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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (30156)	8/19/2000 6:42:18 AM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Yes, I am aware of the "modern day" connotation of the name, and that distresses me. Some prissy little dork, in his "penny loafers", that commutes to work in his Beamer, decided that all hard working, hard playing, hard gambling, and hard loving men, were a bunch of brawlers that are fool enough to work out in the sun, and get the backs of their necks seared by the rays. I grew up with the "rednecks" that cut the wheat in 110 degree days in Kansas. Have worked with the men on horseback who have to mess with one of the dumbest, most obnoxious creatures on earth, so city fellows can have their beef. Then I think of times before my own, when there were lines of men, a mile long, driving spikes into railroad ties so this nation could grow faster, and the men that climbed the rigging in the ships that went around Cape Horn to the California gold fields, stage coach drivers, the pony express, the telegraph linemen, and on and on. They were all "rednecks", and when I think of them, I sometimes wish I had that little dork in the penny loafers in a Texas beerjoint with me for a little frolic in the real world. Sermon concluded...... ~;=;o --haqi