I hate hippies
Posted on 03/12/2004 11:37:51 PM PST by FairOpinion
A craven, whining John Kerry has told his troops to try to stifle anything that reminds Americans of President Bush's awesome leadership as he confronted 9/11 and the murder of 3,000 innocents within our homeland by Islamic extremist terrorists! That's really what his immoral attack on the Bush campaign ads of last week is all about. ''Bush is exploiting and politicizing a human tragedy,'' he and his shameless flunkies bawl!
Mr. Bush's leadership gap over Kerry, not self-righteous outrage over political tactics, is what frightens the ultra-liberal Massachusetts Senator. He's never truly led anything of consequence--other than a raggle-taggle group of veteran anti-war malcontents decades ago!
Mr. Kerry has never been a CEO, a number 1, in big-time political life! He's been one of a gang of 100 in the Senate. He's been a number 2 to Ex-Governor Mike Dukakis in Massachusetts. More than three decades ago in Vietnam he grandly commanded, for an unimpressive few months, a fishing-sized motorboat with a few enlisted men as crew. That's it! From this woefully limited ''military'' and ''executive'' resume, he expects us Americans to put aside our commonsense and feel snug and safe as pitifully inexperienced executive John Kerry looks out for our security, protecting us from the enemies we now know about in this dangerous world!
President George W. Bush has been unquestioned leader of the free world for 3 1/2 years. During that same period he has been a beloved and highly respected (unlike his predecessor) and hands-on Commander-In-Chief of the nearly 2,000,000 people in our armed service branches here and abroad. Prior to that, he served as the chief executive of the second largest state in the union, Texas. He served two four-year terms as governor, winning re-election in 1996 in a landslide, a year when Kerry almost lost his Senate seat. No wonder John Kerry is terrified of the gap between Bush's leadership and his own!
So the Bush ads, displaying the Bush command of his nation and his leadership in protecting its citizenry had to be diminished at any cost. Any tactics were OK--no matter how corrupt or obnoxious or unprincipled. A put-down of the ads was deemed essential to Kerry's goal of killing America's memory of 9/11, of the Bush presidential leadership, and why we are at war!
Kerry's panicky reaction as the Bush ads came out was multifaceted. Leading off, Karen Hughes, Bush confidante, was assaulted about the ads by Katie Couric on the NBC Today show last Wednesday. The ads use less than four seconds of WTC ground zero scenes within two 30-second ads! A longtime Kerry-endorsing firemen's union boss, Harold Schaitberger, piled on, unscrupulously, on the NBC thesis of Bush committing cheap political sacrilege.
NBC and other ratings-greedy TV network news shows miraculously found in the very first hours of airing of the ads, several anti-Bush WTC victim family members, obviously coached and stuffed with talking points--to trash the ads. To a person, the identical negative TV interview comments included accusing Mr. Bush of being in a Florida schoolroom (prescient but uncaring? neglectful?) as the American passenger planes were crashed into the WTC towers and ended with WTC ''widows'' offering a ludicrous non-sequitur about Mr. Bush ''stonewalling'' his own appointed 9/11 Commission about what lay behind the attacks. This is probably just the start of future Kerry tactics as the Bush campaign juggernaut continues to strip away the facade of ''winner'' from the media-selected Democrat candidate.
And yet who has loudly and blatantly been exploiting his 35-year-old Vietnam veteran connection for political reasons for years--and especially now? Does that make John Kerry depraved and politically detestable for using as justification for his anti-war beliefs the deaths of 56,000 young Americans from that Democrat war to ''heavy'' up his patriotism and war leader persona as he struggles to emulate George W. Bush? That seems silly. He's got so little to offer in military background; let him have that one.
But Mr. Kerry, don't lobby for forgetting 9/11. Don't expect us to forget it any more than we should forget Pearl Harbor as an American symbol of how our nation deals with unprovoked foreign attack. And we must also remember, forever, the Destroyer Cole bombing or blasts at our Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania or the Lebanon or Saudi barracks where hundreds of Americans, military and families, died from terrorist bombs. And above all, John Kerry, as you jockey for pious, political superiority over the President, quit your amoral and obscene references to the painfully brave and heroic 500+ Americans who have died in uniform since 9/11--fighting terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq.
You have been using these deaths for months as political tools to tell us you would have prevented them if you had been president. How politically repugnant is that?
Finally, to the John Kerry team, let me remind you that you do not ''own'' the American memory of 9/11. And it was not just American deaths. As President Bush told the joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001, ''The citizens of 80 other nations died with our own: dozens of Pakistanis; more than 130 Israelis; more than 250 citizens of India; men and women from El Salvador, Iran, Mexico and Japan; and hundreds of British citizens.''
Let me refresh a bit your memory of that 20th day of September, 2001 on Capitol Hill with President Bush at his eloquent and serious best:
''These terrorists kill not merely to end lives, but to disrupt and end a way of life.
''Americans are asking, why do they hate us? They hate what we see right here in this chamber (The Capitol) -- a democratically elected government.
''Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.''
''Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded ... as a hostile regime.''
All these quotes were made by President George W. Bush on 9/20/01.
Today, 2 1/2 years after 9/11, President Bush pledged to continue reminding Americans of the role of 9/11 in our now past and future life and our need for national readiness and courage in dealing with those who would destroy us. He only needs one more unabashed 9/11 campaign ad to show America what he will do against terror over the rest of his Presidency.
That ultimate Bush campaign commercial that will put to bed John Kerry's paranoia about the Bush leadership superiority was suggested by a young Los Angeles radio personality at KFI/640 named John Zeigler. It brought a giant lump of pride and emotion to my throat when he played it a few nights ago as to what could be done. It is, of course, in sharp contrast to the unimaginative Kerry anger/bitterness/negativism strategy. I commend it to the Bush campaign team. ---------------------- The Bush In-Your-Face Kerry/Demagogue-Defanging Ad:
The scene opens at Ground Zero of the WTC on September 14, 2001, 72 hours after the al-Queda attacks. Do you remember? President Bush, standing on a burnt-out hulk of fire equipment hears a voice yell out from the assembled crowd, while he is speaking: ''I can¹t hear you!'' screams an identified rescue-team fireman.''
The President, impulsively, borrows a large bullhorn from another fireman and yells forward into the crowd, ''I can hear you......the rest of the world hears you.......and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!'' A crowd roar immediately builds in the background and loudly and chillingly shifts into a chant: USA! USA! USA! USA......!
The scene fades from the WTC ruins and shifts to the joint session of Congress three days later, September 20. President Bush is on the podium finishing his address: ''Our nation -- this generation -- will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire....we will not falter....and we will not fail. (Tremendous roar of standing ovation as the commercial ends!) -------------------
President George W. Bush has been unquestioned leader of the free world for 3 1/2 years. "
This about sums it up.
Yep. Ol' John-boy just can't get it through his head that 9/11 happened to ALL Americans. He just can't grasp that because, deep down, he probably considers himself a "Global Citizen" like those other 5th-column pansies.
But hey, he's got "foreign leaders" praying for him to beat Bush, so that makes it all okay, right?? ; )
Good work (again) - tnx!
A poor choice for anything!
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