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You GottaBeKidding
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 Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 8:35 pm Post subject: Orson Scott Card believes the Swifties |
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Ran across a link to an Orson Scott Card column. Read the column, liked it, posted a message in Geedunk. Then read his earlier columns, one of which contains this:
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2004-08-29-1.html
| Quote: | Kerry feels fine about accepting money and sharing a podium with Hollywood fanatics who hurl vile and baseless charges against the President, but when the Swift Boat Veterans lay far more serious -- and far more substantiated -- charges against him, then like a crybaby he says, "No fair!"
The fact is, Kerry tries to have it both ways on everything. Slanderers on his side have nothing to do with him; but if supporters of President Bush make accusations against Kerry, then that's dirty politics and President Bush must be behind it.
The "Bush campaign and its allies have turned to the tactics of fear and smear," said Kerry at the Cooper Union school in New York. Isn't that hilarious, coming from a man who embraces the support of slanderers like Michael Moore and Al Franken?
But this is nothing new. Remember how the "vast right-wing conspiracy" played out for the Clintons. Remember how the would-be election thieves in the Democratic Party were able to charge the Republicans with having stolen the election.
Accuse your accusers of your own bad acts, that's the method -- but will it work again? Are the American people that slow at learning when they're being scammed?
Maybe when it comes to the war in Vietnam, Kerry cannot have it all. Maybe he -- and the American people -- are beginning to realize it.
"John Kerry reporting for duty," he said at the Democratic convention, insisting that America view him as a heroic soldier ready to lead us through our war on terrorists.
But when we find out that one of the Purple Hearts he used to get out of the war early may well have been an accidentally self-inflicted wound, it's harder to understand how his conscience allowed him to use those "wounds" to get out of Vietnam early, when other men stayed to do their duty.
So Kerry has flipped to the other side of the coin. It's not his war record he wants to be judged on now, it's his anti-war record.
The Swift Boat Veterans' second ad points out that his false charges that American soldiers regularly committed atrocities gave the North Vietnamese exactly what they were torturing American POWs to try to them to say.
At a fund-raiser in Philadelphia, Kerry defended those false statements by saying they were "an act of conscience" and adding "You can judge my character, incidentally, by that."
Well, Mr. Kerry, we will.
You did some brave things in Vietnam. But afterward, you said terrible things about your fellow soldiers -- things that clearly were not true, and that you either knew were not true when you said them, or at least knew you had no evidence for.
Let's see ... you'll make false accusations against American soldiers for your own political advantage. And we should vote for you as our commander-in-chief, to decide when American soldiers should lay their lives on the line.
Speaking as an embarrassed and fed-up Democrat, I have to say to the national leaders of my own party: What were you thinking when you nominated this man!
Is there really no one better than this that the Democratic Party can offer to the American people to lead us in time of war?
Well, yes, there is. The Democratic Party could have nominated Joe Lieberman. The Democratic Party could have chosen a candidate who would help unite the country in the prosecution of a war forced on us by cruel and ambitious enemies -- and then put forward the Democratic program for keeping America a decent place for people who haven't got great stock options.
Instead, the Democratic Party has nominated a man who has spent his whole career attacking Americans who actually fight for their country, provoking divisiveness during wartime for his own political gain, and voting with absolute consistency to strip America of the means of defending ourselves against our enemies.
What were the Democratic Party leaders thinking?
Not of America's good, that's for sure.
As it seems right now, the Democratic Party has apparently nominated three habitual, self-serving liars in a row. The guy who has his own definition of "is," the guy who invented the Internet, and now the guy who spent Christmas in Cambodia.
Why hasn't Michael Moore made a movie about that? If, as Linda Ronstadt says, Moore's a great American who exposes liars and hypocrites, then surely we should be seeing the documentary Christmas in Cambodia in all the theaters.
But of course we never will. Because members of the Liars Club never rat each other out. There is, apparently, honor among mudslingers. |
You'll likely want to read his other columns linked on the right side of the page. |
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Wynne
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WOW! I've never read his books but now want to go out and buy every one of them -- this man deserves royalties! Great article -- thanks for posting.
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Geano
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Wynne, if you do go chasing the OS Card library, see if you can find the his first published story in the August 1977 Analog magazine, "Ender's Game"...later expanded into a novel of the same name in 1985...
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| I've read a ton of OS Card's books. He is one terrific author. Mostly science fiction. "Enders Game" was one of the best reads ever. A hugo award winner. It does my heart good to know he's with us. I couldn't have read anything more from him if he would have supported sKerry. |
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