Comments on: It Just Keeps Getting Worse

By: HalfEmpty

HalfEmpty — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:21:23 +0000

According to Wiki is still among us sinners.

Also according to the Wiki is this.... sounds like an acid-edit to me but who knows?

Baker's secretary, Nancy Carole Tyler, shared an apartment with Mary Jo Kopechne, an aid to Senator George Smathers and later to Senator Robert Kennedy. Tyler was killed in a plane crash in 1965. Kopechne was killed in 1969, in an accident on Chappaquiddick Island in a car driven by Senator Ted Kennedy. Noting these women's suspicious and untimely deaths, some conspirists have used this link to connect the Bobby Baker scandal to the John F. Kennedy assassination

By: Rueful Red

Rueful Red — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:23:28 +0000

Bobby Baker still alive one wonders?

By: HalfEmpty

HalfEmpty — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:53:02 +0000

LOL Smathers. He had the mark of Bobby Baker upon him. Still got the University of Florida Law School named after him.

heh.....

He was quite the male thespian I here.

By: Rueful Red

Rueful Red — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:37:23 +0000

I’ve got to admit my stamina’s not what it used to be either.

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:28:36 +0000

I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s better when the Presidential race is mind-numbingly boring. Then we can all ignore it until the last couple o’ weeks.

By: Rueful Red

Rueful Red — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:22:10 +0000

George Smathers turned down the opportunity to be LBJ’s Senate Whip. He might have become powerful in time. The LBJ book has a photograph of the southern senators gathered for a meeting in 1957. LBJ wasn’t there of course, but neither was a liberal whose support they could count on without him having to do anything as vulgar as be seen with them - William Fulbright (or “Halfbright” as LBJ called him).

By: HalfEmpty

HalfEmpty — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:03:10 +0000

Yes it would seem very out of character for Nunn, but his time is running out. He's made me thump thump thump a few times with his amazingly bad timing, maybe he gets lucky?

ninme, yes. I'll lay low.

By: RC2

RC2 — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:42:32 +0000

Sam Nunn could be a Veep for McCain, though. Not a smart choice politically, but a good ticket objectively.

By: ninme

ninme — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:24:21 +0000

Half, I think in this current climate, should you switch your vote to Obama because of his Veep pick, you’d be promptly accused of encouraging his assassination.

By: RC2

RC2 — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:19:47 +0000

I love Sam Nunn, but I'd think less of him if he associated himself with Obama. It would seem to me like an out-of-character power grab.

As for the McCain veepstakes, I am hoping this weekend's shindig for veep hopefuls is an indication all the invitees are also-rans being given a consolation cheeseburger.