I know some of you are going to think I've lost my mind, especially considering how hard I've been on you liberals of late.
As I watched President's address to the nation last evening, I had an idea that I believe would help Mr. President's sagging credibility, and could help
to unite the country, and the irony is the idea came from a liberal...a president of the US, but a liberal nonetheless. Here's my idea:
Any of you old enough will remember FDR's old fireside chats.
For those of you too young to remember, or those old enough to want to warp back in time, here's an explanation of what the fireside chats were:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireside_Chats
The thing I find interesting, and this is where I get back to riding hard the liberals of today (yes, you
www.moveon.org
types, I'm talking to you). While FDR was a liberal, he wasn't afraid to take on Hitler and the Nazis and our other enemies in WWII. You liberals of
today could learn something from FDR. I think that it's the current democratic party's shift so far left that now FDR may be too far right for them that
caused me to leave the democrats.
For some history on FDR:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt
Why do I think these "fireside chats" would help Bush? Because, as with FDR, he could rally the country behind him and help them understand better the
war we find ourselves in. He could talk plainly and calmly to the nation about the things he is doing. Now I believe this would have to be different
from his weekly saturday address (the ones presidents have done for I don't know how long now) in the tone and message (at least to a degree). The fireside
chat was just that...a "chat" with the nation. It would be done as if Bush were talking one on one with each and every American.
I know that FDR had some advantages that Bush doesn't have (as in radio being the only medium, and as the article linked to above points out, people could
hear the address from a neighbor's open window), but Bush has several things FDR never had...IPod's, Cable TV, the Internet, cell phones, etc. I really
think in this technological age a genuine "fireside chat" in the FDR tradition could gover over well today. That, however, is just my opinion
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Monday, September 11, 2006
Ah, dem arrogant types...and their most arrogant leader...
...Hmmm, so Howard Dean knows so much more about how things are in Afghanistan than anyone else that, on
Fox News Sunday he has the balls to claim that Secretary Of State Rice is *WRONG* about how things are going there?! I didn't know, Mr. Dean, that you knew more about her job than she does.
I think, Mr. Dean, the truth is you have the same grasp on the subtleties of the war on terror that a 1 year old has on the laws of physics! So, to hide your lack of knowledge and ineptitude, you act like a blowhard and open your mouth when you ought to, in reality, take a cue from the 80's band the Go Go's and say "my lips are sealed."
Just be quiet and let Bush, and Secretary Rice and all the others do their job.
Frankly? Your attitude on FNS was a disgrace.
...Hmmm, so Howard Dean knows so much more about how things are in Afghanistan than anyone else that, on
Fox News Sunday he has the balls to claim that Secretary Of State Rice is *WRONG* about how things are going there?! I didn't know, Mr. Dean, that you knew more about her job than she does.
I think, Mr. Dean, the truth is you have the same grasp on the subtleties of the war on terror that a 1 year old has on the laws of physics! So, to hide your lack of knowledge and ineptitude, you act like a blowhard and open your mouth when you ought to, in reality, take a cue from the 80's band the Go Go's and say "my lips are sealed."
Just be quiet and let Bush, and Secretary Rice and all the others do their job.
Frankly? Your attitude on FNS was a disgrace.
Friday, September 08, 2006
The 9/11 Problem
Okay, don’t let the title wrankle your nose…don’t bombard me with nasty notes and comments saying that I’m trying to stir trouble. This is not a forum in which I am going to politicize 9/11 in any way, shape, or form.
What I do want to do is try to explain an understanding I reached the other night. It’s an understanding of why some people (you know who you are, liberal democrats) don’t understand the connections between 9/11, the war in Iraq, and the war on terror. It’s also an understanding that not only liberal democrats have this problem, but so do conservative republicans (at least some of them) and any person, for that matter, in their right (correct) mind.
The problem as I see it is this: no one wants to begin to think that we could have ever been attacked on our own soil. All the suicide bombers, car bombs, etc. happened on “that” side of the world (meaning the Middle East) and certainly couldn’t ever (and wouldn’t ever) happen on our own shores, or so we all thought before 9/11.
