Honorable mention Arkies
I happened on this interview by Harvard Political Review with former Okla. Gov. Frank Keating. Two Arkansas references noted:
HPR: So McCain won’t choose Mike Huckabee?
FK: I just think the glass ceiling that applied to him during the campaign will apply in the general election as well. Will a center-left, secular country embrace a vice presidential candidate on the right who is a Southern Baptist preacher, particularly when you consider that whoever the nominee of the Republican Party is, his vice president is expected to be the next presidential candidate? But if John chose Mike Huckabee, I’d be very enthusiastic because Mike’s a very dear friend.
Then on federal disaster handling:
Personnel is everything. James Lee Witt, who was President Clinton’s FEMA director, was the best FEMA director ever. He was highly competent and highly skilled, and he was a cabinet officer, which helped him make decisions and make things happen. There wasn’t that kind of leadership with Katrina.





Comments
Yes, indeed. James Lee Witt is brilliant. So is Kay Goss, the assistant director of FEMA under Clinton.
Katrina would have turned out very differently if they had been in charge.
Bush is the worst president ever.
Posted by: kizzy
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August 5, 2008 10:39 PM
Not only is JLW brilliant, but spend five minutes with him and you'll know he genuinely cares about people. Not wonder he wasn't retained by the Bush Administration.
Posted by: JG
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August 5, 2008 11:01 PM
Hmmm. Unusual. A Republican Governor saying America is a "a center-left, secular country."
Will miracles never cease?
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Posted by: eLwood
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August 5, 2008 11:56 PM
Yeppers! I am TOTALLY all about Paris Hilton!
Bitch like slam-dunks McCain's totally "playground recess" ad for President and shoves it up his shriveled old sphincter meat-curtains with her tongue in her cheek which for Paris is pretty tame but pretty funny because McCain and his staff look pretty lame for running that ad in the first place because, you know, the President is supposed to be all grownup and shizz and McCain's just dancing with dementia and going, "I was a POW and now I'm WOW," even though he can't remember what he said yesterday about anything and his left jaw is the size of Siberia only we're not supposed to mention it because he's, like, really old and could croak in office leaving us with his Veep whoever that is and he left his first wife when he got back from his POW stint which made him a "hero" unlike General Wesley Clark who really WAS a hero because he was, you know, an actual GENERAL and shizz, and valedictorian of his class at West Point and stuff, even though McCain came back after five years in a Vietnamese prison, which was another phony war to begin with, to find his wife, Carol, who was mother to his four children, had been in this horrible accident and all these awful surgeries and didn't look like the fashion model he had married because she was five inches shorter from the operations and many pounds heavier than he remembered so he found this rich beer distributor heiress 22 years his junior and they BOTH didn't have any lips -- just slits -- and he committed adultery and even bigamy, if you check the dates on his divorce papers and new marriage license, except he's really a "family values" candidate because he's like, you know, totally against gay couples marrying and shizz and if you really STUDY Cindy she looks EXACTLY like Paris Hilton's gonna look in 30 years so it's kind of funny that . . .
The REAL Paris Hilton just nailed John McCain and his entire staff on his silly juvenile Presidential ad without even trying with her sweet ball-crunching nut-cracking Paris Hilton riposte at my bluename, which pretty much suggests it's time for Cindy to seriously research assisted living facilities for John, and we're not talking about the White House. I mean . . .
I never thought I'd see the day when Paris Hilton would take down the Republican Presidential nominee in a bikini but she does and he started it.
"Come along, John. Beddy-bye!"
Yes, bloggers, see it now. Paris takes down John!
Posted by: NormaBates
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August 6, 2008 05:01 AM
Now the question is will The Symbol (Peace Be Upon Him) adopt Paris' energy plan? It sounds an awful lot like McCain's.
Posted by: Arkansas Red
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August 6, 2008 07:47 AM
Could this country be ready for a Third Party candidate? Could our intellect across the board learn how to analyze three bases or must we be fed only a two base game? Does Federal Government trump state and local or do they set the stage for the greater civil discourse? And understanding for power and movement?
Posted by: Bill
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August 6, 2008 08:28 AM