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Let the Little Girl Dance

4.16.08 @ 12:01AM

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I would invite you to check out www.jeffbeatty.com to learn more about Jeff Beatty who is also running as a Republican to replace John Kerry as the Commonwealth's Senator.

Jeff has served this nation for most of his adult life. First as a Delta Force commando who was involved in the mission to rescue American medical students in Grenada. He has also served with the FBI's hostage rescue team and with the CIA's counterterrorism center. For the past 15 years he has managed TotalSecurity.us, a security consulting business. He has appeared over 300 times on CNN, FOX, MSNBC and the leading networks on to provide expert commentary on topics ranging from defense, security, to foreign policy.

Most telling though is Jim Ogonowski's refusal to debate Jeff Beatty. In fact, there was to be a debate tonight at Boston College but Mr. Ogonowski refuses to discuss the issues with Jeff. Instead, Jeff will lead a forum where he will discuss the issues with the audience.

I think we are all in agreement that John Kerry should be retired. However, the citizens of Massachusetts deserve a first-class Senator with the relevant experience in these dangerous times. That person is Jeff Beatty.

Again, please check out the website. It will be time well spent.
-- James J. McDonnell
Chief of Staff, Beatty for U.S. Senate

A BRIDGE TOO FAR
Re: Roger Kaplan's The Democrats' Messiah Complex:

If Obama is a "bridge builder," we could hope he is one in the mold of Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge On the River Kwai: after he realizes the bridge he has "built" is one of total radical socialism, racial divides and Muslim extremism, he should cry out "what have I done" and blow it up.
-- Cookie Sewell
Socialist Republic of Maryland

Mr. Kaplan's column today was excellent but one fact is inaccurate, to wit: "I spent a few moments trying to see what the fuss there was about. Jon Stewart, the news anchor, "

Jon Stewart is no newsman, he is a middling comedian and reporter of inaccurate facts to a sub-group of uninformed members of the general public; to Mr. Stewart credit he does not hold himself out a news person.
-- Anthony D. Toscano
Grafton, Massachusetts

SENATOR SNOOT
Re: Jeffrey Lord's A Question of Character:

It was the late Frank Herbert (author of DUNE) who noted: "Scratch a liberal and you will find an aristocrat."
-- Martin Owens
Sacramento, California

I can find no fault with Jeffery Lord's expose of Obama, as the facts seem undisputed, if unreported by those who should report. While agreeing in content, I am a bit more charitable in tone, because I suspect Obama is still going through an extended adolescence, and knows not of what he speaks.

Obama comes across like a naive college kid with a head pumped full of the stale mush passing as progressive thought. Unlike ninety percent of college kids who outgrow such nonsense within two years after leaving college, it seems Obama internalized the whole manifesto and never looked back.

This reveals an uncritical way of thinking. Such intellectual laziness has apparently prevented him from examining other ideas that may challenge his ossified worldview. Indeed, his personal "growth" -- if you can call it that -- consisted of hand-picking a "church" that only confirmed what he already knew: the world is divided between oppressors and the oppressed, between evil white society and victimized minorities. After all, the essence of Black Liberation Theology, upon which Trinity United COC is based, is little more than Marxism in blackface.

So, Obama's comments regarding those bitter bigoted gun-clinging Penn-heads makes perfect sense once you understand where he's coming from. And where he's coming from is not a place where adults dwell. I expect he will avoid unscripted comments in the future.
-- Doug Roll
Jacksonville, Texas

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