JOE SHERIDAN RESPONDS TO A BLOG BY CJ THAT APPEARED IN THE MILITARY PERSPECTIVE ON SEPTEMBER 4, 2008
September 4th, 2008 by CJ
I didn't think about this until after I had written the post, but I have been unable to do anything about it since I've been at work all day. I want to make clear that I do not despise ALL liberals. I have many liberal friends, some of which are here. As a matter of fact, I really like NY David - a liberal. I work with some DOD civilians who are liberals and disagree with me on practically everything political, but I consider them good friends. I don't want to link you wonderful liberals with the idiot extremists that I speak about here. I apologize for not making that point originally and hope I didn't offend those of you who consider me a friend. Just as there are extreme conservatives that I can't stand for their extreme, this post was meant to highlight the extremist in your midst.
I sat patiently and watched the Democratic National Convention. I sat patiently and watched the Republican National Convention. I really try hard not to bring politics onto this site unless it relates to military topics, but I can't keep my mouth shut about this.
Not once…NOT ONCE…during Barack Obama's speech was he interrupted by right wing conservatives at his convention. Conservatives in attendance, if allowed to be in attendance at all, listened intently to what the candidate had to say. There were no chants, no cat calls, and no disruptions. What the hell is wrong with liberals that they have to continuously interrupt John McCain during his speech?!
It started with the idiots, yes IDIOTS, from IVAW. I realize they're fellow Soldiers, but they're morons! Anyone listening to my radio podcast last night heard me rail against those that don't agree with me. I got an email because a fellow veteran didn't like my opinion about giving a medal to Soldiers with PTSD. I discussed how much I love and respect all Soldiers for their service, but that doesn't give them a free pass to do and say stupid things. It's one thing to have an opinion as long as it's an informed opinion. Just because IVAW doesn't agree with the war, doesn't mean they can make a mockery of the process. Oh yeah, freedom of speech, blah blah. Time and place, that's all I have to say.
Then the even bigger idiots - bigger than IVAW - of Code Pink had to have their say and interrupt his speech. Not once, but twice! I loved how those in attendance started shouting "U.S.A." every time they wanted to pipe up, but it still interrupted his speech. I'll keep to myself my opinion about what was said at either convention, that's not for here. I will remark on the stark difference that I noticed between the two conventions:
Republican chant: "U.S.A."
Democratic chant: "Yes, we can" and "Si, se puede"
Republican military tributes: 3, not counting John McCain's
Democratic military tributes: 0
Medal of Honor guests at RNC: 5, plus the family of MoH Recipient Michael Monsoor
Medal of Honor guests at DNC: 0
Number of mainstream media reports of war protests and demonstrations at RNC: numerous
Number of mainstream media reports of war protests and demonstrations at DNC: none; only blogs and special interest sites
This despite the fact that the virtually the same people were at both. Why do I bring this up? Because to the uninformed viewer, it appears as if people are only angry at the RNC and that the DNC has no problems and agrees with ALL Americans. IVAW was at both.
If liberals ever want to be taken seriously, they need to find respectful ways of getting out their message. The problem is that liberals only respect themselves. They don't care about listening to the other side. They only care about furthering their own ignorant agenda of defeat against terrorists and conservatives. I'll be honest, I really liked Obama's speech (I liked Palin's more!). He's a truly remarkable public speaker. And he didn't have to worry about being interrupted by rightwing nuts. Grow up, people!
Posted in Military Perspective
Response from Joseph A. Sheridan
CEO and Publisher of
THE LIBERAL PERSECTIVE/Joe Sheridan’s Radio Weblog.
First of all, I am one of those Liberals you deplore. I can see from the outset that if you think Sarah Palin's speech was better than Barack Obama's that you and I have very little to talk about.
But as you can readily see from the polls and the election results most Americans do not agree with your perspective.
The eight years of the Bush administration has nearly permanently destroyed our country, its civil liberties and its economy.
