Let’s Not Get “Kerried” Away
By Debbie Daniel (02/26/04)
When “King Kerry” speaks, it’s such a long drawn out, droning sound that I find myself rocking slowly as if hooked up to a slow-set metronome (a device used to mark rhythm by means of regularly recurring ticks or flashes at adjustable intervals). It’s the same kind of recurring ticks that would be used in a torture chamber.
Sometimes I wish he would pause, laugh, or tell a joke; maybe speed up a sentence or two, and then back to the dreary, dull, hum-drum sounds. Maybe just spice it up a little, but on and on he goes. Ho-hum.
I know some of you are already at the “Reply” button wanting to give me a piece of your mind, but for goodness sakes people, listen to him. He sounds like someone put the ol’ needle on the record and began turning it slowly. Egads!!
He keeps that single arm moving back and forth at a perfect cadence to make his pointed gesture on each and every issue. No matter what my political bent, I think the man would drive me crazy listening to him for the next four years.
If, God forbid, he does become our next “king”, I mean president, could someone work with him on that monotone voice? He’s starting to sound like a funeral dirge.
And the “kingly” air as if he’s already been crowned . . . what’s that all about?
Lo, and behold, wouldn’t you know . . . now he’s wanting Bush to call off the conservative “henchmen” for questioning his commitment to the defense of our nation. Doesn’t that sound like the Howard Dean hysteria when “Howie” wanted Terry McAuliffe to call off the dogs?
You guys can sure dish it out, but oh, it hurts too much when it comes “back at cha.” Except for the distinction of the Dean “scream” and the Kerry “drone,” I would think you two were broken records of “Why is everybody always picking on me?”
Mr. Kerry, you act like you’re running for King of America and no one should dare question Your Highness. Several weeks ago when there were NINE candidates, I heard you make a comment: “George Bush did not carry an M-16 through the jungles of Vietnam like I did. He did not fight an enemy he didn’t even know.” You also said, “George Bush is not fit to be a wartime president.”
Well, Senator, the backlash you’ve addressed to “George Bush’s Henchmen” did not come from George Bush. He did not send out surrogates to speak against you. There’s been no one like Teddy-boy Kennedy accusing the president of concocting the war in Crawford; or a Terry McAuliffe declaring the president was AWOL in the Air National Guard. Would these illustrious individuals be considered your surrogates, your minions, your mouth-pieces?
But when Saxby Chambliss, Republican from Georgia, questions your VOTING record, you go into a tirade. I can hear it now, “Someone, quickly get my computer. How dare President Bush DO THIS TO ME.” And thus you fire a scathing letter to our leader.
Senator, your real colors are starting to show and they’re not so pretty.
In your letter to President Bush, you said: “As you well know, Vietnam was a very difficult and painful period in our nation’s history, and the struggle for our veterans continues. So, it has been hard to believe that you would choose to reopen these wounds for your personal political gain. But, that is what you have chosen to do.”
How about this letter, back at you, Senator? “As you well know, Al Quaeda striking our nation has been a very difficult and painful period in our nation’s history, and the struggle for our men and women fighting for our freedom continues. So, it is hard to believe that you choose to berate our soldiers and denigrate our Commander-in-Chief for your personal political gain. But, that is what you have chosen to do.”
Isn’t it strange that you can “Kerry” on for weeks and weeks, never asking your “confreres” to curb their rhetoric, but if someone dares to speak out against you, indignation abounds.
Just who are you, Mr. Kerry? You and your “ilk” started this dog fight, so stop whimpering like a whipped pup and take on this challenge like a man. You’re the one that said, “Bring It On.”
I’m beginning to think this must have been what happened to you in Vietnam. You volunteered to fight for your country, but when the enemy shot back, you came home and whined. That’s what happens in battle, sir.
I just wish you would stop heralding yourself as a hero. A hero doesn’t put other soldiers in harm’s way by coming home and protesting a war with troops still in the field, and some still being held hostage in prison camps.
Praise God, you got out alive, but couldn’t you have just hushed your mouth until the rest of our men were safely home. Hero? No sir, that’s not what a hero does.
And the truth is, by heralding your military record as a badge of honor and then coming home to desecrate it, many of us are losing respect for your service. What honor we may have held for you is cancelled out every time you get up and impugn our president.
He may not have trudged through the jungles of Vietnam for 4 MONTHS with a rifle on his shoulder, but our Commander-in-Chief will have spent nearly 3 ½ YEARS trying to protect the American people from an enemy that wants to kill everyone of us.
Yes, you may have dodged bullets, but you have no idea what the president has had to “dodge” for our sake. He may not have walked in your shoes as a war hero, but you have not walked in his shoes as a commander-in-chief, so cut it out, Senator, you’re carping has become annoying.
You did your job and he’s doing his.
Now, are you finished?
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