jobycom
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Mon Aug-01-05 08:18 PM
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No president from Texas has gotten us into a war |
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Except Bush, Bush Daddy, LBJ, and Eisenhower.
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Mon Aug-01-05 08:19 PM
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Mon Aug-01-05 08:21 PM
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Mon Aug-01-05 08:47 PM
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6. Just cause he kinda picked up where others left off - didn't he? |
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Mon Aug-01-05 08:49 PM
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9. he may not have started per se... |
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but he certainly escalated it to a new level.
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Mon Aug-01-05 08:58 PM
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11. That's my feeling, too |
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He sold the war, he escalated it into a war when he could have stopped it. Before him it was a misguided troop action. That's my take-- I could be persuaded otherwise with proper historical arguments.
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Mon Aug-01-05 08:22 PM
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Edited on Mon Aug-01-05 08:59 PM by Jack Rabbit
The Tonkin Gulf resolution was passed on his watch and with his urging. That is the date with which most historians mark the formal beginning of the Vietnam War.
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Mon Aug-01-05 08:26 PM
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No more Presidents from Texas -- Bill Maher, _I'm Swiss_
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Mon Aug-01-05 08:46 PM
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5. I hadn't realized this, my dear jobycom... |
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Thank you for updating my US history with your timely lesson!
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Mon Aug-01-05 08:47 PM
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7. Read my lips: No new Texans |
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bumper sticker seen during Fiasco, er, Campaign 2000.
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Mon Aug-01-05 11:11 PM
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24. My daughter would not like that rule. |
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Of course I remind her that she's just a girl and so can't become president. But she'll make a nice nurse or mommy one day.
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Mon Aug-01-05 08:48 PM
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8. so i guess it's safe to say every president from texas... |
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has gotten us into a war.
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Mon Aug-01-05 09:00 PM
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12. It's true, but with Karl Rove around, I don't think it's safe. |
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Mon Aug-01-05 08:51 PM
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10. well, that's because we couldn't get ya'll to elect |
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Barbara Jordan, Sissy Farenthold, Ann Richards.
sorry, but I just can't have my fellow DUers thinking that the good old boys are the best we have to offer.
And while she may not be a politician, don't forget that the wonderful Molly Ivins is also a Texan.
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Mon Aug-01-05 09:02 PM
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13. The string of great liberal Texans is very impressive |
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I'm Texan, so don't think I'm bashing. But it is what it is.
Add Ralph Yarborough (who was almost president), Sheila Jackson Lee, Henry Cisneros, and Henry B Friggin' Gonzalez, the only man to try to impeach both Reagan and Bush, to that list. And that's just for starters. Texas liberalism is a thing of beauty.
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Mon Aug-01-05 09:31 PM
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17. One day Texas Liberalism will roar back |
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When, who knows. But my guess is it's probably just dormant and will rear it's head again one day when people are fed up with the reactionary right.
Of course, the flip side to that is that one day California-conservatism may well rear its head too.
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Mon Aug-01-05 09:35 PM
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It's enough to make your head spin.
You're not bashing, you're just stating facts. Most of the politicians that have made a name for themselves from here have left a foul legacy behind.
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Mon Aug-01-05 10:59 PM
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21. You're so right about that... |
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it takes real character and integrity to hold fast to liberal ideals in this rough Texas soil.
Add Jim Hightower to our list as well.
And for those of us who knew her here in Houston - the wonderful, wonderful and sorely missed Billie Carr, who introduced me to Bill Clinton - and got this armchair Dem off her rear and into the fight.
Back in 1992, I remember Billie telling a roomful of volunteers that the battle was truly about righteousness. I think she saw the depths to which the Republicans would sink in "claiming" God.
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Tue Aug-02-05 08:00 AM
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Was it you who was telling me stories about working for him and getting to sit and talk to him etc?
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Mon Aug-01-05 09:03 PM
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14. Wasn't Eisenhower from Kansas? |
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And what war did Eisenhower get us into? Are you counting Vietnam as an Eisenhower action?
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Mon Aug-01-05 09:25 PM
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16. Ike was from Kansas and didn't get us into a war |
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Mon Aug-01-05 10:39 PM
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20. Eisenhower was born in Dennison Texas, in a small house along the RR track |
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I was thinking Korea, but that was Truman. My bad. Eisenhower flirted with war, but had enough sense to stay out of them, for the most part. He did use the CIA to overthrow governments in the Middle East, and sent troops to Lebanon, but that wasn't really a war.
Okay, so, Texans who got out of the state as fast as they could and later became president haven't started wars. Just Texans who grew up here, or who moved here sometime later from the north, have started wars.
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Mon Aug-01-05 11:10 PM
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23. Ike was born in Texas only because his dad took a 6-month job down here |
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freak of timing is all. He was a Kansas boy thru and thru... and still the best Texas president we ever had. But only because we never elected Sam Houston.
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Mon Aug-01-05 09:15 PM
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15. Polk had a war for Texas. |
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He also obtained, through military conquest (ie theft) California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, parts of Colorado, and Utah.
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Mon Aug-01-05 10:01 PM
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19. BUSH IS FROM CONNECTICUT |
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He is a fake texan
That is all. thank you for your time.
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Mon Aug-01-05 11:02 PM
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22. I used to think that but see it differently now |
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maybe you're right about Bush, Sr. - but I would call him a Texan.
but Dubya is so Texan, good old boy, my shit don't stink, redneck that it truly makes me ashamed to admit - but he's one of us - not the part of us I admire.
But face it, we'all know someone just like him - the Bubba incarnate.
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Tue Aug-02-05 07:15 AM
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25. Karl Rove and Karen Hughes Wrote that script - his accent is fake |
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Listen to his accent - it is not Texan -- it is some bizarre amagram.
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Tue Aug-02-05 07:57 AM
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26. Sounds like Bob Dole and his 'Democrat wars' |
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