Obama made sense to an American population that is hurting badly. Many of us believe the war you are fighting was not waged for the safety and security of our country, but from some clandestine motive yet to be revealed.
There are billion and billions of dollars needed at home to repair a rapidly deteriorating infrastructure which has been ignored far too long.
Bush's market driven economics has allowed our governmental agencies to operate without supervision and thus permitted deleterious policies to nearly bankrupt the country.
Bailouts of banks and brokerage houses and now consumer mortgages that cannot be paid off from incompetent oversight of the economic capacity of buyers to pay down their debt is getting a shot of $700 billion dollars in the arm. Another $800 billion was interjected into the economy yesterday November 25, 2008, for a loan to Citigroup and other companies on the brink of insolvency. Your children, if you have or plan to have any, will pay for this their entire lives.
The Bush administration's free market philosophy has given birth to bonuses of millions of dollars to the executives who have driven theses institution into massive debt. Without demanding results, corporations can not successfully operate.
The corruption that has penetrated much of the Bush administration from Halliburton's rip off of the government through their contractual negligence in Iraq was not only tolerated, but by the failure of the government to impose appropriate penalties upon Halliburton and to investigate the relationship of this company with its former CEO, Dick Cheney, they are signaling to other government contractors (and there are many) that corruption of massive proportions will be tolerated.
Young man, you are suffering from a lack of an educated understanding of what the conservatives have done to our nation.
You need to read more, study more and let someone who comprehends the reality of the past eight years to write the blog. You are not prepared for such a daunting task.
You comments relative to the crowd reactions at the two conventions, hit the nail squarely on the thumb. Obviously, you did not see or hear the terrible responses of crowds on the McCain campaign trail that shouted out loud and clear “KILL HIM,” relative to Obama, “Nigger,” “Celebrity,” “Socialist,” “Communists,” “Marxist,” “Muslim,” “Anti-Christ,” and, unfortunately for McCain, most of those vicious comments came from audiences in which Sarah Palin was the speaker, and was the one who encouraged such malicious remarks.
She accused Obama of “palling around with domestic terrorists,” which everyone who took the time to study the circumstances know was a gigantic lie that the Republican Party, McCain and Palin conjured up to put Obama down. Fortunately for America, it did not work this time.
McCain repeated time and again throughout the campaign that Obama was not qualified to be president, that he did not have the experience to be president implying that only McCain had the experience and the qualification.
After all he was a war hero that is recognized by the voters as a deeply appreciated contribution to the freedom of this country, but lying in a cage in the Hanoi Hilton does not give you the qualifications or the experience to become Commander-in-Chief of the United States. And as for his twenty-six years in the U. S. Congress, in his case what it means is one year of experience twenty six times over.
“There is nothing that can take the place of experience, unless it is talent.” These words spoken by an unidentified football coach could not capture the truth more accurately. Obama, perhaps, is the most talented presidential candidate since Thomas Jefferson and John F. Kennedy.
Toward the end of the campaign when McCain became erratic and appeared to modify his campaign strategy every other day, he too uttered absolute lies to make his point. He was bitter. He was negative. He made promises that not even God could produce.
And the American people perceived, especially during the economic collapse, that McCain had no well thought through solutions to the collapse of the housing market, the failure of major banking and insurance institutions while Obama approached the crisis with calm thoughtfulness, and professional candor that gave the clear impression that not only was he qualified to be president, but he was set on a course that could make him a great president.
If you did not see the people dancing in the streets in major cities across the country or the millions that gathered in cities in Europe and Asia, you missed the telling point of why this election has turned the tarnished image of America into a symbol of hope, and reason and compassion.
Barack Obama’s election is the biggest boost to our standing in the world than anything since the Marshall Plan after World War II.
Joseph a. Sheridan
jasltd1@sbcglobal.net
THE LIBERAL PERSPECTIVE/Joe Sheridan's Radio Weblog http:/blogs.salon.com/0004320
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