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No big deal one way or another IMO.

Individual endorsements don’t count for much.

However, reading between the lines, has anyone who has worked with Hillary, in the Senate, endorsed Hillary?

I am pretty sure that the Arkansas State Troopers, the Secret Service, and the Marine Guards will not vote for Hillary.

What about the other people, who have worked for her and with her?

I was told by former White House Marine guards that Clinton did not even acknowledge their salutes! He walked by and ignored them.

Let me see if I can find a public reference.

you should find the reference before you post such crap —- it’s a GOP myth

One sunny day in 2008, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, “Gunny, I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton.” The Marine replied, “Sir, Mrs.

Clinton is not President and doesn’t reside here.” The old man said,” Okay.” and walked away. The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, “Gunny, I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton.” The Marine again told the man, “Sir, as I said yesterday, Mrs.

Clinton is not President and doesn’t reside here.” The man thanked him and again walked away .

. The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same Marine, saying, “Gunny,I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton.” The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, “Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mrs.

Clinton. I’ve told you already several times that Mrs.

Clinton is not the President, and that she doesn’t reside here.

Don’t you understand?” The old man answered, “Gunny, I understand you fine.

I just love hearing your answer!” The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, “See you tomorrow, sir!”

There were actually many complaints about his lack of military service that caused Bill Clinton’s salutes to be technically inadequate. But I have never heard that he ignored the salutes.

There was the rumor that Hillary and Chelsea did not like having men in uniform escorting them around. That lie has been exploded many times.

If I were Obama, I would have preferred Kerry not bothering to support me. :)

It was widely reported on the news that Clinton did not return salutes. Not that is is required, but it is not false and I’ve personally seen Clinton walk past Marine guards and not salute them at the White House (TV News Reports)

Steven Davis
Posted January 10, 2008 at 2:19 pm | Permalink

We can hope…

IMHO a president that did not serve should not salute. Even as CIC, I think it is not respectful. A polite nod or verbal recognition would be more palatable for me. Again, My HO and two cents.

“You have to disprove I haven’t seen it on the news.”

Anyone that has taken debate 101 knows that you cannot prove a NEGATIVE.

But nice try, McCluer. I see that you are up to your same old tricks.

Have a nice day.

Loser.

It has been widely reported that George Bush eats live puppies for lunch. I saw Regular feeding them to him.

Disprove that.

This sort of thing is why I have been hesitant to accept the claims against Ron Paul. It’s just to easy to put something out there and now “it is widely claimed … “

WSClark
Posted January 10, 2008 at 2:51 pm
“…unless I had tape of EVERY program that you hade EVERY watched on television, and I had watched EVERY moment on said tape…”

Which is what you asking me to prove that Bill Clinton didn’t salute by showing proof.

Who is the loser now clarkie?

An endorsement from President Kerry should help but as a sitting senator he should have waited until the primaries are over to give an endorsement.

Kerry’s endorsement is the kiss o death for Obama.

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Meaningless. Endorsements count for squat.

Cute Sol,

Although I don’t think the Eagle would be amused. 8)

The 60s? What does that have to do with my question? It has to do with 2007-2008 alleged events.

Sol – thanks.

Ben,

I would post all the details, but I doubt it would convince anyone.

However, if anyone of a reasonable mind would read them, they would have no doubt what has happened.

Of course, you can always dog pile me like the rest of the Libs do.

That way your Liberal viewpoint wouldn’t be diminished and you would be in good standing with the rest of the Libs who hold themselves as judges of those who don’t agree with their views.

Or, you can be an adult about the situation and realize I’m not making this stuff up and it has actually occurred.

The 30+ emails to Brownlee I have with the statements about my private life should satisfy most doubters.

As you may or may not know Ben, stalking is very hard to prove.

Like I said, you can lay down with the wolves if you wish, but don’t blame me for the smell that attaches itself to you.

Well, before the blog goes even farther downhill…

Interesting comments by the Kansas sec. of irrigation, I mean agriculture, regarding ethanol.

Could the sheeple out here actually be waking up to the evils of ethanol and the water usage? Will wonders never cease?

http://www.hdnews.net/Story/bioenergy011008

I love how their defense of water wasting ethanol plants was to quote how much water it takes to make a barrel of beer.

