Posted on 05/03/2011 4:46:53 AM PDT by Huck
Yesterday should have been a glorious day around here. There should have been fireworks and celebration. There should have been somber remembrances. There should have been patriotic tributes. There should have been shared joy at the news that our guys had finally gotten Bin Laden.
Instead, when I visited the site, what I found was a lot of carping. I found people focused more on the political spin than on the great news. I found people transferring their birther mentality onto this event, talking about Obama faking this news, photoshopping information, etc. It wasn't everybody, but it was a LOT of people. It made me sick.
Yesterday Free Republic seemed like DU. It makes me wonder what the hell is going on. Are Freepers getting younger? I always assume that DU is so pathetically immature because they must be younger. Free Republic has always been a place dominated by great class, and wit, and decency. Not this time. What I saw yesterday was a pathetic embarrassment and totally unworthy of this great forum.
As some of you may know, I was in lower Manhattan on 9-11. I was just across the street from the WTC when the first plane hit. I still remember the beautiful clear blue sky that day. I remember walking in between the towers just a minute or so before 8:46am, on my normal route to work. I remember my co-workers screaming in panic when they watched from an office window as the second plane hit the south tower. I remember women crying and screaming hysterically. I remember not being able to contact my wife to tell her I was OK. I remember people jumping to their deaths. I remember seeing the north tower go down with my own eyes, hearing it with my own ears. I remember fleeing Manhattan. I remember it was a Tuesday.
I remember returning to work the following Monday, riding the ferry passed the site, noxious smoke still billowing from the wreckage. I remember armed troops on the sidewalks. I remember wearing a breathing mask inside my building because the foul odor was seeping in through the ventilation system. I remember thinking we'd really gotten kicked in the teeth. They had killed innocent people, they had traumatized our women and children, and I really wanted revenge. I hung a picture on my wall of the American eagle sharpening his talons.
It has been a long time since that day. It's hard to believe how fast time flies. Then again, if you lost your loved one, I imagine time hasn't gone so fast. I love my wife so much, I can empathize with anyone who has lost the one they love. I can't imagine how that would be, and don't want to know, but I can cry for those people because I know what it is like to find your one true love.
I'm not an Obama fan. I hate socialism. But I am so happy that Bin Laden is killed, and that we have exacted some real revenge. It's about time. The politics don't even play into it for me. I still have the little flag, now tattered, that I flew on my car antenna after 9-11. I want to take it out of storage and put it on my car. I want to see American flags on cars like we saw back then. But it's not going to happen, and partially because the normally patriotic conservatives such as the ones here on Free Republic are instead focused on the politics and the fact that a socialist Democrat was president and will get some of the credit.
I guess you all would have been pissed on D-Day too. FDR was as big a socialist as anyone. I guess VE day and VJ day would have chapped your hides, since Truman was a DEM. I don't mean to paint with a broad brush. I know it wasn't every Freeper acting this way. But when I went on the board, that was the general impression, and it was really disappointing. It should have been a great day here. Instead, I saw a lack of patriotism and a lack of class. Free Republic should be better than this. If conservatives lose their patriotism and class, then what will happen to those virtues? I hope we can get them back soon. In the meantime, thanks for reading.
Respectfully,
Huck
I think he meant “loves”.
It’s been made crystal clear that the vast majority of Repubs are really not that different from Dems; and if they do have principles, they are cowards. And the gov is so larded with non-elected hires in all myriad agencies, bureaus, departments - it’s topheavy with leftist and “keep the gravy train running” types, like an upside down mountain.
Change is going to have to come, one way or another.
The only one I believe in all this in the past couple days are the U.S. Navy SEAL’s and they can’t talk.
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Agree and for all we know, they ‘think’ they did get OBL. Maybe they did, maybe it wasn’t him but one of his many doubles he traveled with. Hopefully time will tell.
Outpost alerted the mods to me on another thread this AM, that I am a troll from DU.
I think “substances” might be in play here.
” This man is vile, and I want him taken down by political means for all to reflect on in perpetuity. “
BINGO!!
People in glass houses throwing stones are we. Which one of us cast the first stone?
That photo was like a thousand words.
A tiny little shrunken and shriveled many filled with despair, hatred, fear and anger. And confusion. And ABSOLUTELY NOT IN CONTROL!
Thank you, lj.
And for all the DU comparisons, I posted a tiny sample of what that site was like once they got done bowing at Obama’s throne. See post 550.
[Notice they are STILL calling for Bush’s assassination. But FR is SO much like DU....]
I need to take a shower now.
Do you think that calling 0bama a marxist is a “consipiracy theory?”
thanks gents
” He deserves no credit. There were articles yesterday - not MSM of course - indicating that he had to be forced to okay the action. Forced to. Even if he okayed it, he could have okayed it long ago. He deserves not one iota of credit. The men who did the job - if it is all as described - deserve all the credit. Not a usurper filthifying the office of the President of the United States of America. “
Amen!!
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Who pulled your chain?
You're right. He didn't come out with Jack S., he came out with a story so full of holes you'd think it was a golf course.
I don't know where you fantasized the MSM stuff. You must be projecting.
You sound a little wacko. Is your underwear too tight? Did mommy forget to give you your meds? Are you as nutty as you sound? I'm betting you are.
Get help before you hurt yourself. Remember, your opinion is worthless. Nobody cares what you think. Nothing you say has any impact on anything anywhere. I hope you realize this before your head explodes.
Well, it's been nice chatting with you.
You don’t have some reference, do you? I remember seeing a few back three years ago. Can’t find them easily now.
Really?
IMNSHO this is what Huch should be P.O.ed about.
Outstanding.
You are certainly “on” today.
Well done.
Great post!
Yes, my mistake. When I checked past posts I had articles and not comments tab clicked. I was wrong.
Absolutely that is correct. No martyrdom for Osama or Obama.
And in all truth, I seriously don’t want him martyred. Good grief, then Biden would be Pres! (kidding)
Seriously, I would not want our President shot. Not good for America, let him take HIMSELF down politically.
Lol. In this world, I hope he does not like it.
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