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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (2950)	7/3/2003 12:50:02 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

I grew up windsurfing on Lake Michigan and its an awesome sport...It takes a lot of balance, finesse and good judgement in order to really sail well in heavy weather conditions with big waves...It seems like Kerry is a hardcore windsurfer...I'm sure he's acquired some skills he can use on the campaign trail and as a future President... americanwindsurfer.com <<...AW: Let's talk a little bit about windsurfing, since this is a windsurfing magazine. [chuckle, chuckle] JK: It is? [both laugh] AW: How do you feel about the sport? JK: I think it's a wonderful sport. Unfortunately I came to it late. I've always been a sailor. I love sailing, love the water and all my life I've been around the water. PART TWO: JK: But I find in windsurfing there's a combination of skills as well as emotions and sensation. It's a mixture of skiing, flying, sailing, and the great challenge of walking on water. But it's also a form of meditation. It's a form of meditation because of the concentration and the mix of managing water, wind and obstacles. It all fits into that exhilaration that comes from the combination of all these forces coming together. It's just very, very dynamic and at the same time it is amazingly peaceful, a great sense of, as I said, meditation. I find it's really a great getaway. AW: Uhm-hum. JK: I love to ski. That great sense of carving and doing the moguls and the exhilarating runs. It's the same kind of thing. When it all comes together and it works and you get the sparkle on the water and the sun is out there and the wind is right, it's a special connection. AW: What would you tell someone who doesn't know anything about windsurfing or thinks it is a very hard sport. I mean, why would anybody want to put themselves out there for the punishment? JK: Well, it's a hard couple of days. But people can learn how to windsurf just as they learn almost any other sport. I think any new sport presents anybody with a certain set of challenges. You just got to get the muscle memories, got to get the essentials in and take a little time to make things happen. [Phone rings] JK: OK! Back to where we are, windsurfing? AW: Let's go back to politics for a second. A lot of people ask: "Why would anybody want to be president today? Why put yourself through hell?" JK: [Laughs] It's a decision one has to make. AW: It's a tough environment. JK: It's a tougher environment than anything that ever was. AW: It seems that all the good people won't even touch it. JK: A lot of them don't. A lot of them don't. But you got to decide which fights are worth fighting and what you can accomplish, and I'm a fighter. I believe that these things are worth fighting for right now. These are important things. Our country is important. What happens to people is important. Where we are heading globally with respect to huge issues-proliferation, the environment, the technology revolution-these are going to require very significant levels of leadership...>>

To: American Spirit who wrote (2950)	7/3/2003 10:39:48 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10965

Are you sure you're a man? Your posts sound like something a woman would say...

To: American Spirit who wrote (2950)	7/3/2003 10:44:08 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 10965

"Our recent foreign policy has distanced itself so completely from world opinion that it is hard to imagine how we got here. How did our response to Sept. 11 become so reliant on military aggression? And what alternatives exist for the pursuit of national security?" commondreams.org