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To: onyx
Indeed? So, politicians ''accomplish'' something, do they?

They do research, do they, and publish objective results, useful science, for the nation and/or various citizens? Don't think so. Doubtless, you know FAR better, eh?

They make a crop (pardon me, please if you don't know what that phrase implies)? Don't think so, but doubtless, again, you know far better.

They invent somethinng useful? I am, of course, not referring to their assorted biographies in many cases. Lincoln is the only President with a patent to his name, but -- doubtless -- you know far better.

They paint, or otherwise create art? They write music? Coolidge's VP wrote the tune ''It's All In The Game'', and he's unique in that regard. But -- doubtless -- you know better.

They invent a new way of doing business, a la Ray Kroc or Sam Walton, and employ hundreds of thousands of people? The last person who ran for President and subsequently tried to operate a business was McGovern. He couldn't even manage a tourist inn, and the business failed. But, of course, you know better.

Accomplish? You use that word as would Humpty-Dumpty; in your little world, it **appears** to mean exactly what you say it means, except...you never say what it means.

''Accomplish'' means, in the real world, to get something done, presumptively something positive. McLame, in real-world history is THE single most crashed pilot in US Navy history, 5 planes. Quite an accomplishment. He was also involved (and of course excused, the US Senate being what it is) in the Keating scandal. I won't even mention his treatment of his wife, doubtless know-alls such as you are fully informed.

Mutt Romney? Don't get me started. Silver spoon at birth (nothing wrong w/that, btw, but no extra credit for it either), REFUSED, point-blank, to challenge the absolutely unlawful 4-3 ruling (read the MA Constitution, boyo) from the MSSC decreeing, out of thin air, that fag ''unions'' are on the same footing as matrimony.

Then, when you're bored with that (I'll give it 5 seconds or so), look up the legislative history of the most recent anti-''assault weapon'' bill that the MA Assembly passed. You'll find (but, you know this already, Mr. Knowall) that Mutt himself shepherded that bill right through.

Accomplished, eh? My accomplishments are modest (and I'll list them for you if you like), but at least they **EXIST**. I can't -- and you can't either, if you're honest (at this point a dubious proposition) -- name a SINGLE accomplishment, an inarguably positive result produced by, either McLame or Mutt.

Giuliani, contrarily, whose politics I can't stand but may have to suffer, has indeed accomplished a number of things. Getting punk criminals off the streets of a city in LARGE numbers is indeed an accomplishment. Too bad that accomplishment is now down the sewer courtesy of Mikey Bumbug.

And, just BTW, it really isn't wise to attack someone ad hominem, as you just did, without having facts in hand. Which you didn't -- you don't know me from Julius Caesar, but are, quite evidently, still sufficiently an egotist supreme enough to make declarations about my life and/or accomplishments.

Accomplishments, is it, forsooth? Politicians are leeches on the body politic, and it's entirely rare that they, as a class, have ''accomplished'' anything positive in their own lives.

Except, of course, if you count getting elected as an ''accomplishment''.

Notwithstanding the above, a very Happy Christmas to you and your family.

509 posted on 12/15/2006 11:02:43 PM PST by SAJ (debunking myths about markets and prices on FR since 2001)
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To: SAJ

Chill out!


510 posted on 12/15/2006 11:04:09 PM PST by bonfire
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To: SAJ
I directed my comment to you specifically. Your accomplishments versus theirs.

Merry Christmas to you too.
512 posted on 12/15/2006 11:04:48 PM PST by onyx (Phillip Rivers, LT and the San Diego Chargers! WOO-HOO!)
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