Laugh at Liberals Archive for March, 2005
The “No Right Answer” Game
The “No Right Answer” Game
(Inspired by “The Wrong Army,” by Jeff Edwards, USN, Ret., warrior and novelist)
America’s forces have won all their wars,
From Revolution to war in Iraq;
And Lefties don’t point to the Vietnam War,
Where you stabbed winning troops in the back.
No, the truth is we win; we win time and again;
Done it time after time after time.
Doesn’t matter to you, ’cause whatever we do,
We’ve always somehow dropped the dime.
To Lefties our generals just have to be wrong,
Wrong tactics, wrong weapons, wrong forces;
We’re the gang who somehow can never shoot straight,
To hear the mainstream media sources.
Just look at their headlines, view every day’s news,
With their blistering barrages of blame.
To warriors out here at the point of the spear,
It’s those losers’ “No Right Answer,” game.
In this lugubrious game loved by Liberal elites,
There’s just but one rule to enforce:
Whatever we do, in whatever war,
Must naturally be wrong of course.
There is no right answer, no matter what,
Even when our warriors are winning;
There’s always the sly implication we lie,
In the splenetic stories they’re spinning.
In peacetime they charge our forces too large
During wartime they squall they’re too small;
In peacetime they whine we’re spending too much;
But in war, “Where’s the armor for all?”
With consummate confidence they know what’s best,
Puerile pundits so smug and so smarmy,
Pontificate loud to their Liberal crowd,
That we once again have the wrong Army.
Pick a war, any war, or a period of peace;
Field marshals of the media are spinning;
If generals of journalism are so in the know,
Why are genuine generals winning?
So here at the front, harsh home of the grunt,
We ignore their attempts to defame.
The troops know the score, know what this war”s for;
They can stuff their “No Right Answer,” game.
SSGT Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66
“The Wrong Army” can be found here:
http://www.military.com/Opinions/0,14790,Edwards_031405-P1,00.html
HILLARY FOR PRES GETS ITS OWN TV SHOW
Let the campaign begin! In case you haven’t noticed the Hillary for President in 08 campaign is in full swing. How else do you explain Hillary’s move to the center on issues like the war on terror, abortion, immigration, taxes, social security…etc. It’s the old Clinton triangulation strategy at work again.
But the best development so far is Hollywood’s effort, specifically ABC, to give the campaign a boost by softening up the public to the idea of a woman president. Witness….Commander in Chief: The Why You Should Vote For Hillary Primer.
Last week, ABC announced that Geena Davis will star as the nation’s first female president in a one-hour drama pilot called Commander in Chief. I don’t have to read a script to know what the show is about. Geena Davis will be a sexy, smart, tough president who get’s the job done. She’ll maintain her principals while remaining compassionate for the little guy. She’ll be conservative on crime and war and liberal on soocial issues. In other words, she’ll be the exact image that Hollywood and the Clinton campaign want you to project onto Hillary. My undertanding is the pilot will include the transition from the previous administration to Davis’s, which will allow the producers and writers one last slam at Bush.
Now a friend of my suggested that it could be just the opposite. They could make Davis a shrill, bitchy conservative so the public might be scared of the idea of a conservative female in office…read…Condoleeza Rice. My response to that is, Geena Davis would never play the role. Besides, it would be to much like the real Hillary!
No, this new show is designed to begin softening the public palate with sweet spoonfuls of low-carb Hillary. And don’t doubt for a minute the production budget on this show is nothing more than a campaign contribution. It’s a brilliant ploy. First, they’ll be able to have a two hour campaign film on a major network. It will be paid for by the advertisers and as long as it’s on the air, they will get to use it to test campaign themes, policy concepts and to sell an image of Hillary being “so much like Geena Davis, it’s uncanny!”
LIBERALS DISCUSSING SHOW:
L1: Did you see Commander in Chief last night?
L2: Yes, I Tivoed it after watching Front Line on PBS. Wasnt’ it fantastic.
L1: Yes, there was so much compassion for those less fortunate. It made
me feel better about myself.
L2: Me too. So much so that I bought a hyrid car and a $400 pair of shoes
that I’m pretty sure were not made by child laborers.
MODERATES DISCUSSING SHOW:
M1: Did you Commander in Chief last night?
M2: I watched it for a little bit. It was on at the same time as my favorite Law
& Order.
M1: Which one?
M2: Law & Order: Evindence Room. You know, it’s the one where they
tell the entire story from the perspective of the clerk in the evidence
room.
M1: Yeah, I don’t like that one. Watching all that paperwork is boring, but
what did you think about Commander in Chief? Would you vote for a
woman for president?
M2: I don’t know, maybe. If she looked like Geena Davis…for sure!
CONSERVATIVES DISCUSSING SHOW
C1: Hey did you watch Commander in Chief last night?
C2: No, I was working late. Did you?
C1: No, my doctor said my blood pressure was way to high.
I wouldn’t be shocked if the Commander in Chief web site had polling and discussion forums as a way of interacting with the audience and gaining some key insight on where to steer the Clinton for President campaign.
The left has lost it’s cloak and been exposed in the mainstream news media, so it’s tough to sell the message on the news these days. Now their best hope is to disguise the message as “entertainment”. On this web site, we’re going to keep a close eye on Commander in Chief, to see how the fictional president influences the real life candidate and visa-versa. Look for our own episodes of Commander in Chief coming soon.
