John Kerry's Obscenity

Some 12-year-old girl was prevailed upon at the DNC last week to scold Vice President Dick Cheney for having launched the "f-bomb" at Senator Pat Leahy. Little Miss Clean Mouth must not read Rolling Stone or she'd know why we call her man for the Oval Office John "F" Kerry around here.

Anyway, I generally disapprove of misusing the word obscene to mean "grossly outrageous" or the like. We have better ways to refer to such things — such as "grossly outrageous" — and we should keep obscene for its original meaning.

I would like however, to call your attention to this paragraph from John "F" Kerry's acceptance speech, Jul. 29:

.... What does it mean when people are huddled in blankets in the cold, sleeping in Lafayette Park on the doorstep of the White House itself — and the number of families living in poverty has risen by three million in the last four years?...

What does it mean? Well, when it comes to the number of families living in poverty, I'll bet it means that the definition of poverty is being manipulated to artificially inflate the numbers.

But what does it mean when people are huddled in blankets in the cold, sleeping in Lafayette Park on the doorstep of the White House itself?

It think it means, Dear John, that you haven't prevailed upon your immensely wealthy wife to let go the ketchup fortune and provide some help to the homeless in the nation's capital.

I've had it up to here, and further, with filthy rich politicians bewailing how little the federal government does to help the underprivileged. By which they mean that they haven't yet taxed us enough to keep the money running through their fat, grubby hands so they can buy votes from special interest groups.

In a nutshell: to hell with filthy rich politicians who demand that ordinary Americans should be required — by threat of confiscation and/or imprisonment — to allow the politicians to be generous with our (tax) money though they continue to live fabulous lives of luxurious comfort.

It's grossly outrageous obscene.

P.S. Same goes for filthy rich Hollywood Vacuumheads, too.

P.P.S. See Protecting Us from People Like Themselves.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 08/02/04 07:22:18 AM
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