--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of authfriend > > Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 11:43 AM > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Another book about everyone's favorite > > community organiser > > > > The theory is that he didn't want the issue of his > > alleged dual citizenship to be raised at all; it > > would just give the right something else to beat > > him up with, with regard to the claims that he's > > really Muslim, that he's insufficiently patriotic, > > not Amurrican enough, etc. > > > > Well, it's no secret that he lived in Indonesia. > > Again, it's not where he lived, it's the alleged > dual citizenship that he supposedly never renounced. > To some, that suggests dual loyalties. >
Perhaps, but in fact, dual citizenship... is that an issue at all, constitutionally speaking? Also, the repbulicans would be very silly to make it a campaign issue given the issue with McCain's place of birth. > He'd have to be pretty dumb > > to try to stage a cover-up like this, and he ain't dumb. > > If there's any truth to this, it'll come out, as the > > Edwards thing did. > > Edwards isn't dumb either, nor was Clinton, nor Gary > Hart. And Obama didn't think his membership in Trinity > Church and his association with Rev. Wright would cause > him any problems. > > In the statement he released, Edwards says, "In the > course of several campaigns, I started to believe > that I was special and became increasingly egocentric > and narcissistic." That may be a more common > affliction among politicians than we realized, that > they begin to feel invulnerable and can just do > anything they feel like doing. It would certainly > explain a whole raft of dumb behavior from otherwise > very smart people. > I wouldn't say its something that I hadn't realized. As Jon Steward says, these guys are running for President of the United States, the most powerful position in the world. DO you expect them to somehow NOT be elitist? Lawson
