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"JDKAHN" wrote in
: I recall a Boston Globe interview a blogger found, where Kerry talks about going to Vietnam and volunteering for SB duty because they didn't get too deeply into shooting situations doing coastal patrol. He said he wanted to get close but not TOO close. Then they switched roles to the inland rivers and he bugged out as soon as he could with some scratches, nicks and bits of metal in his ass from his own grenades. Some hero. I don't believe there are cases of any other officers abandoning their men like that so soon into their tours. Maybe you can find a similar case? Gee, what a pity that every single person who served with him on the boat say otherwise, eh? Tell you what, you go ahead and swallow whatever the bloggers say. Seems to me that's what repukeblicans do best. Which he KNEW. If he wanted to go so bad to Vietnam, why did he sign a piece of paper saying he did not want to go? Not familiar with such a piece of paper. What is that? You can't possibly be this uninformed. Where have you been hiding, the local RNC bar? When he joined the Guard, there was a checkbox which stated "Do not volunteer for overseas service". It's clearly marked, kiddo. Compared to your whole case based on the old lady Democrat? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072899.htm Did you know, for example, that Bush never went through OCS? He was given a direct "politician's son" commission straight out of basic training. Have fun. So let me get this straight... all of the people involved with Bush in the Guard, his senior officers and comrades, all of which had/have good things to say ON THE RECORD, are liars, mercy snip You must be taking good drugs. Not even Kerry is saying this. and the 80% of Kerry's Swiftvet comrades, who say he is unfit and hate his guts Ah, the 80% who never served with him and most never met him. Right. Best part of the Guard thing has been that many people had no idea Bush was an ex fighter pilot and were quite impressed to find this out. The F-102 is not a fighter. It was an interceptor, designed to engage aircraft using radar and standoff weapons. Most people intuitively know that stupid people generally don't succeed flying all weather missions in 102s. Which he didn't. He only had 300 or so hours when he applied for a job in Vietman which he knew required 500 hours minimum. Heck, he got the lowest possible score on the pilot aptitude test, 25. The only reason he got in to the NG as a pilot was because of his dad. Here's some _facts_ for you to digest, since you're so easily stimulated. From realchange.org 1. Pulled Strings to Get In. On May 27, 1968, George Bush Jr. was 12 days away from losing his student draft deferment, at a time when 350 Americans a week were dying in combat. The National Guard, seen by many as the most respectable way to avoid Vietnam, had a huge waiting list -- a year and a half in Texas, over 100,000 men nationwide. Yet Bush and his family friends pulled strings, and the young man was admitted the same day he applied, regardless of any waiting list. Bush's unit commander, Col. "Buck" Staudt, was so excited about his VIP recruit that he staged a special ceremony for the press so he could have his picture taken administering the oath (even though the official oath had been given by a captain earlier.) Bush and his allies have tried to deny this with several changing stories, but Bush himself admits lobbying commander Staudt, who approved him, and court documents confirm that close family friend and oil magnate Sid Adger called Texas Speaker of the House Ben Barnes, who called General James Rose, the head of the Texas Air National Guard, to get Bush in. Rose, who is now dead, told his friend and former legislator Jake Johnson that "I got that Republican congressman's son from Houston into the Guard." Staudt's unit, the 147th, was infamous as a nesting place for politically connected and celebrity draft avoiders. Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen's son was in the unit, as was Republican Senator John Tower's, both of Sid Adger's sons and at least 7 members of the Dallas Cowboys. 2. Took a 2 month vacation in Florida after 8 weeks in the Guard. Just 8 weeks after joining, Bush was granted 2 months leave to go to Florida and work on a political campaign, the Senate race of Republican Edward Gurney. Bush took a leave every election season, in 1970 to work on his dad's campaign, and in 1972 to work in Alabama. 