May 22, 2006
Jean Rohe Joins Cadre of Courageous American Heroes
I hope that all of you have seen the unpleasant attack on our angelic Jean Rohe by Mark Salter, primo aide to John McCain, and her fearless, truthful response to Mr. Salter's admonitions. Would it have been considered uncouth if Mr. McCain had engaged directly in an open dialog with Ms. Rohe? Sadly, he did the cowardly thing, by sending his character assassin instead. Cowardly acts are becoming his habit lately.
It was pointed out to me by one far wiser, that Jean Rohe is a real American Hero. She is the youngest of several American Heroes who have dared to speak the truth directly to power in a public forum in the past year. Let's see there's Steven Colbert, George Clooney, Mary McCarthy, Al Gore, Karen Meredith, the eleven widows of the Family Steering Committee of The 9/11 Commission, Joe Wilson, Jimmy Carter, Russ Tice, Cindy Sheehan, Dixie Chick, Natalie Maines, everyone who eulogized Coretta Scott King. Unfortunately, too few heroes are Democratic leaders.
The reason that speaking the truth requires such heroism in this day and age, is that the backlash and hatred that is directed at the person who dares, is fearsome indeed -- certainly not for the faint of heart.
Fortunately, Jean Rohe, is operating with the knowledge that tells her that her own fear and anger, projected onto others, is the real danger in the world. This is called psychological development. She has it , and she is standing up under the shower of vitriol like the goddess of consciousness that she is.
As someone in the thirteen pages (so far) of positive comments she has received from her response to Mr. Salter on The Huffington Post, asked, "Where's www.thankyoujeanrohe.com?"
Photo note: This is a jazzy American flag, in honor of the fact that Jean Rohe is a jazz vocalist. I think this is her. singing. I hope so. (it's had 768 hits, more than 200 in the last day). I want a CD.
Posted by Dakota at May 22, 2006 07:34 PM