Ken Hamblin: Praise of Bush irks readers

Denver Post ^ | 12.7.03 | Ken Hamblin

[mhking]

Based on some of the response to last week's column - about the adulation I felt for President George W. Bush's flying a good distance around the world on Thanksgiving Day to meet, greet and say "thank you" to our soldiers in Iraq - it seems to me the Democratic politicians and card-carriers alike may be on the verge of an emotional breakdown.

Consider, for instance, the following words of anguish in an e-mail from "Dzerres":

"It's embarrassing how far you have your nose up Bush's ---! 150 minutes in Baghdad, flying in under the cover of darkness, serving mashed potatoes to the troops and leaving without even eating the meal (turkey dinner at breakfast, no less) doesn't show leadership. It shows he's a fraiddy-cat.

"He is dodging his responsibilities like he did during Vietnam. And you're eating it up without questioning anything.

"Pathetic."

Boy, there's a lot of anger in them there words.

First off, Dzerres, it's the thought, not the amount of time W spent in Iraq that counts.

And as for Vietnam, I fear that you may have your presidents crossed. I suggest that you look to William Jefferson Clinton when it comes to dodging one's military duty.

But Democrats (which I assume Dzerres calls himself ), especially those under pressure, seldom bother with historical accuracy when they are in the throes of distorting political accuracy.

Of course, I don't want to leave you thinking that all the response to the column was negative. "Agnes P." e-mailed:

"Bless you for the courage to appreciate our president's daring trip to Iraq .... . Today, I thank our dear Lord, who has always blessed the USA with so much for the safe, miraculous trip to demonstrate to our troops that he loves them as he does our country ... ."

Agnes' opinion was echoed in a National Annenberg Election Survey taken four days before and after Thanksgiving. The poll showed that President Bush received an immediate boost in his approval rating after his holiday visit with the soldiers in Iraq.

The overall approval of how President Bush is doing his job increased from 56 percent to 61 percent, with his disapproval rating declining from 41 percent to 36 percent.

After the president's visit to Iraq, 41 percent of Americans polled even thought that things were going in the right direction in the United States, up 5 percentage points from before the holiday.

In spite of what some anguished and embittered Democrats may think and say about President Bush, his ordering Air Force One to fly to Baghdad boosted his popularity factor with voters.

Democrats are so full of themselves that they find it impossible to conceive that they have disconnected, big time, with the American people.

They fail to realize that no amount of Bush-bashing, like that at a recent meeting of disgruntled Democrats at the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, is going to alter that fact - at least not in time for the presidential election next November.

Nonetheless, another anguished e-mail came to me from "Mrs. L. Highland," who described herself as an "ex-Republican. Recovering."

She wrote to say if she lived to be 120 years old, she would never understand my hero-worship for President Bush.

"... You extol his leadership, but he's not even calling the shot. The look in his eyes is so vacuous and empty that it's hard not to laugh at the deification of this bozo ... ."

Mrs. Highland: Rest assured that by using words like "bozo" and "puppet" to describe our president, you are well on the way to making a full-fledged transformation from a Republican to a Democrat.

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[Bogey78O]

Notice the leftard tried to subtly pass the lie that Bush was there at breakfast time.

[stands2reason]

The Dems have lost it. Completely. Note the mention of Turkey at Breakfast. Seems this poor idiot has taken the Washington Post misprint (5 am instead of 5 pm) to heart.

I'm sure a good section of left loonies are time zone-challenged enough to buy it.

It's so disappointing to have such unworthy adversaries. What good does it do you to "win" a debate in an insane asylum?

[Texas Eagle]

.... another anguished e-mail came to me from "Mrs. L. Highland," who described herself as an "ex-Republican. Recovering." ...... Mrs. Highland: Rest assured that by using words like "bozo" and "puppet" to describe our president, you are well on the way to making a full-fledged transformation from a Republican to a Democrat.

What a crock. I hear these people on C-Spam all the time. They were never "Republicans" or "Bush supporters". Rush would call these people "seminar" callers or e-mailers. I call them liars.

