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"BAR" wrote in message
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hkrause wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:44:45 -0500, BAR wrote:

Does it bother you in any way to know that McCain graduated number 894
out of 899 in his class at the naval academy? It could be posited that
he graduated that high due to his Admiral father and Admiral
grand-father? The real question is why wasn't he thrown out due to his
disciplinary problems? Oh, wait a minute, it was because of his Admiral
Admiral ancestry.


What was your class standing at the Naval Academy?

Mine or Tom's?

If I had wanted to attend it would have been a formality. Having a father
and two war hero grandfathers I would have gotten in easily.

I decided that I would rather go my own way in life.


~~ SNERK ~~

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:33:41 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:09:52 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

I have my reasons which, oddly, have nothing to do with his politics
and has more to do with him as a person.

Long story - might tell it sometime.

We're you a POW also ?

Good lord no - thank what ever gods there are.

It happened long after the war right after his speech about
reconcilation with the Vietnamese during his first body recovery
mission.

It's also the same reason I dislike John Kerry so much.

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Don White wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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hkrause wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:44:45 -0500, BAR wrote:

Does it bother you in any way to know that McCain graduated number 894
out of 899 in his class at the naval academy? It could be posited that
he graduated that high due to his Admiral father and Admiral
grand-father? The real question is why wasn't he thrown out due to his
disciplinary problems? Oh, wait a minute, it was because of his Admiral
Admiral ancestry.

What was your class standing at the Naval Academy?
Mine or Tom's?

If I had wanted to attend it would have been a formality. Having a father
and two war hero grandfathers I would have gotten in easily.

I decided that I would rather go my own way in life.


~~ SNERK ~~



Don,

Send me an e-mail at r6bb at yahoo dot com

Bert

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:51:19 -0500, "John" wrote:


"Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here wrote in message
...
Chuck Gould wrote:
On Feb 26, 8:35?am, "John" wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message

news:f2994bc2-15e3-495a-a122-

The rough guesstimate of an undecided independent:

McCain: Most "presidential" of the batch, has an encouraging history
of not automatically toeing the party line. Represents "politics as
usual", but with a guy at the helm a bit more independent than the
current prez and less susceptible to being manipulated by his
advisors.
************************

Most presidential????
Have you forgotten about the Keating Five?????
McCain considered Keating a friend - in the best republican
tradition....

No I haven't forgotten about the Keating Five. McCain's involvement
was
peripheral.

Yes, of the three candidates still effectively standing John McCain
appears to be the most presidential at this time. Doesn't make him the
most presidential person in the country, merely the most presidential
of the three.

Hillary is damaging herself, badly, with this week's attacks on Obama.
She can be such a jerk. The attacks of course say much more about what
sort of person she is than what sort of person Obama might be.
She represents the same old corrupted, sold out, traditional political
game playing we have endured for the last couple of decades. No change
of course with her at all, just a change in party and gender.

Obama is mesmerizing his audiences with rhetoric. He's one of the best
orators to trek down the presidential trail in quite a while, IMO
surpassing even BJ Clinton in this respect. But once he gets our
attention with a brilliantly orchestrated fanfare, what's next? Oh,
look- yet another fanfare! Obama needs to find the courage to take a
stand on more issues.

It's hard to pick an outstanding candidate from among the three- but
anything will be better than what we have endured for the last 7
years.
About 70% of the country is eager to see GWB retire to Crawford.

Obama and McCain are two of the best choices we have had in a long time.
Hillary is be a disaster. I can't believe no one in the press has made an
issue of Bill selling pardons. I can just imagine how many pardons
Hillary could sell with Bill selling them over the internet.

LOL have you forgotten about the pardon king, GH Bush? He pardoned more
people and people that may have been involved in TREASON! Of course we
will never know because they shredded evrything and cleaned their tracks in
a very professional manner.

On August 11, 1999, Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 members of
FALN, a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group that set off 120 bombs
in the United States mostly in New York City and Chicago, convicted
for conspiracies to commit robbery, bomb-making, and sedition, as well
as for firearms and explosives violations. Congress condemned the
action, with a vote of 95-2 in the Senate and 311-41 in the House.
President Clinton cited executive privilege for his refusal to turn
over some documents to Congress related to his decision to offer
clemency to members of the FALN terrorist group.

Let's see - Libby or FALN terrorists?

I think I'll take Libby.

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:33:41 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:09:52 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

I have my reasons which, oddly, have nothing to do with his politics
and has more to do with him as a person.

Long story - might tell it sometime.
We're you a POW also ?

Good lord no - thank what ever gods there are.

It happened long after the war right after his speech about
reconcilation with the Vietnamese during his first body recovery
mission.

It's also the same reason I dislike John Kerry so much.


More than a million Vietnamese died in *that* idiotic war, plus huge
numbers of Laotians and Cambodians. Reconciliation was the right thing
to do. It usually is after a war. We "reconciled" with the Germans, the
Italians and the Japanese.

