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Old 05-30-2007, 05:04 AM   #29 (permalink)
loganmule
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well, loganmule, I shared how I've come to an informed opinion that we in the US cannot justify the monetary and environmental costs of expanding nuclear power generating capacity, yet, in spite of my information offering, you posted that you were uniformed as to your own bias against nuclear power.

A lack of encouragement from you, notwithstanding, I'll share what I've learned about $400 haircuts, as well:

so....in a campaign where image is everything, the "haircut" seems an average priced, reasonable "investment".

....what do you think that it must have cost to purchase a phony Texas "ranch"....a prop, in order to give the impression that the candidate wasn't born in New Haven, CT....Connecticut, which his grandfather represented as a US senator, where his grandmother lived until she died, in Greenwich, in 1991, near NY City...where his mother was born...? He later attended Yale U. for four years, after attending Phillips Academy in Andover, MA for four years, where he was a cheerleader, and later, after graduating from Yale, in New Haven, the city of his birth, and then attended Harvard in Cambridge, MA, for 3 years...in Massachusetts, where his father was born....

You make a joke about the rather routine political campaining circumstances of a candidate who is worth more than $30 million....money that he earned, against all odds, after a modest beginning as the son of a North Carolina textile mill worker....a mill worker father who rose early to teach himself the math skills he believed would make him promotable into a mill supervisory position, and the son, unlike his father, later graduating college on a scholarship, earning a batchelors degree in "textile science", and then still later, becoming a successful trial lawyer....running for president of the US, and in that process, getting billed $400 for the hair cutting services of a Beverly Hills hair stylist who came to the busy candidate, for his convenience, to cut his hair to optimize his appearance in front of TV cameras and "in person" appearances....

You make a joke that isn't even funny....especially when compared to the spectacle of a Phillips, Yale, and Harvard educated, New England native from a "blue blood" family, attempting to pass himself off as a Texas rancher, to such an extreme that he paid a high six figures amount for a phony "livestockless" ranch, and who speaks with a phony Texas "drawl" that he sure didn't "pick up" in the four years he attended high school waving his pom poms and shouting out his "Cheers" at Phillips Academy football games, or during his 7 combined years of attendance at Yale and Harvard....
As is reflected by the times of our respective posts, host, I had not seen yours until I had posted my own response to pig. As you pointed out, and what I have since come to learn, is that cost and safety are big issues, which get massaged one way or another when profit motive and politics are added in to the mix.

As for the reference to the $400 haircut, I was simply making the point that coming out in favor of nuclear power would be a political "gotcha" on the order of what happened with Edwards and the "I feel pretty" video. Personally, I think it's sad that the future of a good candidate can hinge on inane crap, as opposed to that individual's substantive positions on critical issues and real character. I'd trade Edwards (or just about anyone else) for Bush in a heartbeat. All of the current crop of presidential candidates are at great expense presenting carefully crafted images of themselves to the public. Edwards simply had the misfortune to be caught putting his makeup on, in a manner of speaking. And in the end, we get the politicians we deserve...sorry, now my cynicism is showing and I'm OT.
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