I spend so much time talking to people who have been brainwashed by the MSM.
Intelligent people who want to be patriotic and protect their country. They want to do the right thing. They just don't know which way is up anymore.
They tell me they are Republicans or Conservatives - but then the proceed to tell me that:
1. Rove outed Plame
2. Bush is stupid
3. There are no WMDs
4. Iraq has nothing to do with terror and everything to do with oil.
etc. etc. etc.
If they only would stop taking the MSMs word for everything and started researching and or thinking for themselves.
I had so many friends tell me they didn't know who to vote for in 2004. I would look at them like they had two heads and said, "You are honestly thinking of voting for KERRY?" and they of course said, "Well - no..." But, they can't feel good about voting for President Bush - because they are told that Bush = bad.
I know it's worth the struggle. I know we're winning. I just get tired of the fight sometime.
Maybe that's why we're here at FR and why we spend part of the time playing and part of the time learning and educating. We need the relief.
sigh.
I LIVE for political debate. I used to lurk on random message boards and nuke their arguments easily until it became an addiction and I had to stop.
I had a pal here at work who's a republican who drove Bradley Fighting Vehicles in the first Gulf War actually say, "Rove should just resign. It looks bad for the administration."
Easily nuked with this question, "OK. I know a lady who is accusing you of theft. She has no proof whatsoever, but you should just quit your job and report to the nearest Sheriff's office and turn yourself in."
He got it right away.
I never get tired of the fight. It's much more fun laughing at them.
"The left is funniest when they lose." --Rush Limbaugh
They tell me they are Republicans or Conservatives - but then the proceed to tell me that:
1. Rove outed Plame
No, No, No, Joe Wilson himself did that on his own web site see below:......
Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV
Ambassador Wilson served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council from June 1997 until July 1998. In that capacity he was responsible for the coordination of U.S. policy to the 48 countries of sub-Saharan Africa, He was one of the principal architecs of President Clinton's historic trip to Africa in March 1998.
Ambassador Wilson was the Political Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of United States Armed Forces, Europe, 1995-1997. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic and to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe from 1992 to 1995. From 1998 to 1991, Ambassador Wilson served in Baghdad, Iraq as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy. During ''Desert Shield'' he was the acting Ambassador and was responsible for the negotiations that resulted in the release of several hundred American hostages. He was the last official American to meet with Saddam Hussein before the launching of ''Desert Storm.''
Ambassador Wilson was a member of the U.S. Diplomatic Service from 1976 until 1998. His early assignments included Niamey, Niger, 1976-1978; Lome, Togo, 1978-79; the State Department Brueau of African Affairs, 1979-1981; and Pretoria, South Africa, 1981-1982.
In 1982, he was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission in Bujumbura, Burundi. In 1985-1986, he served in the offices of Senator Albert Gore and the House Majority Whip, Representative Thomas Foley, as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Brazzaville, Congo, 1986-88, prior to his assignment to Baghdad.
Ambassador Wilson was raised in California and graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1972. He is a graduate of the Senior Seminar (1972), the most advanced International Affairs training offered by the U.S. Government. He speaks fluent French.
Ambassador Wilson holds the Department of Distinguished Service Award, the Department of State Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards, the University of California, Santa Barbara Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the American Foreign Service Association William R. Rivkin Award. Additionally, he has been decorated as a Commander in the Order of the Equatorial Star by the Government of Gabon and as an Admiral in the El Paso Navy by the El Paso County Commissioners.
He is married to the former Valerie Plame and has two sons and two daughters.