Posted on 02/19/2006 8:00:15 AM PST by SmithL
Gay marriage, medical marijuana or calls to impeach President Bush, San Francisco City Hall has a long history of giving the rest of the country something to talk about -- and this week the talker was a bombshell served up by Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval.
It started with Sandoval going on Fox's "Hannity & Colmes" show to explain why he opposed bringing the historic battleship Iowa to San Francisco: "We just don't want to put a 10-story gun on the waterfront where everybody is going to be looking at it every single day."
But things really got interesting when the conversation turned to Sandoval's feelings about the U.S military.
"What good has it done for us in the last five years?" Sandoval asked.
"Are you kidding me?'' Alan Colmes -- a Democrat -- asked a moment later.
"The United States should not have a military,'' Sandoval repeated. "All in all, we would be in much, much, much better shape."
"What do you want to defend ourselves -- what do you want to defend ourselves with?" Colmes asked later.
Sandoval: "Well, you got cops. It's called the Coast Guard. There's lots of things different."
Colmes: "You want to send cops to defend our shores if we're attacked? Cops?"
To which Sandoval replied: "You want to send people abroad to start these wars?"
By the next day, the calls and e-mails were pouring in to both Sandoval and other supervisors -- not only questioning Sandoval's stance, but also his shrug-of-shoulder delivery.
"I'm a third-generation born San Franciscan, and I'm appalled that you have not only been elected but re-elected by your misguided ultra liberal so-called citizens,'' wrote Jim Donovan of Sacramento.
"I remember when San Francisco was truly a dynamic city, but it has been reduced to a joke ... .'' Donovan wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Sad, but absolutely true.
...a dangerous joke. To the citizens who live there...and to the rest of the country. With an attitude like that...they are all but inviting the terrorists to hit them.
"I left my harp, in Sam Clam's disco."
Heard this guy on Sean's show the other day, if only
we had spent all the money that we spend on military on
buying the goodwill of people around the world we wouldn't
be hated as much.
Idiot.
What is the process to de-annex this City from the US? It's clear that the elected representatives do not want to enjoy the protection of the military...let them fend for themsevles.
Sandoval must have been deprived of those connect the dots coloring books as a emasculated boy child of his two mommies.
---I nearly choke to print this, but the present crop of San Francisco city officials make my former mayoress Diane Feinstein look pretty good (as a mayor, not personally)--
And if the Islamofacists could they would probably start by slaughtering the population of SF first as an abomination.
Keep emailing this moron, it really gets to him on a personanl level. He was almost crying on Sean Hannity's radio show the next day when emails and phone calls were mentioned.
Agreed.
And surprisingly enough, Mayor Moonbeam Jerry Brown has been a pretty decent Mayor on the other side of the Bay, in Oakland. But NO, he will not get my vote for Attorney General.
Why just in the last five years? I mean, we could have sent a cop to arrest Tojo!
This guy must be a WHOLE lot older than me because I remember SF from thirty years ago and it was a poor joke then.
"Of course we need some kind of military, but now we have one that is unprecedented in size, and we need to scale back. But these days you can't even suggest scaling back because of the hysteria that has built up around terrorism," he said.
Is this nut for real? The military was twice as big in the 70's. SF has been hit by BRAC closures, people out of work and he doesnt know or care. Looney.
Yeah, the Europeans thought they were buying goodwill by refusing to help in Iraq. We all see how well that has gone for them.
"I remember when San Francisco was truly a dynamic city, but it has been reduced to a joke ... .'' Donovan wrote.
I lived in San Francisco from the late 50s to 2002 and the politics of the city has always been a joke.
I dont think there is a country on the earth the US has not helped at one time or another and they still hate us. So much for goodwill.
Yep he's a flaming idiot - I heard him on Sean too. The really scary thing is how many people in San Francisco agree with him!
His priorities revolve around where he can stick his penis.
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