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Posted on 11/24/2005 12:42:30 PM PST by Sub-Driver
He's from the Clinton administration so it's not a surprise at all. Look at M. Larry Lawrence, the "merchant marine" hero who never was either of those and had to be exhumed from Arlington!
Of course this is out there so if he's a running mate or whatever in 2008 he can say "that's old news" let's "move on" and get away with it.
I expect the spin to evolve into "I was actually scouted by KC" which really only means that a scout once attended one of his games or something.
If Hillary can get away with all the lies from her past, why should this stop Richardson?
It's Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.
Of course, he also used to pitch for the Cubs every Sunday afternoon - at least that's what he told us before he walked into the secret entrance to Wrigley Field which was located behind the door of a tavern at Lawrence and Austin...
I think you are right on target: it will be Bayh, unless he does something before 2008 to alienate the clintoid appartatus. And all she has to do to win is take OH! All the other 2004 Kerry states are automatically in her column. She won't even need IN, just OH. She is seriously on her way. I think that many of her supporters are just long-term admirers of Bill Clinton, thinking that victory for HRC will somehow result in Bill Clinton "taking care" of them again. Of course, he is taking care only of himself, but his supporters, many of most limited education and moral principles, don't understand the dichotomy. Remember the old poll that showed something like only 2 percent of the public said that their own moral principles were lower than those of their idol Bill Clinton. It's hard to admit it, but millions of Americans really do BELIEVE in the Clintons, and I don't think we can do a thing about it. These Clintons have their own pipeline to the American voter.
As in 'etched indelibly' in my memory?
This smacks of Al Gore. What is with these democrats and a pathological desire to invent stories about themselves?
In the middle 1950s, there was a Republican congressman from UT who invented a WWII "hero" story about himself. When the facts were uncovered, he was so disgraced that he may have resigned. I think his name was "Stringfellow."
It was Douglas Stringfellow, R-UT, who withdrew from a 1954 reelection race after his WWII fabrication was uncovered.
There are archival papers including a typed autobiography, newspaper clippings, letters received, typed copies of speeches, and newsletters entitled: “Day to Day with Doug.” The materials deal with his motivational speeches before he was a congressman and his congressional career. The autobiography is an attempt by Douglas R. Stringfellow to correct his war experiences and his various activities after he realized he had lied.
Papers: 1952, 1 item.
A typescript of a speech taken from the included sound tapes. The speech was given at Brigham Young University on 22 May 1952. Douglas Stringfellow claims to have been captured and tortured by the Germans, that he escaped from the notorious Bergen Belsen prison camp, that he was beaten by a “suicide man,” and that he was shot at by a machine gun after being wounded by a land mine.
"Big deal! I once hit a home run off a pitcher that was once almost drafted."
Oh. I thought you were talking about draft beer.
It's certainly not his fault that he looks like Lou Costello with a deep tan, or that he's built like Senator Barbara Mikulski, except not as ripped.
Cut this fine border-guarding American some slack. He's certainly popular as hell with the NM voters, alive and dead; present or absent, who vote for him enthusiastically, and often.
"I immediately looked to see if this was a Scrappleface article."
So did I.
I pray that someday, you will get a name.
The real frightening thing about this is the fact that some voters would be influenced by thinking he was drafted by a MLB team.
Heck, some voters would be influenced by knowing whether he wears boxers or briefs (and I apologize for the mental images.)
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