3. Skipped Officer Candidate School and got a special commission as 2nd Lt. As soon as Bush completed basic training, his commander approved him for a "direct appointment", which made him an officer without having to go through the usual (and difficult) Officer Candidate School. This special procedure also got Bush into flight school, despite his very low scores on aptitude tests -- he scored 25% on a pilot aptitude test, the absolute lowest acceptable grade, and 50% for navigator aptitude. (Bush did score 95% on the easier officer quality test, but then again the average is 88%). What made Bush's appointment doubly unusual was his total lack of special qualifications. This procedure was generally reserved for applicants with exceptional experience or skills, such as ROTC training or engineering, medical or aviation skills. Tom Hail, a historian for the Texas Air National Guard, reviewed the Guard's records on Bush for a special exhibit on his service after Bush became governor. Asked about Bush's direct appointment without special skills, Hail said "I've never heard of that. Generally they did that for doctors only, mostly because we needed extra flight surgeons." Charles Shoemake, an Air Force veteran who later joined the Texas Air National Guard and retired as a full colonel, said that direct appointments were rare and hard to get, and required extensive credentials. Asked about Bush, he said "His name didn't hurt, obviously. But it was a commander's decision in those days." Despite Bush Jr.'s weak qualifications, Col. Staudt was so excited about the direct appointment that he saged another special ceremony for the press, this time with Bush's father the congressman standing prominently in the background. The direct appointment process was discontinued in the 1970s. 4. Assigned to a safe plane -- the F-102 -- that was being phased out. As Bush has been quick to note, National Guard members do face the chance of being called up for active duty, though few actually did during the Vietnam war. So what a lucky break for Bush that he was assigned to fly the F-102 Delta Dagger, a plane already being phased out. In fact, the Air Force had ordered all overseas F-102 units shut down as of June 30, 1970 -- just 3 months after Bush finished his training. Since training is so airplane specific, Bush was guaranteed from the beginning to be safe from combat. Bush's campaign has even used his training on the obsolete plane to justify his early discharge, almost a year before his scheduled discharge, since other F-102 pilots were also being released early. But they can't answer the obvious question -- why spend so much money to train a National Guardsman for 2 years on a plane that was already being phased out, at a time when the Guard was letting F102 pilots leave early due to oversupply? 5. Celebrity Political Date. During his flight training, Bush's celebrity showed in a couple of ways. Most famously, President Nixon sent a jet to pick up the young flight student for a date with his daughter Tricia. Alas, the potential political marriage and dynasty was not to be. Also, the commencement speaker at Bush's graduation ceremony was -- his dad, Congressman George Bush Sr. 6. Illegal, overruled transfer to a base with no work. In 1972, Bush once again wanted to work on a political campaign, this time in Alabama. He applied for a transfer to a nearly defunct base with no active training or work, the 9921st Air Reserve Squadrom at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. Bush's supervisors approved, but a higher headquarters overruled them, noting that the unit had no regular drills. Lt. Col. Reese Bricken, the unit's commander, told the Boston Globe "We met just one weeknight a month. We were only a postal unit. We had no airplanes. We had no pilots. We had no nothing." Even Albert Lloyd Jr., a retired Air Guard colonel who is helping the Bush campaign clarify the candidate's service, told the Globe he was mystified why Bush's superiors at the time would approve duty at such a unit. Lloyd was personnel director of the Texas Air Guard from 1969 to 1995. Now, the officer who did that has stepped forward and very directly admitted that he tried to get the easiest possible assignment for Bush. The personnel officer in charge of Bush's 147th Fighter Group, now- retired Col. Rufus G. Martin, says he tried to give Bush a light load when he told him to apply to the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron in Montgomery, Ala. Martin said in an interview that he knew Bush wasn't eligible for the 9921st, an unpaid, general training squadron that met once a week to hear lectures on first aid and the like. "However," he said, "I thought it was worth a try. . . . It was the least participation of any type of unit." 7. Just didn't show up for a year -- with no punishment. National Guard records and Bush's own supervisor's and friends show no sign of him attending any drills or performing any service for nearly a year, from May 1972 until May 1973. This period began with Bush moving to Alabama for a political campaign. He later applied to transfer to a base that had no work; the transfer was first approved, then cancelled. Bush did nothing for several months; then in September he applied to transfer to Alabama's 187th Tactical Recon group for 3 months. This was approved, but the unit's commander, General William Turnipseed, and his then admnistrative officer, Kenneth Lott, have both said that Bush never showed up. "Had he reported in, I would have had some recall, and I do not," said Turnipseed. "I had been in Texas, done my flight training there. If we had had a first lieutenant from Texas, I would have remembered." Bush claims that he did some work in Alabama, but can't remember any details. “I can’t remember what I did,” he said. “I just—I fulfilled my obligation." Despite 2 years of searching through hundreds of records, his campaign has been unable