The man is evil, angry, insane, and he lies. He's not running for re-election. Good for his constituents. Bad for everyone that he's still in the Senate. Although it looks as though he has a prosperous post-Senatorial career playing Emperor Palpatine at SF convetions. Tho' few SFFans I know could stand being in the same building with him.
The Dole, Guiliani, and McCain show
John McCain sells out, Bob Dole spits on his own medals, and Giuliani just makes crap up (He relates how he grabbed the arm of his Commissioner Kerik post 9/11 and exclaims "Thank God for George W Bush!". He made that up). Anyone notice McCain's family was nowhere to be found? After what his own party did to his reputation and the lies they told about his family, I still boggle that he can walk up and be a proud soldier for them. Either they're into him or he's into them.
Purple Heart Band-aids
Funny thing. I'm not supposed to respect any achievement John Kerry has made and buy the concept that somehow he didn't deserve his medals, but I'm supposed to respect the very same medals his critics have. The convention goers, you see, are only criticizing the medals Kerry recieved. However, the same process to review medal qualifications that Mr Kerry went through was also executed for anyone recieving the same medals, including his critics. No matter what any fellow officer wrote about Kerry's recommendations the paperwork was reviewed by an impartial commission independent of the incident. It has long been thus in the military. Prevents people from getting medals who do not deserve them. If the process was flawed for one recipient, then it may be flawed for many.
The slime slung by the Swift Boat Veterans For Thier Version Of The Truth, in the end, cheapens almost every medal awarded. They paint a picture of soldiers who do what's expedient than what is honorable, which is completely opposite the personal knowledge of soldier I do have. The critics who accuse Kerry of having medals he doesn't deserve thus cast doubt on thier own medals. This cheapening is a serpent swallowing its own tail; in the end, there's a crass display like the Purple heart band-aids.
GOP Convention Delegates
What a crass, arrogant bunch of out-of-towners. Suprisingly the band-aids weren't the low point. No, good old fashioned brownshirt-style thuggery; as a female protester was being wrestled to the ground outside Madison Square Garden, a Young Republican joined the fray and just started kicking her. The protester was jacked up for protesting. The Young Republican wasn't even detained.
President Bush's Speech
They built him a proscenium stage for it. Buzz was that he was to rise out of the dais but just his podum did that; he walked out like a game show emcee. The regular podum that everyone else was using wasn't good enough for him; he wanted to come out like a rock star, and that he has nowhere near that bearing just made him stand out all the more.
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