One day a couple of weeks ago I was sitting in my front room watching the latest Democracy Now program when I heard a knock at the door. I went to the door to see who it was. It turned out to be one of the many candidates for tax collector of Jackson County. By way of introduction he told me his name and that he was a Republican. I shook his hand and told him that he might very well be a nice man but that I couldn't vote for him in the primary because I vote strictly Democrat, especially since the jerk in the White House has ruined this country with his illegal war in Iraq. He proceeded to try to justify the Iraq war with the same old tired neo-con, and completely false, rhetoric that we had to attack Iraq to revenge the 9/11 attack on the U.S. I had heard that there were people out there that still believed that Iraq was involved in 9/11, but this is the first time I had ever met one. I don't mind telling you that I was taken aback by the fact that any individual running for political office could actually still believe that Iraq was involved, was scary.
I tried to enlighten him by telling him that 13 of the 15 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and that Iraq was not involved in any way shape or form. He then tried the old WMD and al-Quaeda link ploy; I quickly shot those down. I told him that I supported Bush when he went into Afghanistan after the REAL bad guys, but when he decided to let bin Laden go and pulled out the majority of our troops to go invade the sovereign and completely innocent country of Iraq, he lost not only my support but eventually the support of the majority of Americans. He continued the right wing rhetoric about various issues. A couple of times during the conversation I asked him if he was a Fox News watcher, he completely ignored me, however near the end of the back and forth he finally admitted that he was a Fox News watcher. I told him that he really needed to start watching other news programs so he could get informed as to what is really going on in the world. Needless to say he wasn't at all happy with my suggestion.
As I pointed out earlier the fact that ANYBODY running for ANY position no matter how non-political it may be, is so uninformed is scary. We must all be on the look out for these individuals.
About Me
- Dave
- I retired from the Air Force in 1981 after having served for 20 years. The first four years of active duty I served as a Security Policeman, the next 16 years I was an Air Traffic controller. After retirement I worked for a contractor as an Air Traffic Control Subject Matter Expert. In 1985 I again joined the government, this time as a civilian. I retired on the 31st of Dec 2005 after over twenty years in civil service. I am now fully retired. I will be the first to admit that I supported Reagan. I think it was during that administration that I first questioned my political leanings. I will further admit that I use to watch Fox News, that changed when it became apparent that they were a mouthpiece for the right wing neocons. During the Afghanistan war Fox used to use Ret Col. Hackworth as its military expert. During the build-up for the illegal war against Iraq, Col. Hackworth denounced the unprovoked attack on a soverign nation. That was the last time you saw Col. Hackworth. That made it plain to me that Fox would not put up with guests that had different opinions than what they espoused.
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