Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
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"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
As someone who lived in Arkansas for 25 years, I’d caution both parties never to vote for an Arkansas politician for president.
I think Huckabee would be a good VP, and given his record could be for either party. Clinton, well, the name has so many meanings…
Ron Paul baby. He is getting the cash but will that move him in polls?
Heh,
Ron Paul, the GOP’s version of Dennis Kucinich.
respects,
DEfeatocrat experience?
Hildabeast – Lawyer, First Lady, Senator with no major legislation submitted nor passed.
Barry – Lawyer, Senator w/3 years OJT.
Breck Girl – Slimy, ambulance chasing lawyer, 1 term Senator.
Am I missing something here?
Another interesting point, all are sitting US Senators. The last Senator to jump directly from the Senate to the White House was Kennedy, and none of these quite have that whole Camelot thing going on. You have to go back to Harding in 1921 for a repeat.
Compare against the number of governors who have left their state mansions for the White House. Carter, Clinton, G.W. Bush, and to some extent Nixon as well.
Not saying history will repeat itself, but being in the Senate doesn’t seem to equate to experience in the mind of the American voter. The match-up of Bob Dole vs. Bill Clinton is but one example where years of Senatorial experience and vast name recognition across the nation wasn’t enough to overcome a personable governor.
– Max
As someone who lived in Arkansas for 25 years, I’d caution both parties never to vote for an Arkansas politician for president.
My mother had a business convention in Little Rock shortly after the ’92 election. She was surprised to find when she mentioned to locals how proud they must be of Clinton she usually got statements along the line of “We can’t believe y’all fell for it!” The more garrulous would go on to tell 1st and 2nd-degrees of separation stories of rude/shady dealings regarding the Clintons, with the caveat that they weren’t any different than the rest of the scoundrels “governing” Arkansas.
[hit return too soon] Though she didn’t vote for Clinton, she had good hopes for him. That Arkansas trip left her much less optimistic.