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Yes Claire will be a great successor to Harry Truman, and that's why she deserves our vote. Vote for Dedication, Inclusion, and Leadership. Claire McCaskill for U.S. Senate.
9/10/2006 7:17 PM
Inspecteur Clouseau ici: Mes amis, after hearing Claire blame the president for withholding help to blacks sitting on housetops in New Orleans, je ne peux pas (I cannot) vote for her.
New Orleans was a natural disaster, an "act of God," whatever you want to call it, of a magnitude beyond comprehension. It is slanderous to blame someone far away and so removed for everything. Everyone knows the mayor and the governor failed to do all that could have been done immediately.
Nevertheless, disasters that take place elsewhere, e.g., Afghanistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, and difficult rescue missions are not blamed on someone.
This is a curious American weakness to always seek to blame someone or find a scapegoat for something beyond the control of mankind.
Grow up, Americans. Grow up, Claire McCaskill. When she grows up, I am prepared to vote for her.
Also, always pulling the race card to divide everyone is a form of evil en mon opinion! The people in Mississippi aren't being used as those in le Nouveau Orleans.
9/11/2006 8:23 AM
Dear Pink Panther, I always love your comments. However, I need to shed some light on Claire's comments. I was at the event that is in question when Claire's commented on Katrina. As usual, her statement, like most politians', have been taken out of context.
Her statement, in response to a question, dealt with the lack of immediate response from the federal government, not the disaster itself. Why would anyone blame the disaster on George W? She, and every person that was horrified by the government's foot dragging knows the difference.
I too, believe that the President should have and could have responded sooner. Would he have hesitated if this was West Palm Beach, Florida, Martha's Vineyard? The answer is no, the government would have arrived in those locations just as quickly as CNN.
Pink Panther, I don't expect you to change your vote, but don't claim that the reason you're not voting for Claire is because of this out of context statement. I've admired you from afar, and expect more from you than this lame excuse. Merci!
9/11/2006 11:00 AM
Inspecteur Clouseau ici: Anonymous, vous avez raison (You are correct) in many ways. However, I still believe the blame game is too American. Wouldn't the federal government expect first the city and then the state to act as it should.
And, I have to tell you, I in no way feel the federal government (or we the rest of the taxpayers of the country) should rebuild any city. A city was founded, built and grew by the people who came to it and its state.
Many natural disasters are yet to come, and the federal government is not some omnipotent god who can cure all.
There is enough blame to go around, but most should be aimed at the mayor and the governor of Louisiana.
Mon opinion. In many respects I like Claire McCaskill, but she goes along too much with the ultra-liberals of the Democratic Party.
More of us are middle of the roaders, je pense.
Merci aussi à vous, Anonymous.
9/11/2006 2:49 PM
Clinton is such a great speaker. The media keeps pointing out (rightfully so) that he spoke for nearly an hour without any notes. AND IT WAS A GREAT SPEECH!
Can you imagine some of our local politicians attempting that? Francis Slay? You wouldn't be able to hear the second half over all the snoring!!!
I miss the Clinton Years. When all we had to worry about were blow jobs -- not, no jobs!
9/11/2006 6:39 PM
Inspecteur Clouseau ici: They say Adolph Hitler was a great speaker too.
C'est histoire là!
9/11/2006 7:03 PM
Hey, Frenchie (Pink Pather, not Antonio). When did you become such the right winger?
And can you even vote in this country?
9/11/2006 8:07 PM
Inspecteur Clouseau ici et non pas "Frenchie": S'il vous plaît, I am not a right winger. I just don't like either extreme. Oration is no test of a great leader. A man who is so crass as to cheat so often on his wife and to rape another and get away with it is no great leader en mon opinion. Clinton has some serious moral flaws and is unable to own up to them. Let's espérè (hope) Chelsea gets a better husband.
Aussi, as I already said, I don't like the blame game that goes with American politics.
Talk about issues without resorting to name calling and unbelievable slander, and I can hear you.
9/11/2006 8:27 PM
Inspector-
Rape???
Wow, you never come down on someone this harshly. Unless they question anything about the current school board.
What gives?
9/12/2006 6:23 AM
Inspecteur Clouseau ici: Mes amis, my apologies, but no sleazeball deserves honor en mon opinion.
Jennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Monica Lewinski, et al. "Juanita Broaddrick, no longer denies the story she told her Arkansas friends years ago: that Bill Clinton, while state attorney general, brutally raped her in a Little Rock hotel room after she had enlisted to work in his first gubernatorial campaign."
Peut-être (perhaps) you have forgotten the many stories that were verified by many. The man was (hope he is cured) a sex maniac or addict who used his position of power to prey on women and to lie to so many.
You ask, "What gives?" Pour moi (for me) it is a question of C H A R A C T E R. I wouldn't honor Henry VIII, and, bien sure, I cannot honor or respect this man. How can someone who lied and cheated so much be trusted or respected?
9/12/2006 9:07 AM
Honestly, let’s be serious.
Bill Clinton did not commit some great offense.
He got a blow job and lied about it.
He did break the law by lying about the issue, yet every man would do the same.
The guy was the President. It’s a high stress job. I think people were shocked that it was Monica and not someone of Marylin Monore's caliber. I doubt the American people would criticize Kennedy if they knew about his activities.
My favorite parts of the Ken Starr Report:
"While the President continued talking on the phone (Ms. Lewinsky understood that the caller was a Member of Congress or a Senator), she performed oral sex on him.(163) He finished his call, and, a moment later, told Ms. Lewinsky to stop. In her recollection: "I told him that I wanted . . . to complete that. And he said . . . that he needed to wait until he trusted me more. And then I think he made a joke . . . that he hadn't had that in a long time (164)."
Presidents are people like you and me. Clinton was running the Country and Hillary wasn’t doing her Patriotic Duty. Personally I like to see the humanity in our leaders.
If one is going to fault Clinton for the Lewinsky incident then Bush should have been impeached long ago. Clinton did not violate the Constitution by engaging in sexual acts with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.
9/12/2006 11:41 AM
Inspecteur Clouseau ici: Monsieur Ducky, you say: Presidents are people like you and me. Clinton was running the Country and Hillary wasn’t doing her Patriotic Duty. Personally I like to see the humanity in our leaders."
Evidently, monsieur, you may have some activities going on that your "unpatriotic" wife or girlfriend may not know. Now it's all Hillary's fault for not doing her "Patriotic Duty." Et vous, monsieur, how do you know she wasn't performing her duty?
Do you have a reading comprehension problem or are you just selective in what you will read "Juanita Broaddrick, no longer denies the story she told her Arkansas friends years ago: that Bill Clinton, while state attorney general, brutally raped her in a Little Rock hotel room after she had enlisted to work in his first gubernatorial campaign." Eh oui! Rape is now just a bit of humanity.
More than one blow job (if that is what you call it here) was involved. A pattern of behavior and predatory behavior at that, monsieur Ducky, is involved.
Vous avez raison (You are right)! It's always the fault of those, comment vous dites (how do you say), doggone, lowdown woment. I think we have more respect for women in France than you Americans have. Mon avis (my perception).
9/12/2006 3:54 PM
Least we forget: Clinton was not perfect and no one is. However; Bush lied, people died.
9/14/2006 1:56 PM
Inspecteur Clouseau ici: Clinton not only lied, he raped, mes amis. He also is responsible for deaths in Bosnia and Somalia. Try to be fair, mes amis.
9/14/2006 7:56 PM
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