A soldier's story or Newt Poop

I'm lucky.  As an Army brat I grew up living in a number of different places around the country and abroad.  Hence I had friends of many different races and national origins and did not turn out to be a racist or prejudice as were many of the kids in schools which I attended in the deep south.  Also my parents were Christians; my mother was raised as a Methodist, her father being a Methodist Minister, and my father was a Presbyterian.  Hence I learned from an early age that God was Love but you better do what your daddy says or ELSE, which meant a belt to the butt!

Yet despite this strict upbringing I was recently called a "racist" by Mr. Wade C. Bolen, editor of The Clarke County Tribune.  Such a statement could be no further from the truth.  It was a bald faced lie, pure and simple, based not on fact, but conjecture, a statement made perhaps in revenge to my defense of President Obama and his support as our Commander in Chief.

I recently met Mr. Bolen.  I had gone to the newspaper office to renew my subscription when he happened to walk through the door.  I promptly introduced myself and in the course of our brief conversation told him flat out that I was not a "racist!"  But I'm not sure if he got the message as Mr. Bolen seems a pretty stubborn gentleman to me.  Why it might take some more knocking to pound that fact into Mr. Bolen's thick skull.  I AM NOT A RACIST!  Do you get it now, Mr. Bolen?

What I am is a very patriotic American.  That's why when I open The Clarke County Tribune and see it filled with radical, anti-American, right-wing propaganda every week, I can't help but get the impression that someone has fallen into a vat of Newt poop!

As an Army brat I learned what Newt poop smelled and looked like at a very early age.  My Dad was posted in Orleans, France, and was charged with such critical missions as supplying allied forces with supplies, munitions, and designing evacuation plans for allied forces in the event of a nuclear war!  One day while out for a walk he showed me a pile of "road apples," a large mound of dung deposited by large draft horses which were used to pull wagon loads of wheat.  These were huge horses, like the Clydesdale Budweiser horses, and when they pooped, it left a mountain heap of dung which reeked and made quite a stench; not something you would want to step in.  Well, Newt poop looks much the same as 'em road apples, and leaves one's misplaced foot with much the same stink!

Opening up The Clarke County Tribune every week and seeing Newt poop makes me wonder what's going on?  Every week there is a new anti-Obama cartoon and another guest columnist tooting or pooping for Newt.  So knowing Newt poop when I see it, and being a patriotic American, I have to stand up and defend those who are bashing my president.  Hence I call the shots like I see them and feel it is quite accurate, correct and on target to say that such propaganda is anti-American, racist, and aids and abets our real enemies, which is al-Qaida and the Taliban.

Last time I heard we were at war on two fronts, one in Iraq and another in Afghanistan.  I happen to know what it is like to have to be the one going to ring the bell on homes and deliver the bad news that someone's husband or son will not be coming home from the war.  You see, I grew up hearing all my Dad's war stories.  And the worse ones of all were how terrible it was having to bring home that news to the wives, children and parents of a soldier killed in action.  That was my father's duty during the Vietnam War, and in the end it broke his heart and killed him.

Apparently Mr. Bolen doesn't get it.  We are all Americans here and like it or not President Obama is our President and Commander in Chief.  We need to rally around the President during these tough times, give him all the support we can, and focus our frustration and anger instead upon our common enemies, the Taliban, al-Qaida, and others around the world who seek to destroy our great nation.

You may enjoy pooping upon our President, Mr. Bolen, and you may be doing just what the owner of The Clarke County Tribune wants, but it ain't pretty and it ain't nice to be Newt pooping on the President during a time of war!  You just don't seem to get it.  I guess you never had to go knocking on doors and tell someone their son or daughter was never coming home.  Supporting our troops, Mr. Bolen, means also supporting the Commander in Chief, and not trying to make him look a fool to everyone who reads your rag.

Quite frankly the reason I decided to renew my subscription to The Clarke County Tribune was so I could monitor the Newt poop you are publishing and dispose of it with my Newt poop scooper.  One thing I learned growing up as the son of a much decorated soldier was how to scoop poop!  In the Army they have another term for it, *@#$! runs down the leash, such that the lower downs in the chain of command end up kicking the dog.  You are the dog, Mr. Bolen, and although I respect your rights to express your opinion, I don't like the Newt poop you are using to trash our President  with every week.  Thus I'm telling everyone that 'em road apples you've been plopping about President Obama are just so much Newt poop, and since *@#$! runs down the leash, here's kicking your butt!

Shame on The Clarke County Tribune for not supporting our President and Commander in Chief during this time of war.  Yes, it will take more than 30,000 additional troops to win the war on terrorism, and in my opinion the fighting of this war and every war should be left to the generals.  Politicians simply do not know how to win a war.  If its about winning then there should be no holds barred and we should get serious with al-Qaida, the Taliban and any and all who aid and abed our enemies.  That's why I say The Clarke County Tribune is acting like a traitor.  You can't go around pooping Newt poop on the President when someone is ringing door bells telling a wife their husband won't be coming home or bringing that tragic news to parents that their son or daughter was killed in action.

How then do you express your disagreement with the President?  You do it directly.  You encourage people to address letters to the President.  If you want you may publish such letters as open letters to President Obama.  Also, you make a point to express both sides of an issue and give equal time or space to columnists who support the President.  Otherwise you come out looking lopsided, anti-American, racist, and like so much Newt poop!

Also notice that this ain't personal, Mr. Bolen.  Like I told you to your face, I am NOT a racist.  But The Clarke County Tribune is looking racist and coming across as being racist because of what it is doing and what it is publishing.  Also by not supporting our Commander in Chief, even if you disagree with some things he does, the newspaper comes across looking anti-American, and aids and abets our enemies in spirit, which helps the enemy in its efforts to divide and conquer these great United States of America.

I'd like to see The Clarke County Tribune say that it supports our President as Commander in Chief, even if it doesn't agree with everything President Obama does.  God only knows that I do not agree with everything President Obama does.  Like I said, I think we should leave fighting wars over to the generals, and Obama was never a soldier and certainly isn't a general.  Hence we all need to support our President and pray that with our support we may all come out as victors in the war on terrorism.