- The
Real Scandals
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- by
Michael Arvey
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- OpEdNews.com
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- Heavens, another sex scandal smear job--this time on
presidential contender John Kerry. Are we in shock yet?
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- The reports are contradictory, so nothing out of the norm there. In one, Kerry is rumored to
have had an affair with a younger woman, 27-year-old journalist
Alexandria Polier. In another, the woman (and her parents) disputes
the claim in a statement to AP: "I have never had a relationship
with Senator Kerry, and the rumors in the press are completely
false." Polier is presently in Nairobi visiting the parents of her
Israeli fiance, Yaron Schwartzman, who was raised in Kenya. Another
report claims the woman taped a damning interview last December for a
national television network. Whom to believe? More importantly, who
would possibly care? Europeans laugh at such ludicrous moral
relativism paraded across the American political stage. If the truth
be known, probably a majority of Americans laugh as well. Shall we
poll?
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- Nevertheless, whether Kerry did or didn't consummate such
bedroom antics, it remains a so-what scenario, another pathetic
diversion from where the light should be falling. Will the right wing
ever fashion an outrage more seminal than their standardized affair
cliche? It's a fake-out rhubarb, and so 50s.
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- Simple and more immediate concerns and truths won't go
away, however:
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- Affairs don't bomb and nuke innocent populations with DU
weapons of mass destruction;
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- don't steal their national treasuries, or privatize entire
nations by crony capitalism;
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- don't ruin and run roughshod over environments, otherwise
known as communal living space;
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- don't ransack the future with immense and wasteful
deficits;
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- don't pretend halo by association;
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- don't steal elections;
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- don't renege on international agreements and treaties;
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- don't use a major crime as pretext for wars and pursuits of
empire;
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- don't butter their parsnips at the expense of the
commonwealth;
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- don't huddle around Liberty on tap;
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- don't ram Constitutional stoplights;
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- don't revel in absurdity;
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- don't rule by bugaboos;
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- don't shock and awe;
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- don't launch a thousand, faceless missiles.
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- At a recent Democrat dinner, Kerry said, "Given the
record of this administration and their stunning lack of vision, the
Republican attack machine may well have no choice but to resort to
smear and fear." He also added, "They can't escape the
truth." In that
light, I'll take the small, contained lie of an affair over the
armamentarium of deceits this administration promotes, any day.
- Michael Arvey spiritmed@rocketmail.com
is a free lance writer and author in Colorado.
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