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To: Jerome who wrote (836)	3/13/2014 10:32:37 AM
From: Kirk ©	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brian Sullivan Respond to of 26596

With all due respect.... YOU are the one who made the claim past presidents with extensive military experience didn't have real work experience then you said President Obama with his community organizer experience was as example of real work experience. without examining the facts is a disservice to your thread. Following is the work experience of Pres. Barack Obama. My objection was to say this was real work experience for a definition of real work as "making or selling something for a profit." I could have better stated it as "Private sector experience making or selling something for a profit" as I sure didn't mean to imply that working for the military or any of millions and millions of other government jobs from teaching to prison guards are not hard work... Obviously, if you had pointed to his ice cream scooping job as an example equal to my washing cars or cleaning tables. those would have been good examples. FWIW, scooping ice cream in 1975 or 1976... would have him doing it at age 14 or 15. I wonder why he doesn't make a bigger deal of these early jobs? Much of the rest seems to be noise to cover up I also pointed out President Reagan had real work experience where you didn't have to go back as far as you said... what was it,... to Truman? Good reading pbs.org Looks like ole RR did some community organizing himself long before he got the paid position as president of the Actor's Guild. Anyway, I wish you and your side would show more respect for the GOP presidents just as I wish GZ and his side would show more respect for the Democratic presidents.

To: Jerome who wrote (836)	3/13/2014 11:09:54 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26596

BTW, since you were the one who thought it was a disservice to my readers to let lies stand, here is the truth about another you posted. Facts are from the liberal stronghold no less than PBS. pbs.org Biography: George H. W. Bush To Texas Offered a job at his father's Wall Street firm, Bush decided instead to set out for West Texas, to try his luck in the oil boom. A family friend, Neil Mallon, helped Bush land an entry-level job, and just two years later, Bush struck out on his own as a wildcatter, purchasing land with money from investors and hoping to strike oil. Bush partnered with a neighbor and friend, John Overbey, who knew the oil business inside and out. With Bush's East Coast investment connections and Overbey's expertise, the two were moderately successful, and soon joined with a team of two brothers from Oklahoma to create Zapata Petroleum. Zapata struck it big at an oil field in Coke County known as Jameson Field. Meanwhile, back in Connecticut, Bush's father was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1952. Following his father's example, after having made enough money to secure his family's future, Bush started to explore politics.