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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (61782)	5/23/2005 2:33:32 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

That glitch does not amount to vote fraud.... J.

To: American Spirit who wrote (61782)	5/23/2005 6:53:47 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Are Senators for Real? _____________________________ By Sandy Frank* huffingtonpost.com The other day when British MP and alleged Oil-For-Food bribee George Galloway testified to a senate committee and generally cut our guys to ribbons, I was reminded of a question I’ve wondered about before: Are United States Senators as slow-witted as they appear? I’ve never believed it. After all, senators are genuinely powerful; members of the world’s most exclusive club. It’s hard to get elected to the senate. But aside from the rare Daniel Patrick Moynihan, they seem a singularly unimpressive bunch. My theory is that they’re pretending. You’ve seen them on the Sunday morning shows: “Well, George, as I travel around this wonderful country of ours, from sea to shining sea, sitting down for coffee with the fine men and women who make up this great nation and talking to them about their hopes and dreams…” Come on, they must be faking it, afraid apparently that if they show any spark at all then voters won’t like them. Now, the only evidence I’ve ever seen to back up my suspicion came during the Keating Five trial. Five senators, accused of ethics violations, professional backs to the wall, took off the masks. The aw-shucks demeanors were gone, replaced by… well, not intelligence, exactly, but at least animal cunning. Their professional lives were at stake and they did what they had to do. For once they didn’t play dumb, and it paid off –- they survived. It was kind of cool. Posted at 05:30 PM *Sandy Frank was very briefly a Harvard-trained lawyer before chucking it for the joys of TV writing. He won 4 Emmies for Late Night with David Letterman and worked on In Living Color, a passel of sitcoms, and a couple of dramas. He is also currently an owner of an educational video production company.