Constructive gadfly

Is it just me, or do others viewing the Republican Convention get the impression that the nation’s only challenge is to be safe from Kerry? … I wonder how long it took girly-man Arnold Shriver Schwarzenegger to get his driver’s license? … To hear terms like — strong, dead or alive, resolute, endless-winless war, freedom in Iraq — you can’t help but lock the image of 59,000 names on the Vietnam Memorial as a mock lesson that our leaders will never learn not to engage in war under false pretenses; let us hope that the 1000 on the future wall of the Iraq memorial will make them finally see the light. … Rather than pussy foot with the insurgents we should be rooting out those detestable kidnaping murderers. … Since Saddam was no overt threat, it should have been the responsibility of the UN to terminate Saddam's control of oil and his siphoning off billions in food for oil aid. … Does the entertainment world really have to stoop even lower by presenting “White Chicks”? … The fatniks are going to miss Julia Child’s recipes, like Thanksgiving was everyday, as they always overlooked her advice to eat well but in moderation. I predict the Republicans will move quickly toward an amendment to allow immigrants to run for the office of president, but on the condition that the spouse is also Republican. … On the other hand, is America ready for a candidate that dismisses concerns for lack of good paying jobs, escalating health costs, shortchanging veterans' benefits, and unilateral outsourcing as girly-man economics? ...

 

Copyright © 2004 Richard R. Kennedy All rights reserved. Revised: September 1, 2004.


Comments
on Sep 03, 2004
Your points are valid Steven but why use the Viet Nam reference? It was the Democrats who got us in deep there.
Still enjoy your writing and comments .
Semper Fi!
on Sep 07, 2004
I too enjoy your writing. Like this "tidbit" article. Blog on!

JW
on Sep 09, 2004

Aye, mate, it pains me to even refer to the Vietnam Memorial, lest it be taken as "in vain." Still, it was a war that never should have gone on for ten grueling years when it was clear from the outset that there was no plan to win it. True, Kennedy and Johnson got us into it, but Eisenhower set the stage, and Nixon refused to bring down the curtain.

Thanks guys