Let me try to remember what I told the satffer when I called his office today:After eight years of being told to speak truth to power, when presented with the opportunity he folded like a little wimp, and I am very disappointed in the Congressman.No apology for the truth, ever. No talking about bad things someone has done because you don't want to speak ill of the dead. No quarter where none is deserved.Referencing the dead, this is Ted Kennedy. I got sick of people saying that didn't want to speak ill of the dead. That's like ignoring Stalin's Gulag because he's dead, or the Armenian Genocide because Ataturk is dead.
August 2, 2012 at 12:13 am |
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Let me try to remember what I told the satffer when I called his office today:After eight years of being told to speak truth to power, when presented with the opportunity he folded like a little wimp, and I am very disappointed in the Congressman.No apology for the truth, ever. No talking about bad things someone has done because you don't want to speak ill of the dead. No quarter where none is deserved.Referencing the dead, this is Ted Kennedy. I got sick of people saying that didn't want to speak ill of the dead. That's like ignoring Stalin's Gulag because he's dead, or the Armenian Genocide because Ataturk is dead.