Sunday, August 29, 2004

John Kerry For Dummies Now that Sen. John Kerry himself is doing his own campaign ads, we have a chance to see who he is at the time, and what he believes in, at the time. To better understand this Democrat platform, as articulated by its masthead, here is how to interpret the Democrat message and platform. First you must parse out every sentence that has the word 'Bush' in it. You will see that none of those sentences articulate a platform position. Those sentences are simply Kerry bashing Bush. In his opinion Bush is a bad President, doing everything wrong, wrong for economy, education, wrong war, wrong on security, etc. Nowhere will you find a platform item in these sentences. After discarding those sentences, what is left is sentences where Kerry says that he has 'better ideas' than Bush. He says he'll do more than Bush if more is better, and do less than Bush if less is better. Kerry can be a better Bush than Bush, and, his ideas are better. That sums up the Democrat platform. What we do know is that President Bush says what he believes, and does what he says. Kerry does neither. original post 5/11/04 12:37:09 PM    comment [] trackback []

Free, But Not Free To Kill, Patriot Act It should be of no surprise to anyone that since the Patriot Act was passed, the vocal minority that wants it abolished will not shut up about it and get on with their lives. Well, unless you can propose something that can protect our lives better than that, you should just shut up. When you don't like the law that you made, you change it. Pretty much the same way it was made. Meanwhile, about 63 percent of the country believe it is just fine. This vocal minority spans party lines; it is the wacko ends of the democrat and republican parties. Talk about strange bedfellows. No, we won't go there. I checked my thesaurus on wacko and it came up with crackpot, weirdo, lamebrain, nut, kook, dingbat, screwball, oddball, and ding-a-ling. So for lack of a more descriptive term, 'wacko' will do just fine. The common thread in their opposition to the Patriot Act is their fear that it will be abused. If you follow this logic to it's ultimate conclusion, they hold to the notion that we would be better off dead without the Patriot Act than to effectively deal with the real threats at hand. This perverse denial of reality defies reason. The reality is, there are people who want to kill us. The reality is, it's going to take physical intervention to stop an attack from occurring. The reality is, shredding a document called the Patriot Act will pretty much guarantee that physical intervention will not occur. How would these people answer this question? Knowing that the enemy is in 68 countries and probably still in the United States, and knowing that they need money to operate, and knowing they use electronics to communicate, and knowing they fly airplanes, and have in fact used them to kill, and have hundreds of other ways to kill us, and will if given the chance: What would you do that would enable the government to pre-empt an attack here in the United States, better than what the Patriot Act can? You simply have to draw the line that yes, we are a free people, but we are not free to kill. To Believe This Is To Ignore This Original posting date 01/05/04 1:47:11 AM    comment [] trackback []

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