Sixy, yes, so for the masses, let me say...................go online, fill out your form. Then a while later you will get a card in the mail and then you sign it and mail it back. No need to go anywhere and feel like a jw is going to see you and rat you out. It can be done SO easily. I did it for convenience and this way I also signed up for the mail in vote thingy.
Perfectly Positive Primary Politics~~In Their Words and Other's
by SixofNine 46 Replies latest social current
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jst2laws
Chris,
p-o-l-i-t-e
p-o-l-i-t ... ical
"e". Hmmmmmm
Well, it looks good enough when you looking through a glass of Jack Daniels.
You need a drink.
Jst2
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SixofNine
Col. David Hackworth on Clark:
For the record, I never served with Clark. But after spending three hours interviewing the man for Maxim?s November issue, I?m impressed. He is insightful, he has his act together, he understands what makes national security tick ? and he thinks on his feet somewhere around Mach 3. No big surprise, since he graduated first in his class from West Point, which puts him in the super-smart set with Robert E. Lee, Douglas MacArthur and Maxwell Taylor.
Clark was so brilliant, he was whisked off to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and didn?t get his boots into the Vietnam mud until well after his 1966 West Point class came close to achieving the academy record for the most Purple Hearts in any one war. When he finally got there, he took over a 1st Infantry Division rifle company and was badly wounded.
Lt. Gen. James Hollingsworth, one of our Army?s most distinguished war heroes, says: ?Clark took a burst of AK fire, but didn?t stop fighting. He stayed on the field till his mission was accomplished and his boys were safe. He was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart. And he earned ?em.?
It took months for Clark to get back in shape. He had the perfect excuse, but he didn?t quit the Army to scale the corporate peaks as so many of our best and brightest did back then. Instead, he took a demoralized company of short-timers at Fort Knox who were suffering from a Vietnam hangover and made them the best on post ? a major challenge in 1970 when our Army was teetering on the edge of anarchy. Then he stuck around to become one of the young Turks who forged the Green Machine into the magnificent sword that Norman Schwarzkopf swung so skillfully during Round One of the Gulf War.
High praise there. But I do remember Hackworth being critical of General Clark's Kosovo campaign. He clears that up with this response:
He says he now wants to lead America out of the darkness, shorten what promises to be the longest and nastiest war in our history and restore our eroding prestige around the world.
For sure, he'll be strong on defense. But with his high moral standards and because he knows where and how the game's played, there will probably be zero tolerance for either Pentagon porking or two-bit shenanigans.
No doubt he?s made his share of enemies. He doesn?t suffer fools easily and wouldn?t have allowed the dilettantes who convinced Dubya to do Iraq to even cut the White House lawn. So he should prepare for a fair amount of dart-throwing from detractors he?s ripped into during the past three decades.
Hey, I am one of those: I took a swing at Clark during the Kosovo campaign when I thought he screwed up the operation, and I called him a ?Perfumed Prince.? Only years later did I discover from his book and other research that I was wrong ? the blame should have been worn by British timidity and William Cohen, U.S. SecDef at the time.
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gumby
I don't have anything at all to say about politics [edited]
Gumby
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jst2laws
Sally,
I am so new to this. We registered about a year ago. Do you have to register as a voter every year?
Steve
Six,
This is a good approach. I have learned something about Kerry and Clark. This is a good service for us ignorant of the process and the candidates. Thanks
Steve
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SixofNine
I am so new to this. We registered about a year ago. Do you have to register as a voter every year?
Just check your handwritten notes in the back of your flock book, chap 9, "Rendering Ceasar His Due".
Gumby, since you called me a big bastard, we'll let your comments stand.
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SixofNine
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more at: http://chicagodude.forclark.com/story/2004/1/29/174656/967By ChicagoDude [Add to my Buddy List]
Posted to ChicagoDude's weblog (Firsthand Accounts) on Thu Jan 29th, 2004 at 05:46:56 PM ESTI'd like to take a moment here to sincerely thank all of you Clarkies who have been in his campaign from early on (and those of you that continue to come aboard). As my screen name indicates I am a guy in Chicago.
General Clark caught my eye back during the Kosovo campaign. I don't think I missed more than one or two of his televised briefings at the time. Our family got involved by becoming a host family and "stop-off" for many of the Kosovar refugees. As I said in a posting a few days back, it was an honor to do what we could to give a "soft landing" to some very frightened refugees. Many were emaciated, especially the children. It's years later now and they're all doing just fine.
I have never forgotten one thing. And that is, once we managed our way through the language barrier, our new friends (the refugees) first spoke of one person, that person being General Clark. As soon as they'd see or hear mention of him they'd point at the TV or the picture of him in an article they'd found. The mother of the family staying with us cried "happy tears" fairly often. She'd sit with her hubby, (who was recovering from intense rib crushing beatings), huddled with their four kids, and ask me to find a channel with "Mr Clark" talking.
They believe they owe their lives to General Clark (and all under his command). I don't disagree with them, and never will.
I could type much more about the Kosovars but I won't. This is, as I said above, a "Thank You Card" to Clarkies. Thank you for reading my mind by initiating and carrying forward with the movement to get a true compassionate humanitarian leader in the oval office.
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CountryGuy
I've put my support behind Gen. Clark. This quote from his website pretty much says it all. "My life experience has made me a leader, not a politician. That's why I'll work to put national interests above special interests. Together, we'll create a stronger, more prosperous America and a safer, more peaceful world."
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gumby
I can't believe I got edited joking with sixer. I always call him a bastard. I'm hoping it was a joke.
Gumby
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Seven
Senator Dianne Feinstein Endorses
John Kerry for President
Feinstein Joins Controller Westly, Treasurer Angelides and Former Assembly Speaker Villaraigosa in Supporting KerrySeptember 16, 2003
Washington ?
Saying "I know that he has the courage to do what?s right for America," Senator Dianne Feinstein of California today endorsed John Kerry for President.Feinstein joins other prominent Californians such as State Controller Steve Westly, State Treasurer Phil Angelides, and Los Angeles City Councilman and former Speaker of the California State Assembly Antonio Villaraigosa in supporting Kerry.
"John Kerry has shown courage throughout his lifetime ? taking on the tough issues, making the hard decisions, telling the truth, and making a difference. Now he is ready to take the fight to George Bush and put our country back on the right track," said Feinstein. "John Kerry will roll back the Bush tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans so we can invest in education, health care, and the skills of our workers. And he wants to give the middle class a tax cut, not a tax increase."
Feinstein has served California in the Senate since her election in 1992. She was the first woman on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the first woman Mayor of San Francisco, the first woman elected Senator of California and the first woman member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Statement from Congressman James Clyburn, S.C.
January 30, 2004"I am supporting John Kerry because I know he will continue to stand up for affirmative action and because I know he will unite us as one nation together and equal for all."
