Re: [CTRL] WALL STREET JOURNAL Stonewall, Mr. Bush
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 08/21/1999 3:14:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How anyone with the least amount of intelligence can seriosly consider him to lead this country is beyond me. If he is elected President, what you'll see is this country go to hell even more than now. I think it is "like" calling to "like". This guy is a klutz. Maybe that's what Americans admire. Otherwise it is just a puzzle. Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] WALL STREET JOURNAL Stonewall, Mr. Bush
-Caveat Lector- The allegation should not go away-just G.W. Bush! How anyone with the least amount of intelligence can seriosly consider him to lead this country is beyond me. If he is elected President, what you'll see is this country go to hell even more than now. Why? Old GW would have many a pay back to take care of. Clinton sold-out our military to China, can you imagine what the hell this spoiled-brat will do once in office? I implore all voters to really think about this guy,we, as a nation can not afford to have a thieving(remember the SLs he got hundreds of millions from,and NEVER PAID BACK!) coke sniffing liar in the White House,-AGAIN! One is enough for this country to put up with, do we have to be embarressed and laughed at again by the rest of the world?! Please, please let's use our heads this time. If you don't like the current candidates, then write-in one on your ballot, you have that right! Show this country that we've had enough of these incompetent so-called leaders. Our Constitution has been slowly taken away from us, little by little,. so the average person does not notice. Elect GW, and I guarantee you, a lot more will disappear over the four years he's in office. Remember, he's got plenty of pay-back to take care of, AT OUR EXPENSE! Think really hard about it-JOHN DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- Please, please let's use our heads this time. If you don't like the current candidates, then write-in one on your ballot, you have that right! It's been a long time since I saw anything other than a computerized voting machine. Not much chance for a write-in there. Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WALL STREET JOURNAL Stonewall, Mr. Bush
-Caveat Lector- http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm Stonewall, Mr. Bush By Peggy Noonan WALL STREET JOURNAL 8/20/99 It was 1948, and Harry Truman, who assumed the presidency on the death of FDR three years before, was running as the Democratic nominee for president. It was a tough, close race. His opponent, and the favorite, was New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, a more or less liberal Republican and a man of such compact tidiness that Alice Roosevelt's description of him--"He looks like the little man on the wedding cake"--clung to him forever. You probably remember what happened in that campaign, which was painfully low and dirty. Dewey's operatives floated the rumor that in the 1920s, when Truman was a young man in Missouri, he had regularly frequented speakeasies. This was during Prohibition, so if it was true young Truman had broken the law. The rumors spread like fire. One said he regularly sipped whiskey with Mike Pendergast in the speakeasy on 12th Street and Vine. Another said no, that wasn't Mike Pendergast, that was Harry's wife, Bess. (Republicans were very rude in those days.) Anyway, for weeks it was all anyone could talk about in Manhattan and Washington. Truman at first refused to respond to the rumors, saying it was all part of an attempt by the conservative newspaper establishment to darken his reputation. But the press persisted, and the peppery Truman finally lost his temper. Out on a morning constitutional along Pennsylvania Avenue, he stopped, turned toward the small band of reporters who were following him, pointed his cane in the direction of the White House and spat out what came to be known as the Whiskey Statement. "We are in the middle of a serious contest over who will live in that house and lead our country the next four years, and all you people want to know is whether I drank whiskey as a young man. Joe Stalin is taking over Eastern Europe, and you want to know if I drank whiskey. The Negroes of the Southern states are asking for an equal place in our schools, and you want to know if I drank whiskey. We've got charges of communists stealing the A-bomb, and you want to know if I drank whiskey. Well let me ask you--Mr. Rogers of the Herald Tribune there--did you drink whiskey during Prohibition?" "No," said Rogers firmly. There was silence, and then Rogers cleared his throat. "I was a gin man," he said. Everyone laughed. "I liked a Gibson now and then," said a voice from the back of the pack. It was Mr. Reston of the Times. "It was more than now and then," laughed Walter Lippman, who offered that while he rarely went to speakeasies, he always carried a flask. "In fact," he said, "I still do." He took it from his back pocket, and it shone like bright money in the sun. The burnished silver carried an inscription: "To Walter, with affection from Eleanor and Franklin." "Let me see that," said Truman. He opened it, sniffed, and winked. "To the Republic," he said as he took a drink. "To the Republic," the reporters said as they passed the bottle. "And now let us talk of the challenges that threaten the peace of our country," Truman said as he led them back to the White House. "Let's keep it high and worthy. And let's never discuss that other again." And you know, they didn't. And Truman won. *** Oh dear, I appear to have made that up. Which is very wicked of me, as alcohol isn't drugs, and of course alcohol is now legal and drugs are not, so it doesn't quite compare to . . . today, and our latest drug story involving a candidate for office, Gov. George W. Bush. And of course the story I made up could never have happened, because reporters in Harry Truman's day wouldn't have considered it a story that young Harry broke the law and went to a speakeasy. They wouldn't think it implied anything. And not because President Harding, during Prohibition, drank whiskey in the office while playing poker. That wasn't the reason. The reason, I think, was that things were a little more human then, back in the old America. Human beings seem to have had more space for normal failings. They were allowed to smoke cigarettes even though everyone knew they were bad for you; they were allowed to drink, and to be eccentric, and to wear woolen suit jackets in the summertime. They were like the people you see in old movies starring Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Tracy. Recently Tracy's "State of the Union" was on, and one of the great things about it was that Tracy, who plays an independent candidate for president, is rumored to be having a fling, as they used to say, with his press aide, played in a really deadly this-is-really-Clare-Booth-Luce way by the young Angela Lansbury. And the fling, though gossiped about, doesn't become public even though everyone knows about it, because it was simply understood people are imperfect and do not-wonderful things. I guess I should note here that Tracy and Ms. Lansbury were having what used to be called a love affair. It wasn't a story about some sick manipulator
