[ale] Bangalore Bill

[F. Grant Robertson]

The _only_ president in history not elected to office? I think you need
to spend more time reading history than bashing the GOP...

In order...

John Tyler, succeeded William Henry Harrison who died from pneumonia,
1841-1845

Millard Filmore, succeeded Zachary Taylor who died from cholera,
1850-1853

Chester A. Arthur, succeeded James A Garfield who was assassinated by
Charles Guiteau, 1881-1885


Several other VPs succeeded their boss, however, these three shared the
same distinction as Ford by either not being re-elected or not running
for office when the term expired. 

I have zero respect for a Commander in Chief who openly protested the US
military on foreign soil. Added to which, the issue of Monica Lewinski
was not one of who screwed who but of who obstructed justice, and who
compromised national security to get their willie wet. Monica aside,
Clinton's record of obstruction is long and well documented with _many_
suspicious deaths of people who held relevant information. Journalists,
bodyguards, staff members..  people just had a nasty habit of assuming
room temperature after having known Clinton and having inside access to
information that could have been damaging to his ability to thwart the
justice system.  

Oh, and while I'm ripping apart your attempt at humor, it was Dan Quale
who said, and I quote, 

"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have
was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with
those people."

You won't find me defending Danforth. However, I will say that "potatoe"
is an acceptable alternate spelling, as per the Oxford English
Dictionary.

-G

Oh, by the way... here's a box of band-aids.<grin>



On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 22:30, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 	WARNING...  TOTALLY OFF TOPIC SEMI-HUMOROUS CONTENTS HERE IN...
> 
> 	Let's see now...  Gunner...  Aim lllooowww...
> 
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:49:25PM -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 19:55, F. Grant Robertson wrote:
> > <flame bait>the only good thing Clinton ever did in his miserable,
> > > godforsaken life</flame bait>
> 
> > Hey, he's had more sex in the White House than all of us put together!
> > I'd say that should amount for something. I'm just not sure what.
> 
> 	Hey...  Most of the "better" (judgement of history) presidents
> throughout our history have had their mistresses and foibles.  One even
> kept a mistress IN the White House.  I would rather have them enjoy
> screwing a mistress than screwing the rest of us (as some other "moral"
> adminstrations have engaged in).  Hell!  Kennedy did great!  The Italians
> were pissed at Clinton because...  Let's be real here...  Monica?
> COME... ON!!!  You've got to do better than THAT!  They were RIGHT!
> 
> 	You know, the Republicans are big on family values!  It's obvious!
> Just look!  They have sooo many of them!  :->  (A resounding theme after
> that hypocrite Gingrich resigned).  And let's not forget Pat Swindle (there's
> a name for you).
> 
> 	I have a lot more respect for Carter (who lusted in his heart)
> and Clinton (who got railroaded into saying he didn't when it didn't
> matter if he did or not and was aquitted anyways) than I do for Nixon, or
> Regan, or Ford, or either of the Bushs.  Nixon gave us the only president
> in our history who was never elected to the office (Ford).  Ford told
> Latin Americans that he was sorry he couldn't speak their language but
> he never studied Latin in school (I swear to God it's not a $#@%#@ joke,
> it was in the news when he did it).  Regan was a two bit actor acting like
> a two bit president.  At least he stayed consistent, though.  He always
> played with a monkey for a second banana.  Now we have Monkey Jr playing
> like Rambo.  And the polical comedians worry about running out of material.
> Right...  It will be a bloody cold day in a bloody hot place...
> 
> 	They say that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.  I'm not sure
> who I believe less...  The ones who said they "took a toke but didn't
> inhale" or those who "copt a feel but didn't partake".  Doesn't matter.
> Power is sex.  Anyone in power with a "holier than thou" attitude is
> either a lier or has more serious biological deficincies.
> 
> 	Wwwaaayyy OT.  But couldn't resist the opportunity to take a
> cheap shot.  It's been that kind of day.  (Those of you following the
> security activies probably know what I mean...  We've been juggling
> nuclear hand grenades again at the office...  Hope y'all got Bind
> up to date...  At least RedHat has been on Bind 9.x for a while...)
> 
> 	Bye bye!  >;->=>
> 
> > :)
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> 
> 	Mike
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