RED
01-11-2007, 05:31 PM
I don't like Charlie Rangel. A few years back, he accused the Bush Administration of secretly planning to reinstate the draft, but in actuality, sponsored a bill to re-enact the draft himself, and disingenuously, (a DIMocrat trait) voted against it himself. This guy is a sad piece of work. He's just a typical NY leftist voted into power, over and over, by his 'victim' constituency, because he shares their same pathetic, victim mentality. If you're anything like me, you switch the channel, anytime this idiot is allowed to give his opinion ... he's a favorite, along with Al Sharpton, on fair and balanced :rolleyes: FOX, I might add. I ran across this article with Charlie Rangel, the buffoon, as the subject. Perhaps some of you will enjoy it.
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Charlie Rangel Doesn't Get Real Men
By Julia Gorin January 11, 2007
When Charlie Rangel closed out the year by seconding John Kerry’s sentiment that men end up in the military by default rather than choice, he exposed something that many have long suspected not only about Rangel and Kerry, but about the Democratic Party itself: they don’t understand the nature of men.
To review Rangel’s precise words:
If there's anyone who believes these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No bright young individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment…If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.
The first faulty premise is that someone goes into the military based on a “gimme” attitude—that is, they see the military as Democrats do: a social program providing scholarships, career training, jobs and benefits. This means that Rangel is unfamiliar with the battle envy that many a man who has never served feels when in the presence of men who have. Manly men who have not served, such as my husband, often feel humbled, soft and inadequate before men who have seen battle or at least are trained for it and have worn the nation’s uniform. (To compensate, he’s lately been talking about setting up a scholarship fund for children who have lost parents in Iraq, called the “Wish I Had Served” Foundation.) If the military were just for those who lack opportunity or are looking for “a bonus,” that gnawing, empty spot in the pit of a man's stomach wouldn’t be there.
But such feelings are for men of character. And Rangel revealed the extent of his own character with what he said next: “Everyone will see what we already know, and that is that those who have the least opportunities in this age find themselves in the military, as I did when I was 18 years old.”
more HERE! (http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26394)
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Charlie Rangel Doesn't Get Real Men
By Julia Gorin January 11, 2007
When Charlie Rangel closed out the year by seconding John Kerry’s sentiment that men end up in the military by default rather than choice, he exposed something that many have long suspected not only about Rangel and Kerry, but about the Democratic Party itself: they don’t understand the nature of men.
To review Rangel’s precise words:
If there's anyone who believes these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No bright young individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment…If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.
The first faulty premise is that someone goes into the military based on a “gimme” attitude—that is, they see the military as Democrats do: a social program providing scholarships, career training, jobs and benefits. This means that Rangel is unfamiliar with the battle envy that many a man who has never served feels when in the presence of men who have. Manly men who have not served, such as my husband, often feel humbled, soft and inadequate before men who have seen battle or at least are trained for it and have worn the nation’s uniform. (To compensate, he’s lately been talking about setting up a scholarship fund for children who have lost parents in Iraq, called the “Wish I Had Served” Foundation.) If the military were just for those who lack opportunity or are looking for “a bonus,” that gnawing, empty spot in the pit of a man's stomach wouldn’t be there.
But such feelings are for men of character. And Rangel revealed the extent of his own character with what he said next: “Everyone will see what we already know, and that is that those who have the least opportunities in this age find themselves in the military, as I did when I was 18 years old.”
more HERE! (http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26394)