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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (69736)	2/21/2009 6:31:24 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Joe, Trust me, I have been called worse names! (:>) Some how I've been labeled as a Democrat, however, Obama wasn't my choice for President. The last time I looked at who I wanted for Pres. and VP...one was a former REP turned Independent and the VP preference was a REP US Senator from Nebraska. That being Bloomberg and Hagel! And just for the record this would be my preference for President, House of Representatives and Senate. One being Rep., another Dem, and the last Independent. Just remember our founding fathers told us that political parties would destroy our nation...and can that fact be denied? I'm just trying to offer a balance of 'thought' rather than being dogmatic in supporting one side. Just as the recent poster contends that Clinton was the one who cut defense efforts in our country. I bet that surprises Dick Cheney and George H. Bush. How soon we forget that it was Bush/Cheney in 1991 that proposed closing our military bases and cutting military personnel. The year before it was the Dems who forced him to stop his efforts, only to see it happen the next year. April 13, 1991 Plan to Close Bases Is Met With Protests From Affected States By GWEN IFILL, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney faced an expected wave of Congressional protest today as he formally announced his recommendation to close 31 major military installations. House Armed Services Committee analysts estimated that the closings would wipe out nearly 70,000 military and civilian jobs by 1997, or 3.3 percent of the 2.1 million military and civilian personnel serving in the United States. The Pentagon runs 485 installations around the country. Mr. Cheney expressed understanding for the outcries by lawmakers from the 20 states affected by the move, but he said that if local opinion was allowed to prevail it would be impossible to close any bases.