Omission From The Niederer Stories !!!

[Rockholm]

I nearly spewed my coffee across the room this morning when I read this in the Boston Globe.

"Bush continued speaking, and several people shouted back at Niederer. One woman yelled 'Your son chose to fight in that war.'"

WTF!!!! Honey, BUSH CHOSE TO CREATE THIS WAR!

Link:

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/bush/articles/2004/09/17/in_nj_laura_bush_stumps_for_spouse_on_democratic_turf/

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1. My sister's like that

And she considers herself left of center, too.

But when I spoke about the death tolls in Iraq, when I got to US military deaths, she said, "They chose to be there. I have no pity for them."

I pointed out that most of our armed forces are kids trying to escape poverty. She said you shouldn't put money before people's lives. I just stared at her. When we were kids, we were so poor that we were on the state lunch program and we got clothes and food from "Christian" charities (they used it as an excuse to proselytize to us, hence my use of quotation marks). When I was nineteen and she was sixteen, our father died, and we both inherited a great deal of money from his life insurance policy. Mine is long since gone, spent on a college education, but because she was a minor when he died she got even more money, and she didn't go to college. She has taken off three full years without working or going to school or even looking for work at various times since then and has worked part-time for all but about one year of the rest. Her savings are enough to give her everything else.

How on earth can she judge kids for whom college isn't an option, who have been indoctrinated since infancy that it's "serving your country," who are often unemployed and see no future for themselves at all?

When this is the "left," you know we're in trouble. . . .