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To: Pikamax
Isn't this the Joe Klein who wrote Primary Colours, if so what is he complaining about?

This revisiting the Mekong Delta, means the thoughts and hatred towards the serving members of the military is being reexamined.

The failed policies of the left wing of the rat party are being examined much as it should be.

Mekong Delta is front and center as it should be, for tracing and following the history of this Boston Brahma, who went to war as a poetical motive, much as Al Gore went to Viet Nam to help his daddy's campaign.

13 posted on 08/29/2004 8:48:37 AM PDT by dts32041 (Where is Obama bin hidin?)
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To: dts32041
The same Joe Klein who wrote The Running Mate with a little input from Senator John McCain, if memory serves me correctly.

From Amazon.com:

Now, in The Running Mate, Klein takes the reader on an exuberant, wicked, and unerringly wise political journey with Senator Charlie Martin, a decorated veteran of the war in Vietnam. The experience of combat and his easy dominance of home-state politics have made Charlie fearless. He's a hot, if occasionally reckless, political property--dashing, honorable, and irreverent.

And then Charlie's life begins to fall apart. He campaigns for the presidency and fails. The wacky father of a volunteer decks him--in front of the cameras; a well-kept secret from Charlie's Vietnam days is revealed; he reluctantly finds himself at the center of a friend's cliff-hanging confirmation process for Secretary of Defense....And Senator Martin begins to learn that politics in an era of spin, marketing, and vicious personal assaults can be as treacherous--and life-threatening--as combat was.


34 posted on 08/29/2004 9:02:58 AM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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