ACV News & Opinion
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
by Lenny Palmer
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Dear Friends,
This perspective appeared in the guests section of the Editorial pages of the April 4 (Thursday) Chicago Tribune.
In 1961, a young African-American man, after hearing President John F. Kennedy's challenge to, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," gave up his student deferment, left college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines. In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of service in the Marines, volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman. (They provide medical assistance to the Marines as well as to Navy personnel.)
The man did so well in corpsman school that he was the valedictorian and became a cardiopulmonary technician. Not surprisingly, he was assigned to the Navy's premier medical facility, Bethesda Naval Hospital, as a member of the commander in chief's medical team, and helped care for President Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery. For his service on the team, which he left in 1967, the White House awarded him three letters of commendation. (read more)
A MAD SCRAMBLEby Luke Rush
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Democrats are now worrying that they might be doing too much damage to each other. No, really?! I hadn't heard that anywhere until just now.
Thanks, super Interweb media! O:-) And also, after two major primary days on which people thought that the nomination would be wrapped up tight, people are finally starting to figure out that Pennsylvania's primary probably won't resolve anything. Wow, these people catch on FAST! Mssr. Obama also pulled a weak-kneed, semantics-ridden copout in denouncing Jeremiah Wright's "political views" (in an always-binding written statement, no less), rather than just going for the whole magilla and throwing him under the bus wholesale, as Tom from Kenosha put it. Attending the same church for 20 years, donating $50,000+ to that church in one fell swoop, and naming your magnum opus after one of his sermons essentially implies a tacit endorsement of that pastor's views.
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