Hat tip Daily Caller
How timely that Daily Caller posted this report on Democrats' criticizing Senator Daniel Inouye for staying in the Senate too long.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/17/dem-senators-attack-their-ailing-colleague/
The news is just breaking that Senator Inouye has died at 88. Senator Inouye, who lost an arm fighting for his country in WW 2, deserved better from his colleagues.
I did not always agree with Inouye in politics. Nevertheless, I always admired him as a true American hero.
4 comments:
This isn't even a tempest in a tea pot. Maybe a wavelet in a thimble. Are you and Daily Caller that desperate to drum up some "news."
A great man dies and Siarlys isn't impressed. I suppose his service to this nation during WW2 (won the Medal of Honor) and then his service as a Senator is nothing important.
Another member of the Greatest Generation is gone. Too soon for my liking.
The Daily Caller was not impressed with what a great man Inouye was. Its a scandal sheet looking for any opportunity to throw vague anonymous observations by unnamed persons around to create what I called it, a wavelet in a thimble.
Now if you had written a straightforward memorial to Senator Inouye, if you had given a more detailed description of how he won the Medal of Honor (as Rod Dreher at The American Conservative did), instead of being preoccupied with scoring one tenth of a brownie point over the man's grave, I might have been favorably impressed.
P.S. It is plausible that by the time he died, he had become a bit less effectual at performing his duties in the senate than he had been previously. I didn't find comments to that effect particularly out of line, especially since they were not offered as public memoriams to his entire career.
Siarlys,
In all honesty, I was not aware or had forgotten that Inouye had been awarded the Medal of Honor. What I recalled was that he had served heroically in WW 2 and had lost an arm.
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