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:51:19 -0500, "John" wrote:

"Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here wrote in message
. ..
Chuck Gould wrote:
On Feb 26, 8:35?am, "John" wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message

news:f2994bc2-15e3-495a-a122-

The rough guesstimate of an undecided independent:

McCain: Most "presidential" of the batch, has an encouraging history
of not automatically toeing the party line. Represents "politics as
usual", but with a guy at the helm a bit more independent than the
current prez and less susceptible to being manipulated by his
advisors.
************************

Most presidential????
Have you forgotten about the Keating Five?????
McCain considered Keating a friend - in the best republican
tradition....
No I haven't forgotten about the Keating Five. McCain's involvement
was
peripheral.

Yes, of the three candidates still effectively standing John McCain
appears to be the most presidential at this time. Doesn't make him the
most presidential person in the country, merely the most presidential
of the three.

Hillary is damaging herself, badly, with this week's attacks on Obama.
She can be such a jerk. The attacks of course say much more about what
sort of person she is than what sort of person Obama might be.
She represents the same old corrupted, sold out, traditional political
game playing we have endured for the last couple of decades. No change
of course with her at all, just a change in party and gender.

Obama is mesmerizing his audiences with rhetoric. He's one of the best
orators to trek down the presidential trail in quite a while, IMO
surpassing even BJ Clinton in this respect. But once he gets our
attention with a brilliantly orchestrated fanfare, what's next? Oh,
look- yet another fanfare! Obama needs to find the courage to take a
stand on more issues.

It's hard to pick an outstanding candidate from among the three- but
anything will be better than what we have endured for the last 7
years.
About 70% of the country is eager to see GWB retire to Crawford.
Obama and McCain are two of the best choices we have had in a long time.
Hillary is be a disaster. I can't believe no one in the press has made an
issue of Bill selling pardons. I can just imagine how many pardons
Hillary could sell with Bill selling them over the internet.
LOL have you forgotten about the pardon king, GH Bush? He pardoned more
people and people that may have been involved in TREASON! Of course we
will never know because they shredded evrything and cleaned their tracks in
a very professional manner.

On August 11, 1999, Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 members of
FALN, a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group that set off 120 bombs
in the United States mostly in New York City and Chicago, convicted
for conspiracies to commit robbery, bomb-making, and sedition, as well
as for firearms and explosives violations. Congress condemned the
action, with a vote of 95-2 in the Senate and 311-41 in the House.
President Clinton cited executive privilege for his refusal to turn
over some documents to Congress related to his decision to offer
clemency to members of the FALN terrorist group.

Let's see - Libby or FALN terrorists?

I think I'll take Libby.

Just another payment for the Senatorial seat from New York.

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"BAR" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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hkrause wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:44:45 -0500, BAR wrote:

Does it bother you in any way to know that McCain graduated number
894 out of 899 in his class at the naval academy? It could be posited
that he graduated that high due to his Admiral father and Admiral
grand-father? The real question is why wasn't he thrown out due to
his disciplinary problems? Oh, wait a minute, it was because of his
Admiral Admiral ancestry.

What was your class standing at the Naval Academy?
Mine or Tom's?

If I had wanted to attend it would have been a formality. Having a
father and two war hero grandfathers I would have gotten in easily.

I decided that I would rather go my own way in life.


~~ SNERK ~~

Don,

Send me an e-mail at r6bb at yahoo dot com

Bert


Why?

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Don White wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
Don White wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
. ..
hkrause wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:44:45 -0500, BAR wrote:

Does it bother you in any way to know that McCain graduated number
894 out of 899 in his class at the naval academy? It could be posited
that he graduated that high due to his Admiral father and Admiral
grand-father? The real question is why wasn't he thrown out due to
his disciplinary problems? Oh, wait a minute, it was because of his
Admiral Admiral ancestry.
What was your class standing at the Naval Academy?
Mine or Tom's?

If I had wanted to attend it would have been a formality. Having a
father and two war hero grandfathers I would have gotten in easily.

I decided that I would rather go my own way in life.

~~ SNERK ~~
Don,

Send me an e-mail at r6bb at yahoo dot com

Bert


Why?



You had your chance for verification but, I'll give you one more
opportunity.

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:56:41 -0500, hkrause
wrote:

More than a million Vietnamese died in *that* idiotic war, plus huge
numbers of Laotians and Cambodians. Reconciliation was the right thing
to do. It usually is after a war. We "reconciled" with the Germans, the
Italians and the Japanese.

===========================

How did you avoid the draft ?

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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:56:41 -0500, hkrause
wrote:

More than a million Vietnamese died in *that* idiotic war, plus huge
numbers of Laotians and Cambodians. Reconciliation was the right thing
to do. It usually is after a war. We "reconciled" with the Germans, the
Italians and the Japanese.

===========================

How did you avoid the draft ?

Harry has been asked that question many times and he always does his little
dance or ignores the question altogether. He is either too ashamed of
himself or too embarrassed to answer.