John Glenn Goes Back Into Orbit

Knight Of The Mind ^ | Sunday, September 05, 2004 | .cnI redruM

[.cnI redruM]

I admire the courage of astronaut John Glenn. He has led our great nation into space and slipped the bounds of Earth's atmosphere as he sped off into the aether. Only this time, he neglected to suit up and travel on a rocket. John Glenn had this to say regarding the recent GOP convention.

Former senator John Glenn (D-Ohio) took the defense a step further by comparing the Republicans' misleading statements to those of Nazi Germany. "You've just got to separate out fact from fiction. . . . Too often, too often, in this country, if you hear something repeated, it's the old Hitler business -- if you hear something repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated, you start to believe it," he said.

Welcome to the alien terrain of MoveOn.Org, Senator. I hate to break this to you, Senator, but having experienced weightlessness does not lend gravitas to your nonsensical rantings. You are stupid, Senator. You are panicking. Do not be used by Senator John Kerry. Do not be turned into a cheap political symbol like your cohort Max Cleland.

[.cnI redruM]

The Dems are going nuts.

[tioga]

Glenn is already a willing party hack like Max Cleland.......it's too late to warn him.....

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Even Zell Miller referred to their "manic obsession to bring down our Commander in Chief."

They would rather have American innocents slaughtered (AGAIN) if that could defeat Bush. Democrats that crazy are as bad as the terrorists themselves. Democrats need to be in a locked-down psycho ward, not in charge of the government.

Vote for Kerry and the Taliban comes into power in America where wholesale murder is a small price to pay for liberals being in charge.

These people are sick and dangerous.

The ends justify the means to these people.

[.cnI redruM]

This, to me, is the saddest thing about the Kerry campaign. At least two people, with outstanding resumes of achievement and service, have been made to look like utter chimpanzees in service of Senator Gigolo.

[norraad]

Altitude sickness.

[cousair]

Glenn showed his lacking grit when he testified as a rabid Democrat in committee hearings during the Clinton era and the payoff was another ride to the moon as a senior...sick sick sick!!

[peteram]

if you hear something repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated, you start to believe it," he said.

And he should know. HIS party are the masters at this M.O. They have been for years.

[cousair]

Glenn showed his lacking grit when he testified as a rabid Democrat in committee hearings during the Clinton era and the payoff was another ride to the moon as a senior...sick sick sick!!

[martin_fierro]

[Twenty Years Later] John Glenn's failed presidential campaign still owes millions

Glenn's whoring for the Clintoon administration during Impeachment got him a space flight. Wonder what he's angling for this time.

[.cnI redruM]

Yeah, he seems to just take old Howard Dean speeches and repeat them, and repeat them, and repeat them, and....(you get the point).

[.cnI redruM]

It seems that he's basically aiming for his own left foot. He sure seems to be pumping the rounds into that general vicinity.

[Cooltouch]

Do not be turned into a cheap political symbol like your cohort Max Cleland.

Too late. That already happened when he became a shill for Bill Clinton.

[ncpatriot]

Yep!

[M-cubed]

I'm wondering how close the MSM and Kerry really are...It appears that Kerry is doomed with so many unanswered questions..The media at some point has to at least TRY to address them...I expected at some point at least 1 reporter would break the silence and the rest would have to follow to keep any semblance of responsibility...it appears that the floodgates MUST be building!

[BonnieJ]

The price for standing by Clinton was a contrived ride on the shuttle. With Kerry it must be something very nice, $$$ or a job or another "trip"?

[.cnI redruM]

Kerry has become increasingly hard to defend. That was particularly evident in Tom Daschele's choice of which candidate he wanted to embrace in his latest ad.

[.cnI redruM]

OK, OK I'm convinced. John Glenn was a pathetic hack long before John Kerry got nominated. What a shame. At least it's not as disappointing as the whole Pete Rose fiasco.

[alloysteel]

Here they go with the "Republicans are Nazis" crapola again. And from the former Senator and astronaut John Glenn, no less. I had thought him an honorable man, but to draw such stark parallels is a little disingenuous, and he does not even make films.

Has anyone every questioned what Adolf Hitler really was? He would not have ever been sympathic with Republicans, who represent something totally alien to Nationalist Socialist ideology.

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

Concur ...

Glenn began that turn (to becoming a mere party hack) in the days as he defended the Clintons AFTER they deliberately took Chinese and Indonesian money to sell our space technology ..

(At least we did get nuclear-tipped missiles in return for the Chinese money ....)

Of course, those missiles were aimed AT us instead of BY us, we at least we did get something for the Clintons' sellout.

[fizziwig]

Its really too bad about John Glenn. I can remember his project mercury orbits, and then the problem he had with the heat shields at re entry. He was truly an American hero. Who would have thought that he would later champion the minions of socialism/communism.

In a way he is similar to Charles Lindbergh, who cozied up to the Nazi's.

[.cnI redruM]

For starters, Hitler sure wouldn't have agreed with Ronald Reagan on gun control.

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

You're mixing a metaphor ....8<) But it is an unintentionally good metaphor, nonetheless!

Floodgates stay in place, until the flood overwhelms them.

(To prevent catastrophic damage to the foundations of the mainstream media, the floodgates MUST be opened (by the media themselves), or the "whole damn thing" will crash around their shoulders as they try to prop up their lies about being "unbiased" ....)

Witness, for example, the AP getting caught in their "crowd booed" lie. And cover up.

[.cnI redruM]

So Bill Clinton turned him into an empty suit. That's sad, whoever did it to Glenn.

