[Revolting cat!]

Kennedy, D-R.I.,

Rhode Island? And his sister represents Maryland? (Slightly off topic, sorry.) Who knew? I wouldn't have guessed. I thought these Kennedys grew up in a Virginia suburb of D.C.

In the Soviet bloc countries where they did hold elections, remember, with 90% voter participation and 100% approval of Party chosen candidates, those candidates, Party career apparatchiks, were typically and more or less arbitrarily assigned the districts they were supposed to represent. What's the difference here in paradise, I ask? (And this applies just as well to the current POTUS, whose brother is a guvnor in Florida, whose father was from Connecticut and represented Texas where he maintained an empty apartment in Houston. Are we dealing with broken families?) D.C. kid Al Goron is from Tennessee, you say? Oh, yeah.

At least, the Gipper spent most of his life in California, where he, as you recall, returned. Otherwise, it's a Magic Carpet Ride all the way!

[SFConservative]

Excellent tirade, but you forgot to mention a certain US Senator "from" the Great State of New York!

[Ole Okie]

What's the difference here in paradise, I ask? (And this applies just as well to the current POTUS

Current POTUS was raised in Midland, Texas and served as gubernator of Texas. That's good enough for me.

[ohioWfan]

Are you unaware that George W. Bush moved to Texas when he was two, and has lived most of his life there?

How is that a problem?

And his father lived in Midland for many years, and now lives in Houston.

Even if you succeed in saying GHW isn't a Texan, you can't do that with his son.

Nice try, though. Bash him whether it makes sense or not, eh?

[Freee-dame]

whose father was from Connecticut and represented Texas where he maintained an empty apartment in Houston.

Do you prefer the Clinton way? He didn't even own a house anywhere.

President Bush only lived in Conn while his father was in graduate school. They lived in grad school housing, not usually deluxe, especially back then. After moving to Texas, W attended neighborhood public schools for elementary school. His ancestral family had money, but he lived a very middle class life as a kid.

I'm glad you think that Gore being raised on a "farm in Tennessee" is very disingenuous. He was raised in a very upscale high rise apartment in DC., attending the priciest of private schools the entire time. Little League in (at the time) dusty Midland TX was probably much more fun.