Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Saturday, August 29, 2009 2:00:29 PM
My friend and attorney (never thought I'd type those words together) Tony had two sharp observations prompted by the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA and Deep Left Field). I quote:
"The left needs to manufacture the sorrow of a nation, when Reagan passed it really existed."
Could we call this manufactured grief "astro-turfing"? This is the liberal's attempt to demonstrate that one of their own was as beloved as President Reagan was. Brent Bozell
reminds us that outside of Washington and Massachusettes, Ted Kennedy was not actually a popular man. Thus the left is pedalling a lie, but then they've never hesitated to do that before.
And:
"and lets not forget that he cared so much for the health of the nation that he tried for years to pass health care, but when he had the opportunity to save just one person's life he passed......"
This act of supreme selfishness and irresponsibility (allowing Mary Jo Kopechne to suffocate slowly in his overturned, submerged Olds) not only showed what lay at the heart of a self-obsessed man, but showed the "compassion" of the Washington liberal. Caring for others is okay, as long as it takes none of their time or their treasure. They're always willing to sacrifice others for their own selfish interests. Usually it's "just" their time and their treasure -- this time it was a life.
As Siegfried Sassoon might have written were he alive today, "Have you forgotten yet?"
I haven't, and neither has Tony. Nor have millions of people in this country of ours. Our eyes are dry today. Senator Kennedy has done his last injury to America. That is enough.
Sorry if that offends you, A.