Conference back40::soapbox

    
    He's a Hero of the People who was unjustly brought down by the 
    machinations of the evyl repressive white male, don't you know.
                    

	How can Oliver North run for office ???????????????



	It is a mad, mad, mad, mad world..............

    
    
    Just another "victim" who appeals to OOTEO...
    
    
    
    OOTEO - Organization of the Easily Offended

    re: .1
    
     OOh, sounds like a disciple of RAH.

    
    <-- I was channelling 8^).

    
      On the plus side, having Marion Barry re-elected puts to rest, at
      least for awhile, the silly talk about D.C. statehood.
      
      Of course, the Republican controlled Congress would never let that
      happen anyway.
    
      Paul
    
    
    

    Why the surprise? The voters know they are getting a crack-head but
    with the crime rate being what it is in DC, at least half the voters
    must have some kind of a record themselves. A prime example of an area
    with tight gun control and proof that such efforts are fruitless in 
    controlling violent crime. Here in PRM we have a Senator who "forgot"
    to call the cops until 8 hrs. after someone drowned in his car and his 
    cousin the police chief in the area helped cover it up, we have a 
    representative who hired male prostitutes and had one running a
    call-boy operation out of the rep's apartment and this same rep said he 
    wasn't buying male prostitutes with taxpayer dollars, and our other rep
    who got caught having sexual relations with a minor and got off with a 
    censure which is essentially the Congress saying, "Hey! You better not
    do that again!" with the implication being, of course, you better not
    get caught. While this offense would land most of us in jail, it didn't 
    deter the voters of Mass. So, I would say Mayor Barry is in good
    company. Salute to the voters who kept Ollie North out. They are
    obviously much brighter than the voters of Mass. and D.C.  Barry would
    fit right in with the PRM Democraps.
    
    
              

    I guess this goes along with hero's and leaders being from a differnt
    bolt of cloth than the common man. And it is the common man that makes
    up the goverment system. What reaks of pure crappie is when these
    people are able to excape the prosocution that the common folks are
    unable to do. 
    
    Yes, they are people, and fall from grace as the common folks do. But
    it is the fact that they can walk thru the flame unburnt. Because they
    are public officials.... If any of these things like the Teddy case
    had happened to any of us. We would be in jail. No questions. 

    Compared to several other political canditates past, present and most
    likely future, Ollie North and Marion Bassy aren't all that bad...
    Compare them to extremes like FatBoy, or Lyndon LaRouche, David Duke,
    etc... FatBoy os on the extreme tip of the left wing, the others are
    from the rearmost part of the bird which goes over the fence last.
    None of them really "deserved" to run for office, much less actually
    win...

    
    	I was in DC area when Barry won the primary back in Sept.
    	Local newspaper article said that his most memorable quote
    	during his first term as mayor was, as the FBI arrested him,
    	'Da bitch done set me up'.
    

    Still can't beat Teddys line of,"Car? What car?.... Ohhhh! Thaaaat
    car!" After they found it lodged in the propeller of the QE2.

    
    not that it excuses MB getting elected as mayor, let us not forget
    Studds, who addmitted to having sex with a minor congressional page,
    and Frank who allowed a male prostitute friend to use his home and
    office for solicitation. ofcourse fat boy stands out above and beyond
    all. 

    Studds didn't kill anyone in a drunkard drive.:) 

    Whats the problem with David Duke? 1/2 smiley face incerted here?
    Maybe, maybe not???

RE:                       <<< Note 226.10 by SVCRUS::ERB >>>

    
   >    	'Da bitch done set me up'.
    


   I hope he apologized for calling her that..

    .10 it wasn't his first term as mayor...it was his third consecutive term 
    as mayor on his first stint...

    just think Marion made a faster turn around then Digital, it was right
    around Marion's demise that we started talking about our problems,
    and we are not quite there as yet, meanwhile look at Marion...

    >meanwhile look at Marion...
    
    Why? Is Digital on crack? So the slime did a turn around shorter than
    us? He was on drugs..... we might be.... :) 

    Good point, Tom.  Reveiewing some of the SLT's decisions over the past
    5 years would paint a good picture of what happens to your brains when
    you do so much drugs...

From some of the crap I read in here some drugs would probably do some of
ya some good.

Particularly prozac.

    .20
    stop hitting below the belt  :-)

I thought his campaign slogan was


                     "I'll get drugs off the street."

    >"I'll get drugs off the street."
    
    Well, he has to get them _somewhere_.
    
    -b

| "I'll get drugs off the street."


	and bring them into my home..... 

    Can't resist pounding Covert's neat understatement into our heads, eh?
    
    Sheesh!
    
    |-{:-)
    

    
    Re: .10
    
    'Da bitch done set me up'.
    
    Was that "Hillary" in the room with MB???????
    
    JB  
    
    

  There's one thing about most science fiction that often gets me to chuckle.
More often then not when someone encounters an inhabited planet they will find
that the entire population of the planet is controlled by one guy who us usually
not only leader of the population but president of the largest state and mayor
of it's capital city. 

  Do you realize that if earth were organized this way and the Vulcans showed
up that Marion Barry would be the unquestioned leader of the earthlings? 

  "Hail leader of earth" 

  "Yo, got any snuff?"

  George 

    Who's the mayor of LA?