Birth of a Nation

Did anyone else see Norman Lear on Hardball this evening? Mr. Lear apparently is touring the United States with a copy of the Declaration of Independence. Like a copy from 1776.

He said he came upon it because one of his daughters attends school with the daughter of one of the Directors at Sotheby's in LA. Lear got invited to see the document at Sotheby's. "It's the birth certificate for our country," he said.

He said he wept when he first saw it.

As synchronicity would have it, I then happened upon some material at InstaPundit this evening along those same lines. Excerpt:

One of those who survived the blast was a national guard soldier named Qusay Hassan. He spoke with anger following the death and maiming of his comrades, and his spirit seemed unbroken.

"I will not kneel before these terrorists," Mr. Hassan said. "If I don't join the army, who is going to defend the country from the terrorists?"

I will not kneel before these terrorists.

That's guts.

Then there is this:

Foreigners are mystified at how Iraqis continue to join the police and army, despite the car bombings and other attacks directed against them. It's not just for the money. For many of these recruits, there is a dead relative, murdered by some Sunni Arab thug working for Saddam. It's civil war, and the coalition wants to prevent it from turning into an orgy of revenge. What gets little reported in the West is the enthusiasm among Iraqis, and especially members of the government, for just bombing Fallujah into rubble.

Who knew.

I guess where this leads me, for a quick vent here, is that I hate the DNC. I mean to say, if i may be indelicate, that i fucking hate them. They are so disgusting and vile that i can no longer think of them, Kerry and Edwards and their wives and Rangel and Sharpton and McAuliffe and Rather and Lockhart and Dean, without narrowing my eyes and curling my lip like i just caught a whiff of a full dumpster on a June afternoon in Mobile. Simply disgusting. They speak of human rights and civil rights and dignity yet here they are traipsing across America saying ++wrong war wrong time wrong place++ while brave Iraqis are spitting in the eyes of the jihadists to sign up to make themselves a free country.

Read, and follow the links. That there are Americans who are looking to undercut these brave people is just despicable.