Posted on 12/25/2012 7:09:01 AM PST by Kaslin
It’s no surprise that this was truley the greatest generation. What the hell happened? The self sacrifice and love of country is unmatched. We have been pushed into the cesspool by the bottom dwellers. We have a long climb ahead of us if it’s not to late
Proof of this is we now have John Kerry as secretary of state
Actor Charles Durning died yesterday. He was in the first wave of soldiers hitting the beaches at Normandy and the only member of his Army unit to survive. He was captured by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge. He will be buried at Arlington. Another member of the greatest generation to pass.
...talk about hero to zero.
Fits Harry Reid and most of the Senate to a tee...
The man is a toad...in a room full of lizards...
Dan Inouye and his group were sent to rescue another unit from Texas. The Army sacrificed Asian Americans to save ‘real’ Americans.
“Proof of this is we now have the COWARD John Kerry as Secretary of State”
There, I fixed it for you..
......Senator Inouye distinguished himself almost beyond belief in war and I totally respect him for that and given the opportunity, I would have been honored to shake his hand for his war time service. I could say the same for McCain.
But, Inouye and McCain went on to soil their legacies, as far as I am concerned, in exactly the same way. Namely, they used their incumbency advantages to get repeatedly elected for up to fifty years..............a true abomination and the purest form of corruption that there is in this democracy of ours.
A freeper wrote in recently that he was tired of democracy and it’s crooked politicians! I’m with him. How bout get rid of the corrupt 535 and replace them with an honest dictator, elected every four years with the stipulaton that ONLY employed people that have lived in the US and are either employed or property owners or both can vote! Then, in appropriate precincts, have about 50 cops at the polls with billy clubs drawn to protect the voting process from the labor union goons and liberals.
Our 535 is now as corrupt as ANY third world country! I think this is why the honorable Jim Demint quit! I.E. he saw no honor in the institution any more.
While it is true that there were titans in our Senate from time to time, it is also true we have had scoundrels, trimmers, and thieves aplenty. The drive to make Senators directly elected by the people was supposed to make them more accountable; it hasn’t really done so. The more the government does, the more corrupt it becomes; and those who enact the laws become more corrupt the more laws they enact.
I am humbled by Lt. Inouye’s sacrifices on behalf of his country; I unfortunately have no respect for Senator Inouye’s politics. God bless Lt. Inouye.
How does that take away from his heroic actions ?
Repeal the 17th Amendment!
I think many third world countries would be shocked on how corrupt they are...
A lot of third world countries the people sent to represent them are there to improve their countryman lives, not to collect wealth and power...like our dirtbags
Incorrect. JCC fully engaged with the institution of slavery.
Unfortunatly, his chosen method of engagement was to promote its perpetuation and extension, demanding that it be accepted as a positive good.
I deliberately stayed off the death and tribute threads to this guy. I still remember the Freepers paying tribute to Molly Ivins upon her death, when twenty four hours earlier they would have lathered her. I'm sorry. I understand not speaking badly of the dead, but it seems hypocritical to me to lavish praise upon people who were one hundred percent servants of the libs.
This man was a political enemy of the good. He was as liberal as Ted Kennedy or Barbara Boxer, and quite smug while going about it. He may have been brave in war as a young man and quite courageous, but afterward he learned absolutely nothing, aiding and abetting our communist enemies throughout a long political career.
Our side always gives tribute to our political enemies at death. But in this case the writing is nearly identical to the tributes of NPR and elsewhere, true liberal bastions.
At least George McGovern was a decent man who though naive, was a good human being. This guy was a mean one, especially during the various media circuses of the eighties.
Just like the hundreds of thousands of white American boys and men sent to their deaths in the Civil War to gain freedom for those whose ancestry was African, right? No , to preserve the Union under the the Constitution. You are far gone to accept racial arguments as the basis of your interpretation of events that have made this country great. If your post is sarcasm , please accept my apology.
The “Greatest Generations” were the first 80 years of America, it wasn’t the FDR through Jimmy Carter generations, like all generations there was good and bad.
Only a left wing media could create the mind washing creation of “the greatest generation”, especially in regards to the ones who destroyed us.
*”Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s.
In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960.
In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin.
After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.”
Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.””*
Harry Ried has stolen his election at least twice. He has to look up to see the pygmies!
We honor him for his service and bravery, but didn’t he end up a commie in his later years?
Bill Clinton upgraded the powerful and very partisan Senator’s award, to the Medal of Honor in 2000.
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