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BOBO FOR KERRY
It’s dangerous when America’s leadership is unwilling to admit mistakes. A few days ago John Kerry mistakenly credited Thomas Jefferson with a stupid line about dissent:
“This is not the first time in American history when patriotism has been distorted to deflect criticism and mislead the nation,” warned Senator Kerry, placing his courage in the broader historical context. “No wonder Thomas Jefferson himself said: ‘Dissent is the greatest form of patriotism.’”
So, has the Great Mekong Warrior corrected that mistake? Nope. Here’s his latest speech, as prepared for delivery on Saturday:
Dismissing dissent is not only wrong, but dangerous when America’s leadership is unwilling to admit mistakes, unwilling to engage in honest discussion, and unwilling to hold itself accountable for the consequences of decisions made without genuine disclosure, or genuine debate. As Thomas Jefferson said, “dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
Still, Melvin Bobo was impressed:
Melvin Bobo, a mental-health therapist who drove from Des Moines to hear the speech, said Kerry is “the right man at the right time.”
“The thing is, right now this country is sliding so far down hill. We really need him to stop the sliding,” Bobo said.
First, we need him to stop the speaking.
UPDATE. More on John “Misreporting for Duty” Kerry from Jim Lindgren.
UPDATE II. Ric Locke presents: Melvin Bobo’s Odyssey.
I always wondered what first name Bobo from the SBS TV show ‘Pizza’ had. now I know.
Posted by Harry Buttle on 2006 05 07 at 08:55 AM • permalink#4: “john kerry speeches. they’re big and they’re cheesy”
Posted by benson swears a lot on 2006 05 07 at 09:27 AM • permalinkMelvin Bobo? Melvin? Bobo?
My god paco, couldn’t you have come up with at least a plausible fake name?
Next time, go to the Department of Alternative Appellations and get something better than Melvin Bobo.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 05 07 at 09:34 AM • permalinkHeadline in the SMH:
“Heterosexual elected Episcopal bishop of California.”Now THAT’S what i call news!
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 05 07 at 09:41 AM • permalinkI think you are making this up.
Melvin Bobo ?
A mental health therapist ?
Then again, a bloke allegedly called “Fuller Chipsworth” tried to sell me a gun in a bar in Fort Worth, Texas. I declined his offer, I thought he might be from Monty Python’s Flying Circus or Candid Camera.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 05 07 at 09:41 AM • permalinkClearly Mr. Kerry is too nuanced for all you rubes. Dr. Bobo and I know what he means. He is calling for the U.S. to stand down from its imperial ambitions, and he had clearly (possibly through the use of the magic Cambodian hat) discovered an hithertofore unknown Jefferson quote, saying, “DESCENT is the highest form of patriotism.” I suspect his magic hat enables him to communicate with the dead.
Botox is the highest form of dewrinklization.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2006 05 07 at 09:55 AM • permalinkIt seems to me that Kerry, who can be a slippery character, just keeps sliding further down hill. So:
“We really need Kerry to stop sliding.”
Posted by James Lindgren on 2006 05 07 at 10:02 AM • permalink“The thing is, right now this country is sliding so far down hill. We really need him to stop the sliding,” Bobo said.
Um… that would be called ‘hitting bottom.’
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 07 at 11:04 AM • permalinkBobo ?
A mental health therapist ?
Yeh, them animal rights people finally started forced the universities to hand out degrees on both sides of the cage. After all, Primate-Americans have been intimately involved in some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the century.
You can read Dr. Bobo’s latest article in the Journal of American Psychiatry: “You Want to Stick That Electrode WHERE?!”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 07 at 11:49 AM • permalinkBOBO FOR KERRY
That sounds…..so right.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 07 at 12:08 PM • permalinkMr. McEnroe, obviously Bobo is Spanish in origin. http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1031
(I beg your forgiveness, Andrea. I’m still shell-shocked from the Italics Incident.)
#17, I checked it out, Dave. Yeah, the crazies are out. But the good news is that the vast majority of ratings are 5 stars. I don’t view Amazon as a reliable source for criticism, but it is good to see the nuts outnumbered.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 07 at 12:15 PM • permalinkMore here at Volokh Conspiracy, including a picture of the strict pacifist who DID say “Dissent from public policy can be the highest form of patriotism”:
“someone in the Kerry campaign should monitor the blogs more to prevent his recycling already debunked urban myths, such as the plastic turkey story and the Jefferson quote.”
Posted by James Lindgren on 2006 05 07 at 12:30 PM • permalinkPaco — Melvin Gardens is still available for your next run…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 07 at 12:36 PM • permalinkThe US needs that damned slacker Ted Kennedy to get off his besotted arse and take John Kerry for a midnight drive to Chappaquiddick. One must admit Kerry is a first rate traitor. Even now he longs to be America’s Quisling, if only he could get up the guts to marry his way into the position. Also don’t miss his new book “Profiles in Cheese.”
