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LETTER TO THE EDITOR, WASHINGTON TIMES -

Gen. McPeak owes the United States and the memory of Mr. McCarthy an
apology.


Bill Clinton is no Joe McCarthy


Retired Air Force Gen. Merrill "Tony" McPeak's recent comparison
between Sen. Joseph McCarthy and former President Bill Clinton is factually
wrong and politically misleading ("Obama aide compares Clinton to McCarthy,"
Page A7, Saturday).


Mr. McCarthy was a Marine Corps officer who served his country
faithfully and patriotically. As a senator, he staunchly defended the United
States against communism.


Records revealed after the end of the Cold War indicate he was correct.
Mr. McCarthy was vehemently attacked by the left wing in this country,
primarily by Democrats, who continue to attack him.


Mr. Clinton was a draft dodger who signed an executive order
authorizing the sale of nuclear secrets to communist China. An impeached
president, he risked America's national security for campaign contributions.

He was embraced by the left wing, primarily Democrats.


To compare the two is a travesty. Gen. McPeak owes the United States
and the memory of Mr. McCarthy an apology.


RICHARD T. DUMONT


Silver Spring
March 26, 2008, 5:59 PM

DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, LAME EXCUSES FROM MY GRANDFATHER
April 9, 2008


Since a Chinese graduate student at Columbia University, Minghui Yu, was
killed last Friday when black youths violently set upon him, sending him
running into traffic to escape, I think B. Hussein Obama ought to start
referring to the mind-set of the "typical Asian person."


As of Wednesday, police had no motive for the attack, and witnesses said they
heard no demand for money or anything else. The Associated Press reports that
the assailant simply said to his friend, "Watch what I do to this guy" before
punching Yu.


Meanwhile, let's revisit the story about Obama's grandmother being guilty of
thinking like a "typical white person." As recounted in Obama's
autobiography, the only evidence that his grandmother feared black men comes
from Obama's good-for-nothing, chronically unemployed white grandfather, who
accuses Grandma of racism as his third excuse not to get dressed and drive
her to work.


His grandmother wanted a ride to work at 6:30 in the morning because, the day
before, she had been aggressively solicited by a homeless man at the bus
stop.


On her account, the panhandler "was very aggressive, Barry. Very aggressive.


I gave him a dollar and he kept asking. If the bus hadn't come, I think he
might have hit me over the head."


Even Obama's shiftless grandfather didn't play the race card until pretty far
into the argument over whether he would drive Grandma to work. First, the
good-for-nothing grandfather told Obama that Grandma was just trying to guilt
him into driving her, saying, "(S)he just wants me to feel bad."


Next, he complained about his non-work routine being disrupted, saying:
"She's been catching the bus ever since she started at the bank. ... And now,
just because she gets pestered a little, she wants to change everything!"


Only after Obama had offered to drive his grandmother to work himself and it
was becoming increasingly clear what a selfish lout the grandfather was, did
Grandpa produce his trump card. The reason he wouldn't get his lazy butt
dressed and drive Grandma to work was ... she was a racist!


As Obama recounts it, on Grandpa's third try at an excuse, he told Obama:
"You know why she's so scared this time? I'll tell you why. Before you came
in, she told me the fella was black. That's the real reason she's bothered.

And I just don't think that's right." So I guess I'll be heading back to the
sack now!


That makes sense. It certainly never bothers me when crazy white people
harass and threaten me.


This is Obama's own account of what happened, which -- as anyone can see --
consisted of his slacker grandfather making a series of excuses to avoid
having to drive the sole bread-earner in the family to work.


But Obama says, "The words were like a fist in my stomach, and I wobbled to
regain my composure." (It was as if he had been punched by an aggressive
panhandler at a bus stop!) And not because his grandfather's sorry excuse
reminded him that he came from a long line of callow, worthless men, both
black and white.


No, Obama swallowed his grandfather's pathetic excuse hook, line and sinker,
leading Obama to a reverie about his grandparents: "I knew that men who might
easily have been my brothers could still inspire their rawest fears." That's
true -- assuming his brothers and sisters were menacing people at bus stops.


How deranged would you have to be to cite this incident as evidence that your
grandmother thought like a "typical white person" -- as opposed to your
grandfather being worthless and lazy? For those keeping score, Obama is
aghast at his grandmother's alleged racism, but had no problem with Jeremiah
Wright's manifest racism.

If Obama is sent reeling by the mere words of an elderly white woman, how is
he going to negotiate with a guy like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? What if
Ahmadinejad calls him "booger-face"? Will he run crying from the table?


Your grandmother wasn't a racist, Barack. Your grandpa was just a loser. Can
we wrap up our national conversation about race now? I think we'd like to
move onto questions about your stupid plan to hold talks with Iran.


COPYRIGHT 2008 ANN COULTER








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