[.cnI redruM]

Perfect analogy. I wish I had thought of that one while I was blogging.

[twhitak]

Too often, too often, in this country, if you hear something repeated, it's the old Hitler business -- if you hear something repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated, you start to believe it," he said.

Well, that's the only tool the Dems have.

[Reagan Man]

There was a time when I called John Glenn a hero. Sadly, that time has long passed. John Glenn has turned into an old fool shilling for John Kerry's campaign. Pathetic!

[hgro]

John Glenn is a dunce, a dupe and a charter member of the Keating five.

[.cnI redruM]

Keating Five? Maybe he and McCain were made from the same mold.

[Chi-townChief]

Isn't Glenn the same guy who saw "fireflies?"

[Chieftain]

One of the BIG reasons that Kerry has tanked in the polls is because of the Swiftees killer ads!

You can bet the DemocRAT 'smear the Swiftees' campaign will be kicked up to a whole new level now.

Support for the Swiftees is crucial right now, so they can get these ads on the air on REGULAR TV in battleground states.

FReepers are key in getting the word out about the righteousness of the SBVFT by exposing Kerry's FRAUD.

These Swiftee window stickers get the word out to the driving public, display public support for the SBVFT, as well as displaying the website address!

Swiftee window sticker thread - get yours! Freep mail for details.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In modern usage the word "Nazi" describes a conservative winning an argument with a liberal. There is more than a little irony in this, as the term comes from the German acronym for "National Socialist". For the most part, the NSDAP, (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ) embraced pretty much the same grab bag of policies as the modern progressive politicians in the Western countries today. The one exception is in the matter of race relations. The NS policy was "kill the Jews and steal their money, enslave the rest." They differ in this matter, however, not in principle but in application.

Unlike conservatives, who embrace the outmoded and abhorrent policy of treating people as individuals rather than as the embodiment of ethnic, racial, sexual and class stereotypes, today's progressive politician will find a grievance for almost any constituent, inventing ever more novel and innovative aggrieved categories. Each of the aggrieved classes are entitled to steal from and enslave the rest, with a few exceptions. One exception is made for American Blacks who as group enjoy a higher standard of living than Swedes. Under this theory they are uniquely victimized and cannot be held accountable for any action and are owed deference and money from all White people for all time. Another exception is made for White heterosexual religiously observant Christian males, whose status is exactly the opposite that of Blacks. Despite that fact that nearly every advance in human freedom, in science, culture, technology, economics, art, literature or politics in the last 500 years has come this tiny minority, they are held in grave disrepute, their contributions being seen as evidence of their poor character and selfishness. (Manifestly hypocritically observant Christians, those who hide behind the Bible when trapped in a web of lies for instance, are spared this opprobrium.)

[whitedog57]

John Glenn lost all respect with his involvement in the Keating affair. Like most Democrats, he is dirty. They believe in the philosophy that their cause is so important that the rules don't apply to them.

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

The "funny" thing is, ITS THE DEMOCRATS who exhibit specific, exact duplicates of Nazi-like behavior!

They HATE the freedom and democracy of Israel. (But are supported by the liberal Jews in the Northeast BECAUASE those Jews are voting on lies (about Christian prejudice against Jews) and "evil money"

The democrats are pulling the massive lies.

The democrats are exploiting the lies of the mass, establishment media.

The democrats are anti-free speech.

The democrats are lying about gun control....but misusing government power in Elain's case and Waco to kill/enslave innocent children...

[hometoroost]

" Do not be used by Senator John Kerry. Do not be turned into a cheap political symbol like your cohort Max Cleland."

Too late for that warning. That swiftboat done sailed, skippy.

[nightdriver]

"You are stupid, Senator. You are panicking."

Too late for John Glenn.

He already proved himself a lacky for X42's administration during the impeachment hearings.

He's relegated to the heap of the insignificant.

[Dogbert41]

This man is a POS traitor. Benedict Arnold Glen. Sold his soul for a rocket ride. Pathetic POS.

[weegee]

World War IV did not originate with a singular event (it was a mounting series of attacks that were not responded to nor was national security seriously beefed up, thanks to Bubba pushing it aside for the next administration).

Other nations had been experiencing attacks but few attempted to respond. Shades of Europe paying protection money to the Barbary pirates?

Civil War II will not begin with a single event but the first volley of firepower is sure to be launched by the rabid left in this country. They are the ones who riot in the streets at economic summits and "peace" protests.

The peaceful transfer of power, a tradition long prized in this country, may soon no longer exist.

The Democrats would rather win the election than the war on terror.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

"The kind of guy that would leave doo-doo in the capsule!"

[libs_kma]

Growing up and living in Ohio most of my life, I had nothing but respect and admiration for John Glenn. Now it saddens me that he supports Kerry.

I'm not even angry at him, but profoundly disappointed. I tried like crazy to find an email address to tell him that, but had to settle for a John Glenn facility at OSU.

Anyway it felt better to get it off my chest even though he'll probably never read it. Being a vet myself, I dont take treasonous actions very well, and I told Mr. Glenn that I now associate him with the treasonous actions of Kerry. If you lie down with dogs...you know the rest..

[RightWingAtheist]

Up, up and awayyyy, in my beautiful, my bee-yoo-tee-ful COCOON!

[tertiary01]

John Glenn is just another example that excelling in one field does not neccessarily qualify one for an exemplary career in politics.

[TonyRo76]

Glenn has been intellectually weightless for years.

He should've stayed in outer space instead of occupying a U.S. Senate seat where he could advance socialist legislation for 25 years.