Posted by
VeeJay on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 6:46:53 AM
IN DEFENSE OF JOHN KERRY
By Senator Barty Hack
The Republicans today are making much of Senator Kerry’s comments to an assembly of students in California this week. He told the students that they would ‘do well’ to get a good education and that if they didn’t get a good education they’d get ‘stuck in Iraq’. Speaking on behalf of my party, the Democratic Party, I must stand and be heard on Kerry’s behalf. After all, he’s right about the unwashed masses and we Democrats have always been a leading voice in the class warfare trenches. Everyone in my party and in our media knows that educated people become liberal Democrats and uneducated people, particularly those Fundamentalists who are always untaught and easy to lead, become janitors, and military personnel. It is true that Senator Kerry was himself once a member of the military but he managed to keep that service amazingly short and soon atoned for it by becoming one of the most vociferous anti-military voices our country has every produced. Like it or not, Kerry is simply expressing the views of those of us educated liberals of the great American intelligentsia. We talk this way all the time both publicly and privately. Wasn’t it our proud party that compared Guantanomo to the Nazi war camps? And have we not been the loudest voice in favor of retreat in Iraq, even to this day?
Nonetheless, we must remember that this does not necessarily make our party an anti-war party. We’re the party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose fair minded allotment of the lion’s share of Eastern Europe to Uncle Joe Stalin led directly to the Cold War, and who wasn’t blessed by that?