Have you ever had guests who overstayed their welcome and wouldn’t go away no matter what you tried in a gracious way to encourage them to leave? If you have, then you may get a laugh out of what you are about to read. But don’t laugh. The subject is serious. The United States has two visitors who were invited to live in their house, one for four years and the other for eight years who act like they still live there. By now you have probably guessed their identities. Yup.  You win the big cigar if you said James Earl Carter and William Jefferson Clinton. They won’t go away and are worse than fleas on a dog. At least a bar of good pest soap will eliminate the fleas.

Carter loves dictators. He praises Castro, Chavez and any other dictator he can think of while he demeans our nation and says we are the trouble makers.  He criticizes our attitude toward Iran and says that the Iraq war is unjust and a failure, calling on a withdrawal. Spell that defeat since it would put it in the same league as Viet Nam and his bungling of the situation with Iran and the people they held hostage for so long. His remedy was to not light the national Christmas tree until our people were released. No doubt Iran shook in its shoes. That is serious. No National Christmas tree lights. He no longer is a guest in our house, but he doesn’t realize he was uninvited at the end of four years. Maybe that is the problem. He wasn’t kicked out in a gracious manner.

The next guest who couldn’t extend his stay, but he would have if he could have is William Jefferson “Slick Willy’ Clinton. He is running around the world making deals and bad mouthing the nation. He thinks that we aren’t compassionate enough and need to do more for the world since that might keep them from hating us. What is his excuse for all the events that happened on his watch of eight years? Marines were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, the warship Cole bombed with 17 killed, the Khobar apartments, and the attempted destruction to the Twin Towers prior to 2001 were during his eight years. Maybe Clinton didn’t convey his message of love loud enough. And then his most recent declaration that he was against the now forgotten port deal while he was for it while trying to broker the deal on the Q-T.

Would it be too crass to suggest that the two clowns who are always tooting their own horns should find a new place to live and cut the string, not only to our house, but in the process find a new nation they can tie up with that will appreciate their words about their dislike of this nation? That seems reasonable in view of the fact they don’t like it here.

Neither of the “has beens” who proved to be “never weres” have the graciousness, and I will put it plainly lest anyone misunderstands, to shut-up and go away. They don’t live in our house anymore and actually have no more input into world affairs and the operation of the nation than any other citizen. Their screeds do nothing but inflame the enemy and give them aid at our peril.

They have Overstayed Their Welcome and need to go as soon as arrangements can be made for tickets to their destination of choice. They love the limelight and can’t stand it that they aren’t the guests anymore. In Sorting It Out, fleas on a dog are much preferred since a bath in flea soap will solve the problem of the nuisances that persist on chewing on our pets.

© 06-23-2006 DEC