There are several contenders this week. Stephanie Kifowit, an Illinois legislator, talked about wanting to kill a colleague’s family by infecting them with Legionnaire’s Disease. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that the victory of herself and fellow leftists is as important as the moon landing. However, this week’s winner is Barbra Streisand.
She stated that our democracy is being assaulted by women who voted for Donald Trump. She claimed that they “don’t believe in their own thoughts” enough to vote against their husbands. I cannot understand how someone’s view is so perverted that they think a woman exercising her right to vote is assaulting democracy. I guess she wants a democracy where Democrats always win. The only way that can happen is if only one name is on the ballot. Her attack on women is in the same vein as Hillary Clinton claiming that they voted for Trump because they were afraid to stand up to the men in their lives. The whole idea of identity politics is to tell people they are weak and powerless and need elites like Hillary Clinton to protect them from the evil Republicans. High school biology was a long time ago. However, I don’t recall learning that having xx chromosomes dictates political belief. Powerful women who seem to believe otherwise are doing a disservice to their gender and their party.
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Today millions are mourning the loss of an incredible man. He was blessed with longevity but people are judging him on the quality of his life.
He was born in a world of privilege but sought to excel on his own. He went to an exclusive boarding school and was president of the senior class. He could have used his connections (his father was a senator) to get easy duty during the war. Instead, he enlisted in the Navy on his 18th birthday. He became the youngest naval aviator in the service. He flew a torpedo bomber aboard an aircraft carrier. One day he was on a mission to bomb the island of Chichijima. His engine caught fire but he still completed his mission before bailing out. He was the only man to end up near the island who wasn’t captured and executed by the Japanese. He married Barbara Pierce in 1945. They were married an incredible 73 years. They had six children including a future president and a future governor. A daughter, Robin, died of leukemia at age three. He went to Yale and was captain of the baseball team. He could easily have had a cushy job on Wall Street but chose a different path. He worked as a salesman for an oil service company to learn the business. He co-founded an oil company and later served as its president. Like his father, he left the business world for public service. He served two terms in Congress. President Eisenhower saw his potential. He them served as UN ambassador, Chairman of the Republican National Committee during Watergate, ambassador to China and head of the CIA. In 1980 he ran for the presidency but settle for being Reagan’s running mate. During his term as President he formed an incredible coalition to push Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait and was witness to the collapse of the Soviet Union. He was a man of humility (which some mistook for weakness). He cared about people, often surprising them with acts of kindness. He was a man who lived life to the fullest, including a parachute jump on his 90th birthday. Like Harry Truman, he was unpopular when he left the presidency but gained in respect as the years passed. I believe history will look upon him kindly. |
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