[Rhodes22-list] Politics - Already Voted!

Wed Nov 1 16:12:01 EST 2006

Slim,

Here's a song about Ellison you can perform and make a difference.
Apologies to Ol' Blue Eyes.

Brad

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*When I was in law school
It was a very long year
It was a very long year
Booking kooks with anti-semite screeds
I saw to their needs
I dreamed the Jews' fear
It was a very long year*

Back in Ninety-five
It was a very long year
It was a very long year
With Farrakhan, whose math didn't jive
But I felt so alive
With the lines so clear
It was a very long year

And then in 2000,
It was a very long year
It was a very long year
For speaking out loud
For being so proud
Of a terrorist there
And a cop-killer here
It was a very long year

Now those days are gone
And I wish them away
Like ugly scars from a dagger attack
But the Strib's got my back
And I can call in CAIR
I might carry the day
And win the chair
And become an Emir
In this very long year.

On 11/1/06, Slim <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Brad,
>
> No problem.  My favorite dog in this fight is Tammy Lee, the Independent
> but
> polls show Ellison at about 70% or more so it just won't matter.
>
> Slim
>
> On 11/1/06 3:32 PM, "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Slim,
> >
> > If we still had a deal, I didn't hold up my end of the bargain. I don't
> envy
> > your choice if you want to remain a partisan.  Here's my advice: vote
> for
> > the best musician.
> >
> > Brad
> >
> >
> > On 11/1/06, Slim <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Brad,
> >>
> >> So where are we on our deal?  (Ford for Fine)
> >>
> >> Slim
> >>
> >> On 11/1/06 11:47 AM, "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The 2006 election cycle is over for me - I voted. Let the chips fall
> >> where
> >>> they may!  This Kerry thing is overblown like everything is during an
> >>> election run-up, but, the guy is a first class pri$5k, nerd, uh,
> loser.
> >> The
> >>> donkeys have some talented people on board, they're just not hanging
> >> around
> >>> the fringes.  Evan Bayh, Richardson, Obama,  anyone?
> >>>
> >>> Here's Professor Hanson's observations:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> *Wednesday, November 01, 2006
> >>>
> >>> Kerryism* [Victor Davis
> >> Hanson<%61u%74ho%72%40%76i%63t%6f%72h%61nson.c%6f%6d>
> >>> ]
> >>>
> >>> Kerry surely must be one of the saddest Democratic liabilities around.
> >> Some
> >>> afterthoughts about his latest gaffe, which is one of those rare
> >> glimpses
> >>> into an entire troubled ideology:
> >>>
> >>> (1) How could John Kerry, born into privilege, and then marrying and
> >>> divorcing and marrying out of and back into greater inherited wealth,
> >>> lecture anyone at a city college about the ingredients for success in
> >>> America? If he were to give personal advice about making it, it would
> >> have
> >>> to be to marry rich women. Nothing he has accomplished as a senator or
> >>> candidate reveals either much natural intelligence or singular
> >> education.
> >>> Today, Democrats must be wondering why they have embraced an overrated
> >> empty
> >>> suit, and  ostracized a  real talent like Joe Lieberman.
> >>>
> >>> (2) How could Kerry possibly claim that he was thinking of the
> >> uneducated in
> >>> the context of George Bush, who, after all, went to Harvard and Yale?
> >>>
> >>> (3)     Some of the brightest and most educated Americans are not only
> >> in
> >>> the military, but veterans of Iraq. Two of the best educated minds I
> >> have
> >>> met-Col. Bill Hix and Lt. Col. Chris Gibson, both Hoover Security
> >>> Fellows-were both Iraqi veterans. What is striking about visiting Iraq
> >> is
> >>> the wealth of talent there, from privates to generals. Without being
> >>> gratuitously cruel, the problem of mediocrity is not in the ranks of
> the
> >>> military, but on our university campuses, where half-educated
> professors
> >> and
> >>> non-serious students killing time are ubiquitous. Personally, I'd
> wager
> >> the
> >>> intelligence of a Marine Corps private any day over the average D.C.
> >>> journalist.  Every naval officer I met at the USNA, without exception,
> >>> seemed brighter than John Kerry, whose "brilliance", after all, has
> >> managed
> >>> to offend millions of voters on the eve of a pivotal election. If the
> >>> Democrats lose, it will be almost painful to watch the recriminations
> >>> against Kerry fly.
> >>>
> >>> (4)     This is not the first, but third, time he has denigrated
> >> soldiers in
> >>> the middle of a war-and there is a systematic theme: John Kerry's
> >> assumed
> >>> superior morality allows him to pass judgment from on high about
> >> supposedly
> >>> lesser folk who become tools of a suspect military: thus we go from
> >>> limb-loppers and Genghis' hordes to terrorists to dead-beats. The only
> >>> constant is that the haughtiness is always delivered in the same
> >>> sanctimonious, self-righteous, and patronizing tone.
> >>>
> >>> (5)  The mea culpa that Democrats are blaming the war and not the
> >> warriors
> >>> is laughable after Sens. Durbin, Kennedy, and Kerry have collectively
> >>> compared American soldiers to Nazis, Pol Pot's killers, Stalinists,
> >>> terrorists, and Baathists.
> >>>
> >>> (6)   The problem is that Kerry is not just a senator, but the most
> >> recent
> >>> presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, and thus in some
> sense,
> >>> especially given the diminution of Howard Dean, the megaphone of the
> >> entire
> >>> party.
> >>>
> >>> (7)      His pathetic clarification, as he blamed everyone from Tony
> >> Snow to
> >>> Rush Limbaugh, displayed the same Al Gore derangement syndrome, and
> thus
> >>> raises a larger question: what is it about George Bush that seems to
> >> reduce
> >>> once sober and experienced liberal pros to infantile ranting?
> >>>
> >>> (8)       And why is the supposedly lame Bush so careful in speech,
> and
> >> the
> >>> self-acclaimed geniuses like a Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, or Howard Dean
> >>> serially spouting ever more stupidities? For all the Democrats'
> >> criticism of
> >>> George Bush, I can't think of a modern President who has so
> infrequently
> >> put
> >>> his foot in his public mouth, and, by the same token, can't think of
> any
> >>> opposition that on the eve of elections seems to have an almost
> >> pathological
> >>> death wish.
> >>>
> >>> The Democrats should use this occasion to have an autopsy of Kerryism,
> >> or
> >>> this strange new tony liberalism, that has turned noblisse oblige on
> its
> >>> head. It used to be that millionaire FDRs and JFKs felt sympathy for
> >> those
> >>> of the lower classes and wished to ensure that the hoi polloi had some
> >> shot
> >>> at the American dream. But today's elite liberals-a Howard Dean, Al
> >> Gore,
> >>> Ted Kennedy, George Soros, Ted Turner-love the high life and playact
> at
> >>> being leftists simply because they are already insulated from the
> >> effects of
> >>> their own nostrums that always come at someone poorer's expense while
> >>> providing them some sort of psychological relief from guilt. Poor
> Harry
> >>> Truman must be turning over in his grave-from bourbon, cigars, and
> poker
> >> to
> >>> wind-surfing and L.L. Bean costume of the day says it all.
> >>> Posted at 8:35
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