Posted on 10/11/2007 2:52:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Here's my anonymously sourced, second-hand Fred Thompson story that confirms the conventional wisdom. Takes place at a dinner in Washington last winter. Thompson is sitting next to a Hollywood insider who asks him, Why weren't you interested in being president of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America)? Look, Thompson says. Dick Wolf (creator of "Law and Order") pays me a lot of money to work two days a week. Why would I work for less money and work six days a week? Okay, says the insider, I get that. Then a few weeks later comes the news that Thompson wants to be president of the United States.
I wouldn't share that story if I hadn't just spent three days with Thompson on the campaign trail in Iowa, during which I gathered enough evidence with my own eyes and ears to conclude that what the anecdote suggests - Thompson is lazy, he doesn't lust for the presidency - could very well be true. I saw how he enters a room (tentatively), how he addresses a crowd (dispassionately), how he interacts with voters one-on-one (reluctantly). You hear about politicians who draw energy from the people around them. I would say of Thompson that he sucks energy out, and then lets it dissipate.
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But to conclude therefore that Thompson won't be a factor in the Republican primary race would be a foolish - maybe even grave - mistake.(continued)
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Can we count on your vote for Fred who is too lazy and unmotivated to be a dictator but not so much so that he won't protect America from Islamic Fascist?
"Give a lazy man a hard job and he'll find an easy way to do it." - Unknown
Losing weight is "simple" too ~ just eat less. ";^)
Fred is elegantly, humbly, profoundly simple and deep, instead of complex and shallow.
Rommel may have been fighting for the wrong side, but he sure was a perceptive dude.
You cannot count on my vote for Fred Thompson.
The man is not only lazy, he is out of touch.
So he’s for federalism. So he has his “first principles” talking points down.
I wouldn’t trust him to run the corner drugstore.
Sorry. Just my opinion.
I am highly unimpressed with your Fred Thompson.
Maybe Mr. Thompson would do much less in Washington, like the Congress should do much less. The more they do, the deeper we sink into socialism. All of Washington should go home more often and quit trying to sit up there and figure things out for us, as if they are smarter than us.
I’m shocked...
As compared to Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Kim Jong Il, Hillary Clinton -- they were not and are not flukes. The first four were murderers on a scale far exceeding Hitler at his worst, and they were not flukes. They murdered in the name of pursuing an ideal of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
I was too young when Reagan was president to realize how much I miss him now.
Rommel knew about the conspiracy (although he wasn't an active participant) and didn't rat anybody out. That was enough for Hitler to order him to commit suicide or be publicly arrested and tried. He chose the former, to spare his family.
Plenty of good Germans out there (I studied German for 10 years in jr. high, high school, and college). Even my dad acknowledges that, and he spent four years getting shot at by the Krauts (and shooting back). Without the strong American tradition of a democratic republic, though, they are sometimes prey for demagogues and tyrants. The Weimar Republic, given Germany's history of fragmented authoritarian states, was doomed almost from the start.
We have had our share of demagogues (Huey Long, Wm Jennings Bryan, Aaron Burr) but they just don't get as far under our system. Hopefully that trend will continue . . . .
Rommel knew about the conspiracy (although he wasn't an active participant) and didn't rat anybody out. That was enough for Hitler to order him to commit suicide or be publicly arrested and tried. He chose the former, to spare his family.
Plenty of good Germans out there (I studied German for 10 years in jr. high, high school, and college). Even my dad acknowledges that, and he spent four years getting shot at by the Krauts (and shooting back). Without the strong American tradition of a democratic republic, though, they are sometimes prey for demagogues and tyrants. The Weimar Republic, given Germany's history of fragmented authoritarian states, was doomed almost from the start.
We have had our share of demagogues (Huey Long, Wm Jennings Bryan, Aaron Burr) but they just don't get as far under our system. Hopefully that trend will continue . . . .
I guess that “TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE” message on a blank screen means, “DON’T push “post” again!”
I'm afraid I'm a closet admirer of the Germans (especially their accomplishments in aviation), though from what I hear of their country, I would NEVER fit in. I'm not big on following orders.
He dosen’t claim to be, he is his own man.
He doesnt but his fans do and ram it down my throat at every opprotunity. If he wins the GOP, I will vote for him but I am just saying he may be a nice guy but we could have done better.
The Germans are a great people - great for good, and great for evil. Remember also that they (along with the Norman French, who were originally also a Germanic people) are the foundation of English -- and hence our -- entire system of law and government.
I'm not very obedient myself, I admire the Germans but I sure do stand outside their system!
so you take your mad at his fans out by attacting him, sounds very grade school IQ to me.
We were fortunate in our high school to have for our lead German instructor a lady who was highly educated (doctorate in chemistry from the University of Graz, Austria) and very dedicated to the best of German literature and culture. Our German V class used to go to the State German Contest over in Athens and win the top spots every year. The order changed all around among us, but we were always the top five. I think she was the only native German teaching on the high school level in Georgia at that time. We made straight 800s on the German achievement test, too!
I am told that I still have a rather pronounced Austrian accent in my speech -- which is funny, because people take me for a native speaker (nobody would learn to talk like that on purpose, would they?) It's sort of like learning English from an instructor from the Deep South . . . . :-)
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