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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (4243)	11/1/2000 6:22:36 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10042

I didn't figure you would support an unqualified woman. Even among qualified candidates some I see as better or more closely aligned with my political ideas. If I see a woman presidential candidate that I agree with politically and who I think will be an great president then I will vote for her, unless there is another candidate that I think is even better. Basically the race or sex of the candidate is unimportant to me, the competence and political ideas of the candidate are what I find important. Tim

To: epicure who wrote (4243)	11/1/2000 10:17:25 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 10042

I've often been impressed by Mfune, for example. Well, let me tell you a little story about Kweisi and how he likes to abuse his power.. When I was attending military language school (DLI) late in my military career, the son of Kweisi's girlfriend was in my charge. He was a new recruit who had only finished 8 weeks of basic training before being assigned to DLI, upon successful graduation of which he would then be assigned to a linguistic slot, or upon failure, either recycled or reassigned wherever the army so chose to put him. Well, this soldier was having considerable trouble with his language course work. He claimed it was because the course was too hard, which it was. However, IMO, it was because he was too busy doing extracurricular work, such as being the platoon EEO representative, trying to control the racial thoughts of anyone who dared tell a racially toned joke (which I admittedly would do from time time, because I really enjoyed hearing the jokes that non-white soldiers would tell about whites, rednecks, etc)..and being engaged in elective activities that were not related to his course. Well, here we were at the end of our course and facing our graduation exams (DLPTs)... Well, the day that we were supposed to learn the results of our career enhancing/terminating exams, we were gathered outside smoking and joking, making guesses on how well each of us had done when this guy hinted that he passed. Now knowing how deficient this young man was in language abilities, someone asked him privately how he knew. He responded one to one that he had called his mother and told her how worried he was about the test results. She then told her boyfriend, Congressman. Kweisi Mfume, who then called DLI and demanded to know if he had passed his exam. Now, what is interesting here is that this young man had NOT informed any of our leadership that he was connected to Mfume in any way (to his credit I guess). Now I, and a few others, knew it but had not passed it on. But talk about people catching hell for keeping the chain of command in the dark. I was chewed out severely over this little "oversight". But anyway... we'll never really know if this young soldier, who had not been the most dedicated or studious of language students, actually passed his tests (which he barely did according to his scores), or whether that "out of the blue" phone call from Kweisi convinced someone that they had better doctor the scores and pass this young man. Either way, it destroyed all respect that I had for the man. Because while we were ALL SWEATING OUT DISCOVERING OUR SCORES, this little schmuck who's connections and anonymity I had been protecting so that he wouldn't be treated differently, backstabbed me and everyone else by pulling strings and getting tipped off about his performance.

To: epicure who wrote (4243)	11/2/2000 7:15:14 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 10042

<<I'm not advocating nominating the lady checker at the local supermarket to run for higher office. >> This is the sort of statement I fully can't understand, this was intended to be a representative government where each of us might be among those representatives! None here in the U.S. are "UNQUALIFIED" to hold higher office! Has no one here read or understood the concept of our founders that we should for all time be ruled by a citizen government? You want to know what should really bother us all most about our government? That we are so likely to elect those which came from the immediate family for our prior representatives! In ways I hate that there is even a 2nd generation of people in the US Government named "Gore" or "Bush" or "Bono" or....! "The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny". James Madison Federalist Papers #47 We need far fewer Lawyers elected to office. We need far more Term Limits!