Graduation Day
by Don Wrege
Against a backdrop of thirteen high school students murdered by two of their
peers in Colorado, President Clinton had to do something. Bill and his
occasional wife showed up to personally feel the pain of the graduating class
of Columbine High School Thursday, May 20th (the same day another middle
class white boy in Georgia wounded six of his classmates).
"You can all help us build a better future," he said in a speech to the
graduates, "A future where parents and children are more involved in each
others lives."
Excuse me? What about the "It Takes A Village" mentality, where direct parental involvement is replaced by the socialist vision of communal
parenting: daycare? More involved? When the Democrat-driven tax machine eats half of
everything a family earns forcing both parents to work, leaving the children to be
reared by corporations? Forgive me, but hearing a pathological liar and serial
adulterer preach about family values makes me slightly ill.
Clinton's sermon about violence was even more bizarre. With bombs dropping
in the background he emoted, "We must do more to reach out to our
children and teach them to express their anger and to resolve their conflicts
with words, not weapons." Untold numbers of civilians in Yugoslavia (children
included) have met their death because of Clinton's undeclared war. A war
even former president Jimmy Carter decries as unnecessary. Clinton bites his lower lip. Yugoslavian citizens bite the dust.
We're hip deep in hypocrisy and sinking further with every word out of this
man's mouth. When the leader of our country is morally bankrupt, uses death
and destruction to prove a point, and has torn his own family apart with his
infantile sex addiction, I think our teenagers are smart enough to recognize a
naked emporer when they are forced to listen to one.
I wonder what the Columbine graduates really learned that day? Perhaps these young
adults were shown first hand that you can lie and get away with it, that you can
kill innocent people and not be held accountable and that you can flout your
marriage vows and it doesn't matter. (That is, if you're the president of the
United States.) Hey, thanks for the photo op. You might want to put some ice on that.
Light anyone?
