your post reminds me of an old joke. 

when the astronauts got to the moon and got outta the capsule they saw two old ragged hayseeds. in shock they ask "how did you get here?"

"we'll just ole boys from Alabama looking for work."


--- On Fri, 10/24/08, KE Cleveland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: KE Cleveland <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Hey Ken, See the Factcheck article on the Alabama Supreme Court Elections?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 8:00 AM
> I love that movie so much because they got some of my older
> relatives (I
> mean OLD when I was just a little kids) spot on!
> 
> "They got this here dee-pression goin' on.  I got
> to do for me and mine."
> --Pete
> 
> Much of the rural south hadn't recovered from that
> until well into the
> '70s.  I suppose that's why so many of my relatives
> came north to the auto
> plants.  The folks that stayed behind had a hardscrabble
> live for more than
> another generation.  Incredibly sweet and simple folks.  I
> get misty-eyed
> for them every time I watch that.
> 
> They regarded FDR as almost a demi-god.  Daddy said that,
> at least as far as
> the South was concerned, he would have been president for
> life (I guess he
> was, though, wasn't he?).  If it weren't for WPA
> and the Tennessee Valley
> Authority (TVA), people would literally have starved to
> death.  I believe
> FDR and Eisenhower had a good vision for what Federal
> gov't should be:
> focused on infrastructure to create work and stimulate the
> economy.  Our
> infrastructure (roads, bridges, electrical grids, etc.) are
> in deplorable
> shape.  There's been no widescale effort for
> improvement since the '50s.
> THAT's the kind of thing we need our government to
> focus on to pull us out
> of this mess.
> 
> 
> As for my personal views, I suppose I would be in the
> Libertarian or
> "state's rights" camp.  If someone would
> start a "Leave me the heck alone"
> party, I would pull that lever right now!  LOL!  As it
> stands right now, I
> think we are blindly headed toward an Orwellian state.  Now
> if I can only
> find my tin-foil hat! [?]
> 
> Kyle
> 
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Kathy
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > LOL I'll have to watch that again this weekend!  I
> sure do love those
> > ol-timey politicking scences.
> >
> > We have early voting here in NC and I plan to take
> advantage of it on my
> > way home from the audiologist's next week. 
> There've been long lines so
> > it'll take a while, but I expect it'd take
> even longer on Election Day. We
> > have a real anti-Obama phone campaign but as I
> can't hear a thing on the
> > phone right now, it goes over my head, *smirks*  They
> wouldn't do any good
> > anyway as I've made up my mind already.  I wanted
> to help out at the
> > campaign here but as I can't go up to doors and
> knock (accessiblity issues)
> > and I can't call people,  I can only give money. 
> Maybe next time I can do
> > more with my implant having been activated and
> I've learned to use it.
> >
> > Kat
> >
> >
> > KE Cleveland wrote:
> >
> >> "It's back to the flour-mill for Pappy
> O'Dan'l!" --Homer Stokes, "O
> >> Brother,
> >> Where Art Thou?"
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Michael H. Collis
> <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >
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