[Vision2020] If the shoe was on the other foot (was A Plea to Saundra Lund)

[Carl Westberg]

Given that apparently anyone, anywhere, at any time can now inexplicably find him/herself as a Presidential running mate, the prudent thing would appear to be voluntary pre-disclosure of any possibly embarrassing or unsavory events in one's past. I'll start. 









Should I ever find myself occupying the bottom of a Presidential ticket, I confess in advance, before the blogosphere releases the info, that circa 1960 I impulsively decided, while cruising Fonk's 5 and Dime, to steal a rubber knife that my 9 or 10 year old self suddenly decided I really, really needed to have.  I've also been known to be friends with Republicans.  I have secretly believed that "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris was and is a great song, while seemingly everyone else hates it.  I wore paisley shirts and actually owned a Nehru jacket.  I attended the Universal Life Church Picnic at Farragut State Park in 1971, which turned out be a 3 day long mini-Woodstock, with some 55,000 people doing things that 55,000 people at such an event did in 1971.  I stayed the entire 3 days, but entirely out of intellectual curiousity.  But if I am ever accused of consorting with known Boise State fans, I will deny such slurs emphatically.  Politics is a tough thing.   Carl Westberg Jr.

> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:23:24 -0700
> From: chasuk at gmail.com
> To: vpschwaller at gmail.com
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] If the shoe was on the other foot (was A Plea to	Saundra Lund)
> 
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 14:42, Glenn Schwaller <vpschwaller at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have no doubt that if it was shown President Bush or Senator McCain
> > had any kind of connection whatsoever to Mark Rudd, John Jacobs, Bill
> > Ayers, Jim Mellen, Terry Robbins,
> > Karen Ashley, Jeff Jones, Gerry Long, Steve Tappis, Mark Rudd or David
> > Gilbert you people would be screaming impeach impeach impeach,
> > invalidate, invalidate, invalidate as loudly as your collective voices
> > would allow.
> 
> Since President Bush screwed this country up more than any man in our
> entire history, I fail to see how his association with a few
> ultimately innefectual radicals could have made things any worse.
> 
> I don't know who Jim Mellen is, or was, and you mention Mark Rudd
> twice.  And you forgot Howard Machtinger.
> 
> > yes Mr Rumelhart, I believe there is quite a bit to
> > fear, and my greatest fears are that when more-likely-than-not
> > President Obama begins to tear this country apart it's going to make
> > the loss of "civil liberties" under the Bush administration look like
> > chump change, and those who proudly put Obama there will say exactly
> > what they say now:  "So what".
> 
> I love conspiracy theories.  They are almost as fun as Halloween, but
> less fattening.
> 
> Since we are playing the guilt by association game, maybe we should
> talk about the Bush family association with the Nazis?
> 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
> 
> Oh, how fun!
> 
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