Running the Political Derby by Kerry L Marsala (10/13/04)

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Bets are being laid, political jockeys are vying for cabinet positions, and the political stalls are filling up with manure as we reach the last corner of our election stretch.

Who really runs these political derbies? Is it the lobbyist organizations, the political jockey's, or the nominee nags that are rode upon? With all the media spin sometimes you can't tell the back end of the horse from the front end of the political spinning machines. The manure of lies is creeping up the Democrats presidential nominee quicker than the stable boys can throw it out. Pretty soon the smell of foot rot will come wafting from Kerry and Edwards leftist barn stall, but will the Bush haters just pinch their noses and say it smells like roses?

John Kerry has dug his pit of deep manure so far down that his flip-flops are stuck in the muck. What Kerry really needs is to be put out to pasture with all his old "Vietnam" days of rhetoric and his wife, Theresa, needs to have a bridle placed in her mouth so her tongue can be controlled. Why would anyone want to bet on an old nag to lead them into winning when all the old horse has done is alienate all those supporting his win?

Kerry/Edwards have done nothing but bash our coalition of 70 countries that have been helping us with this war on terror. In every debate Kerry and Edwards stomp their feet and trot around like southern thoroughbreds, they whinny- we need a global test, we need to bring in other countries, we've been giving all and whoa their boy!

Truth of the matter is- all Kerry and Edwards have done is alienate those nations who are standing with us in this global war on terror. If Kerry and Edwards were to take the largest stall in America (The White House) how would they rebuild all the damage they've done with their mantra, "Wrong war-Wrong place - Wrong time?" Whose going to jockey for whom when all they do is take all the credit for dying and monies spent on our global war on terror? Do you really think Britain; Australia, Italy, Iraq, and others are going to lay their bets down with the likes of two old trenched mouth geldings? Once the coalition of sacrificial believers have had these two mules kick and bite them one too many times I seriously doubt you'll find them backing Kerry/Edwards in this race against global terror.

To smell how deep John Kerry's and his stable boys have gotten let's look at some of the inaccurate statements Kerry has claimed in his debates.

Kerry Falsely Claimed He Had "Made A Mistake In How" He Talked About His Vote Against The $87 Billion, Despite Previously Saying It Would Be "Irresponsible" To Vote Against Funding For Our Troops. (CBS’ "Face The Nation," 9/14/03)

Kerry Claimed He's "Never, Ever" Used Word "Lying" In Reference To President Bush On Iraq, But In December 2003 Kerry Told A New Hampshire Editorial Board Bush "Lied" About Reasons For Going To War In Iraq And In September 2003 Kerry Said Bush Administration "Lied" And "Misled." (Patrick Healy, "Kerry Camp Lowers NH Expectations Behind In Polls, Senator Now Seeks Spot In 'Top Two,'" The Boston Globe, 12/8/03; Sen. John Kerry, Campaign Event, Claremont, NH, 9/20/03)

According To FactCheck.Org, Kerry's "Cost" For The Iraq War Is Off By $80 Billion. ("Distortions And Misstatements At First Presidential Debate," FactCheck.org, 10/1/04,

According To FactCheck.Org, Kerry "Overstated The Case" On Osama Bin Laden's Alleged Escape At Tora Bora. ("Distortions And Misstatements At First Presidential Debate," FactCheck.org, 10/1/04) Kerry said U.S. forces allowed Osama bin Laden to escape in 2001 during the battle at Tora Bora in Afghanistan because the administration "outsourced" fighting to Afghan "warlords." Actually, it's never been clear whether bin Laden actually was at Tora Bora. It is true that military leaders strongly suspected bin Laden was there, and it is also true that the Pentagon relied heavily on Afghan forces to take on much of the fighting at Tora Bora in an effort to reduce US casualties. But Kerry overstates the case by stating flatly that "we had him surrounded."

