Which one is it? “Help is on the way!” or “Help! John Kerry is on the way to my paycheck!”
At 7:00 pm last night I turned on the TV and found a pre-game show situation on my favorite news channel – Fox News. The big game was John Kerry’s acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention. Most people who know me know that there isn’t a chance that I’d ever vote for a liberal, but I really do try to listen to all sides. While waiting for the speech, I organized some papers and watched Bill O’Reilly and Hannity & Comes. Each show interviewed several well-known politicians and commentators from their perches in the convention hall. It was a very festive atmosphere and the interviews were entertaining.
Around 7:30 pm Bill O’Reilly interviewing Dennis Kucinich, who gave a very strange answer to a question about Kerry’s ability to mend our relations with France. Bill O’Reilly asked how John Kerry could restore two decades of poor relations with France and Mr. Kucinich replied that in his twenty years in congress, John Kerry had developed negotiating skills and would be able to gain France as our ally. I burst out in laughter wondering what skills he could possibly have. Were they secret skills that he has been hiding and honing over these past years? If such skills actually exist, why would he have kept them to himself all these years? Why wait until you become president to reveal this talent? What is he, Spiderman?
By 9:10 pm John Kerry took the stage, following introductions by his daughters and a little film. His speech was pretty typical, as far as liberal rhetoric.
By about 9:30 pm, he started to get annoying. He brought up “30 years ago in Vietnam” for the second or third time and I started to feel sorry for him. Hasn’t he done anything else in his life to brag about??? Then he said that when he is elected president, he will apologize to our troops and tell them that the war they just fought was bogus. That made me mad! How dare he talk like that! He then commented that any further attacks on America will be answered swiftly and strongly. (Wait, didn’t he just contradict himself?) John Kerry, using strong us vs. them terminology, insulted me by telling me that I have kicked kids out of afterschool programs, taken cops off the street, given Enron tax breaks, denied prescription coverage to seniors, foolishly allowed by parents to choose to invest part of their social security money and given big drug companies more profits. He, on the other hand, will care for my children (isn’t that my job?), clean up my neighborhood (isn’t that the job of me and my neighbors?), control my parents social security funds and won’t cut their pills in half.
By 9:40pm I’d had enough of John Kerry’s lies and insults. I focused instead on cutting my husband and son’s hair. Good thing because the “Help is on the way!” chants started up. That seemed bizarre to me. Didn’t the delegates joining in the chant realize that “help” meant their money from their paychecks???
Well, that’s my take on John Kerry’s speech. What did you think? Read the speech for yourself.
Thanks for performing a vital service by watching that character so I didn’t have to. My supply of Advil is getting low.
I loved the spiderman analogy. I think most of the time politicians think that they are just that…some super hero who is going to save the Earth. And I totally agree with you about his abilities…thnx for speaking the truth!