Nation ready to move on, but not Bush (barf alert)

Daytona Beach News-Journal ^ | 2/3/02 | By PAMELA HASTEROK

[NYCVirago]

You can't make idiocy like this up.

[ken5050]

I may subscribe to the rag just so I have the pleasure of cancelling the next day...

[clintonh8r]

Dear Pamela,

I don't care about your crappy life.

[dead]

We want someone to hate. We want someone to fight. Peace does not seem to agree with us.

Liberals always mutter this trite idiotic bromide.

It’s shorthand for “I really don’t have time to expend, what with feeding my cats and all, to look into the issues surrounding our military campaign. I just think peace is nice and stuff.”

[Dog Gone]

Let's see. She lives in Daytona Beach and she goes to New York for a winter vacation.....

I knew right then that this chick wasn't playing with a full deck.

[tcostell]

Having attended the funerals of several life long freinds of mine, I feel compelled to send her a little note and explain that some of us really did get our lives changed by september 11th.

[McBuff]

Yeah-I'm "moving on" too.

In fact, my dog is taking a movement right now on the News-Journal.

[NYCVirago]

The column uses "I" more than any other word.

[KellyAdmirer]

I didn't feel one iota less safe. I still don't.

Classic. It is short-sighted attitudes like this woman's that lead to disasters. Well, I suppose if she, in her comfortable little surroundings, isn't worried, there's no threat to her or anyone else. Great thinking, she would have made a great captain of the Titanic.

[EternalHope]

This may be heresy, but my life didn't change as I know it after Sept. 11.

Of course not, for her...

[mombonn]

You should have issued a "moron alert". It doesn't rise to the level of a barf alert.

I still had to work, my cats still had to be fed, and my cholesterol was still too high.

This woman is beyond selfish.

[kidd]

Daytona Beach is truly the United States Capital of Stupid.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Whoever heard of a war where just two soldiers die fighting?"

Well, ma'am, how many do you want to die? It seems to me that if we can win a war with few casualties, that's a good thing, not a bad one. What a nitwit, a typical smug, self-satisfied soccer mom. Did you utter this same criticism when Clinton's war in Kosovo was carried out with only a handful of American casualties?

[Billthedrill]

I personally don't want to go git anyone, nor do I feel an urgent need for our military to. Anyone ever heard of the CIA? I thought that was their job.

Uh, no, Pammy, it really is the military's job. Trust me on that one.

She could have saved the paper considerable ink by just printing "I am extremely ignorant."

[codebreaker]

What a load of Clymer-feed.

[codebreaker]

A photo of the Clymer in question.

http://www.newsjournalonline.com/column/hastndx.htm

[OldFriend]

Please accept my deepest condolences and my apologies that another woman could be so mean-spirited and downright hateful.

[BARGE]

This bed weter needs a swift boot in in her backside.

[Brett66]

Wow! She is profoundly clueless.

[zarf]

i had to write this jackass....as follows:

Ms Hasterok:

Your article of 2/3 regarding President Bush and his inability to move on was absurd.

It was a sad reminder to me that cynical post-boomer naval gazers like yourself haven't learned a thing from recent events.

There are moments in history that require nations and their leaders to to summon the population to a calling that is greater than themselves.
Unfortunately, that requires an appreciation of history and a sesitivity regarding almost mystical concepts like liberty, freedom, democracy and the rights of man as an evolutionary ideal.

Fortunately, we have had leadership at key moments in history of mankind, FDR, Lincoln, Churchill and Gahndi to name a few, who were able to grasp these concepts
and were able to rise to the occasion to defend these great concepts and place another brick in the foundation of a more Just world.

I don't know if President Bush will ever rise to the stature of the gentlemen I mentioned previously, but in his State Of The Union address, he made it perfectly clear that he gets it.

Go back to your small life and let the adults grapple with issues that are beyond your self absorbed cynicism.