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 24th, 2008 at 10:18 am
None of us are over there in Iraq. We get to type and be armchair quarterbacks from the comforts of our home or library about whats right and wrong.
If youre not personally there and its not your own child, then you dont know the heartache of 4000 plus mothers whose children will never come home.
Of course that was a dramatization to us who are obviously not heart broken and secretly happy we wont be going there….If you feel so strongly that war is necessary and now then they are still taking enlistments….Damn your excuses take your bon bons over there get suited up and SERVE THE COUNTRY YOU LOVE!
I am sure they will share their oil profits with you and your family when you get maimed. When you get back here and the country you served doesnt give a job,etc….Yeh America treats the war heros well….You get a flag when one of the family members dies…..Pretty cool exchange….right?
June 24th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I’ve been out of political campaigns for over 35 years. That was the most distorted ad I have ever had the misfortune to view. You may have achieved an unwanted result, a galvanizing of the people who support our enlisted men & woman and to quote a popular movie “Hello boys, I’m back”.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
“The farther we have gotten from 9/11 the more we have heard from the weak and the cowardly.”
Yeah, I hear that dipsh*t Bush almost every day on the radio. Remember, it’s
O: Operation
I: Iraqi
L: Liberation
June 24th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Hey Slaughter -
Yeah, I hear that dipsh*t Bush almost every day on the radio. Remember, it’s
O: Operation
I: Iraqi
L: Liberation
So that would be why oil is so cheap right now, right?
June 27th, 2008 at 4:07 am
Wordsmith said:
“Question 19 is problematic, as there’s no way to conclude motive for answering the question. I support the decision to remove Saddam from power, but depending on how I decide to read the question, I could answer either way.”
I don’t know, Wordsmith, asking someone if we should have invaded Iraq is a pretty straightforward question. And over one-third of the military personnel answering felt comfortable with a simple “no.”
June 29th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Wordsmith: You make a good point. It would not be proper for soldiers to desert every time they were sent to a war they disagreed with. There are some wars, though, that are so manifestly unjust that they do justify this behavior. I think it would have been best for Nazi soldiers to desert, for example. But I don’t think the Iraq war falls into that category, so I agree that soldiers who have enlisted already should keep to the terms of their contracts and not desert.
But what should ordinary citizens who oppose the war do? Not enlisting is a way of sending a message to the government. Let’s suppose that every eligible civilian chose not to enlist. Then, the armed forces would tell the president that there were no new soldiers coming, and this would force the president to end the war. I understand that you may reasonably disagree with me about the moral correctness of the Iraq war, but I’m curious if you think that this is a sensible position for someone who opposes the war to take.