My parents and I hold vastly different political beliefs. After enduring mass amounts of liberal-bashing emails, I requested that they remove me from their list of mass-email receiptients. Initially, the messages kept coming, and for a while I just deleted them from my inbox. But then, I became frustrated and requested once more to be taken off the list. For the most part this second request was heeded, and except for the sporatic fox news-esque email that was somehow directed my way, all was good. Enter yesterday. The last week of politics, especially the Kerry non-incident incident, left me rather livid. So when the message "A Marine Responds back to John Kerry" appeared in my inbox, this was my response:
"I don't think anyone, especially a war veteran like John Kerry, believes our troops are stupid. He botched a joke, that although in bad taste, aimed to poke fun at the President's intelligence and the situation he's gotten us into in Iraq, not the troops serving abroad. If anyone wants to criticize Kerry, do it b/c he is spineless. How does one allow the Republican party --- led by Dick Cheney (dodged Vietnam 5 times), Karl Rove (escaped serving in Vietnam for 3 years b/c of student deferments), and the President (well we all know that story) --- to question one's integrity on an issue like serving our nation, when you (not them) wore the uniform and served our country. It's simply amazing.
Criticize him all you want, in the mean time, I'll just pray that the Democrats find someone with a backbone to assume leadership in 2008. I want someone who will stand up and challenge the Republicans as they should. Enough with the hypocrites; start the search now my fellow Democrats."
To her credit, my mother responded saying she was happy I had a mind of my own. Truthfully, I've often wondered if the converse was true, so today I'm smiling.
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