September 14, 2006
THE DAY OF RECKONING IS APPROACHING
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more! I've had it with all the critics of all things Bush. You don't like the way he's doing things? Get over it! Osama bin Laden has said this is World War III and I believe him. Unfortunately, with the exception of President George Bush and his closest advisors, most Americans do not believe Osama bin Laden when he says all they have to do is wait and all will be theirs. Too many politicians are either too ignorant or more interested in their public popularity than the safety of their country. Their right of free speech does not excuse their efforts to undermine our Government in one of the most dangerous periods in our history.
- For Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — You've acted like you were elected President ever since you lost to President Bush. You were not — get over it!
- For Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — You were elected as a Republican from a Republican state to support a Republican President. Instead, you can hardly contain yourself waiting to get on TV to show that you oppose the President. Did you ever, just once, think about calling the President and saying, "Mr. President, I've got a problem with something you're doing or proposing."
- For Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) — Having been in the military doesn't make you an expert on international matters or the military. It just makes you a retired veteran; there are millions of other retired veterans; they aren't and do not pretend to be experts on international matters or the military. Of course in the Democratic or Republican party, being a retired veteran does make you the exception; that is your only claim to fame— experience, not expertise
- For Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) — What can I say? You've already been exposed for the person you are; nothing more has to be said.
- For Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) — Have you ever had an original idea, other than opposition to all things proposed by Republicans?
- For Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D, OH) — [Ref: http://www.kucinich.us/bio] As the 2003 recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award, advocate of immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq, consequences be damned, of never attacking a nation until AFTER they attack us first, of believing peace is inevitable, of advocating the creation of a cabinet-level Department of Peace, you are not qualified to make any decision in a world of reality.
- For Howard Dean (DNC Chairman) — We've already had a taste of your behavior and personality. You're best thing that ever happened for those who oppose the Democratic Party.
- For all of you. You are not in charge. You are not the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States. You can either support the President, impeach him or withhold funding for the military. The choice is yours; but you don't have the guts to do anything but criticize him.
Again, for all of you, and others who do nothing but criticize, here's what others have had to say about your behavior:
"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; . . ." — United States Constitution, Article II, Section 2
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt, "Man in the Arena"
26th president of US (1858 - 1919)
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."
— Sir Winston S. Churchill
"If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future." — Sir Winston S. Churchill
"A government is not legitimate [Author: Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, etc.] merely because it exists."
— Jeane Kirpatrick (United Nations Ambassador, 1981 - 1985)