to find any record of Bush's service there, nor could they find a single fellow serviceman who remembers his presence. The best they could produce was an ex-girlfriend from Alabama -- Emily Marks --who said George told her he would have to do some Guard duty later that year (1972) in Montgomery. But all that confirms is that he knew of his obligation. In December 1972, Bush returned to Houston and was scheduled to resume duty there. But in May 1973, Bush's supervising pilots wrote in his annual efficiency report: "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of the report" (i.e. through April 30, 1972). Bush described one of the supervisors, the late Col. Jerry Killian, as a personal friend, so it's likely he would have noticed Bush and given him the benefit of the doubt. Later that month, two special orders commanded Bush to appear for active duty. He served 36 days of active duty during May, June and July before leaving the Guard early. Amazingly, Bush was not disciplined in any way for his absence, and received an honorable discharge. Under Air National Guard rules at that time, guardsmen who missed duty could be reported to their Selective Service Board and inducted into the Army as draftees. 8. Skipped all his medical exams after they started drug tests. In April 1972, the military started including routine drug tests in servicemen's annual physical exam, including urinalysis, questions about drugs and "a close examination of the nasal cavities" (for cocaine). According to the regulation, the medical took place in the month after the serviceman's birthday. For George W. Bush, this meant August 1972. It was May, 1972 -- one month after the drug testing was announced -- that Bush stopped attending Guard duty. In August 1972, he was suspended from flight duty for failing to take his physical. (Click here to see the document.) A Bush campaign spokesman confirmed to the London Sunday Times that Bush knew he would be suspended. "He knew the suspension would have to take place." Bush never flew again, even though he returned to his Houston base where Guard pilots flew thousands of hours in the F-102 during 1973. The only barrier to him flying again was a medical exam (and his lack of attendance). Careful readers will recall that when Bush issued his partial denial of drug use, he said (or implied) that he hadn't used them since 1974, but he pointedly refused to deny drug use before then, i.e. during his military service. Several sources have also indicated that it was in December, 1972 -- 4 months after his medical suspension -- that a drunk Bush Jr. challenged his father to a fist fight during an argument over the son's drunk driving. (He had run over a neighbor's garbage cans.) Shortly thereafter, Bush Sr. arranged for his son to do community service at an inner city Houston charity. Bush's campaign aides first said he did not take the physical because he was in Alabama and his personal physician was in Houston. But flight physicals can be administered only by certified Air Force flight surgeons, and some were assigned at the time to Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, where Bush was living. The staff now admits that this explanation was wrong. 9. Left service 10 months early. Even after that easy stint, Bush couldn't fulfill his obligation. He quickly made up the missed days he had to and applied for an early release, before he had to take his next annual physical exam (with drug test.) While the official discharge date was October 1, 1973, Bush's last day in uniform was actually July 31 -- a full 10 months before the end of his 6-year, part time commitment. Al Gore also requested and received an early discharge (from the Army, in his case) to go to school. Weasel words; his story keeps changing. When asked about his service, Bush has lied, changed his story repeatedly, and weaseled in a manner eerily reminiscent of Bill Clinton. First of all, he has flat-out lied. In his official autobiography, ''A Charge to Keep,'' Bush said he flew with his unit for ''several years'' after finishing flight training in June 1970. His campaign biography states that he flew with the unit until he won release from the service in September 1973, nine months early, for graduate school. Both statements are lies. Bush only flew with the 111th for one year and 10 months, until April 1972 when he was suspended for failing to take his medical exam (and drug test), and never flew again. Then there is his Clintonesque weaseling and word choice. Bush and his campaign claimed that no Bush family or friends pulled strings. Under pressure, this changed to "All I know is anybody named George Bush did not ask him [Ben Barnes] for help." By that he meant, himself or his dad. Of course, it later came out in court that a close Bush friend, Simon Adger, had asked Barnes to get Bush Jr. into the Guard, and that Barnes did so, via General Rose. Now's it's not even clear that a George Bush didn't ask for help. When pressed, the former president's spokeswoman (Jean Becker) said he is "almost positive" that he and Mr. Adger never discussed the Guard matter. "He [Bush Sr.] he is fairly certain - I mean he doesn't remember everything that happened in the 