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Home Front: Politix
An Old Favorite
2005-07-10
You talk o’ better food for us, an’ schools, an’ fires, an’ all:
We’ll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don’t mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow’s Uniform is not the soldier-man’s disgrace.

For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ’is country” when the guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool—you bet that Tommy sees!

Last stanza of a Rudyard Kipling poem; Tommy being, of course, the stereotypical British soldier.
Posted by:Bobby

#4  The "lying bastards" aren't worried about Tommy because there aren't enough to swing an election and they were going to vote for the other guys anyway. What the LBs haven't considered is what happens when Tommy decides to run for office.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2005-07-10 19:05  

#3  Some of our Tommys are back already. The 2006 election is going to be fascinating.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-07-10 18:40  

#2  That was one of my points, Dave. Some of the folks claiming to support our military are just biding their time to "chuck 'em out, the brute!".

Missed you yesterday in D.C. Maybe next time?
Posted by: Bobby   2005-07-10 18:24  

#1  An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool—you bet that Tommy sees!

And when our own Tommies come home from Iraq, Afghanistan, and wherever else they are, I don't think they're going to be voting for the lying bastards who are denigrating their efforts.
Posted by: Dave D.   2005-07-10 09:52  

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