Dove feathers in the President's mouth etc

Eddie Bettano eddiebettano at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 29 17:18:11 CST 2003


--- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Kennedy was perceived as an intellectual with an
> intellectual wife.  You think the country, didn't
> take
> to him?  

Kennedy had Nixon in need of a shave and the TV smile.
But he had Catholicism against him and so on. 

Carter had only one term, true, but he ran
> on
> his smarts and was elected on that basis. 

Carter also ran on his good old southern honesty. The
nation was longing for a decent, honest, boy from
Georgia. 


 And one
> could as easily argue that it was Clinton's
> intellectualism coupled with his good old boy pose
> that made him popular, that the latter alone would
> never have carried him to the Presidency.  

Sure, all true, just baseless opinion anyways.  


It's all
> baseless opinion anyway.
> 
> <<She has been to specialists in Colombia and the
> USA.>>
> 
> Sorry about your daughter but just wondering:  why
> Colombia?

Because she's Colombian. 

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