Text 8394, 140 rader
Skriven 2005-02-01 17:36:42 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
   Kommentar till text 8338 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: Proud Democrat
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Hey, TIM.

 EC>> Hey, John.

 EC>>> Hey, Ed.

 EH>>>> Ed Connell -> John Hull wrote:
 EC>>>>> Hey, John.

 JH>>>>>> You can add Kerry to that list as well.  For somebody that is
 JH>>>>>> supposed to be so smart, Bush and his crew played him like a
 JH>>>>>> bull fiddle at a town picnic.

 EC>>>>> One report had Kerry bellyachin', "I don't know how I'm getting
 EC>>>>> beat by that dunce."  <g>

 EH>>>> Actually the quote was; "How am I getting beat by that f---ing
 EH>>>> idiot?!?"

 EH>>>> Kerry is not a good man.

 EC>>> Yeah.  He said it so much "better" than I did. <g>

 EC>>> Your conclusion is borne out every time he opens his mouth.

 JH>> Kerry is scum, just like Teddy Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Joe Biden and
 JH>> the rest. Maybe a biblical plague will be visited on them in payment
 JH>> for their efforts to derail the war on terror.  We should all be so
 JH>> lucky.

 EC>> I loved it that Pat Sajac (sp?) of Wheel of Fortune just blew up when
 EC>> he compared Kerry's remarks with the images and stories he was getting
 EC>> from Iraq.  He wrote a column for some journal that concluded that
 EC>> Kerry is trash.  I forget his exact words, but that was his message.

 TR> HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Name Calling by Pat Sajak

 TR> Name Calling
 TR> by Pat Sajak
 TR> Posted Jan 31, 2005

 TR> Kerry Does a 180 on Form 180

 TR> Week of January 31

 TR> I am about to call someone a name.

 TR> This is not a decision I've reached lightly. Name-calling is
 TR> not in my nature. True, I have cast more than my share of aspersions on
 TR> others, but I have tried to do it with humor, or, even when I was
 TR> seriously upset, I tried to modulate my tone.

 TR> This is not to say that I don't get angry, but I'm not a
 TR> screamer. I tend to sulk and plot revenge. I'm sure there must have
 TR> been times when, as a child, I called someone "stupid" or "ugly" or
 TR> "fat" or some of the other hateful things that children often say,
 TR> though I don???t remember specific instances.

 TR> And, yet, I'm about to call someone a name.

 TR> I've always been interested in politics, a rough-and-tumble
 TR> field where name-calling is not unusual. I enjoy reading and writing
 TR> about politics, and I have some strong opinions, some of which I've
 TR> shared here. However, I try to keep my politics in context. I discuss
 TR> the subject here, or at overtly political venues. My quarrel with
 TR> celebrities and politics is not that they voice opinions, but
 TR> that they often foist those opinions on others in inappropriate
 TR> settings.

 TR> I`ve had some tough things to say about people when I've
 TR> spoken at some of these events, but, again, I don't think I've ever
 TR> just flat-out called someone a name.

 TR> Until now.

 TR> This sudden shift in my policy is a result of the Iraqi
 TR> elections.

 TR> I'm not sure how anyone could look at the lines of voters who,
 TR> quite literally, risked life and limb to exercise a right many
 TR> Americans tend to take for granted even without terrorist threats and
 TR> suicide bombers. I don't care what your opinions of George W. Bush, the
 TR> Iraq War or the War on Terror might be, this was, on a strictly human
 TR> level, a moving event for a region of the world where democracies
 TR> are not exactly flourishing.

 TR> Every voter in those lines was, in ways big and small, a hero,
 TR> and should be admired and supported. How could anyone look at voters
 TR> dancing in the streets and proudly holding up their blue fingers
 TR> to indicate what they had so bravely done, and not be moved? It
 TR> seems to me that Sunday was not the time to attempt to minimize or
 TR> trivialize what millions of Iraqis did that day. That could wait
 TR> at least 24 hours, couldn't it?

 TR> Enter Massachusetts Senator and former Democratic Presidential
 TR> candidate John Kerry. Here's a man who should know something
 TR> about heroics, as he reminded us a thousand or so times during the
 TR> campaign. On the very day Iraqis were voting, most of them for
 TR> the first time in their lives, here's some of what Kerry had to say
 TR> on NBC's Meet the Press: "It is significant that there is a
 TR> vote in Iraq, but ... no one in the United States should try to
 TR> overhype this election. This election is a sort of demarcation point,
 TR> and what really counts now is the effort to have a legitimate
 TR> political reconciliation, and it's going to take a massive diplomatic
 TR> effort and a much more significant outreach to the international
 TR> community than this administration has been willing to engage in.
 TR> Absent that, we will not be successful in Iraq,"

 TR> More Kerry: "It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a
 TR> whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote." (Sound
 TR> familiar?)

 TR> What a marvelous way to pay tribute to those trying to embrace
 TR> democracy! I know he's bitter, and I know he's not going to
 TR> say anything that would appear to endorse any of President Bush's
 TR> policies, but couldn't it have waited a day? Or couldn't he
 TR> have at least included a kind word of encouragement or congratulations
 TR> to the millions of Iraqi citizens who voted before he began to
 TR> belittle the process and the turnout?

 TR> His dour demeanor on Meet the Press and in another
 TR> interview Sunday contrasted sharply with images coming from Iraq, and
 TR> his comments sounded small and petty. You would expect something more
 TR> from a man who, less than three months ago, lost a race for the
 TR> Presidency of the United States. It was a despicable performance.

 TR> So now it's time for me to get this off my chest.

 TR> Mr. Kerry, you are a jerk.

 TR> There. I feel better.

 TR> Mr. Sajak is the host of "Wheel of Fortune" and PatSajak.com.

Ah, this is the first time I read this all the way through.  Thanks for 
providing it.  BTW, I agree with Pat. <g>


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