2007 Soap Box Archives

The Deadly Tangerine

When I first thought about writing on this ridiculous subject I intended to be frivolous and tongue in cheek about it but with this man running for President and this woman wanting to be First Lady there's really nothing funny about it.

I know you've all heard about John Edwards referring to the war on terror as a slogan or a bumpersticker, a statement worthy of Howdy Doody maybe but certainly not of a Presidential candidate.

And now Edwards wife, Elizabeth, has made the statement that she may never eat another tangerine because they are not grown close to where she lives and the carbon the trucks would emit to haul them to her area would make too many greenhouse gasses and cause global warming.

The truth of the matter is that global warming is the bumper sticker. I know we could do a lot of things to make the environment better, the air clearer, the water cleaner and I¹m all for it. But real science refutes Al Gore's political fantasy and global warming is a farce.

Now let's get down to what the Edwards said. John Edwards statement is so asinine, so juvenile and so downright atrociously false that it shouldn't have to be given a second thought by anybody with a thimble full of gray
matter.

But combined with Mrs. Edwards statement about the tangerines it should give us a pretty good idea how some of the elitist left wing of the Democrat party feels about defense and commerce.

To them there is no enemy, the war on terror only exists in the White House and we don¹t need to worry about the millions of depraved scumbags who want to murder us in our beds.

I guess their understanding of commerce is nil because commerce is the act of getting products to market wherever that market exists. If the tangerines are grown in California and there is a demand for them in North Carolina they have to be moved and they danged sure ain't going to get there by telepathy.

Tractor trailer rigs are a fact of life in this country and if you took them all off the road, grocery shelves would be empty, gas tanks would be dry and there would be more people out of work than during the Great Depression.

Commerce is what keeps this country going and the trucks are what help drive commerce and they will continue to do so whether Elizabeth Edwards ever eats another tangerine or not.

It's maddening to have some politician get up and make a campaign speech giving us dire warnings about global warming, walk out and get in a limousine, drive up to a private jet and fly away, leaving behind more carbon than a whole bunch of eighteen wheelers.

I have an idea about how to cut down on greenhouse gasses, Mrs. Edwards. Just have your husband get out of the campaign and stay home. Home because he sure ain't going to be the next President.

Think I'll go buy some tangerines.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

July 27, 2007