Friday, September 03, 2004
john kerry is still whining about lots of stuff. i quote:
no one's attacking your patriotism, john. people may, however, question whether you sometimes have trouble telling the truth, and whether you are a self-serving opportunist.
he went on to say:
actually, john-boy, that's not a decision you get to make. especially when you're AWOL for 76% of the senate intelligence committee's public hearings. and, by the way, bush didn't 'refuse to serve'. he was in the texas air national guard and, while that is not vietnam, he could have been called up at any time. sounds to me, john, like you're questioning the patriotism of GWB and those in his administration, though the 'those' is sort of vague; surely he doesn't mean the likes of don rumsfeld, who served heroically in combat. and, at any rate, it is a non sequitur; everyone is free to look at your record and question your commitment to defense all they want to. and what is all this 'misled' business? dear sir, you had access to all the same intelligence information, and have even said recently that you STILL would have authorized war in iraq, EVEN IF YOU KNEW NO WMDs WOULD BE FOUND. here i will end my second-person address. kerry goes on:
we've already discussed the 'misleading' tomfoolery. but i also have a problem with his assumption that it is the government's responsibility to provide health care to 45 million people. how, pray tell, might government pay for that? regardless of the nuts and bolts of being able to afford it, the belief that such things are the province of government in the united states is absurd in the extreme. as reagan often pointed out, goverment is most often the source of problems, not the solution for them. and, finally, if kerry would like greater energy independence, why does he not work to authorize drilling in ANWR? this, of course, would not solve all of the problems, but it would be a start. but this, i suppose, is simply another incidence of him wanting to have his cake and eat it too--moaning and whining about a problem and not doing anything to fix it.
"They have attacked my patriotism and my fitness to serve as commander in chief," Kerry said.
no one's attacking your patriotism, john. people may, however, question whether you sometimes have trouble telling the truth, and whether you are a self-serving opportunist.
he went on to say:
"I'm not going to have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they could have and by those who have misled the nation into Iraq."
actually, john-boy, that's not a decision you get to make. especially when you're AWOL for 76% of the senate intelligence committee's public hearings. and, by the way, bush didn't 'refuse to serve'. he was in the texas air national guard and, while that is not vietnam, he could have been called up at any time. sounds to me, john, like you're questioning the patriotism of GWB and those in his administration, though the 'those' is sort of vague; surely he doesn't mean the likes of don rumsfeld, who served heroically in combat. and, at any rate, it is a non sequitur; everyone is free to look at your record and question your commitment to defense all they want to. and what is all this 'misled' business? dear sir, you had access to all the same intelligence information, and have even said recently that you STILL would have authorized war in iraq, EVEN IF YOU KNEW NO WMDs WOULD BE FOUND. here i will end my second-person address. kerry goes on:
"Misleading our nation into war in Iraq makes you unfit to lead this country," Kerry added. "Doing nothing while this nation loses millions of jobs makes you unfit to lead this country. Letting 45 million Americans go without health care makes you unfit to lead this country. Letting the Saudi Royal Family control our energy costs makes you unfit to lead this country," Kerry told several thousand supporters.
we've already discussed the 'misleading' tomfoolery. but i also have a problem with his assumption that it is the government's responsibility to provide health care to 45 million people. how, pray tell, might government pay for that? regardless of the nuts and bolts of being able to afford it, the belief that such things are the province of government in the united states is absurd in the extreme. as reagan often pointed out, goverment is most often the source of problems, not the solution for them. and, finally, if kerry would like greater energy independence, why does he not work to authorize drilling in ANWR? this, of course, would not solve all of the problems, but it would be a start. but this, i suppose, is simply another incidence of him wanting to have his cake and eat it too--moaning and whining about a problem and not doing anything to fix it.