Such intelligent public officials we have in this state…

If Obama is president…I am darn sure more worried about who the VP or (soon to be president) is

I’m against Corn Ethanol, I’m all for Hemp Ethanol. Hemp paper saves trees, Hemp makes better cloths. The ropes and sails on the ships that fought the British during the revolutinary war were made out of hemp, if people we’re short currnency they traded hemp. I don’t give a crap about the hippy pot douche bags that smoke weed which is different than hemp. I wish people would see the difference, hemp is bred for its agricultural use for its high fiber content and contains only small traces of thc, the psychoactive chemical that people use to get high. Pot is specifically bred for its thc content. Its almost impossible for people to get high off hemp. Theres no reason to keep this plant illegal. It could practically save this country, its a super crop, it has more uses than corn. If you take the same amount of Hemp than corn you can produce 4 times the enthanol because of its cellouse content. It even makes better ethanol than sugar cane which the Brazillians are using, and they are practically non-reliant on gas.

I meant if would make cows healthier, in turn making the cows we eat healthier than the Corn fed beef we have been eating.

Hemp played a key role in the early days of the United States. The Puritans grew high quality hemp in the 1600’s. By the time of the revolutionary war, its cultivation was considered the patriotic duty of American farmers!

Betsy Ross made the first American flag from hemp fabric.

The Founding Fathers, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, were hemp farmers. The first U.S. patent was issued to Thomas Jefferson for his hemp threshing machine.

The first two drafts of the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution were written on hemp paper. The final drafts are written on animal parchment.

Levi Strauss made the first pair of jeans from lightweight hemp canvas.

Until the late 1800’s, virtually all of our cloth and paper were made from hemp.

In the late 1920’s and 1930’s Henry Ford and other U.S. companies were developing a wide variety of synthetic products from renewable biomass resources, notably hemp, and were promising to make every product that was currently being made from petroleum hydrocarbons from cannabis carbohydrates. The petro-chemical and pulp-paper industries in particular stood to lose billions of dollars if the commercial potential of hemp was fully realized. Randolph Hearst together with Lammont DuPont and other industrialists (backed by Andrew Mellon, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and owner of Gulf Oil) mounted a negative publicity campaign against hemp in Hearst-owned newspapers, trumping up charges of marijuana use, to illegalize its cultivation. This paved the way for the world’s largest privately owned timber holdings (forests owned by Hearst) to be harvested for the paper industry, which required petroleum products and chemicals developed by Du Pont.

Hemp is anti-microbial and highly resistant to insects. It NEVER requires the use of herbicides, pesticides or chemical fertilizers.

Hemp, unlike cotton, does not deplete the soil of nutrients. This makes it cheaper to produce, eliminates groundwater pollution due to pesticide run-off, and curtails farming community exposure to toxic and cancer-causing products.

Growing hemp reduces our dependence on petroleum products such as petrochemical fertilizers.

Currently 15,000 lakes in the US are so contaminated by toxic agricultural runoff that NOTHING can live in them.

Hemp is an adaptable annual grass that can be grown in 85-150 days in most environments (all 50 states).

Growing hemp produces an estimated $800.00 profit per acre of land. Soybeans, the next most profitable American crop, produce $200.00 profit per acre and require irrigation, pesticides, and herbicides. Timber produces $40.00 profit per acre, and requires many years to mature and replenish.

Deforestation is one of the most serious threats to the long-term health of the planet. America uses as much wood, by weight, as it uses metals, plastics, and cement combined. In North America alone, we have already destroyed 97% of the mature forests that existed in colonial times.

Currently 40% of the global timber harvest is used for paper products. If hemp is cultivated on only 12% of the European landmass, it will meet the ENTIRE WORLD DEMAND for paper and completely eradicate the need to cut trees for paper. One acre of hemp produces as much pulp for paper as four acres of trees. The average tree grows for 30-40 years before it can be harvested for paper products, compared to hemp, which can be harvested in 3-4 months.

Hemp paper requires less chemical processing and can be whitened without producing dioxins. Unlike wood pulp paper, hemp does not harden, yellow, or crack with age.

If hemp replaced cotton globally, the increased fiber yield would free up an area of farmland the size of Florida. The reduction in toxic pesticides would be 94,080 tons.

In the USA approximately 1.4 billion cotton t-shirts are sold annually. If they were replaced by hemp t-shirts the energy savings would be 3486 million GJ (that’s the household power for one whole year for 92,300 people) and the water savings would be 1339 BILLION gallons (that would satisfy the household water consumption for more than half the population of the USA for ONE YEAR).

Hemp fabric is nature’s most durable natural fiber. It is four times more durable than cotton, and is naturally UV resistant, offering more protection than other natural fibers.

Hemp can be used to produce 25,000 – 50,000 kinds of domestic and industrial products, including paper products of all kinds, efficient biofuels, biodegradable plastics, food, non-toxic building materials such as fibreboard, paints, and linoleum.

Plastic was originally invented using natural plant cellulose, which was then replaced by petroleum products. Hemp has the highest level of natural cellulose. Hemp fiberboard is stronger than fiberboard made of wood products.

