Posted on 07/27/2003 3:08:43 PM PDT by yoe
The leftist media establishment, as usual, ignored one of the week's juiciest quotes, so we'll just have to highlight it again, and report on its aftermath.
As NewsMax.com pointed out Wednesday, Rep. Dick Gephardt was among the Democrats grumbling even as the U.S. military took out Saddam Hussein's genocidal sons Uday and Qusay. Geppy condemned President Bush's foreign policy as "machismo" and "arrogant unilateralism."
"Foreign policy isn't a John Wayne movie, where we catch the bad guys, hoist a few cold ones, and then everything fades to black," the White House wannabe fumed in a speech to a receptive audience: San Francisco Bar Association.
Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., chairman of the House Policy Committee and the Homeland Security Committee, retorted that Gephardt needed to "get his facts straight."
"America did not go it alone," Cox noted. "The only people suggesting that, having removed Saddam, we quit and 'hoist a few cold ones' are the isolationist Democrats to whom Rep. Gephardt was apparently directing his San Francisco remarks."
And why the slap at John Wayne?
That prissy attempt at an insult might delight a bunch of leftist lawyers in San Francisco, but would Gephardt have the guts to say that to an audience of normal people in Omaha or Pittsburgh or Orlando?
Are the White House wannabes trying to alienate Middle America? Gephardt's goof recalls the boast of zillionaire trial lawyer Sen. John Edwards that he no longer likes country music, owns a gun or pays attention to NASCAR - a triple insult to his fellow North Carolinians. Edwards even had to apologize for once hunting rabbits.
Not coincidentally, Edwards is now in danger of losing his Senate seat as well as his feeble bid for the White House.
Gephardt's curious comment raises questions about what sort of movie star he'd emulate.
An angry reader from Poplar Bluff, Mo., wrote to NewsMax, "WHAT WE NEED IS MORE JOHN WAYNE AND A HELL OF A LOT LESS FROM THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S LITTLE DICK GEPHARDT!!!"
Another reader wondered if Gephardt preferred a Fred Astaire sort of foreign policy.
But Astaire was a class act all the way. It's safe to say Gephardt would adopt a foreign policy styled after ... Democrat operative and former movie star Barbra Streisand.
After all, babbling Babs' semi-illiterate, error-filled memos last September ordering Gephardt to attack President Bush's Iraq policy were such a hoot that even the media establishment couldn't ignore them.
He's not fit to polish the Duke's holster.
The more the dems babble the more stupid they sound. Keep it up Dick, and you'll be out of the race before March.
As opposed to the Democrat movie version of a Foreign policy, which is to go dancing through the hills, singing "The hills are alive, with the sound of music....!", while remaining oblivious to the fact that the Nazis are invading.
The Hyphen
The Hyphen, Webster's Dictionary defines,
Is a symbol used to divide a compound word or a single word.
So it seems to me that when a man calls himself
An "Afro-American," a "Mexican-American," "Italian-American,"
An "Irish-American," "Jewish-American,"
What he's sayin' is, "I'm a divided American."
Well, we all came from other places,
Different creeds and different races,
To form a nation...to become as one.
Yet look at the harm a line has done--
A simple little line, and yet
As divisive as a line can get.
A crooked cross the Nazis flew,
And the Russian hammer and sickle too--
Time bombs in the lives of Man;
But none of these could ever fan
The flames of hatred faster than
The Hyphen.
The Russian hammer built a wall
That locks men's hearts from freedom's call.
A crooked cross flew overhead
Above twenty million tragic dead--
Among them men from this great nation,
Who died for freedom's preservation.
A hyphen is a line that's small;
It can be a bridge or be a wall.
A bridge can save you lots of time;
A wall you always have to climb.
The road to liberty lies true.
The Hyphen's use is up to you.
Used as a bridge, it can span
All the differences of Man.
Being free in mind and soul
Should be our most important goal.
If you use The Hyphen as a wall,
You'll make your life mean...and small.
An American is a special breed,
Whose people came to her in need.
They came to her that they might find
A world where they'd have peace of mind,
Where men are equal...and something more--
Stand taller than they stood before.
So you be wise in your decision,
And that little line won't cause division.
Let's join hands with one another...
For in this land, each man's your brother.
United we stand...divided we fall.
We're Americans...and that says it all.
John Wayne
On His Political Philosophy
"I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view..."
"If everything isn't black and white, I say why the hell not."
"If we all get killed out of this, nobody's going to run. Katie wins this one." - The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
John Wayne -The Big Trail
Can't we get someone to issue a fatwah or something against his sorry butt?
Sounds like what we did with the Husseins. We hoisted them up on gurneys while we kept 'em cold. Works for me.
"Folks, it's true I don't know much about the law, ain't had much book learnin', but the good Lord gave me a nose for smellin' a horsethief a mile off, and what you need in these parts is a marshal that's better at smellin' than spellin'. Mr. Cantrell here say's that I'm honest, and that I ain't afraid of nothin'. He didn't say I was too dumb for this job, but that's what he meant. And, he's right, I am dumb. I'm dumb enough to think that smart marshals do their shootin' first and their talkin' afterwards. Folks, this country has more laws than there are ways to skin a skunk, thousands of 'em. Why, back east they tell me their's even a law against spittin'. But remember this, before you can try 'em for anything, you got a catch 'em. I can catch 'em!" -Dark Command
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them." -The Shootist
"Looked to me like somebody was getting a dirty deal. Just thought I'd cut in." -Haunted Gold
"If you say three, mister, you'll never hear the man count ten." -The Quiet Man
While watching two bulls fight, Duke's character, Will Anderson says, "Well, I've seen 'em fight all day, from dawn to dark. Sometimes the young one wins, sometimes the old. Young one's got more muscle, old one's got more experience.... That's the old one still standing there." -The Cowboys
"Have you ever heard of some fellows who first came over to this country? You know what they found? They found a howling wilderness, with summers too hot and winters freezing, and they also found some unpleasant little characters who painted their faces. Do you think these pioneers filled out form number X6277 and sent in a report saying the Indians were a little unreasonable? Did they have insurance for their old age, for their crops, for their homes? They did not! They looked at the land, and the forest, and the rivers. They looked at their wives, their kids and their houses, and then they looked up at the sky and they said thanks God, we'll take it from here." -Without Reservations
"Saddle up!" -Sands of Iwo Jima
Beutiful
Wasn't that when Lee Marvin spelled 'daughter' as 'dotter?'
Great movie!
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