THERE ARE THREE WAYS TO INVOKE a falsehood: 1. Contrivance of the truth (“I did NOT have sex with those, er, that woman”). 2. Concealment of some/most of the salient facts (“Mr. Starr, we found those Whitewater Files, sorry about the statute of limitations, though”). 3. Tell all of the truth, but tell it so unconvincingly that everybody assumes you’re lying (“… end welfare as we know it …”).
While imbibing a heady cup of caffeinat-ed napalm from Uurth Café, I read, with amusement and disgust, the triangulated and flatulently pharisaic prose on “John McCain’s better nation” by the former DNC co-chair and slush fund bag man, Bennet Kelley, in the Feb. 22 edition of the Santa Monica Daily Press.
Let me get this straight … you have your “terrorists are people, too” panties in a bunch over waterboarding Islamic-fascist scum?
All I have to say is this … fer crissakes, Bennie, you might want to load some bleach into your “soap box.” The “colors” to your story might run a bit but at least it will be disinfected from the sulfurous taint of your poorly executed character impugnation of Sen. John McCain’s position on waterboarding and your flaccid leftist indignation. Perhaps you missed a certain article in the Feb. 14, D.C. “Swamp” edition of the Chicago Tribune.
The end of the article is most informative. Hill/Billy and Bam Bam Obama did not vote on the measure as they were too busy “poll dancing” for delegates on the campaign trail in their politically correct Chippendale’s attire. The article also fills in the gaps in your “research”as to why McCain voted his conscience.
Bennie, McCain was serving the public trust by his no vote, despite your self righteous discomfiture, while the “Democratopian” challengers were serving themselves at the Hometown Buffet table of “politic$ a$ u$ual.” I just think you’re mad that McCain put your DNC job in “outreach-fundraising” a little out of reach. Think “downsizing,” dude. Got anymore lottery tickets for the Lincoln Bedroom? Oh wait, that’s right, the Dems have to win the White House first before they turn it into a “chambre particulier.”
Let’s talk about what constitutes “torture.” Hillarycare? How are things going with Aetna, Prudential, Met Life and Cigna? How big of the healthcare pie chart will they be served for oleaginous bullion rendered to Hill/Billy and how much “good government” will be affordable to the rest of us? Obama on change? He says “change” so many times that I think I’m listening to a David Bowie song. That he waxes so evangelically to the “Democratopian” choir in such lofty and vacuous Jacksonian (as in Jesse) rhetoric one would think one was listening to the band Air Supply. I think that presidential contender Frank Moore of the Just Make Sense Party would be a better choice for you jokers at the DNC.
At least he’s not poisoned from the Stygian pools of Hill/Billy’s lobby cabal nor does he cultivate the Kennedy-ish sanctimony of Bam Bam.
Bennie, I have been waterboarded. It was part of my U.S. Navy Aircrew training as an airborne cryptologist during the early days of the Reagan Revolution. It definitely takes the “F” out of “fun,” yet I am no worse the wear and have led an interesting life and raised two spectacular kids (my eldest son is redeploying for a second tour to Iraq this March with an Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal team).
McCain’s experiences in the Hanoi Hilton led to the creation of a program to prepare those of us on the front line to survive, evade, resist and escape capture and interrogation. And those lessons learned through the courage of McCain and his fellow patriots remains unblemished to the tawdry, salacious and puerile attacks of the New York Times and from the keening high chair depots and malcontents of the DNC.
I, for one, do not agree with McCain’s position on waterboarding. I’m a “90/10” kinda guy. However, waterboarding is probably the only time that these cowardly terrorists have ever employed water for hygienic purposes while slathering in the gelatinous musings from the “Soap box.”
STEVE BREEN is the “Peter Finch of the Reagan Revolution” and the “best looking mailman in the US Postal Service.” He
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 27, 2008. Read the original PDF.