Twenty U.S. states are researching and preparing legislation to legalize industrial hemp. Canada legalized hemp cultivation in 1994 and is quickly becoming the global leader in hemp research and product development.

Hemp production in the United States would create new farming opportunities and create THOUSANDS of new jobs in industries such as textiles, paper, plastics, energy, construction and food.

Currently hemp cultivation is treated as a FELONY offense in the United States.

Sources:
Rowan Robinson
The Great Book of Hemp
Park Street Press

Americans Obesity epidemic can be traced to three things, the large amounts of meat we eat, and the large of amounts of food products we eat that conatain corn byprodcuts, notably corn syrup. Lastly a sedentary lifestyle. Corn contains the types of sugars that are immediatly converted into fat when we consume them, a lot of the food Americans are eating are pre-pakaged manufactured food, 95 percent of those foods contain corn by products. Go to your local grocery store, all of the food is pre-packaged, except the perephial isles in the store, like the fresh produce section and the bakery.

Obama is pretty savvy, Lurch’s endorsement will be a setback but I think he can over come it.

It’s pretty funny how the national media opinions are framing John Kerry’s endorsement of Obama as bad luck or something bad.

Bush’s endorsement means what to Republicans? Bush’s GOP is pitiful to the American people.

The President lied to your face about nuclear WMD Saddam was in a rush to have. Under a Mission Accomplished banner. When Cheney said the insurgency was dead enders and short time Saddam loyalists. That was thousands of injured and dead soldiers ago. We’re in the longest war America has ever been in and the most expensive.

No Republican can distance themselves from Bush. Guilani needed Bush supplying money for 9/11 while he changed wives in New York.

McCain hitched his wagon to Bush’s Iraq policies. What Huckabee was doing in Arkansas, keeping his wife down as subservient and pardoning rapists.

Romney was supporting pro choice and I don’t know what else. He can’t explain what he was doing, flipping history all the time.

The GOP can’t laugh at Kerry because Bush’s actions in Iraq has cost Billions and Billions of dollars since he was re-elected. Bush’s oil supporters have gotten much richer with $100 barrels and their not eager to see the Iraq war end.

T.Boone Picken teased Kerry to disprove Swift Boaters while he profits from the war.

Cheney ran Haliburton, then gave no bid contracts to the company as Vice President. They ripped off the soldiers and Pentagon.

Republicans supported Bush who fooled the Pentagon with lies so military could be sent to Iraq with a chance to steal its oil.

Don’t people believe special forces could have killed Saddam a lot simpler?

Bush wasn’t patient to allow that. Forces were in the Gulf and a short distance away in Afghanistan.

If Republicans voted for Bush Iraq policies they no political validity now.

Laughing at Kerry or thinking him as a terrible politician, look at Bush and Cheney as better politicians? What a joke!

Max,

The what ifs, don’t mean a thing. Stick with what happened with Bush and Cheney. Their behaviour in Iraq has ruined the Federal Budget and they unforgivably lied about reasons for the war.

Rumsfeld sent soldiers without enough armor and too few of them dealing with insurgency.

What’s the opposite of that, more soldiers sent with enough armor. Not putting down the deadly insurgency as short timers.

Too bad we didn’t have an alternative to the Decider. Nobody in the GOP challenged Bush that he and Cheney were wrong.

There is no platform GOP can stand on. Cutting taxes has created less money for states to use.

If Bush tax cut did something positive he would have reacted better when Katrina happened. For some reason, gov didn’t have enough money for that kind of tragedy. We were attacked by the weather with no Federal money to defend the country.

I’m hoping for a EDWARDS-Obama ticket!!

Kerry’s endorsement for Obama just put me off his email list–I just canceled his emails. Hillary is a winner, Obama is naive.

Bryan Hubb,

Obama is naive how and about what?

Hillary is a candidate, she hasn’t won yet. Both her and Obama equally won Senate seats. He did it without a political background like the Clintons.

More people have a fascination with Bill. They don’t want him doing First Lady duties as First Man. They want Bill working on policy decisions with Hillary if she becomes President.

She has 36 years in government, why doesn’t she tell Bill to shut it, sit down and quit giving speeches. Run only on her record. She won’t do that, because he’s a key reason why some are voting for her.

She’s at a debate with Obama. Bill is off elsewhere giving a speech how Obama isn’t qualified like he was. Obama can’t respond to Bill immediately.

Bill is increasingly saying every decision Obama has made was wrong. Bill doesn’t have mistakes in his past as President with things he said?

“I didn’t have relations with that woman!” Clinton thought the press and America were naive!