So, 9/11 happens; the towers fall, the Pentagon is severely damaged, and we lose civilians in flight 93 in a field in Pennsylvania. It is so appalling so heinous that we can’t wrap our brains around it. Yet, in light of the worst, most violent event on American soil, we still cannot fathom it. “How did this happen?” we ask God, ourselves, and others. “Who is so vile, despicable, so thoroughly and completely evil that they would want to do this?” We know, intellectually, that it is the Islamic terrorists, the neo-fascists who are out to destroy our way of life, and yet, what we don’t know is just why, just what it is that makes them so evil that they would want to do this.
Part of the problem is we don’t want to know. Our culture, which ironically can watch horrific images in movies they simply call “scary”, don’t want to see the horrific realities of the world…a world torn apart by people evil to the core, people bent on our destruction, and the annihilation of Israel.
I admit that even I, nearly five years later, have trouble believing what happened that horrible day in September. It took me a long time, too long frankly, to understand that the people who did this, right on up to Osama bin Laden himself, aren’t going to give up, back down, and change their minds about the objective of obliterating America and the American way of life. It took me nearly five years to comprehend that these people need to be stopped. Not with diplomacy, not with negotiations and sanctions, but strong, bold, courageous military might. No, it isn’t a pleasant thought, especially to someone (such as myself) who fancied himself a hippie born way too late, to think that war is so drastically necessary, but it is drastically necessary.
We need to, as a nation, wake up and realize that:
*We have enemies on our own soil as well as middle eastern soil. Enemies whose sole objective is our collective death. These people would gladly strap a bomb to themselves just as their brothers in the cause in the middle east do, and they live in states like California, Washington state, and not places like Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan. They are on OUR soil.
*They will never give up, back down, be negotiated with or whatever. We must step up to the plate and be ready to fight, even if it means going on the offensive. *Remember, to them, our deaths at their hands means glory in heaven for them. Fools have died for much less.
*Because they won’t stop, we can never lull ourselves into thinking that another 9/11 type of attack is not in the works, because it is. The foiled London terrorist plot is proof of that.
*While very valid analogies have been made to Lenin and Hitler, we face a foe much worse in ways. It isn’t just Jews they want to utterly destroy, but we “infidel” Americans as well.
As I write this, my heart breaks. In so many ways, 9/11 was the loss of American innocence, and for me, it was the slow shattering of my rose colored glasses. As long as the Islamic Fascists, the Al Qaeda’s and Bin Laden’s of the world, the Ahmadinejad’s who want nothing more than to destroy us completely, to wipe us out of existence are allowed to walk freely, we will never be safe…ever.
Okay, don’t let the title wrankle your nose…don’t bombard me with nasty notes and comments saying that I’m trying to stir trouble. This is not a forum in which I am going to politicize 9/11 in any way, shape, or form.
What I do want to do is try to explain an understanding I reached the other night. It’s an understanding of why some people (you know who you are, liberal democrats) don’t understand the connections between 9/11, the war in Iraq, and the war on terror. It’s also an understanding that not only liberal democrats have this problem, but so do conservative republicans (at least some of them) and any person, for that matter, in their right (correct) mind.
The problem as I see it is this: no one wants to begin to think that we could have ever been attacked on our own soil. All the suicide bombers, car bombs, etc. happened on “that” side of the world (meaning the Middle East) and certainly couldn’t ever (and wouldn’t ever) happen on our own shores, or so we all thought before 9/11.
So, 9/11 happens; the towers fall, the Pentagon is severely damaged, and we lose civilians in flight 93 in a field in Pennsylvania. It is so appalling so heinous that we can’t wrap our brains around it. Yet, in light of the worst, most violent event on American soil, we still cannot fathom it. “How did this happen?” we ask God, ourselves, and others. “Who is so vile, despicable, so thoroughly and completely evil that they would want to do this?” We know, intellectually, that it is the Islamic terrorists, the neo-fascists who are out to destroy our way of life, and yet, what we don’t know is just why, just what it is that makes them so evil that they would want to do this.
