Just Like Little Kids

I’ve had it up to here with the left-wing and the right-wing and it’s about time that this country pull together and form a “sensible-wing” because what we have now is a pair of self-consumed, spoiled fat brats.

Just look at the latest escapade with this Cindy Sheehan person. I have not followed this story from day one and I can’t seem to get a true picture of why this woman has become the poster person of grieving family members who have lost a loved one in the war. She might have started out with her own individual crusade but it’s apparent that some left-wing group is now sponsoring her, bringing all the whackos out who have nothing to do.

As bad as the left is the right-wing is no better. It seems like no one and I mean NO ONE, can speak badly about Dubya without being attacked – witness the Swift Boat Fiasco and what happened to McCain when he was running as a presidential candidate. Or how about U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, who believes that his wife's identity as an undercover CIA operative was leaked in retaliation for his criticism of the Bush administration in a 2002 New York Times op-ed piece. The right-wingers want everyone to go around like mindless bobble head dolls.

These smear campaigns remind me of the barbs that kids used to get into when I was small. One kid would say to the other insultingly, “Your mother!” the other kid would answer back, “No, your mother!!”, not to be outdone and back down, the first kid would come back with, “Noo! YOUR MOTHER!!!” This insanity would go on until one of them would resort to punching the other kid in the nose

I believe that this administration puts disagreeing with the president on the same plane as dissing your mother. Now we have pitted mothers against each other over a senseless war and the White House is frantically trying to find ways of making Dubya look like General Patton. Let's see, send him to West Point to make a useless speech. No, how about some VFW post in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Make sure we have plenty of US flags and let's prop up a few 85 yr. old veterans with a lot of medals right behind him on stage. I think half the White House staff is paid to think of ways and find settings that make the President appear as if he was an All-American hero. He sure isn't no Ike, as much as they try to make him out to be.

Isn’t it ironic that while we offer up the innocent lives of our loved ones in order for Iraqis to have freedom of speech that we are being stripped of ours. We have the likes of Biff O’Liary saying that he’s looking out for us with his No Spit Zone – but what he’s actually doing is looking out to make sure he stuffs his own pockets. If he is looking out for us, why didn't Fox send him to Aruba to find that missing girl? Then they give us Slippery and Bones to do an upscale version of The Your Mother routine weeknights on cable TV. Things haven’t changed since I was a little kid. The big difference with the little kids then was that after all the arguing and wrestling they would make up and go back to playing together without any intervention from the grownups.

They were united and ready to defend their turf against the likes of those Irish kids from Charlestown or South Boston. They were a “sensible-wing” and even with its internal scuffles the North End was the safest place to live in the city. Back then - you had a problem with the Ayatollah, don’t worry, he would be dealt with. You know what I mean? Bush you shouldn’t have picked Condoleeza Rice, the person you needed was Sam Spaccalafaccia (for you Arabs out there, name means break-a u face).