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You're thinking of Sirhan Sirhan.

I guess I can see how somebody could see Cindy Sheehan as morally repugnant, I haven't paid too much attention to what she does. I am more interested in Robertson simply because he is overtly using a religous platform which I have an academic interest in. By my original question, I was really wondering if anyone understood this as a coherent world-view that many American's share. Is Pat Robertson dangerous? I don't know. I think his world view comes from religious apocalyptism that many Americans share and therefore represents part of an influential block of politics that filters candidates based on this predisposition to see world events from the perspective of a religious revelation that may often go unstated. I tend to be dismissive of Sheehan and just more curious about Pat Robertson and James Dobson, etc. Because it is much more broadbased and public.

Just my opinion, but Schumer and Clinton try to stay out of Albany except when it is politically expediant. You can't spend much time in Albany and appear to be above the mud. Inside the state Clinton seems to take very few positions because she doesn't need to. At least for most of WNY the Clinton staff avoids most interaction and is very poor at even answering letters or responding to querries even from Democrat commitee members. Schumer however, takes a much more active interest in rural issues and has a staff that actually reponds to querries and is much more proactive and generally has better relations with the Upstate county commitees. Hillary doesn't need much more than the five borroughs, Monroe, Erie and some of the bigger counties, and has managed to keep her public stances on state issues to a minimum. Clinton, at this point, operates like she doesn't need the party unlike Schumer, but both keep a critical distance from most state legislation and interaction. Just my opinion. People from closer to Albany may have a different perspective.

Caracas Cindy?

How does meeting with them make her dangerous?

We have had a wrestler govern a state. Personally, I would never vote for a guy who needs to talk through a medium. Advantage Wrestling.

I thought I was helping Will Ferrell.

Sedition, no way, but I don't really have a problem charging a foreign guy showing off his deformed sack for posing a threat under the Alien Act of 1798. We just don't want that trend to reach a tipping point.

That's what it is. I spend too much time doing medieval stuff, the first thing in my mind was, gee, Clovis the Frank never gets enough ink, great name.

I would find out where the most weatherbabes go. I have a thing for weatherbabes. It would be an asset to go through life with someone that has the ability to be perky at the same time she is telling you that your golf round and vacation are ruined.

Bring back the sedition acts? Lovely. This is just speculation, but I imagine that the arrests of Eugene Debs and Emma Goldman under these acts radicalized many more people than it protected and conviced thousands that their rights were not safe or the government benign.

I was a referee at a D-1 game of Beer Pong.

Was he outcoached in his last 4 AFC championship games? As for Superbowls - do you really think he had the better team in his last three?

That is exactly why we end up with state spending at the local level for stuff we don't need. Around here we have a multimillion dollar forensics lab that the state gave us that no township can afford to use. We see stuff like this happen again and again. Democrats in rural counties are generally more conservative than your NYC Republicans. In fact, most that get elected run on the Democrat and Conservative lines on the ballot. A good argument could be made for taking out the hacksaw and slicing this state in two. Two additional Senators in Congress could make a hell of a difference along with ability to actually decide how money is to be spent rurally rather than earmarked by downstate lobbies. Lastly, take a look at the Upstate congressional districts. What a Picasso-esque cluster-^*^*. What better example of Government at you, than Government for you. Nationally, the Democrats had no viable rural strategy in the last election, and the DNC did little to nothing to help its rural candidates for Congress even in the most viable districts. Totally shortsighted.

This may be a minor point but Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, and Tomkins county technically are Appalachia. Who the hell took my Banjo? Nevermind, I left it in my canoe.

Just what we need, another first round QB to play behind a crap OL.

Baaah, here's mud in your eye. Cheers.

More academic, less genuine.

Lot of military guys around here. Most would say he builds targets.

From the Mainland, I see.

He better. He is number 1 on the depth chart as of today.

Inspector of Snowstorms. Lover of Wisdom. Cranky SOB.

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Grady Jackson? Isn't that Fred Sanford's drinking buddy?

Fox needed somebody with college learning to add an intellectual dimension to the show.