Assuming the Sen. has someone review his e-mail, I sent this on April 22 to Kerry.com, the day of his dissent speech (it was through his website, so as far is I know it’s hard to prove submission; my Word doc was created 4/22):
You said:
No wonder Thomas Jefferson himself said: “Dissent is the greatest form of patriotism.”Well, I do wonder if Thomas Jefferson ever made such a comment. I cannot find an authoritative source for this in a Google search, in Google book search or an Amazon search of the interior of a book.
Thomas Jefferson, like the rest of us, but less so, was capable of saying foolish and palpably false things. The quote you attributed to him - a bugle call to infantilism -does not look like it was one of them.
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Question: If Kerry disagrees with the Jefferson library, does not that make him more of a patriot if the library receives Federal funding?I’m betting Bobo the Therapist person is a Social Worker (probably an MSW) rather than a coctor person. Those therapists with degrees in Social Work (don’t forget proper caps) are, to quote Spiro Agnew, “softer than a duck’s behind.”
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 05 07 at 02:36 PM • permalinkMelvin Bobo, a mental-health therapist who drove from Des Moines to hear the speech, said Kerry is “the right man at the right time.”
Possibly a case of what is known as client-itis. Incidentally, what is the significance of the fact that Mr. Bobo drove from Des Moines to Grinnell? Is this to be taken as an act of pilgimage on the order of traveling from Bangladesh to Mecca, or from New Zealand to the grotto at Lourdes? Or was it a journey of such intrepidity that Melvin now ranks with Magellan or Mungo Park?
“Dissent”, content unspecified, is not by itself patriotic or unpatriotic., It depends on what is being dissented from, and in favor of what the dissenter is arguing. In Kerry’s case he is dissenting from the defense of the United States against vicious enemies who attacked us many times, culminating in the atrocity of 9/11. He dissents from the only viable strtegy so far developed to stop future terrorism against us. He offers no alternative strategy, at any rate aside from a law enforcement approach already tried and found totally inadequate during the 1990s. His previous reputation is as a smarmy apologist for Communist tyranny, and he plainly acts and speaks with the intent that the USA be defeated in the current war, just as he did in the Vietnam War. This is the same sort of patriotism the Copperheads had.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 05 07 at 04:08 PM • permalinkDoes this mean that my dissenting against his dissent is an even higher form of patriotism?
Posted by Harry Buttle on 2006 05 07 at 05:13 PM • permalinkPaco,
Here is Melvin Bobo’s Odyssey. As you can see, it was an arduous trek. The stretch between Colfax and Newton is particularly treacherous, unless the Iowa DOT has recently repainted the stripes on the Interstate. And if one assumes that he went in the morning and returned in the evening, he had the Sun in his eyes both ways ::shudder::
Regards,
Ric#36. Now that is some trek! I don’t know how he managed to survive such an awesome journey.
He should take over the mantle from the Leyland Brothers:
ASK THE LEYLAND BROTHERS
9 Network / x 25m-e / 1976-80 and 1983-84
Producers: Mike and Mal Leyland
Brothers Mal and Mike Leyland travel across Australia visiting places requested by the viewing audience. The team switched briefly to 7 for a time during the early 1980’s for the show called The Leyland Brother’s Great Outdoors.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 05 07 at 07:55 PM • permalink#38
Will they go to Shark Bay if I ask them to?Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 05 07 at 09:52 PM • permalink#43. We’re talking about the Leyland Brothers! They went everywhere!!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 05 08 at 03:15 AM • permalinkUm… looking from Oz here.
Didn’t Kerry lose the 2004 election? Is he a possible contender for 2008?
Is he a realistic contender for 2008?
What would Melvin Bobbit’s chances be?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 05 08 at 06:44 AM • permalinkStop Continental Drift — He can’t win, but he has $45,000,000 US in unspent campaign funds and a seriously neurotic delusion to maintain. At the very least he will lay major stink on the Democratic primaries and further polarize their base to the point where a Dem candidate will have a hard time moving right to play the centrist, moderate card.
I’m looking forward to it.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 08 at 09:41 AM • permalink#48 - Texas Bob, I’m going to use that line in the future, if you don’t mind. I promise to give credit where credit is due. Thank you.
BTW, if no one’s told you today, unlike M’sieur Magic Hat, the Service to our Country of you and your Brothers is greatly appreciated and often remembered. Thank you again.
Mock not the terrible journey of Melvin! He was close to the mean streets of Sully, Iowa…Man, I’d rather go to the West Side of Chicago before going to Sully. Brrrr!
Posted by Major John on 2006 05 08 at 01:36 PM • permalink
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