Moveon.org wants you to raise your sons to be wimps. Check out their attack ad on John McCain below.
Moveon.org Ad
This ad really got under my skin. I don’t know if that’s the reason moveon.org made the ad, to irritate people like me. I think they probably made the commercial to pull on the heart strings of all mothers out there and make it appear that John McCain wants to take their sons. These commercials that try to use emotion rather than reality to sway votes are just irritating.
I wonder about the actress (I doubt she’s really the mother of the baby because she’s obviously acting) saying that John McCain can’t have her son. Does that mean she’d rather her son live in a terrorist state or under the constant threat of acts of terrorism? Does that mean that she wants other people’s sons to keep the wolves at bay so that her son can live a life of complete narcissism? What is it she thinks happens in the world?
Actually, I can relate to what she’s saying. I can’t imagine my son being off in a foreign land being shot at by people who are trying to kill him. Its horrific to even contemplate. Its a reality that many of us have to live with day in and day out as our sons do their duty for the country. Its an unimaginable and untenable thing … to have your son ‘over there’ and to know that at any moment something horrible can happen. You don’t go for a second not knowing that. Not for a second for the entire time he’s deployed.
But what would this little actress, or moveon.org, have us do? As a mother, I have learned that I have to let my children grow up and make their choices in life, just as I made mine. I respect the choices my children have made and I support them 100%. I am proud of my son. His deployment changed him, but mostly in good ways. He is definitely a man now. He has a self-confidence and personal strength he never had before. That doesn’t mean I wanted him to go to Iraq. It just means that I understand that at some point a mother has to stand aside and allow her son to become a man.
I would rather do it than send my son to do it, but that’s not how it works. People like moveon.org would rather we surrender and appease than stand up to danger. By doing that, they put our sons in more danger.
Someone has to stand between our society and danger. If not my son, then who? If not little Alex then someone else will have to stand and deliver. Someone’s son, somewhere. This commercial makes me angry. What she is saying is that she is not willing to do her part. She’ll put us all in more danger to hide herself and her child in a corner. I love my son as much as she loves hers. I held him in my lap when he was a baby. I watched him take his first steps and go to school for the first time. I sat with him when he was sick and listened to him when he was confused. I waited in terror the first time he took the car out for a drive by himself.
The hardest thing I have ever done is spend 15 months knowing that he was in imminent danger half-way around the world and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.
This woman should get used to it. That’s what its like to raise kids.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 7:49 am
You’re all missing the point in your desire to see the worst in such groups as moveon.org. The point of the ad is that the mother doesn’t want her children to be offered as the sacrifice for a war that is not keeping “wolves at bay” or burkas off the shoulders of non-willing American women. Try to find a credible report that says the Iraq war was a necessary conflict in the War on Terror (e.g., Saddam hated Al-Qaeda and did not allow them safe harbor in his country–now the organization has several strongholds in country). So the woman is simply saying, “Look, you cannot count on families to offer their children up the more we learn this conflict was one of choice, not necessity.”
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
Adam - you are wrong. Where do you learn about the conflict? From move.org? If you learn about it from the soldiers on the ground you would have a different view of the necessity of the war.
The farther we have gotten from 9/11 the more we have heard from the weak and the cowardly.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:04 am
Hey Adam:
“Saddam hated Al-Qaeda….”
Yeah!
But he hated Bush and the U.S. more.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”
By the way… 10 to one that “mother” is an actress and that is not her “son”
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:05 am
This just goes to show the selfishness of todays generation. They’ve had a life of an eternally good to great economy, money in their pockets, all because… well because… well because they are just “them”.
They don’t see themselves as lucky or blessed, they don’t see sacrifice as having anything to do with what makes their little world behave.
They are a bunch of selfish little jerks. If not your son, who’s? Why did my son volunteer to carry a rifle to protect the freedom of Alex? I don’t know. It probably has something to do with the way I raised him.
And buy the way, mom, It’s up to Alex whether or not he becomes a soldier. It’s an all volunteer military now a days.
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 am
I am a liberal, though not a soccer mom, and I never supported the war. However, both of my sons, raised in a liberal home, chose to enlist, one long before 9/11 and one after, in the Army, and in the Navy, because, in the words of my older son, they were raised to believe that the most honorable thing someone could was to serve their country, protect the weak and defend the rights that we enjoy that we so often take for granted. This is not a liberal or a conservative ideal, but an American ideal.
That being said, I have a large number of friends, supporters of the war from the beginning, who would not allow their kids to enlist - irony of ironies to me. They, like Alex’s mom and so many others, want and depend on someone else’s children to protect them.
How lucky they are that our children are not so selfish.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Kristol balsts MoveOn.Org Ad…
I’ve actually ignored MoveOn.org’s “Baby Alex” ad, and hadn’t thought to comment on it. After all, after being raised by his emasculating mother, lacking any strong male presence as a string of sex partners move in and out of baby-mama’s……
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Gee, you read quite a bit into that ad didn’t you? What I saw was a woman/actress saying that she didn’t want her son being sent to Iraq. She was quite specific,she mentioned only Iraq, the country where we’re fighting a war based on lies that has nothing to do with our freedom or security. We are, however, fighting a necessary, just war in Afghanistan. She didn’t express any opinion on that one or on serving in the military. For all you know, she could be a veteran herself. Yes, right now we have a volunteer military, but all young males have to sign up for the selective service, it wouldn’t take long for the draft to be reinstated. Electing John McCain President could make that a reality.
Stop impugning the patriotism and motives of people who disagree with you and love America as much as you do!!!!
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Beth congrats on the NYT citation - you’re doing an excellent job
John, perhaps you’re reading quite a bit into :”all young males have to sign up for the selective service, it wouldn’t take long for the draft to be reinstated. Electing John McCain President could make that a reality.” - just saying…If that’s really how you perceive reality then I’m shocked. No, really. I’m quite shocked that it’s now John McCain who will swoop in to take the baby Alexes of the world via the draft, and not the Great Satan GWB ( here’s a reality check - the war has been ongoing since 2003 and yet no draft! I know, just crazy, with a Repub in the oval office and all).
Oh, and BTW, dear John T. Allen - the Iraq War was not built on lies; you just choose to see it that way. As for injust or immoral and illegal (the Far Left War screed) - take it up with the congressional dems who supported the war in Iraq and former pres. Bill Clinton who unequivocally believed the same info the Bush administration was presented with in regards to Iraq.
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:04 pm
John — oddly enough, the only folks proposing a reinstatement of the draft are liberal Democrats. Republicans continue to support an all-volunteer military that is meeting its recruitment and retention goals, despite liberal claims to the contrary.
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:21 pm
To Adam and John T. Allen, the war was not based upon lies, and it is a myth that a secular Saddam would never work with Islamic terrorists.