Posted by
Longplay on Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:48:02 PM
When the Founders, knowing they were risking their lives, fortunes and sacred honor, declared in the world-shaking Declaration of Independence, that all men had unalienable rights, among which were "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", were they including "among" these three the right to a congenial "Tone"?
And somehow I don't recall that the writers of our Constitution claimed that we, the people, wrote that great document "in Order to Form a more Pleasant Tone".
Nevertheless, as with many late-to-the-party, know-nothing, opportunistic, "undecideds", laboring under the weight of their self-importance, Colin Powell felt at this late stage that he just had to endorse Barack Obama and then chide the "Tone" of the McCain Campaign.
Never mind Obama's "tone" when speaking out against protecting born-alive infants.
Never mind Obama's "tone" when belittling rural Americans for "clinging to guns and religion" out of "frustration".
Or for telling Joe Plumber he wants to spread the plumber;'s wealth around. Or Joe Biden's nasty rhetoric. Or Jack Murtha's, calling Western Pennsylvania racist and our Marines (once directed by Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) murderers.
Never mind the tone of Obama's supporters threatening lawsuits against people who "tell lies" about Obama. Never mind the continuing "tone" of BO's associates through all his years.
No, it's a fellow soldier's "tone" he doesn't like. But it's a soldier who endured far more than Colin Powell ever did. And who, unlike Powell in the Gulf War, wants America to win.
I always suspected of Powell that he had no center, or even historical knowledge, when it came to a philosophy of government. Now I know it.
Another RINO. Another phony. Another beneficiary of racial preferences biting the hand that feeds him.
Tone deaf, dumb (unfortunately not in the meaning of speechless), and blind ... to the danger of what Obama and an unfettered Democrat Congress will be to the Constitution, our rights, and our freedoms.
Pathetic.