> On Jun 19, 6:35 pm, "jeannek...@aol.com" aol.com> wrote:
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>> Amanda,

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>> Have never used Maya as a model. She was one of several
>> women I noticed who dared to endorse Hillary despite
>> the pressure many men gave into to change their stance, i.e.,
>> John Lewis.

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>> Whoopi Goldberg, Maxine Waters, Stephanie Tubbs-Jones,
>> Judge Judy and other women I admire were pro-Hillary while
>> the MSNBC/WP/Newsweek smear took off and gagged me.

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>> Maya stayed loyal until released by Hillary to support Obama
>> post his receiving 59 delegates via Michigan/DNC which so
>> surprised me as it effectively put him over the top count-wise.

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>> Hillary had joshed about hoping the filly won. Her wearing
>> pants seems practical given the hours and how ankles swell
>> in the heat, as I've noticed of late..;> Obama adorers are
>> believers; I am not a believer, but prefer street savvy broads
>> with brains and backbone when I hire the competent vice
>> those with simple charisma. Able poets who recall wheelbarrows
>> may be succinct and dismissive of those of us who merely
>> witness and make notes. We who exchanged our lives for money
>> are careful about what we buy; we vote with our money; some
>> prefer the able to the ministers wowing crowds for presiding parts.

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>> I do not want women to get rings and roses. I want them to rule.

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> Too bad.
>   I'm here to see that they don't.
>   "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the
> United States nor any place subject to their jurisdiction."
>   This is rather in contradistinction to the usual mode rule by women,
> i.e., voluntary servitude, or, as Rusty Warren put it around 1964,
> "Knockers Up!" (the album may still be available).
>   I.e., any woman who would run for President in this age of DuPont
> and Victoria's Secret is /too stupid/ (not to mention probably too
> misogynistic) to be President.
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>> Your exhortation was clever. If I were a poet, I'd see red...;>

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> It's the roses...
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> (...which is a reference to the neck-wreath of roses got by the
> winning nag at the Kentucky Derby / Desecrat/Repooplican Conventions
> etc.  Too bad that winning a horse race only proves you're a horse --
> as winning the Presidency only proves you're a servant, eh, wot?)
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>> Jeanne

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>> On Jun 8, 11:26 pm, Amanda Reid arvig.net> wrote:

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>>> On Jun 8, 5:21 pm, "jeannek...@aol.com" aol.com> wrote:

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>>>>            Racing Forms

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>>>> The Derby death of Eight Bells, a filly,
>>>> three years of age, favored by Hillary,
>>>> caused my superstitious self to sense
>>>> broken legs forced forward on a fast track
>>>> mean: certain euthanasia ends that race.

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>>>> Big Brown won that Derby and The Preakness,
>>>> but a cracked left hoof, well patched by greedy
>>>> fellows focused on the Triple Crown, failed
>>>> to deliver as promised; Big Brown lost
>>>> The Belmont Stakes and came in as dead last.

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>>>> Brown's handlers can't explain why he faltered;
>>>> the jockey said he felt he had no horse
>>>> when he spurred him to seize an opening;
>>>> Brown's "can do" became a slow "no, thank, you"
>>>> thus, Brown enters history books for tracks.

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>>>> Unlike the fast filly in the Derby,
>>>> Big Brown has a future, as a sire;
>>>> unlike Hillary who stepped down today,
>>>> Barack has a future, post that wire
>>>> where a winner's circle has a White House.

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>>>> But winning depends upon the absence
>>>> of cracked hooves well patched by greedy fellows
>>>> and the woman who suspended her run for roses
>>>> (a ring in the circle where women need not apply)
>>>> who knows how to rise on call as Maya has written.

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>>>> Jeanne Khan
>>>> 7 June 2008

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>>> But writing depends upon the absence
>>> of cracked records bubblegummed by girls
>>> who want women to get rings and roses
>>> for wearing pants.

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