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It is amazing Congressman Pete Clark has managed to stay in office as long as he has. Then again, he is from California.
The Democratic flame-thrower had the floor during a health care debate by the United States House of Representatives.
“You don’t have money to fund the war or children,” Stark said to House Republicans. “But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.”
Stark’s comments were not only irresponsible, they were bordering on treasonous.
But let’s forget Stark; his Oct. 18th outburst wasn’t his first. Stark personally attacked a congressman from Oklahoma in 2001, claiming his children were illegitimate (when, in fact, they were not).
On June 6, 2006, a school bus driver with a bus full of children flipped President Bush the bird as he rode by in his motorcade.
In the eighteenth century, the individual in question probably would have been found guilty of treason and sedition and, consequently, been tarred and feathered. Fortunately for the bus driver, twenty-first century Americans are not so barbaric and cruel. Still, the hostile sentiment lingers.
Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen Army soldier, has gone so far as to call President Bush a murderer.
On college campuses students proudly flaunt “Buck Fush” t-shirts.
With any freedom, especially the freedom of speech, comes responsibility.
Radicals like Cindy Sheehan have long walked the fine line between free speech and political dissent, and probably always will.
For the rest of us, we will speak with our vote.
The American public should respect the highest office in our nation, regardless of political loyalties. Anything less is shameful.
If the American people don’t respect the Administration, how can we expect the world to?

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