Posted on 04/20/2006 9:06:23 AM PDT by RWR8189
That's one big rabbit. Would need a real sturdy hutch.
I know several guys who are retired military, and you're exactly right, they voted for him because he was a military man, and most, if not all, regretted having done so.
The point is....he made a BIG DEAL about it! No one would have cared or said anything about it...but he obviously thought his life was in danger! He wanted to be taken seriously...he STILL wants that! He's STILL trying to get people to take his foolishness seriously...but unfortunately, as an ex-president, he gets some press.
Yeah the guys today are aghast that we would have voted for this guy. Talk about bait and switch. It was horrible and I think that contributed to everyone's "malaise", the fact we put this turd in office. Military retirees became enamoured with the Zumwalt factor as I recall.
I was 18 in 1976 and that was my first presidential election. I wasn't fooled :) :) :) but my dad Ret Ltc, hardcore conservative, was bcause of the Zumwalt book. I voted for Gerald Ford. This is a tale for our times and it's good to know Kerry's faux military man act was burned down to the ground. Fool me twice....
His two big hooks were, a committed born-again Christian, and a career military man that only left the Navy to take over the farm.
What he proved to be was, a questionable Christian, and a young man that sat out WWII, staying in college and the Naval Academy from before the war, until after the war.
"The story might have ended there, except that White House Press Secretary Jody Powell mentioned the incident to Associated Press reporter Brooks Jackson in August. The Washington Post ran it as front page news."
"The Washington Post ran it as front page news."
Something that will surprise younger conservatives, is that, the media hated Jimmy Carter.
Can you imagine making that old tidbit a front page story?
"I don't think so. a lot of conservative military took the bait and voted for that guy. They were duped."
Sounds to me like you weren't even born yet, so how would you know? I was there and I don't know of any conservatives or military who voted for him. Very few if any. It was a closer election than you seem to think. His Navy experience was a joke to most of us back then, The libs bought into all that "I'm an expert in nuclear physics" crap.
" Last year they stripped a few of the blueberry bushes and that WILL stop."
Hang a few small tinfoil type pie pans from a string off them. so they can move in the wind.
That will likely keep wild turkeys away, and most birds.
Let's not forget that Carter believed in UFOs and little green men coming to invade the earth. His handlers had to get him to shut up about it, but too late... it just made him a certified kook to many.
Read all the comments and it'll clue you in. Use the view all replies button to my original post and then look at my other posts on the topic.
I've tried pie plates, netting, tape, even sprayed the berries with sugar water ...which did work (birds can't digest table sugar and learn to leave it alone) but then I had lots of angry bees and flies, which were just as bad. This year I'm trying an audio bird repeller. I hope that will be the solution!
Rabbit Attack Ping!
Furthermore to clue some other political junkies in who maybe weren't old enough to know or care, the country had Republican president fatigue by the point Nixon had resigned in shame and then was pardoned by Ford who served out his term. People either didn't vote out of disgust or voted for the Democrat when they maybe hadn't done something like that before the Nixon debacle.
Carter was a fluke presidency and our enemies used the pause in vigilance to open fronts in Central America and the ME. Russia took one look at Cartier and turned around and grabbed Afghanistan. The Shah went down next door no doubt with the assistance of the USSR. Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas took over Nicaragua.
Carter was a ineffective, overmatched president. But in a perverse way he may have helped usher in the collapse of the Soviet Union by allowing them to grab the Afghan tiger by the tail, thereby exhausting themselves in an embarassing unwinnable occupation. Also Central America became disillusioned with the all talk, no deliver result of the Sandinista movement. Who knows. Everything happens for a reason.
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