Comments on: Open Thread 08/18/05

By: timactual

timactual — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:01:32 +0000

HeavyM
“My step brother, uncle, and cousin came home worried about whether or not they were going to be accepted or spat upon when they reached America”.
Where on earth are they getting their information? Nowhere in the MSM have I ever seen or heard anything disrespectful about US troops. As a matter of fact, over the past few years I have been struck by the spontaneous shows of approval and support given to American servicemen in airports and other places. Some have even been given free upgrades to first class on airplanes, to the approval of the other passengers. Don’t service people talk to each other? Frankly, if what you say is true, I’m a little disappointed in their lack of faith in the American people.

By: timactual

timactual — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:08:07 +0000

How many politicians spend twenty years in office and aren’t rich? Very thrifty with their own money, if not ours.

By: GO DUKE!!!

GO DUKE!!! — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:28:53 +0000

Heavy M,
Amen!

By: wheelz

wheelz — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:56:27 +0000

FYI: The primary in 1992 with Dixon and Moseley-Braun… the third person was Hofeld (not Hoefel).

By: Ralph

Ralph — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:07:22 +0000

mnw

Illinois is legendary for this. A note on these when the former secretary of state, from Ill, died there was shoe boxes full of cash in his closet.

One of these days I will repeat the story of the legendary “Tubbo Gilbert” who was the richest policeman in the world. A source of great civic pride in Chicago.

By: mnw

mnw — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:33:10 +0000

Ralph

It didn’t help Dixon that he spent 47 years continuously in public office (Maybe 37 years; who cares? same difference), & when he left office… he was worth $6 million.

The newspapers had a lot of fun with that. Remember the song from “Fiorello”? “It’s just a little tin box, a little tin box, that a little tin key unlocks…”

By: Ralph

Ralph — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:23:16 +0000

mnw

Thanks for his insight. I had left St. Louis by then and was totally clueless as to why Dixon lost that primary.

His loss really did not fit any catagory except maybe the enraged female point.

By: mnw

mnw — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:15:43 +0000

RichardG

You may be right. I remember the waffling, but forget which side of the issue that putz started out on.

Carole M-B used to have a district office right next to the building in which I work. I remember the day that workmen came with ladders & took down her sign. It was the most fun I’ve ever had with my pants on.

By: hellbelly

hellbelly — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:35:11 +0000

HeavyM,
you da man! say it, brother!

By: RichardG

RichardG — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:26:56 +0000

I thought Rich Williamson started as pro-life but waffled. If I remember that one correctly, Mosely Braun slipped in under the radar while Dixon and Hoefel were hammering away at each other. The same thing happened that year in WI (although not with an incumbent) on the D side. A prominent US Rep (I think his name was Moody or something like that) was battling it out with some prominent businessman for the D nomination. While those two beat each other up, a little known state senator with a humorous folksy, low-key approach named Russ Feingold sailed to the nomination with something like 70% of the vote, and of course took out incumbent Kasten that year.