> On Jun 19, 11:54 pm, Amanda Reid arvig.net> wrote:
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>> 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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>>>> Jeanne,
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> Amanda,
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> The president is supposed to be the principal public servant.
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> Believers will anoint their messiah, Obama, whereas we
> who are non-believers would prefer competence to charisma
> in that chair, notwithstanding the public servant aspect thereto.
>
> Jeanne