DARKNESS AND LIGHT

FIRE, SMOKE, DARKNESS AND ULTIMATELY LIGHT - I RECALL THE INFAMOUS DAY, DEC. 7TH, 64 YEARS AGO. EVIL'S HOT ROAR AT PEARL HARBOR WAS EVENTUALLY EXTINGUISHED BY A BRIGHT MILITARY VICTORY. THIS WAS A VICTORY THAT A PRESIDENT FROM THE 1980'S , RONALD REAGAN, WOULD NOT HAVE UNDERPLAYED. RONALD REAGAN LIKED ANALOGIES OF LIGHT. HE SAID "THERE IS A FLICKERING SPARK IN ALL OF US WHICH, IF STRUCK AT JUST THE RIGHT AGE, CAN LIGHT UP THE REST OF OUR LIVES."

DID REAGAN KNOW THAT A SPARK COULD ALSO IGNITE HATE? AT SOME AGE, DEFINITELY NOT A RIGHT ONE, A SPARK OF HATE IGNITED A FLAME THAT STILL CONSUMES SENATOR JOHN KERRY'S BRAIN. HIS FIRE IS AN ICY HATRED, A DARK VISION THAT DISPLAYS ITSELF IN CONTINUAL CRITICISM OF CONSERVATISM, THE IRAQ WAR., OUR SOLDIERS AND PRESIDENT BUSH. HIS ELITICISM AND SELF-CONTRADICTIONS CONTINUALLY DISSEMINATE LIES, MISREPRESENTATIONS AND ANTI-AMERICANISM. RECENTLY HE STATED THAT HIS DESIRE AND THE DESIRE OF HIS DEMOCRAT PARTY WAS SUCCESS IN THE IRAQ WAR. WITHIN A WEEK, HE FLIP-FLOPPED HIS STANCE AND ACCUSED OUR SOLDIERS OF TERRORIZING IRAQI CHILDREN AND WOMEN IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT. HIS WORDS ECHOED HIS FALSE FACTS AND HATEFUL SENTIMENTS WHEN HE PROTESTED THE VIET NAM WAR. TO THINK THAT THIS PESSIMIST WAS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES! HE WAS AND IS A 'TRUE DARK HORSE.' I THINK OF A HEADLESS HORSEMAN, TERRORIZING US TRUSTING AMERICANS IN A NIGHT OF HATRED, HOPLESSNESS AND DESPAIR. GIVE ME LIGHT. SENATOR KERRY'S HATE IS ALSO MANIFESTED IN THE EXTREME LIBERALS AND LEFT-WING ACTIVISTS IN POLITICS AND ACADEMIA. IT IGNITES YOUNG STUDENTS AGAINST CONSERVATIVE VISITORS TO THEIR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES WHERE THEY ARE TARGETS OF CATCALLS, HECKLINGS, OBSCENE LANGUAGE AND GESTURES AND EVEN PHYSICAL ASSAULTS. SUCH SHADY BEHAVIOURS MAY BE BORN OUT OF THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, BUT THEY SPOTLIGHT HATE.

WOULD PRESIDENT REAGAN HAVE COCKED HIS HEAD IN HIS CHACTERISTIC AND APPEALING MANNER AND JUST DUSTED OFF THESE BOORISH NAYSAYERS WITH A LIGHT JOKE? OR WOULD HE HAVE HAD TO AKNOWLEDGE WITH DISMAY THAT A SPARK COULD IGNITE HATE? ...BECAUSE EVIL TO REAGAN COULD NOT BE DENIED. REAGAN, WHO LIVED IN THE LIGHT, PREFERRED ANALOGIES OF LIGHT. TO HIM, AMERICA WAS A SHINING CITY ON THE HILL. I WONDER WHEN HIS SPARK OF OPTIMISM ENKINDLED. MANY AMERICANS RESPECT AND ADMIRE HIS PERSONA. REMEMBER THE OUTPOURING OF AFFECTION AT HIS FUNERAL? ON A RECENT DISCOVERY CHANNEL'S 7- HOUR MINISERIES DESIGNED TO SELECT THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE FOR "THE GREATEST AMERICAN," 3 MILLION AMERICANS VOTED RONALD REAGAN THE WINNER. HIS BEACON CALLED HOPE SHINES ON US STILL. WE MUST USE IT TO BLIND THE JOHN KERRY'S INTO THE GROUND - RATHER LIKE THE RAY OF SUNLIGHT THAT DESTROYED LESTAT, THE VAMPIRE.