Kerry Made Assumption The UN Was Willing To Continue Sanctions Against Iraq Despite The Fact They Were Becoming "Increasingly Unpopular With Key Nations." (Glenn Kessler And Walter Pincus, "Few Factual Errors, But Truth Got Stretched At Times," The Washington Post, 10/1/04)

Kerry Misspoke And Said Weapons Of Mass Destruction Were "Crossing The (Iraq) Border Every Single Day." "TheAP noted that Kerry misspoke when he said 'we got weapons of mass destruction crossing the (Iraq) border every single day, and they're blowing people up.' Kerry meant terrorists were crossing the border, not nuclear weapons." ("Distortions And Misstatements At First Presidential Debate," FactCheck.org, 10/1/04)

Kerry Claimed U.S. Soldiers Are "90 Percent Of The Casualties In Iraq," But The Wall Street Journal Puts U.S. Casualties Closer To 50% When You Include Iraqis Helping To Secure Their Own Country. (Editorial, "Our Kerry Iraq Guide," The Wall Street Journal, 9/30/04)

Kerry Falsely Claimed President Bush Diverted Forces From Afghanistan To Iraq; Gen. Tommy Franks Said It's "Absolutely Incorrect" That Resources Were Diverted From Afghanistan. (General Tommy Franks, ABC Radio's "The Sean Hannity Show," 9/21/04)

Kerry Falsely Claimed The Bush Administration Has Not Organized An International Summit To Discuss Iraq. "Reality Check: The administration has, in fact, organized just such a conference, in consultation with Iraqi and other Arab allies. It will be held in Cairo late in November, with the foreign ministers of the G8 countries (i.e. including antiwar countries such as France, Germany, and Russia), China; the countries of the Arab League, Turkey and Iran invited to attend. If it goes ahead, it will mark the most significant attempt to forge a political consensus on Iraq since the war." (Tony Karon, "Reality Check: John Kerry," Time.com, 10/1/04)

Kerry Misleadingly Claimed He Can Bring More Allies Into Iraq. "Reality Check: It wasn't the President's credibility that kept most of the international community out of Iraq; it was, and is, the policies pursued by the U.S. in Iraq. But Kerry is broadly committed to the same policies. And if, as he says, other countries will participate because they have a stake in the outcome, the presumably they would do so no matter who was President of the United States." (Tony Karon, "Reality Check: John Kerry," Time.com, 10/1/04)

These are only but a few piles of manure Kerry and his democrat stall boys are letting pile up deeper and deeper. Trouble is- in these final days of America's political derby will the far left continue to douse their lying stench with James Carvel type spin? Will CBS, ABC, NBC, and other various news organization's really do any investigative reporting and expose these manure filled leftist stalls of crap? Or will all of the mainstream media organizations continue to buzz around like flies at the Kerry/Edwards stall? Will they continue to insatiably devour the deceitful and harmful bacteria and then regurgitate it back onto the American public?

Let us hope that truth, honesty, and unwavering beliefs will be what America really sees in November when she goes to the voting polls. This political derby we are running here in America is the one that will either have us continuing to live in freedom or it will be the one that drags us down into the dying breed of old nags. Do we really need stalls filled with piles of wet, smelly horse manure and the socialistic ways of those who believe in doom and gloom?

On voting day let's send the old ideals of Kerry/Edwards and the far left out to pasture. I don't think the old mules would make good glue- they don't know how to stick to anything for more than five seconds. Dog food wouldn't be right either- dogs shouldn't have to eat rotten smelly tough old meat. Let their ideals fade along with their rhetoric, honor them for their time of service- but for heaven's sake let's take them out of our country's derby permanently.

(Sites to visit for studies: http://www.mediascope.org/pubs/ibriefs/yvm.htm; http://www.hon.ch/News/HSN/513029.html; http://www.mentalhealth.org/youthviolence/surgeongeneral

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Bio:
Ms. Marsala writes for OpEds, and conducts interviews for Opinion Editorials; The Rant; Canada Free Press; Independent Newspapers; EV Tribune; ACU Foundation; Canadian Free Press; Sarah's Seed Woman's Journal; A. M. Siriano; Men's News Daily; Lady Liberty; NZ Herald; Citizen Newspaper; amgoodnews.com; Americonservative; TAC; PHX News; Enter Stage Right; The Right Guys; Conservababes; The Alberta Weekly; Free Republic; Conservative Battle Line; Focus Magazine; Insight Online; GOPUSA/Arizona; and The Truth Magazine.

Writing about cultural, social and political ideologies by using a bit of satire every now and again helps keep her grey cells stirring. Her philosophy remains that no matter the event, you can always find a bit of humor or the human element of hope somewhere amongst the cracks. Arizona is where she currently corrals her posse, although she's a beach bum'n girl at heart. When she isn't espousing, she enjoys painting abstract art, photography, and music of all genres.

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