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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Holding Life and Death in his hands like a savage gift

Busy with other matters today, but I thought some of my regular readers might enjoy this inspired piece of prose.  Go ahead and take a deep breath of whatever it is Ken Layne’s been inspired by.

Teaser:

Look at you people with this Vietnam boat nonsense. Every day, you’re pounding home the fact that Kerry fought in Vietnam. You jackasses started this stuff so early-- with the “Oh he protested the war” and the Jane Fonda photoshops-- that the Kerry people turned the whole Democratic convention into a celebration of the Vietnam War. Nobody even remembers being against Vietnam anymore. The next Vietnam movie will be a buddy comedy starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and all they’re going to do is kill Charlie and win medals and dance with beautiful girls. It’ll make $300 million on the opening weekend. They’re going to tear down that bummer memorial in Washington and put up a 1,000-foot statue of a smiling American soldier proudly standing on a stack of golden skulls. You morons have made Vietnam the Democrats’ favorite memory and greatest victory. Then you scream hooray when a gang of addled old Nixon bagmen show up in a teevee commercial to bitch about Kerry fighting in Vietnam, and once again the normal people with lives only remember, again, that Kerry fought in Vietnam and Bush didn’t.

Vietnam as the Democrats’ favorite memory and greatest victory . . . no, I don’t think that can be improved upon.  Next time I come in on a 2-on-1, I’m passing the puck over to Ken Layne.

Posted by Michael on 08/18 at 09:38 AM
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