Until then, all conservatives should take heart. Davis is best known for her role in Thelma and Louise, where she drives over a cliff rather than stay married to a man…and in Earth Girls Are Easy, where she did it with an Alien. I don’t think her on screen persona is going to be in touch with the average American.
NOT EMPIRE…JUST FREEDOM
Democracy is not perfect. You won’t find a single neocon, paleo-con or whatever-a-con that says it is. But there can be no doubt that democracy is the best form of government known to all of mankind. It has worked every time it has been tried.
When our founding fathers developed modern democracy, it was the end-product a developing idea that started with the Magna Carta. The idea that governments were a tool for the will of the the people, and not the other way around.
Democracy cannot spawn an empire. By it’s very nature, democracy eschews empiracal rule in favor of the common good of the people. That common good is decided upon by the people. Democracy is such an appealing idea, such an instictive way of thinking, that people yearn for it. Witness the brave Iraqi citizens who voted in the face of death, real death and murder. Facing death to vote is no manufactured idea manifesting itself as a social trait. That is Medula Oblongata instict at work. The base desire for self-preservation, manifested in the form of modern government. A government built, not on empire or tyranny, but on freedom.
America is not an empire. It is, however, the richest, most powerful nation on earth and with that comes responsibility. Our system of government, our society, our economy and other factors have made us the worlds only super power. We use our wealth and power to help other nations strive for freedom and to defeat those who stive for tyranny. Yes, sometimes we make mistakes. Sometimes we, as a nation, support and promote the wrong people and the wrong ideas. What makes democracy great is that it allows us, as a nation, to correct our mistakes.
I remember growing up in Clarksdale, MS in the mid 70’s. One of my neighborhood friends was a Lebanese kid named Paul. His family had moved to America to escape the cival war between Christians and Muslims back in Lebanon. Today, many of those same Christians and Muslims who were fighting each other back then, are now standing together to defeat Syrian-Bathist tyranny…and why? To obtain freedom through democracy. Is it empiracal to encourage and assist them? I think not. It is duty
The tide is turning in favor of America. I saw a funny bit on “The Daily Show” with John Stewart. One of the reporters was supposedly live in Beruit and said this; ” I was shocked to see protesters burning a flag…and it wasn’t America’s. I didn’t know other country’s flags were even flamable.” Funny, but true. Muslims around the world, who do not hold America in any special favor, are looking at what we are really doing in Iraq and beginning to recognize that American style democracy is the greatest form of government for people who want freedom. Let us lead the way.
ONE RACE, ONE VOTE
I watched the “State of Black America” forum on C-SPAN the other night. There were various guests, including Prof. Cornell West, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others. The reason I stopped flipping and started watching though, was because the Rev. Louis Farrahkan was about to speak.
As much as I disagree with the hate-filled bile he spills out of his mouth in the name of religion, I do enjoy watching the man pontificate. He is one of the most engaging personalities of modern times.
However, as I listend to him speak on this occasion I was struck by two things, the desperation of his speach and the “oldness” his message. Since I haven’t been able to find a transcript, I’ll have to paraphrase.
There were many familiar themes from the Farrahkhan conspiracy lexicon. “Your health is bad because the pharmaceutical companies profit from you being sick.” Of course this theory ignores the fact that pharmaceutical companies could get just as rich, if not richer, by making a pill that PREVENTED you from being sick. He also said that “Black America” was being held back because they didn’t own any farms and they had to depend on “the enemy” for food and clothing. It was typical fare for the hand-picked audience. Old, tired, paranoid. However, the one consistent theme that seemed so old and so desparate was the “ONE PEOPLE” theme. Farrahkhan, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and other Black power brokers getting rich off of the being “community leaders” and nothing more, always press the idea that Black America is this singular thing. That all blacks should think, live, worship and vote the same way…just because they’re black. They do this because it keeps them in power and keeps them wealthy. Make no mistake. Farrahkhan, Sharpton, Jackson are not great businessmen who have turned their wealth into philanthropy for their people. These three, especially, have become very wealthy and powerful because the promulgate the idea that there is “black misery” and the only way out is to stick together.
I wonder if a black, married, college educated, real estate agent in Dallas, making $170,000 a year and a black, 22 year old, mother of three from Compton, living on welfare think thats true?
The tired old message of the past, “you’re black, so you must be suffering” just doesn’t ring true with a growing number of black Americans. The black power leaders of old won’t be the black power leaders if black misery dissappears. So I guess the average black American should ask, “Who really profits from by being sick and miserable? Is it “corporate whitey” or is it people like Farrahkhan?
As I watched C-SPAN, and contemplated the stage full of millionaires talking about “poor black America”, it seemed nothing more than a desperate attempt to convince themselves and everyone watching that “you aren’t really doing that well, and since you’re black you should vote a, think b and never trust anyone who isnt black.
As the Republican party fast-tracks Condoleeza Rice to front position of GOP party politics, those old black power leaders seem, well, wrong. The rumor floating around Washington is that Dick Cheney will resign next year and Condoleeza Rice will be named Vice President. I don’t know if that will happen but it sounds reasonable. I don’t know who else might be running, but if it came down to Rice and any Democrat, I would vote for her. How can any black American look at her metoric rise from humble beginnings and think “things are bad all over”?
I hope C-SPAN runs that show over and over again and I hope as many black Americans see it as possible. I find the idea of one race, one vote offensive. I think black America is starting to as well.