Part of the problem is we don’t want to know. Our culture, which ironically can watch horrific images in movies they simply call “scary”, don’t want to see the horrific realities of the world…a world torn apart by people evil to the core, people bent on our destruction, and the annihilation of Israel.
I admit that even I, nearly five years later, have trouble believing what happened that horrible day in September. It took me a long time, too long frankly, to understand that the people who did this, right on up to Osama bin Laden himself, aren’t going to give up, back down, and change their minds about the objective of obliterating America and the American way of life. It took me nearly five years to comprehend that these people need to be stopped. Not with diplomacy, not with negotiations and sanctions, but strong, bold, courageous military might. No, it isn’t a pleasant thought, especially to someone (such as myself) who fancied himself a hippie born way too late, to think that war is so drastically necessary, but it is drastically necessary.
We need to, as a nation, wake up and realize that:
*We have enemies on our own soil as well as middle eastern soil. Enemies whose sole objective is our collective death. These people would gladly strap a bomb to themselves just as their brothers in the cause in the middle east do, and they live in states like California, Washington state, and not places like Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan. They are on OUR soil.
*They will never give up, back down, be negotiated with or whatever. We must step up to the plate and be ready to fight, even if it means going on the offensive. *Remember, to them, our deaths at their hands means glory in heaven for them. Fools have died for much less.
*Because they won’t stop, we can never lull ourselves into thinking that another 9/11 type of attack is not in the works, because it is. The foiled London terrorist plot is proof of that.
*While very valid analogies have been made to Lenin and Hitler, we face a foe much worse in ways. It isn’t just Jews they want to utterly destroy, but we “infidel” Americans as well.
As I write this, my heart breaks. In so many ways, 9/11 was the loss of American innocence, and for me, it was the slow shattering of my rose colored glasses. As long as the Islamic Fascists, the Al Qaeda’s and Bin Laden’s of the world, the Ahmadinejad’s who want nothing more than to destroy us completely, to wipe us out of existence are allowed to walk freely, we will never be safe…ever.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
What are the clinton people/liberals afraid of?
When you were a kid, did you ever do something wrong, you knew you'd be in trouble, and you did whatever you could/whatever it took to get rid of any evidence (no matter how weak and tenuous) against you?
Well, it would seem that President Clinton, some of his administration, and his liberal cronies are trying (yet again) to cover something up. What? Of all things...a TV miniseries.
http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-wk-channel7sep07,0,6155461.story?coll=cl-tv-features
Why? Who knows? What is Clinton, Berger, et al so afraid of? Is Clinton's legacy as president so shaky, vulnerable, and at risk with this film that they have to block it? Or is it that he screwed up that badly in not going after Osama and he knows it, is ashamed of it, and doesn't want to be humiliated on the world stage?
The other big question is this: is ABC going to actually bow to their pressure and change the film so the truth is inaccurately portrayed to an even lesser degree?
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/9367b3cd-be2a-40a3-b927-1854a0115108
Rush Limbaugh validly points out that President Bush (the current) doesn't raise this kind of stink with negative portrayals of him in the media. He doesn't deem it worth his time.
Clinton, by contrast, is so worried about his image (with or without the cigar and the intern in the cocktail dress) that he is moving to block this miniseries....a *TV SHOW* from airing! I think it speaks volumes about the stark differences between the two men in terms of the level of integrity.
If Clinton really thought he was a good president, and wouldn't be in trouble (somehow) over what this film depicts, he wouldn't be trying to bury it. What he is doing has the same effect as what I tried to do as a kid to hide the fact that I didn't clean my room...I just shoved everything either under the bed or into my closet. Maybe Rush is right, maybe Sandy Berger ought to go steal it for Clinton, and maybe Clinton could take a cue from me and find a bed to hide it under, or a closet to hide it in.
