What do these 3 Democrats have in common? - VOICES / Puerto Rico Daily Sun - 20/11/09

I have known Democrat Kenneth McClintock since I arrived on the island. One reason why we became friends is because I grew up in Hyde Park, New York, and I knew Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as a youngster and as a teenager. I played hooky from study hall to skinny dip in her pond at Val Kyle off Route 9G where she had a hide-a-way from the mansion on Route 9. She and I would have conversations when she visited my school Franklin D. Roosevelt High. Around the age of ten, I met President Roosevelt on three different occasions.

I admired McClintock when he campaigned for Hillary Clinton; and later, for Barack Obama. Sorry, but I feel betrayed when Kenneth McClintock, as Secretary of State, sounds more an more like a Fortuño Republican. He actually ridiculed eight protesters as “socialists” when they were demonstrating at a Fortuño photo op honoring the fire fighters. These eight protesters could have been not socialists but fired public employees with lots of seniority. A Democrat would have felt their fears and pain. Another Democrat working for Fortuño called the Puerto Rican media “leftists.” I read the Daily Sun and find it not slanted toward any side, but balanced. Attacking the media as socialists and leftists is what you expect from Republicans like Nixon, Reagan and Bush, and not from Democrats.

Come to think of it, I cannot figure out how Democrats can honor and work for Fortuño. For me to join Fortuño, I would need to trade my soul! There is a major difference between the modus operandi of the Democrat Party and that of the Republican Party. Today, the only Republican idol that I could worship is Colin Powell. I would not want to be in the same room with most of today’s Republican leadership. Come to think of it. Water and oil do not mix. Neither should a liberal Democrat and a “No” Republican.

Robert McCarroll

from Carolina on Nov. 16

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