Strange Encounter on a Ski Slope

DontMoveOn.org ^ | 04/13/2004 | Bob Redman

[Americathy]

On 8 March 2004 at a campaign stop in Hollywood, Florida, John Kerry accused Republicans of stealing the last election, and he promised for this coming fall a rerun of the democrats’ litigation model which, although it failed in 2000, has not lost its luster for them. In addition, he spoke of unnamed foreign leaders who really wanted him to beat Bush. Such statements indicate to me that the pressure of campaigning for top job was already getting to him. In any case, afterward his handlers bundled him off Idaho for some snowboarding and message polishing.

While there he revealed yet more of himself. According the Drudge Report of 14 March 04 Kerry was uncivil to a secret agent assigned to protect him on the ski slopes and, I suppose, elsewhere. Kerry called the agent a “son of a bitch” when he fell over the agent who inadvertently moved into his path. The Drudge Report continues: “When asked a moment later about the incident by a reporter on the ski run, Kerry said sharply, ‘I don't fall down, the son of a bitch knocked me over.’”

The first outburst could be explained as a momentary fit of pique, but not the second outburst. The fact that reporters later saw Kerry fall down repeatedly makes the second outburst seem stranger still. Since even the best of skiers fall down, the question arises: What kind of person can’t admit the obvious truth that he or she also occasionally falls down while skiing?

Several commentators wrote about the incident. John McCaslin in his column Clint for President delved into the background and discovered more evidence of Kerry’s lack of understanding for lesser beings. Namely, no provision had been made for the agents’ accommodation in the exclusive and extremely expensive resorts of that area. What kind of a person doesn’t try to take care of the elemental needs of people assigned to step between him and a bullet?

I say the kind of person who holds all of us in contempt. Such an attitude rings a bell with me. I am reminded of Clinton’s misuse of Arkansas state troopers to procure sexual partners and to secure the tryst while it was going on. I am reminded of Hillary Rodham’s description of the secret service agents assigned to protect her in the White House as pigs, and of her foul-mouthed insistence that they come no closer to her than 10 yards away, according to Gary Aldrich in his book Unlimited Access. I am reminded of the Clintons’ persecution of Billy Dale, head of the White House travel office through several administrations.

I am reminded of much, much more, but these few incidents suffice to allow us to see a common thread running through the behavior of Kerry and the Clintons. All three of them have little or no regard for lowly public servants. Even if we didn’t have other indications to inform our opinion, it would be a safe assumption that the three of them also have little regard for us, the ordinary citizens. Oh, but we do have other indications. Read Mona Charen's book Useful Idiots, Peggy Noonan's The Case Against Hillary Clinton, Barbara Olson's Hell to Pay, and Ann Coulter's Treason if you need to refresh yourself on the details. Power-hungry adventurers with personalities similar to that of the Clintons have shown us in our times in Russia, Germany, and China to what lengths they will go to assume and maintain untrammeled power over ordinary citizens. The famous adventurers all share a boundless appetite and an utter lack of any trace of humility.

In contrast, Lincoln, Ghandi, Michael Collins, Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, Anwar Sadat, to name a few of the few, had the humility of the great. As Peggy Noonan writes on page 28 of her book The Case Against Hillary Clinton: "It is a beautiful thing to see or read of. It is a humility that says: 'No, I am not everything, I am nothing.' This, in all of us, is the beginning of wisdom.'"

The humility of the great is what binds them to the human community, most of which possesses the same insight to some extent. However, the Clintons, and Kerry, to name a few of the many, are driven by their sense of unlimited entitlement and are thus at odds with those uncaring souls who who want to keep a little bit of power for themselves. There is a chasm between the Clintons and Kerry, and the ordinary citizenry, and they despair. Their lack of humility is not a beautiful thing to see or read of. It is a frightening reminder of the worst that resides in all of us.

The inner hollowness of the Clintons and Kerry resonates wherever they are touched. It is unfathomable to me that so many people don’t recognize the danger that these supremely aggressive predators present to us. It is so unfathomable that I am forced to assume that many people do indeed recognize the danger and don’t care. In short, out of shared despair, they are suicidal.

However, as I am convinced that my end will come in due time without any help from me, I am not particularly suicidal. Therefore, I urge Americans to gird their loins for the coming battle to save our heritage from attacks by the hollow predators. It shouldn’t be all that difficult to find meaning in the attempt to pass on to our children the fruits of the sacrifices of many hundreds of thousands of men and women who have given their lives in the past to protect our unique experiment in liberty. Anyone who says that we should not, in our turn, be called to make sacrifices, dishonors them and reveals much about himself or herself.

Let us not permit the Republic to die on our watch.

[ladyjane]

Have you observed her behavior in person?

Yes. Not a pretty picture. Although in her favor I hear that when she was married to Heinz she was considered very nice, very gracious. I haven't yet seen that side of her.

[Freedom4US]

The President has stated on at least on occasion that the job of the presidency is bigger than any one individual. This, I think, nails it better than anything else.

Some folks want power for power's sake. Small people in small jobs are usually the worst on the local level.