PM PST by mt. shavano
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To: neocon1984
Precisely my thoughts, neocon.

However, in this period before Frenchie totally self-destructs, let's take solace in the fact that he still has to awaken each morning --looking at Teeerrrezzzzaaa Babe!

Does that not send chills up your spine?
50 posted on 01/31/2005 2:54:33 PM PST by dk/coro
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To: StAnDeliver

LOL

How many guesses???

Very Good


51 posted on 01/31/2005 2:55:17 PM PST by MrsTn
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To: bikepacker67

Good for Pat.. This was really good, thanks


52 posted on 01/31/2005 2:56:18 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: bikepacker67

^5 Pat!!!!!!!!!!!


53 posted on 01/31/2005 3:00:22 PM PST by sweetiepiezer ((((((((((((((MARINES))))))))))))))
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To: bikepacker67

I knew I liked him, now I have great respect for him as well!

:o) Go Pat Go! I'll buy a vowel!


54 posted on 01/31/2005 3:09:57 PM PST by P-Chan Penny (I wouldn't be caught dead voting for a Democrat... unless I died in King County.)
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To: bikepacker67

The Elian Gonzalez betrayal was the perfect example of the difference between the Rat Party and we Republicans. Our outrage for sending an orphan boy whose mother literally gave her life for her son to breath freely was forced back to a brutal dictator by the Rats. The Dems threw everything at this boy including breaking the law and an American family’s door down at gunpoint to throw this helpless boy back to slavery. Conversely President George W Bush has risked everything while being called every name in the book to bring Freedom to 25 million enslaved human beings. One 10 year old boy sent back to Castro’s prison island vs 25 million saved from Saddamn’s torture is Democrat vs Republican.

The Dems say they are for Freedom from all dictators however their actions defy their words. Not one time in the past half billion freed slaves have they been on the right side of history. How difficult is it to wish Freedom for an enslaved people??? The truth is that they say they are for freedom, but they are only against dictators who are friends of America, while supporting every dictator that hates America. This is what happens to you when you believe any means justifies your ends.

America and especially the Military has made one of the greatest accomplishment in history. They have freed a people who was tortured and brutalized under a madman to be given their freedom with no expectations. These people would be shot for marking ballots the way they did. The soldiers who freed these people and gave their lives for this cause did it for the most noble of causes. They went in to protect our Country and World from the greatest terrorist dictator on the face of the planet and to free the people while attempting to establish Democracy. They met and exceeded all of their goals. These soldiers are heroes for all times and deserve our deepest respect and congratulations. Their families must be busting with pride.

Any political party in a democracy that cannot accept the joy and value of millions of people voting freely for the first time in their lives has lost it’s perspective. The joy and happiness on the Iraqis’ faces should be evident enough, but the Rats have to turn it into an attack on Bush’s policy. How difficult would it be for this Party to say they may have been wrong about the election and the freeing of 25 million people was a great thing for our Troops whom, they “support.” The very least they could have done was to acknowledge that the terrorists are evil and our Troops are the Freedom Fighters.

The truth is that the CommucRats do not want freedom for other countries or even this Great Country. Their ideal utopian model is fashioned after Communist China, Cuba and Russia even though they knew they were evil, the ends justified the means. Like China they see it as a great equalizer if everyone is dirt poor as long as the Inner Circle (them) is taken care of. If you take a look at the clinton Inner Circle you could see the formation of their form of gummit. They wanted to eliminate private healthcare while raising taxes to redistribute income and sending the middle class to poverty. Meanwhile, the Inner Circle that survived all became multi-millionaires.

This Party does not want Freedom for anyone. They opposed the bringing down of the Wall, the Vote in Nicaragua, the Protection of Elian, the Overthrow of Saddamn and have been completely exposed by the vote in Iraq. What people have they ever stood up for who are oppressed?? This is a Party that is an establishment devoid of any values or ideas other than the blind obsession of power.

George W Bush and we Republicans were right about the people of Iraq also yearning to breath freely. We are the Party of optimism and willing to take on challenges bigger than ourselves. While the Dems continue to wallow in the quagmire of failed ideologies and broken programs, we are working to make the Greatest Country in the World even better. If a Political Party does not want Freedom for the oppressed of the World it does not want Freedom for America?

While we ride with the Angels in the Whirlwind they are mired in the tar pits of Vietnam. Thanks to the Rats, Elian Gonzales is a slave again under the murderous dictator Castro while under GW fifty million former brutalized and raped slaves are voting their own futures and feeling the cool breeze of freedom. Perhaps one day we will see the statue of Saddamn replaced by Lady Liberty holding her Flame High for all the World to Dream.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighting Soldiers


55 posted on 01/31/2005 3:11:37 PM PST by bray (Iraq Freed Politically and Pray it will be Freed Spiritually)
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To: bikepacker67

Pat Sajak was in Vietnam and is a better man that Kerry IMHO.


56 posted on 01/31/2005 3:13:01 PM PST by cyborg
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To: bikepacker67
Pat served in Vietnam, so his contempt for Kerry may be based on Kerry's antiwar antics.
57 posted on 01/31/2005 3:15:36 PM PST by Ticonderoga34
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To: bikepacker67

58 posted on 01/31/2005 3:40:44 PM PST by TomGuy (America: Best friend or worst enemy. Choose wisely.)
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To: Marine Inspector
I think we have stronger names to call Kerry beginning with Traitor!
59 posted on 01/31/2005 3:41:29 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: bikepacker67

I could not have said it better myself.


60 posted on 01/31/2005 3:42:18 PM PST by Samwise (Mr. Kerry, you are a jerk.)
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