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Of Mad Senators and Moonbats
Perhaps Kerry's recent spat of "Mad Senator Disease" is wearing off, but the silence on left leaning candidates such as Minnesota's Amy Klobuchar is astounding. No denouncements of Kerry's slanderous remarks about our military. Silence on the matter rings eternal.
Amy Klobuchar has a lot of reasons to stand by John Kerry. 115,000 reasons to be precise. That is the amount of money that Kerry has helped Klobuchar to raise for her campaign.
Jim Webb, running in Virginia has even more reasons to not denounce Kerry's describing our troops serving in Iraq as uneducated and lazy.
Here's a list from the John Kerry website. I am not able to find it there now, so check out the screen shot. Anybody in your state on the list? If so, have they denounced Kerry's slander?
Meanwhile, now featured on Kerry's website, is an op-ed by Thomas Friedman who states:
George Bush, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld think you're stupid. Yes, they do.They think they can take a mangled quip about President Bush and Iraq by John Kerry - a man who is not even running for office but who, unlike Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, never ran away from combat service - and get you to vote against all Democrats in this election.
If this was a poke at President Bush, then why wasn't he mentioned anywhere in the quote?
"You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Frankly, I believe that Friedman, who acting as a shill for the DNC, and the rest of the loony left, are the ones that believe Americans are stupid if we believe that this "botched joke" was about Bush when he wasn't even mentioned in the statement.
As for the slam about Bush and his military service, perhaps Friedman should look up the National Guard program, "Palace Alert," which a young Lieutenant Bush attempted to enroll in. Had Bush been accepted into the program, there is no doubt he would have been flying F-102s in Vietnam. By the time Bush completed his training on that bird and could qualify for the program, U.S. involvement was winding down and the program was being terminated.
Friedman, who is old enough to have served in Vietnam himself, seems to be missing that honor on his resume. Did he receive deferments, or is it a simple matter that his number simply didn't come up?
Thanks to Alan Simpson of Comlinks Political Intel for providing this list of people who have or did not serve. The list is fairly non-partisan, can't say the same about the commentary.
Thomas "Never Served" Friedman goes on in his diatribe with the following:
What could possibly be more injurious and insulting to our men and women in uniform than sending them off to war without the proper equipment, so that some soldiers in the field were left to buy their own body armor and to retrofit their own jeeps with scrap metal so that roadside bombs in Iraq would only maim them for life and not kill them? And what could be more injurious and insulting than Don Rumsfeld's response to criticism that he sent our troops off in haste and unprepared: Hey, you go to war with the army you've got - get over it.
Let us not forget that Senator Kerry and other members of the left in Congress voted AGAINST providing our men and women in the field with the equipment that Friedman claims was necessary. He must think we're stupid if we believe that the Army we have is the fault of the Bush Adminstration, and not due to Congress' failure to fund the military adequately. The $87 billion that Kerry "voted for before voting against" was to provide, among other things, body armor for our troops in the field. I haven't forgotten that, even if Friedman has.
Quite frankly, I would like to know why Thomas "Never Served" Friedman believes we're dumb enough to believe his assessment that America has become a banana republic and "our democracy is in tatters because it is so gerrymandered, so polluted by money, and so divided by professional political hacks that we can no longer hold the ruling party to account."
Banana republic?! America?! Is he nuts?! Or has Friedman become just another moonbat who thinks slaming America and our troops is okay, and that Americans are stupid if they vote for Republicans:
I, for one, don't think we're that stupid. Next Tuesday we'll see.
In other words, he believes that if the GOP hangs on to its majority in the 2006 election, or, gains seats, then Americans are stupid.
Congratulations to Thomas "Never Served" Friedman, you are a Moonbat.
Okay, somehow, I started this piece in one direction and ended somewhere else. But it was fun for me.
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John Kerry - a man who is not even running for office but who, unlike Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, never ran away from combat service
Strange comparison, since Bush and Cheney aren't running for anything either, in fact are 2 years from retirement. And the running from combat thing is a transparent lie. As may be his purple hearts.
Posted by: billhedrick | November 3, 2006 11:01 AM
Very true...unfortunately, the hard-left don't view it that way.
I think I forgot to post the link to Palace alert, so here it is (http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0185.shtml):
The Air National Guard has often been ridiculed as a safe place for military duty during the Vietnam War. However, pilots from the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group, as it was called at the time, were actually conducting combat missions in Vietnam when Bush enlisted. Air Force F-102 squadrons had been stationed in Thailand since 1961 and South Vietnam since March 1962. It was during this time that the Kennedy administration began building up a large US military presence in the region as a deterrent against North Vietnamese invasion.
and laer in the piece:
Nevertheless, we have established that the F-102 was serving in combat in Vietnam at the time Bush enlisted to become an F-102 pilot. Air National Guard pilots from the 147th FIG, where Bush was stationed, even served combat duty in Vietnam routinely under a volunteer program called "Palace Alert" from 1968 to 1970. Palace Alert was an Air Force program that sent qualified F-102 pilots from the ANG to bases in Europe or southeast Asia for three to six months of frontline service. This program was instituted because the Air Force lacked sufficient pilots of its own for duty in Vietnam but was unable to activate ANG units since Presidents Johnson and Nixon had decided not to do so for political reasons. Thanks to Palace Alert, the Air Force was able to transfer much-needed National Guard pilots to Vietnam on a voluntary basis while not actually activating any ANG squadrons.
Fred Bradley, a friend of Bush's who was also serving in the Texas ANG, reported that he and Bush inquired about participating in the Palace Alert program. However, the two were told by a superior, MAJ Maurice Udell, that they were not yet qualified since they were still in training and did not have the 500 hours of flight experience required. Furthermore, ANG veteran COL William Campenni, who was a fellow pilot in the 111th FIS at the time, told the Washington Times that Palace Alert was winding down and not accepting new applicants.
The F-102 that Bush flew was an incredibly interesting aircraft. I remember watching them fly sorties in teh Fresno area when I was growing up.
Posted by: sqotty | November 3, 2006 6:57 PM