Celibacy?!? Oh my!  Next thing you know, they'll acuse Obama of masticating
at the dinner table!

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Cleveland, Kyle E. <
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> ..and Smathers also accused Pepper of practicing celibacy before
> getting married!
>
>
> Kyle
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Kendall D. Corbett
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:10 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: obama's problem
>
>  In political campaigns, anything that can be used to question a
> candidates
> fitness for the job, or electability will be brought up.  In Florida
> in 1950  a candidate (Smathers) campaigned against his opponent (Claude
> Pepper) by saying his sister was a known thespian, and saying Pepper was
> a
> septaugenarian (although Pepper was only 50).  We all know thespians are
> actors and septaugenarians are in their 70's, but the tone Smathers used
> was
> so nasty some people accepted the terms and thought the worst.  Pepper
> lost
> to Smathers in the 1950 election.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2ww7x6
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3czhwt
>
> Here's a good checklist to recognize political bullsh** from the League
> of
> Women Voters that was posted on a "local" TV stations' site.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2ww7x6
>
> OK, it's Denver, but Wyoming's television stations are painful to watch.
> We
> had Pete Williams back in the 70's and 80's but he was too good to last
> in
> our market.
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Tamar Raine <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I looked on the web.  Apparently the pastor wrote the letter one year
> ago,
> > after a NY Times reporter misquoted him. What are they doing rehashing
> old
> > stuff?
> >
> > mag
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> Kendall
>
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
> progress
> depends on the unreasonable man.
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Kendall

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

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