THE ROOTS OF CINDY SHEEHAN (courtesy James Taranto via Rush Limbaugh)

James Taranto via Rush Limbaugh | 8.16.05 | Mia T

[Mia T]

THE ROOTS OF CINDY SHEEHAN

(COURTESY JAMES TARANTO VIA RUSH LIMBAUGH)

"If we get a crippled Nam Vet and take him down and chain him to the White House fence, will you cover it?"

JOHN KERRY to desk editor in DC (1971)

 

(Response: "Oh yeah!")

EXPLOITING MAX CLELAND

by Mia T, 8.29.04

ax Cleland is remarkable. What a pity he allowed delusory left-wing flights of fancy and lust for power rob him of his nobility. The irony and the tragedy of Max Cleland overwhelms. Remarkably, Cleland did not become an embittered man when John Kerry's self-inflicted, bacitracin + bandaid-treated, tickets-out-of-Vietnam-and-onto-the-JFK-career-path scratches were deemed worthy of three purple hearts while his three missing limbs were deemed worthy of none; this, even after insult was added to injury when he was dispatched to Texas to lend his phantom limbs to Kerry's self-serving cause. Cleland became embittered, rather, because he actually began to believe the principal neo-neoliberal premise--the neo-neoliberal premise that undergirds all other neo-neoliberal premises--which is, that he was entitled to his Senate seat not because of his abilities but because of his disabilities, not because of his policies but because of our pity...or even our shame. Cleland lost the election because he supported his party's union quid-pro-quo policy at the expense of America's national security. That his patriotism was challenged is a leftist canard. What was challenged was his judgment and ability to protect the people of Georgia and America against the post-9/11 realities. (NOTE: I would add this caveat: Cleland and the Left conflating the two charges, (i.e., equating lack of judgment with lack of patriotism), suggests their own guilty knowledge of same.) If Max Cleland lost nobility last week, John Kerry lost any semblance of decency. Harnessing and fomenting Max Cleland's denial and bitterness, Kerry sought finally to bring to fruition his cynical 1971 scheme that would shamelessly exploit a crippled vet for his own self-aggrandizing purposes. Today, with the following throwaway line, Brit Hume, Kerry's childhood pal, perhaps not so unwittingly revealed the core of Kerry's unfitness--the constancy over time of John Kerry's overweening opportunism. Delivering the Kerry coup de grâce with the uptown refinement and politesse we've come to expect from him, Hume slyly observed: "John Kerry gave his 1971 testimony with a [Kennedy-esque] accent I didn't hear when I knew him as a little boy and an accent I haven't heard since." (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)   COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004, 2005

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[Mia T]

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[Solson]

please remove me from your ping list. thanks.

[Shqipo]

Thanks for the reminder that this is the 2nd year in a row that Bush has been bothered down at Crawford while on August vacation. Kerry dispatched Cleeland to Crawford with some letter last year that he demanded to directly hand to the president.

[smoothsailing]

BTTT! saving for later.;)

[Mia T]

done. you're welcome :)

[Mia T]

you're welcome.
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[Mia T]

thx. :)

[jla]

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[OldFriend]

Cleland had other fish to fry. He was in Ohio supporting the dem loser candidate who called his Commander in Chief an SOB.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Mia T]

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[nopardons]

Splendid effort, Mia!

[jla]

Splendid effort, Mia!

What about jla, aren't his efforts also splendid?

[fish hawk]

I guess I'm just stupid. Would you tell me what Cindy Sheehan has to do with this thread, other than being in your headline???

[Wolverine]

I immediately remembered this thread and your great work!

[bmwcyle]

Code Pink is hanging out at Walter Reed on Friday evenings to find another wheel chair soldier to exploit. That is why we show up just to stop their little game.

[Mia T]

Rush Limbaugh read part of a James Taranto article on Cindy Sheehan. Taranto noted that the roots of Sheehan's tactics can be found in Kerry's 1971 scheme, (a scheme that Kerry played out at Crawford last summer with Max Cleland).

I wanted to include the Taranto article in this post, but had no luck finding it.

[nopardons]

You didn't post the thread...did you?