They are so embarrassed to call themselves DemocRATS, they find it more palatable to call themselves ex-Republicans.

They're full of sh*t is what they are.

[Paul Atreides]

and leaving without even eating the meal

Um...Mr. Loser, the President was there for THEM. He was not there to be served a meal by people who are fighting to preserve freedom. He sacrificed time with his family to be with those brave men and women. He could have videotaped a message, or had a letter read, but he didn't. Don't let your own unworthiness cloud what was a beautiful moment.

[farmfriend]

Short list.

[Verginius Rufus]

When Ken Hamblin was in the army he was stationed at Fort Campbell, KY. He went with several white soldiers to a diner in Clarksville, TN. The waitress told him, "We don't serve colored people." He told her, "That's O.K. I don't eat colored people."

[HardStarboard]

Mr. Dzerres, your phonyness, or whatever:

You wouldn't understand a "human gesture" if it slapped you upside the head like a wet fish!

No sense explaining it to you. The closest thing we saw to a "human gesture" from your President, (yeah the one before Bush), was dropping his pants in the oval office.

Maybe what a "human gesture" is will become clearer if I mention that Ronald Regan wouldn't enter that office without a coat and a tie.

Nah, don't get it, do you Dzerres?

[Lawgvr1955]

...Ken Hamblin... told her, "That's O.K. I don't eat colored people."

Though I am not a Dick Gregory fan, I recall a story he told when he was about to eat a chicken dinner in a restaurant and was told by some men in the restaurant that they would do to him whatever he did with that chicken. (Implying that if he left it alone and walked away, they would do the same to him; if he cut into it, they would cut into him). According to Gregory, he picked up the chicken and kissed it. I doubt the story is true (he lived to tell it if it is true), but funny nonetheless.

[CyberCowboy777]

BTTT

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Democrats are so full of themselves that they find it impossible to conceive that they have disconnected, big time, with the American people.

Badda bing, badda boom! Boy oh boy doesn't that just about say it all.

I can't wait for election night 2004. It's gonna be a bloodbath.

[Chu Gary]

"Though I am not a Dick Gregory fan, I recall a story he told when he was about to eat a chicken dinner in a restaurant and was told by some men in the restaurant that they would do to him whatever he did with that chicken. (Implying that if he left it alone and walked away, they would do the same to him; if he cut into it, they would cut into him). According to Gregory, he picked up the chicken and kissed it. I doubt the story is true (he lived to tell it if it is true), but funny nonetheless."

Too bad it wasn't a whole chicken so he could kiss it where they should have kissed him.

[metesky]

I'm old enough to remember when Dick Gregory was mildly amusing.

[gatorbait]

"Mrs. L. Highland,"

I think that describes her special place, n'est c'pas? Glad to see my man, the Black Avenger getting after it again!!!

[Verginius Rufus]

I've also heard Hamblin's retort attributed to Dick Gregory, but I don't know if Hamblin picked it up from him or thought of it independently, or if it just was a joke that had been around for a while in the black community.

[suzyq5558]

Well i for one just loved it that our President went over to see the troops on thanksgiving! way to go President Bush.
As for the dimwit's that have spent the past few years going lunatic fringe,i think it's time to up your med's or find some better dope than the crap you've been getting. oh while your at it crazy one's get a life....

[T Lady]

Judging from the samples of e-mail here (Dzerrs, and 'Mrs. Hamilton the "Republican-Recovering"'), these idiots are indistinguishable from any of the other idiots on the Left. They all parrot each other with the same, trite code-words: Bush is an idiot, Bush is Hitler, Bush Lied, and so on. Like the Four Tops once sang, "It's The Same Old Song". The Democrats try changing the lyrics around just to fool us-like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

-Regards, T.

[T Lady]

Hamilton=Highland.

[Prime Choice]

Looks like the Demmies are getting the same sort of Shock & Awe that Shillary got in Iraq...