1960s..." In any case, Bush Sr. and Adger were very close. Ms. Becker acknowledged that "President Bush knew Sid Adger well. He loved him." Adger may have needed only a hint. Furthermore, George Bush Jr. admits that he knew Adger socially at the time, and further admits that he lobbied Col. "Buck" Staudt, the commander of the VIP unit Bush joined. Staudt claims that he, not General Rose (who he later replaced), was the one who made the decision on admissions anyway. Bush Jr. admits that he met Staudt in late 1967, during Christmas vacation of his senior year, called him later, and -- in Bush's words -- "found out what it took to apply." When asked how Bush came to call Staudt, his spokeswoman Karen Hughes said he "heard from friends while he was home over the Christmas break that ... Colonel Staudt was the person to contact." She says that Bush doesn't recall who those "friends" were. But we know that Sid Adger was also a friend of Staudt's, served with him on the Houston Chamber of Commerce's Aviation Committee, and in 1967 held a luncheon honoring Gen. Staudt and his unit for winning an Air Force commendation. In fact, both of Adger's sons also joined General Staudt's unit, in 1966 and 1968 respectively. Bush and his staff also claim that he vaulted ahead of the Air Guard waiting list because he was willing to fly an airplane, and there were openings. There is nothing to support this claim, however. For one thing, the F-102 was being phased out at the time and F-102 pilots were being released from service early, as indeed Bush himself was. And Tom Hail, a historian for the Texas Air National Guard, says flatly that there was no pilot shortage in the Guard squadron at that time. Bush's unit had 27 pilots at the time he applied; while they were authorized for 29 pilots, there were two more already in training and one awaiting a transfer. Bush also weasels on whether he was avoiding combat or not. He has stated on several occasions that he did not want to be an infantryman, and acknowledges that he came to oppose the war itself. He claims that he joined the guard to fly planes, and would have been happy to go to Vietnam, but ignores the obvious choice of the Air Force or the Navy -- which his dad, a genuine war hero, joined. Furthermore, when he signed up for the Guard, he checked a box saying "Do not volunteer for overseas service." Later, he made a perfunctory application to transfer to a program called "Palace Alert", which dispatched F-102 pilots to Europe or the Far East -- and just occasionally Vietnam -- for 3 or 6 month assignments. But Bush was not nearly qualified, as he must have known, and was immediately turned down, and the F-102 not used overseas after June, 1970 in any case. And, as noted above, his story also changed on why he refused to take a medical exam -- including a drug test - in 1972. (The refusal ended Bush's flying career.) His staff first claimed that he didn't take the physical because he was in Alabama and his personal physician was in Houston. But flight physicals can be administered only by certified Air Force flight surgeons, and there were surgeons assigned at the time to Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, where Bush was living. His staff now admits that that explanation was "wrong", without saying where it came from or what the real reason was. Draft & National Guard Sources |
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"Juan Jimenez" wrote in message ... "JDKAHN" wrote in : I recall a Boston Globe interview a blogger found, where Kerry talks about going to Vietnam and volunteering for SB duty because they didn't get too deeply into shooting situations doing coastal patrol. He said he wanted to get close but not TOO close. Then they switched roles to the inland rivers and he bugged out as soon as he could with some scratches, nicks and bits of metal in his ass from his own grenades. Some hero. I don't believe there are cases of any other officers abandoning their men like that so soon into their tours. Maybe you can find a similar case? Gee, what a pity that every single person who served with him on the boat say otherwise, eh? Tell you what, you go ahead and swallow whatever the bloggers say. Seems to me that's what repukeblicans do best. Which he KNEW. If he wanted to go so bad to Vietnam, why did he sign a piece of paper saying he did not want to go? Not familiar with such a piece of paper. What is that? You can't possibly be this uninformed. Where have you been hiding, the local RNC bar? When he joined the Guard, there was a checkbox which stated "Do not volunteer for overseas service". It's clearly marked, kiddo. Compared to your whole case based on the old lady Democrat? