From Reverend Wright to Hanoi Jane
The Internet is all a-buzz about the news that Jane Fonda has endorsed Obama for president.
Jane was out having dinner and as she exited the restaurant a video camera was rolling. Someone shouted out "Who are you going to vote for?" After a moment of silence, the activist actress turned to the cameras, smiled and said, "Obama."
There goes Obama's crossover vote with the Republicans of a certain generation who detest "Hanoi Jane"...and will never forget that she was singing anti-war songs with the North Vietnamese while John McCain was being tortured nearby.
And now, if Obama is the Democratic nominee, he'd be facing off with that very POW’ who was so enraged by Fonda’s famous anti-aircraft photo-op. You think McCain ain't gonna use that?
Fonda, who's been an antiwar activist for decades, certainly supports Obama's antiwar credentials. But she's raw meat for the Righties...see the swiftboaters sharpen their knives. They'll be running around today frothing at the mouth with delight.
You can relax now Hillary...this is one celebrity endorsement that may actually cost a candidate votes.
No wait, maybe Jane is actually trying to help Hillary! I mean, after all, here Hillary is up there in "Deer Hunter" country, trying to hold off Obama with the help of pro-military working-class Democrats.....
Me? I think Jane Fonda went a step too far when she went to North Vietnam, but everything else she did to try to stop that war was alright by me.
Jane is an American that the Founding Fathers would be proud of...she stood up to the Washington DC power structure who had gotten it all wrong on Vietnam.
Over 58,200 American troops died there. Many people think that a lot more would have died had it not been for war protesters like Jane (and me), who gathered the parents and grandparents of those dead kids, and kids that would soon go to war, and took it to the streets. Made America stare it in the face.
Today America has full trade and diplomatic relations with Vietnam. Looks like we could have done that without the war.
Most Vietnam vets still hate Jane Fonda though...they will never pardon her, no matter how many times she has apologized.