When you were a kid, did you ever do something wrong, you knew you'd be in trouble, and you did whatever you could/whatever it took to get rid of any evidence (no matter how weak and tenuous) against you?
Well, it would seem that President Clinton, some of his administration, and his liberal cronies are trying (yet again) to cover something up. What? Of all things...a TV miniseries.
http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-wk-channel7sep07,0,6155461.story?coll=cl-tv-features
Why? Who knows? What is Clinton, Berger, et al so afraid of? Is Clinton's legacy as president so shaky, vulnerable, and at risk with this film that they have to block it? Or is it that he screwed up that badly in not going after Osama and he knows it, is ashamed of it, and doesn't want to be humiliated on the world stage?
The other big question is this: is ABC going to actually bow to their pressure and change the film so the truth is inaccurately portrayed to an even lesser degree?
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/9367b3cd-be2a-40a3-b927-1854a0115108
Rush Limbaugh validly points out that President Bush (the current) doesn't raise this kind of stink with negative portrayals of him in the media. He doesn't deem it worth his time.
Clinton, by contrast, is so worried about his image (with or without the cigar and the intern in the cocktail dress) that he is moving to block this miniseries....a *TV SHOW* from airing! I think it speaks volumes about the stark differences between the two men in terms of the level of integrity.
If Clinton really thought he was a good president, and wouldn't be in trouble (somehow) over what this film depicts, he wouldn't be trying to bury it. What he is doing has the same effect as what I tried to do as a kid to hide the fact that I didn't clean my room...I just shoved everything either under the bed or into my closet. Maybe Rush is right, maybe Sandy Berger ought to go steal it for Clinton, and maybe Clinton could take a cue from me and find a bed to hide it under, or a closet to hide it in.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Okay, I am really really steamed! I know it's been a while since I posted, and I apologize for coming back in full rant, but this is unbelievable!
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Iran_s_Ahmadinejad_to_attend_UN_ass_09022006.html
Why are we even allowing Ahmadinejad on to our soil?? Isn't enough that
we let
Ex-Iranian president Mohammad Khatami speak in Illinois? What are we thinking?
We never invited Hitler or Moussolini to speak at the UN, so why the former and present Iranian presidents? Have we as a nation truly lost our collective mind?
Farmers don't encourage visits by foxes into the hen house...the crips don't invite the bloods to their "hood" to sit and talk...bankers don't take known armed robbers to lunch. Isn't that exactly what the UN/US is doing with Ahmadinejad and Khatami?
I suppose it will take our country being run roughshod by our enemies before we wake up and go "Oh, yeah, these guys? In our country? Ah, er, uh, not a good idea!"
Come on! Don't let it take another 9/11 before you wake up and realize that having the enemy in your back yard is not the better part of wisdom! Wake up and smell the coffee! These people don't want debate...these people don't want negotiations...these people want our annihilation, and the complete destruction of Israel. Can we please keep the Khatamis and Ahmadinejads of the world off of our shores? Please?
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Iran_s_Ahmadinejad_to_attend_UN_ass_09022006.html
Why are we even allowing Ahmadinejad on to our soil?? Isn't enough that
we let
Ex-Iranian president Mohammad Khatami speak in Illinois? What are we thinking?
We never invited Hitler or Moussolini to speak at the UN, so why the former and present Iranian presidents? Have we as a nation truly lost our collective mind?
Farmers don't encourage visits by foxes into the hen house...the crips don't invite the bloods to their "hood" to sit and talk...bankers don't take known armed robbers to lunch. Isn't that exactly what the UN/US is doing with Ahmadinejad and Khatami?
I suppose it will take our country being run roughshod by our enemies before we wake up and go "Oh, yeah, these guys? In our country? Ah, er, uh, not a good idea!"
Come on! Don't let it take another 9/11 before you wake up and realize that having the enemy in your back yard is not the better part of wisdom! Wake up and smell the coffee! These people don't want debate...these people don't want negotiations...these people want our annihilation, and the complete destruction of Israel. Can we please keep the Khatamis and Ahmadinejads of the world off of our shores? Please?
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