Good morning from the Heartland Today's
quote from the Left Coast
"George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a
moron, if you'll pardon the expression."
Martin Sheen
Instead of making a 'smartass' comment on the above quote, I
ask you to take 5 minutes and read the following article:
Who's Smarter? by Cindy Osborne
The Hollywood group is at it again.
Holding anti-war rallies, screaming about the Bush
Administration, running ads in major newspapers, defaming
the President and his Cabinet every chance they get, to
anyone and everyone who will listen. They publicly defile
them and call them names like "stupid”,
"morons", and
"idiots". Jessica Lange went so far as to
tell a crowd in Spain that she hates President Bush and is
embarrassed to be an American.
So, just how ignorant are these people who are running the
country? Let’s look at the biographies of these
"stupid", "ignorant”, "moronic"
leaders, and then at the celebrities who are castigating
them:
President George W. Bush: Received a Bachelors Degree
from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business
School. He served as an F-102 pilot for the Texas Air
National Guard. He began his career in the oil and gas
business in Midland in 1975 and worked in the energy
industry until 1986. He was elected Governor on November 8,
1994, with 53.5 percent of the vote. In a historic
re-election victory, he became the first Texas Governor to
be elected to consecutive four-year terms on November 3,
1998 winning 68.6 percent of the vote. In 1998 Governor Bush
won 49 percent of the Hispanic vote, 27percent of the
African-American vote, 27 percent of Democrats and 65
percent of women. He won more Texas counties, 240 of 254,
than any modern Republican other than Richard Nixon in 1972
and is the first Republican gubernatorial candidate to win
the heavily Hispanic and Democratic border counties of El
Paso, Cameron and Hidalgo. (Someone began circulating a
false story about his I.Q. being lower than any other
President. If you believed it, you might want to go to www.URBANLEGENDS.com
and see the truth.
Vice President Dick Cheney: Earned a B.A. in 1965 and
a M.A. in 1966, both in political science. Two years later,
he won an American Political Science Association
congressional fellowship. One of Vice President Cheney's
primary duties is to share with individuals, members of
Congress and foreign leaders, President Bush's vision to
strengthen our economy, secure our homeland and win the War
on Terrorism. In his official role as President of the
Senate, Vice President Cheney regularly goes to Capital Hill
to meet with Senators and members of the House of
Representatives to work on the Administration's legislative
goals. In his travels as Vice President, he has seen first
hand the great demands the war on terrorism is placing on
the men and women of our military, and he is proud of the
tremendous job they are doing for the United States of
America.
Secretary of State Colin
Powell:
Educated in the New York City public schools, graduating
from the City College of New York (CCNY), where he earned a
Bachelor's Degree in geology. He also participated in ROTC
at CCNY and received a commission as an Army second
lieutenant upon graduation in June 1958. His further
academic achievements include a Master of Business
Administration Degree from George Washington University.
Secretary Powell is the recipient of numerous U.S. and
foreign military awards and decorations.
Secretary Powell's civilian awards include
two Presidential Medals of Freedom, the President's Citizens
Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Secretary of State
Distinguished Service Medal, and the Secretary of Energy
Distinguished Service Medal. Several schools and other
institutions have been named in his honor and he holds
honorary degrees from universities and colleges across the
country. (Note: He retired as Four Star General in the
United States Army.)
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: Attended
Princeton University on Scholarship (AB, 1954) and served in
the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as a Naval aviator; Congressional
Assistant to Rep. Robert Griffin (R-MI), 1957-59; U.S.
Representative, Illinois, 1962-69; Assistant to the
President, Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity,
Director of the Cost of Living Council, 1969-74; U.S.
Ambassador to NATO, 1973-74; head of Presidential Transition
Team, 1974; Assistant to the President, Director of White
House Office of
Operations, White House Chief of Staff, 1974-77; Secretary
of Defense, 1975-77.
Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge: Raised in a
working class family in veterans' public housing in Erie. He
earned a scholarship to Harvard, graduating with honors in
1967. After his first year at The Dickinson School of Law,
he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served as an
infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, earning the Bronze Star
for Valor. After returning to Pennsylvania, he earned his
Law Degree and was in private practice before becoming
Assistant District Attorney in Erie County. He was elected
to Congress in 1982. He was the first enlisted Vietnam
combat veteran elected to the U.S. House, and was
overwhelmingly re-elected six times.
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice: Earned
her Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, Cum Laude and
Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her
Master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her
Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at
the University of Denver in 1981. (Note:
Rice enrolled at the University of Denver at the age
of 15, graduating at 19 with a Bachelor's Degree in
Political Science (Cum Laude). She earned a Master's Degree
at the University of Notre Dame and a Doctorate from the
University of Denver’s Graduate School of International
Studies. Both of her advanced degrees are also in Political
Science.) She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from
Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in
1994, and the University of Notre Dame in 1995. At Stanford,
she has been a member of the Center for International
Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute
for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the
Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and
Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev
Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance:
The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also
has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European
foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in
settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in
Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000
Republican National Conventions. From 1989 through March
1991, the period of German reunification and the final days
of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration
as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East
European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a
Special Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of
the Council on Foreign relations, she served as Special
Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In
1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender
– Integrated Training in the Military. She was a member of
the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the
Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International
Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco
Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member
of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support
fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park,
California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club
of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has
encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation,
Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the
National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the
Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting
for San Francisco. Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham,
Alabama, she resides in Washington, D.C.