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072899.htm Did you know, for example, that Bush never went through OCS? He was given a direct "politician's son" commission straight out of basic training. Have fun. So let me get this straight... all of the people involved with Bush in the Guard, his senior officers and comrades, all of which had/have good things to say ON THE RECORD, are liars, mercy snip You must be taking good drugs. Not even Kerry is saying this. and the 80% of Kerry's Swiftvet comrades, who say he is unfit and hate his guts Ah, the 80% who never served with him and most never met him. Right. Best part of the Guard thing has been that many people had no idea Bush was an ex fighter pilot and were quite impressed to find this out. The F-102 is not a fighter. It was an interceptor, designed to engage aircraft using radar and standoff weapons. Most people intuitively know that stupid people generally don't succeed flying all weather missions in 102s. Which he didn't. He only had 300 or so hours when he applied for a job in Vietman which he knew required 500 hours minimum. Heck, he got the lowest possible score on the pilot aptitude test, 25. The only reason he got in to the NG as a pilot was because of his dad. Here's some _facts_ for you to digest, since you're so easily stimulated. From 1. Pulled Strings to Get In. What a fing joke!!! Realchange.org has dirt on every politician on the last 20 years EXCEPT anything significant on Kerry, the former lobbyist for the North Vietnamese!!! What a dumbass smokescreen for a pro Kerry site!!! Complete with a link to the John Kerry official web site and an "under construction" notice. Yup Kerry just happens to be the LAST guy they've got dirt on and they haven't got time to get it before the election. All those facts on Bush have SUCH credibility. Yes, I will discount all of Bush's contemporaries and go by these "facts". In any case, what you still don't realize is that nobody gives a RATS ASS what Bush did or did not do in the Guard! Nobody cares!!! Only lefty wackos care. He doesn't campaign on it. Dean got himself a medical rejection then went skiing. Clinton is an acknowledged draft dodger, but that didn't bother Dems before. Kerry, after he got back, became a traitor to his country, literally becoming an agent of the North Vietnamese by lobbying and agitating on their behalf while still a commissioned officer!! This is mind blowing! It is all ON THE RECORD. It's a fact. You acknowledge and accept it and that is what is so troubling, that the left would elect a guy who did such awful things back then and still doesn't apologize for it. It means that his traitorous behavior in the early 70s is something you agree with. Even worse, his benefactor and puppetmaster TODAY is the guy who got away with negligent homicide, our friend Ted. What a sickening bunch you support. I am done with you. |
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"JDKAHN" wrote in
: What a fing joke!!! Realchange.org has dirt on every politician on... mercy snip Whine, whine... In any case, what you still don't realize is that nobody gives a RATS ASS what Bush did or did not do in the Guard! Nobody cares!!! Yeah. Right. And you're proof of that, eh? chuckle I am done with you. So go back to the sandbox. Next you want to have a battle of wits, bring a weapon. Juan |
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"ChuckSlusarczyk" wrote in message ... In article , JDKAHN says... Copeland, 65, remembers meeting Bush on two occasions. He does not remember the precise dates. So much for that cacameme story. Compared to your whole case based on the old lady Democrat? That's all guys like jaun and zoom need ,just a glimmer and it trumps all other evidence. So let me get this straight... all of the people involved with Bush in the Guard, his senior officers and comrades, all of which had/have good things to say ON THE RECORD, are liars, and the 80% of Kerry's Swiftvet comrades, who say he is unfit and hate his guts, are also liars, but the old lady Democrat that typed stuff for Killian, who recalls Killian's thoughts and opinions about Bush which are contrary to the written record, trumps all those people.... I see. I'm stumped. I give up. Such powerful logic and insight is too much for me. You are a master of lost causes. He's had lots of practice defending zoom ...another example of jaun logic and insight.Now it's 3 lost causes he's defended ...zoom,BD and now this. It's no wonder he's trying to be a reporter. And most people would not resent him serving stateside any more than they resent active Air Force pilots who served out their time in NORAD. Surely you don't think all pilots who served in NORAD instead of Vietnam are shirkers do you???? In these peoples minds no other service counts unless it's kerry's.Every sin is forgiven unless it's a conservative or Republican and everyone is a dummy unless you vote democrat. Anyway, even if we accept your case that he wasn't in Alabama, nobody really cares whether Bush appeared for some drills or not in the waning days of the war when the air force and Guard were trying to unload a glut of pilots anyway. I mean, lets compare... during this time your boy Kerry was busy being a traitor meeting secretly with VC reps as a commssioned officer of the Naval Reserve then coming back to lobby for their cause, something that you don't dispute (you can't really, it's the documented truth), and that was infintely more despicable than not having proof of attending some completely redundant drills in '72 in Alabama. That's where I find kerry most repulsive,his trips to Paris while Americans were still in the Hanoi Hilton and on the ground in Nam. He could have protested the war and