Kramer > Kerry
While John Kerry was reaping what he’d sown, Joe Kramer was getting set to do his duty… once again. In an Early Birded story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, we learn that a former Army sergeant is headed back to Iraq. He’s a hunter, a bronze star winner, hasn’t complained about returning to duty… and he’s working for the Democrats.
He received a Bronze Star, however, for actions in a raid of a home in Mosul on Dec. 29, 2003, using a grenade to kill two enemy combatants who had wounded his squad leader. He feels a strong bond with other soldiers, and sympathy for those already required to make multiple tours of duty in Iraq.
But after leaving active duty in August 2005, he joined a group of veterans critical of the Bush administration’s handling of the war. He served on the national board of VoteVets.org, a largely Democratic political organization that worked this year to unseat Republicans in Congress with close ties to President Bush. He took a job in September 2005 as an aide to state Sen. Jim Ferlo, D-Highland Park, a longtime anti-war activist for whom he previously interned when the senator was a city councilman. (Mr. Kramer’s job must be kept open for him by law until his return.)
This is the kind of people the Democratic party needs. It’s the kind of person that should make the Republican party worry that they are headed the wrong direction.
Michelle Malkin covers Senator Kerry’s (lack of) interaction with the troops on his trip. She ties it in to Joseph Rago’s name-calling editorial (fools and imbeciles) in The Wall Street Journal. However, if I hadn’t read Michelle’s post in conjunction with the Post-Gazette’s story, I would have a much less informed opinion of the Democratic party. Of course, as a writer and reader of blogs, that may just be a foolish imbecile speaking.
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