There is no platform GOP can stand on. Cutting taxes has created less money for states to use.
MRage

Wrong. Most states have enjoyed a surplus following the tax cuts.

And all states took personal credit for their budget expertise, when in fact, the Federal tax cut put money in the pockets of those who earned it, and they spent it on goods and services, which created jobs, which created more lovely tax revenue for the Fed and the States.

Agee, how is it the Federal Revenues are at an all time record high after the big tax CUT?

Hey, Max, how do you plan on paying down our $9 trillion National Debt?

The Republicans keep telling us that tax cuts will result in more revenue and therefore balanced budgets 0 so where are those balanced budgets?

Keep in mind that 75% of the National Debt was generate under three Republican presidents, all with veto power over spending bills.

How many balanced budgets were there under Reagan, Bush I and Bush II?

Answer: zero.

I am NOT pleased with the dynasty thing and my past posts say so.

That said, there IS no working with the right. It works to their interests to even try.

Bill tried. Look at the harm done.

Senator Clinton is a better person than her pandering husband. And she has years of experience dealing with people who hate her.

The perfect person to deal with the right.

Listen to this Socialist complain about the Bush tax cuts!

When you don’t pay any taxes, then it’s natural for them to complain about tax cuts for working Americans.

97% of the income tax is paid by those who are in the top 50%.

How much do you have to EARN to be in the top 50%?

“Listen to this Socialist complain about the Bush tax cuts!”

So when do you plan on paying the bills, Max? The next forecasted balanced by the Bush Adminstration is in 2012, and most economists don’t believe that it will happen then based on the overly optomistic projections. By then, the National Debt will be at least $12 trillion and the interest alone will consume 35% of the Federal revenue.

So when do we start living within our means?

And by the way, the $12 trillion does not include the $39 trillion in SS and Medicaid commitments already on the books in unfunded entitlements.

So when do we start living within our means? When do we pay our bills?

Huh?

Max

I dislike Corporate tax cuts, because some companies didn’t add jobs. Manufacturing still left the country. It’s odd when Toyota is making cars in America and GM’s aren’t. Tax cuts helped auto company executives, layoffs of workers still happened.

Bush GOP is tied to the energy cabal. Increasing prices for energy taking away tax cut money people had in their pocket.

States are struggling to pay for social services with less money from the government.

Bush’s gov was broke, explain why FEMA did nothing for 4 days to help people in New Orleans and Mississippi? Louisiana National guard and their equipment was in Iraq.

Rumsfeld overused the National Guard and their equipment to staff the choice war in Iraq. Risking states if they have weather or environmental emergencies.

“So when do you plan on paying the bills, Max? The next forecasted balanced by the Bush Adminstration is in 2012, and most economists don’t believe that it will happen then based on the overly optomistic projections. By then, the National Debt will be at least $12 trillion and the interest alone will consume 35% of the Federal revenue.”

Please answer, Mr. Max, if you can. Betting you can’t, you chump… You can sell your childrens’ souls to China, I’d rather not. Thank you very much, you asshole.

JR, there you go again confusing Assets with Income.

No time to repeat this lesson for you. Your Democrats are all for Asset Confiscation I know, because stealing their income is not the fastest way to Redistribute Wealth.

Capn, I’d balance the budget by cutting ALL, 100% of Government pork spending, and keeping the increase in Federal spending at the rate of Inflation less 3%.

That means no new Socialist programs for you beggars until we balance the budget, and find a way to pay for the Social Security/Medicare fiscal crisis.

Then merge with Mexico (we’re half-way there already anyway) and take all their oil. Then we can get the heck out of the Mid-East.

Uh, gettin a little tired.

G’nite and God Bless whatever you think whoever might or might not be.

Jeez, it’s funny how quickly the Republicans disappear when it comes to the question of how to pay off the National Debt.

They are all for tax cuts and have NO interest (pun intended) when it comes to paying the bills, especially those generated by the three Republican administrations.

I propose that the registered Democrats pay the debt incurred under Democratic administrations and the Republicans pick up the tab for theirs.

That should cause a massive defection from the Republican ranks.

There’s no discussing economic fairness and justice with Max.

He’s got just enough intellect to absorb and repeat the talking points of his corporate masters, the ones who give him a bright, shiny penny for every hundred dollar bill they make and tell him that he too can be a robber baron someday if he works hard and plays by the rules.

Trouble is, he’s worked hard and played by the rules and he’s still only making a bright, shiny penny.

Never mind that, it’s all the fault of the . . . uh . . . socialists.

Next to the dictionary definition of “useful idiot,” there’s a picture of Max.

“Take the log out of your own eye, and then you can see to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.”

Jesus Christ

No effect either way.