Politics: Onward from New Hampshire - Page 217

Tyrone Slothrop · 03-10-2004, 08:22 PM

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Originally posted by sgtclub
The NK support is not as concrete as "I, Kim, support JFK" but from what I've read, the government run newspapers have been, by all accounts, very deferential to Kerry.

As I said: cite, please.

And can I say, thank God! The good Lord only knows what kind of trouble Kerry would be in if the North Korean party organs* hadn't been so deferential to him. Who did they support in the GOP primary in 2000, anyway? What about those Manchurian candidate rumors about McCain?

* Cross-post to the FB.

Hank Chinaski · 03-10-2004, 11:04 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
As I said: cite, please.

And can I say, thank God! The good Lord only knows what kind of trouble Kerry would be in if the North Korean party organs* hadn't been so deferential to him. Who did they support in the GOP primary in 2000, anyway? What about those Manchurian candidate rumors about McCain?

* Cross-post to the FB.

Well the NK support is always more important in the primary season. Now that the nomination is wrapped Kerry can distance himself a little from the NK agenda, as long as he remembers to repay as prez.

Hank Chinaski · 03-10-2004, 11:09 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
With the way that Kerry's record has been misrepresented recently, I'm not surprised that he took offense.

took offense, or took the offensive?
I do agree with Ty that the Republicans have no reason to misrepresent Kerry's record.

Hank Chinaski · 03-10-2004, 11:11 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
yeah, and I'm sure he solicited their support directly. I bet 9 out of 10 neo-Nazis support Bush over Kerry . . .

No. they remain behind Buchanan. how else do you explain the1800 buchanan votes from Dade in 2000?

Hank Chinaski · 03-11-2004, 09:03 AM

Kerry needs to ask Billy to pardon Martha, nunc pro tunc. Atticus can he do this, if he promises to only do it for a female, and just one?

I thought this whole insider trading thing was just us. Who knew? Ty, does this take her into your "Gerri Blanks- let her alone" exception- that is, she's one of your's- don't prosecute?

Or maybe, this is time for a good new conspiracy theory of why she was prosecuted- you know, give money to dems, the hammar comes down from that "crooked bunch" at Justice.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,113854,00.html

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What to Do With Martha's Political Donations

Thursday, March 11, 2004
By Eric Shawn
NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton (search) doesn't want money from a convicted felon but a lot of other Democrats are keeping the dough Martha Stewart (search) gave them.

Not only is the convicted domestic diva facing prison time for trying to lie about a suspicious stock sale but she's also a big Democratic donor.

Federal Election Commission records show that, through the years, the queen of clean has given big bucks to Democratic causes. Clinton's office told Fox News that they will turn over Stewart's $1,000 donation to the senator's charity now that Stewart has been convicted.

A spokesman from the Democratic National Committee told Fox News that when Stewart donated, it was legal and lawful and many years before the jury reached its recent verdict.

Besides the $1,000 that went to Clinton's Senate campaign, Stewart reportedly donated $157,000 to Democrats within the past few years.

Records show that in all, $170,000 went to the party and its candidates, including $6,000 for President Clinton's two White House campaigns, $2,000 for Al Gore's presidential quest in 2000 and $75,000 -- the largest single donation -- to the Democrats' Unity campaign, $25,000 to the congressional campaign committee and $10,000 to the DNC.

Here's my fave part!

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Stewart may also be denied one privilege of American citizenship -- the right to vote.

Currently, 48 out of 50 states bar convicted felons from voting. Only Maine and Vermont permit it.

A study by the Internet group TalkLeft -- which tracks crime-related political news -- claims that if felons were able to vote, 70 percent of them would vote Democratic.

sgtclub · 03-11-2004, 11:33 AM

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20...5506-8528r.htm

[Historian documents 1.0 mm white slaves/black masters between 1500-1700]

andViolins · 03-11-2004, 11:52 AM

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Originally posted by sgtclub
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20...5506-8528r.htm

[Historian documents 1.0 mm white slaves/black masters between 1500-1700]

Not to quibble sarge, but did this guy really document anything? It looks more like he is making a guess. But he is from Ohio, so perhaps it is a really really really good guess.

aV

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 03-11-2004, 12:16 PM

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Originally posted by andViolins
Not to quibble sarge, but did this guy really document anything? It looks more like he is making a guess. But he is from Ohio, so perhaps it is a really really really good guess.

aV

Well, he seems at least to have documented the existence of white slaves and black masters. Are the numbers that important, absent an error of magnitude? It seems that the more important contribution is simply that slavery is not a purely racial matter. Of course, we know that already, even though my suit against SPQR was thrown out.

Secret_Agent_Man · 03-11-2004, 12:48 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
It seems that the more important contribution is simply that slavery is not a purely racial matter. Of course, we know that already, even though my suit against SPQR was thrown out.

Senatus Populusque Romanus? That's _really_ reaching way back. (But imagine the prejudgment interest!)

S_A_M

Hank Chinaski · 03-11-2004, 02:48 PM

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Originally posted by Burger and Secret_Agent_Man
Itaian are evil and invented slvaery!

Ty, can you not clean up the hate speech? Why is this filth allowed?

Atticus Grinch · 03-11-2004, 02:57 PM

Is presidential brother Neil Bush really just Roger Clinton and Billy Carter rolled into one? Subscribers to Vanity Fair will soon be able to tell us.

His ex-wife Sharon sounds like an A-1, first class, white-shoed beeyotch.

Secret_Agent_Man · 03-11-2004, 03:04 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Is presidential brother Neil Bush really just Roger Clinton and Billy Carter rolled into one? Subscribers to Vanity Fair will soon be able to tell us.

His ex-wife Sharon sounds like an A-1, first class, white-shoed beeyotch.

This is the Neil Bush of the failed Colo. S&L? And the Neil Bush of the sex tours to Thailand (per divorce depositions)?

I can see how he'd feel a little resentful of his older brothers.

S_A_M

ltl/fb · 03-11-2004, 03:06 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Is presidential brother Neil Bush really just Roger Clinton and Billy Carter rolled into one? Subscribers to Vanity Fair will soon be able to tell us.

His ex-wife Sharon sounds like an A-1, first class, white-shoed beeyotch.

A friend of Neil's, Jamal Daniel, bought Sharon and Neil a $380,000 cottage in Maine at Sharon's request: "Neil was embarrassed by Sharon's 'end runs' to friends, to ask for things."

Tyrone Slothrop · 03-11-2004, 03:23 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Ty, can you not clean up the speech?

You're the one who can't spell "Italian." If I start cleaning that sort of thing up, I'll never have time to read all my blogs.

Tyrone Slothrop · 03-11-2004, 04:35 PM

And now, an antidote to the idea that the WaPo is a liberal rag with no mercy for the White House: Brad DeLong on the WaPo's reporting of Bush's speech in Ohio yesterday.