You Quote Whom to Prove Your Point?
Obama gave a speech and gave nice platypuses to Vietnam war veterans:
One of the saddest episodes in our history was the degree to which returning vets from Vietnam were shunned, demonized and neglected by some because they served in an unpopular war. Too many of those who opposed the war in Vietnam chose to blame not only the leaders who ordered the mission, but the young men who simply answered their country’s call. Four decades later, the sting of that injustice is a wound that has never fully healed, and one that should never be repeated.
Predictably, Clorg-trooper Jerilyn Merritt goes shitwhack:
In other words, Obama intends to battle the war-hero McCain by throwing us under the bus.
And get this: she quotes a Jackson Browne lyric to anchor her moral position.
Jackson Browne? Jackson Fucking Browne?
I don’t know about Obama, but I’m throwing your musically-illiterate ass under the bus.
Pictorial evidence of difference between Clorg supporters and non-Clorg, links, Max Fucking Boot.
Posted: May 13th, 2008 under Aargh.
Comments: 3
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Comment from Sasha
Time: May 13, 2008, 4:43 pm
Shitwhack rhymes with Litwack and Dalia deserves better.
Comment from Max
Time: May 13, 2008, 5:24 pm
I just missed the war, but I did get spit on, In 1976, a couple of years after the war was over. And I did volunteer for the military out of a sense of duty. I supported the war then, but if I knew then what I know now, I would not have joined the Marines for the Vietnam war. But we were not all draftees forced into it.
I do remember that in 1976 nobody wore their uniform off base, and people hid the fact that they were in the military.
I think there are many former military people like me, and I think Obama is right to say something about us. Frankly, I did not expect anything.
I went to high school in the state of Wisconsin, conservative support for thee conservative government was taken for granted. In a place like that, East and West coast cities were regarded as anti American hotbeds of “Commie Pinko Fags” who were plotting to destroy America. And I totally believed that Communism was trying to conquer the world. I was 18 then. Time, exposure to different ideas and people, well I changed my mind.
Service overseas and learning other languages like Japanese, caused me to broaden my viewpoints, and so I also became an “Enemy of America”.
But if I wore my uniform off base, I also did get spit on, fists shaken at me, and so on. Yet if I had conversations with people on the right, they would praise me for being in the military, yet I had to very careful about what I said. If I alluded to anything like that people in other countries were human and decent and might oppose joining America in attacking the Soviet Union, I would have a serious problem.
Of course, you could never allude to Russians as being decent people, just having a different kind of government.
So at the age of 20 I left America, I just did not feel that anybody wanted me there. I was too different.
And that is why I firmly support Senator Obama for President. I believe he is the last chance for the US.
Comment from bdr
Time: May 13, 2008, 5:57 pm
Max, please re-post your comment as a post.
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