So, I'm working on my little wrap-up of a New Mexico travel blog started several months ago. Been working on it off and on all day. But it becomes hard to focus when Olbermann's "Countdown" comes on. From what I gathered from the TV in the next room, I'd just like to reiterate why I don't blog on political bullshit anymore.
To our servicemen in Iraq:
If you're pinning your hopes on getting out of Iraq on republicans, expect to be there indefinitely.
If, on the other hand, your hopes of getting out of Iraq is in the hands of democrats, don't expect them to consider it until next spring when they can better exploit you and the war for the '08 election. This is particularly true among the "top tier" candidates, Clinton, Obama, and Edwards who confess you could be going back and forth to Iraq until 2013--at the very least.
I'd like to tell you what the "bottom tier" of candidates advocate, but I can't. That's because they're bottom tier and been rendered meaningless by the media. They don't have a prayer in hell anyway, so why waste time on 'em?
Finally, if while in Iraq you should get wounded--no matter how severely injured, please know if you speak out against the war upon your return home, you're a "phony soldier" according to Rush Limbaugh (whose opinions we should all respect highly in light of his exemplary military service during Vietnam).
Such audacious remarks have been attacked by senate majority leader, Harry Reid, calling such words, "so beyond the pale of decency that it cannot be left alone."
Reid went on to add of Limbaugh's remark, "I can't help but wonder how my Republican colleagues would have reacted...if a well-known Democratic radio personality had used the same insulting line of attack against troops who support the war."
And so it goes. You in Iraq have your war while republicans and democrats back home have theirs. Try to hang in there and remember, no republicans and democrats--despite their endless war of words--are dying. While many of you in Iraq are.
6 comments:
At the very least, remove Rush from Armed Forces Radio!
I wonder how many troops will stop listening now. Though I hear they blast that shit all over the place.
my feelings exactly...in washington they hem and haw and make political moves that only involve themselves
i doubt any of them actually have the big picture...sigh
Hola! Dada,
Heading to Ventura again, so thought about you and checked out your site..
Dada writes,
> I'd like to tell you what the "bottom tier" of candidates advocate, but I can't. That's because they're bottom tier and been rendered meaningless by the media. They don't have a prayer in hell anyway, so why waste time on 'em<
There's truth in that and it partially explains why I've found it "easy being Green" for some time now. "Lesser-of-two-evils"-types need to ponder the recent Democratic rollover on the "Iranian Revolutionary Guard as terrorist" resolution. It's all W needs to attack Iran, er...the IRG terrorists, I mean. Note that our gal Hill was one of the tough-on-terror cheerleaders. The Bill/Hill triangulation lives on...
Saludos, eljoven
polishifter: I think Rush on AFR is just another indicator of how far gone this nation is GONE.
At the very least Limbaugh should be removed from their airwaves. At most, jettisoned to the parallel Universe where this kind of shit is allowed.
Hmmm, I wouldn't be talking about the same one in which we all now reside, would I?
amen az: You know, watching John Edwards on Olbermann tonight and, knowing what I believe to be the desire of the vast majority of Americans--to get the hell out of Iraq--(yeh, I'm relying on polls I'm about to denounce next) I find it difficult Hillary continues to expand her lead in the dem. nom. polls.
While not an Edwards supporter, listening to him makes it difficult to place any confidence in those polls expanding Hillary's hawkish candidacy. It's almost like we're "being directed, being prepared" for whom we should expect to be the next candidates for the next president of the country.
(Flashbacks of the '04 Howard Dean media "self" destruction come to the windows of the upstairs ballroom dancing studio of my mind.)
eljoven: Ah Hillary, dear Hillary -- "It takes a village to raise a child, it takes a bomb to raze that village," Hillary. Our sweet opportunist "tough-on-terror" ("My juevos are bigger than your juevos" ) rah rah girl. (Bitch!)
Going to Ventura, huh? Be sure to keep an eye out for our dear Dr. Wilkinson. If you see him, give him a warm Dada "'A-' Hello!" , er, scratch that out--make it a "'B+' Hello!" instead.
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