Daily Archives: December 16, 2008

Closure

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You may have seen John Walsh at the Caps game last week. He is a fan and friend. We both have homes in Vero Beach, Florida, and we both have known each other for almost 20 years.

It was in Vero Beach that Adam Walsh was found and it is where John and his wife have raised their family. Our families will get together over the holidays and we very much enjoy our time together. He is a good man and a very committed philanthropist.

This news today is really stunning. It represents closure but it opens up so many wounds and so many emotions.

Pray for John and his family. His work has been spectacular for young adults and in protecting families. I pray that this news will get them to some closure over this tragic time in their lives.

Shoe-icide

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It has come to this? To be laughed at on the world stage because a journalist threw his shoes at our President?

We have lost thousands of our best men and woman in war and invested hundreds of billions of dollars to help free a people and introduce democracy into the Middle East and a journalist who throws his shoes at our President is now seen as a “hero”?

This is all playing out like the end of the Carter era, a made-for-television humiliation of our people and leaders. Let no good deed go unpunished.

I am proud of our reasoned and humble response to the incident. Can you imagine if the shoe was on the other foot? If a journalist from America threw his shoes at a Saudi King or at the head of state of Iraq in a press conference? What would happen to that journalist? Do you think they would laugh it off?
Can you imagine if the American public embraced that journalist and an American businessman offered to pay $10 million for the shoes? Can you imagine the outrage?

American journalists are subjected to great danger in the Middle East - kidnappings, beheadings and the like - but a journalist from over there can throw his shoes at our leader and become a hero?

We live in an upside down crazy world, don’t we?