A UNITER, NOT A DIVIDER….What happens when a command sergeant major just home from Iraq is denied entrance to a George Bush rally and threatened with arrest because he’s brought a couple of his students with him ? and one of them has a John Kerry sticker on his wallet? Answer: He gets mad. And then he decides to run for Congress. As a Democrat.
The chickens are coming home to roost….
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