So who are these celebrities? What is
their education? What is their experience in affairs of
State or in National Security? While I will defend to the
death their right to express their opinions, I think that if
they are going to call into question the intelligence of our
leaders, we should also have all the facts on their
educations and background:
Barbara Streisand: Completed high school Career:
Singing and acting
Martin Sheen: Flunked exam to enter University of
Dayton. Career: Acting
Jessica Lange: Dropped out college mid-freshman year.
Career: Acting
Alec Baldwin: Dropped out of George Washington U.
after scandal. Career: Acting
Julia Roberts: Completed high school.
Career: Acting
Sean Penn: Completed High school.
Career: Acting
Susan Sarandon: Degree in Drama from Catholic
University of America in Washington, D.C. Career: Acting
Ed Asner; Completed High school. Career: Acting
George Clooney: Dropped out of University of
Kentucky. Career: Acting
Michael Moore: Dropped out first year University of
Michigan. Career: Movie Director
Sarah Jessica Parker: Completed High School. Career:
Acting
Jennifer Anniston: Completed High School. Career:
Acting
Mike Farrell: Completed High school. Career: Acting
Janeane Garofelo: Dropped out of College. Career:
Stand up comedienne
Larry Hagman: Attended Bard College for one year.
Career: Acting
While comparing the education and experience of these two
groups, we should also remember that President Bush and his
cabinet are briefed daily, even hourly, on the War on Terror
and threats to our security. They are privy to information
gathered around the world concerning the Middle East, the
threats to America, the intentions of terrorists and
terrorist-supporting governments. They are in constant
communication with the CIA, the FBI, Interpol, NATO, The
United Nations, our own military, and that of our allies
around the world. We cannot simply believe that we have full
knowledge of the threats because we watch CNN!! We cannot
believe that we are in any way as informed as our leaders.
These celebrities have no intelligence-gathering agents, no
fact-finding groups, and no insight into the minds of those
who would destroy our country. They only have a deep-seated
hatred for all things Republican. By nature, and no one
knows quite why, the Hollywood elitists detest Conservative
views and anything that supports or uplifts the United
States of America. The silence was deafening from the Left
when Bill Clinton bombed a pharmaceutical factory outside of
Khartoum, or when he attacked the Bosnian Serbs in 1995 and
1999. He bombed Serbia itself to get Slobadon Milosevic out
of Kosovo, and not a single peace rally was held. When our
Rangers were ambushed in Somalia and 18 young American lives
were lost, not a peep was heard from Hollywood. Yet now,
after our nation has been attacked on its own soil, after
3,000 Americans were killed, by freedom-hating terrorists,
while going about their routine lives, they want to hold
rallies against the war. Why the change? Because an honest,
God-fearing Republican sits in the White House.
Another irony is that in 1987, when Ronald Reagan was in
office, the Hollywood group aligned themselves with
disarmament groups like SANE, FREEZE and PEACE ACTION,
urging our own government to disarm and freeze the
manufacturing of any further nuclear weapons, in order to
promote world peace. It is curious that now, even after we
have heard all the evidence that Saddam Hussein has
chemical, biological and is very close to obtaining nuclear
weapons, their is no cry from this group for HIM to disarm.
They believe we should leave him alone in his quest for
these weapons of mass destruction, even though it is certain
that these deadly weapons will eventually be used against us
in our own cities.
So why the hype out of Hollywood? Could these celebrities
believe that since they draw such astronomical salaries,
they are entitled to also determine the course of our
Nation? That they can make viable decisions concerning war
and peace? Did
Michael Moore have the backing of the Nation when he
recently thanked France, on our behalf, for being a
"good enough friend to tell us we were wrong"? I
know for certain he was not speaking for me. Does Sean Penn
fancy himself a Diplomat, in going to Iraq when we are just
weeks away from war? Does he believe that his High School
Diploma gives him the knowledge (and the right) to go to a
country that is controlled by a maniacal dictator, and speak
on behalf of the American people? Or is it the fact that he
pulls in more money per year than the average American
worker will see in a lifetime? Does his bank account give
him clout?
The ultimate irony is that many of these celebrities have
made a shambles of their own lives, with drug abuse,
alcoholism, numerous marriages and divorces, scrapes with
the law, publicized temper tantrums, etc. How dare they
pretend to know what is best for an entire nation! What is
even more bizarre is how many people in this country will
listen and accept their views, simply because they liked
them in a certain movie, or have fond memories of an old
television sitcom!
It is time for us, as citizens of the United States, to
educate ourselves about the world around us. If future
generations are going to enjoy the freedoms that our
forefathers bequeathed us, if they are ever to know peace in
their own country and their world, to live without fear of
terrorism striking in their own cities, we must assure that
this nation remains strong. We must make certain that those
who would destroy us are made aware of the severe
consequences that will befall them.
Yes, it is a wonderful dream to sit down with dictators and
terrorists and join hands, singing Cumbaya and talking of
world peace. But it is not real. We did not stop Adolf
Hitler from taking over the entire continent of Europe by
simply talking to him. We sent our best and brightest, with
the strength and determination that this Country is known
for, and defeated the Nazi regime. President John F. Kennedy
did not stop the Soviet ships from unloading their nuclear
missiles in Cuba in 1962 with mere words. He stopped them
with action, and threat of immediate war if the ships did
not turn around. We did not end the Cold War with
conferences.
It ended with the strong belief of President Ronald Reagan: PEACE through STRENGTH.