bitched about the Gov'ment but his description of our soldiers while they were still afield is treason in my book. How can you possibly support a candidate who was doing these things? Surely you don't think the winter soldier smear, being a lobbyist for the North Vietnamese at home, being a prop for the North to use against POWs, etc., was the right thing to do? He has never disavowed these things, never apologized for them. For god's sake even Jane Fonda apologized to vets!!!! Best as I can tell America has 3 traitors Benedict Arnold,Jane Fonda and John Kerry. Klinton might still make the list after his total history is out. In any case, I'm delighted that you accept the fact that Bush was a fighter pilot and flew all those hours, and as a matter of fact accumulated over three times the minimum requirement of Guard service points over 6 years, including the minimum 50 point requirement in each of the last two years when they no longer needed pilots anyway. Excellent. And he does have an honorable discharge so he must have got the 50 points for his last year somehow. Most lefties like M Moore simply claim he signed up and disappeared at the start. This is progress. Have you heard that the reason that kerry won't sign to release "all" his records is that he just got his honorable discharge during the Klinton years? I've been trying to find more data to see if this is true or an urban legend. This has been fun man. Very simulating. Yours and jauns dialog was an interesting study of the difference between a logic and reasoned approach (yours) and the illogical,fragmented ,name calling and chest thumping of the left (jaun). See ya Chuck S RAH-14/1 ret Hi Chuck It's been illuminating hasn't it. It is interesting that he does nothing to rebut Kerry's traitorous behaviour, not even making a lame effort to excuse it. Because he agrees with it and supports it, but can't really address it because he knows he'll look even more like a moonbat. Instead he has to focus on whether Bush showed up in Alabama in 1972 to sit around an airbase one weekend a month, which no rational person could possibly give a rats ass about. No doubt he is a Noam Chomsky deciple (didn't Chomsky or somebody using his name used to post on this NG?). He almost certainly thinks, like Noam Chomsky, that Pol Pot was not such a bad guy and if all those Cambodians were murdered (hey maybe Kerry was there for that too!!) in creating a new society starting from year 0, well, they deserved it. It's amazing to think about it...they support and idolize a political creed that is responsible for more death and misery than any other in the history of mankind and think they are the righteous ones! John |
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"JDKAHN" wrote: In any case, what you still don't realize is that nobody gives a RATS ASS what Bush did or did not do in the Guard! Nobody cares!!! Only lefty wackos care. I am done with you. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FYI... Nobody gives a RATS ASS about right wing rabid wacko brand of politics either. Barnyard BOb -- |
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"Barnyard BOb -" wrote in message ... "JDKAHN" wrote: In any case, what you still don't realize is that nobody gives a RATS ASS what Bush did or did not do in the Guard! Nobody cares!!! Only lefty wackos care. I am done with you. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FYI... Nobody gives a RATS ASS about right wing rabid wacko brand of politics either. Barnyard BOb -- As a Canadian centerist I couildn't agree more... John |
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JDKAHN" wrote: FYI... Nobody gives a RATS ASS about right wing rabid wacko brand of politics either. Barnyard BOb -- As a Canadian centerist I couildn't agree more... John ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Good Grief. If one is to be considered a CENTRIST of merit.... one should begin by knowing how to spell it. Barnyard BOb -- |
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JDKAHN" wrote:
As a Canadian centerist I couildn't agree more... John Barnyard BOb - wrote: Good Grief. If one is to be considered a CENTRIST of merit.... one should begin by knowing how to spell it. Barnyard BOb -- You say potato...... he says potatoe |
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Bob we spell center with the British spelling "centre", so as it happens I
would in fact normally spell it "centrist". I thought "centerist" would have been the way it was spelled in the US, in line with the root word "center", and I usually use US spellings when posting on this NG. Clearly this is a serious breach of spelling protocol and a unconscionable failure to use spell check. Deeply sorry and all that. And so on and so forth. "Barnyard BOb -" wrote in message ... JDKAHN" wrote: FYI... Nobody gives a RATS ASS about right wing rabid wacko brand of politics either. Barnyard BOb -- As a Canadian centerist I couildn't agree more... John ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Good Grief. If one is to be considered a CENTRIST of merit.... one should begin by knowing how to spell it. Barnyard BOb -- |
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