Post in McCain's best choice for VP is Guiliani

--- On Thu, 7/17/08, WIZARD MARKS <wizardmarks@q.com> wrote:

> From: WIZARD MARKS <wizardmarks@q.com>
> Subject: [MN-Pol] McCain's best choice for VP is Guiliani
> To: "AAAA MN forum" <mn-politics@forums.e-democracy.org>
> Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 12:45 PM
> Ed Fesler: "The public doesn't want captured
> terrorists to have "rights". Guiliani can talk
> about his record as a crime-fighter. He can say that every
> American city is safer because of what he did in New York.
> Guiliani can frame the election as a choice between
> "soft on crime" and "tough on crime".
> Does the public want civil libertarians on the Supreme
> Court?"
>
> McCain's choice of veep is a choice as to who will be
> president when McCain drops dead in office. If you have
> seen the man in the past two weeks, it's clear that he
> is not a well man. Note that every president ages ten years
> or more in office during the first four years. This man, not
> because of his age but because of his health, hasn't got
> ten years of aging left in him.
>
> Last time I checked, I was still part of "the
> public" (Some 19th Century writer once quipped that
> "The public is an ass."), so it's a dubious
> appellation. I DO want alleged terrorists to have rights so
> we can have the right to incarcerate only those who are
> really terrorists, as opposed to everyone who has made a
> phone called between here and the Middle East.
>
> The "public" has also gone along with the
> stupidity that building more prisons is somehow "tough
> on crime." What a laugh. The prison system is a way to
> pen up those people who don't have a job. There are
> murderers and rapists and assaulters who need to be locked
> up because they have demonstrated they are not competent to
> live with others, but we are using our burgeoning prison
> system like we once used the Army, as a way of keeping a
> false tally about the number of unemployed. It's
> costing us tons of money put to a negative use. Conversely,
> if we put the same amount to use in employment efforts, we
> could truly have fewer crimes and fewer prisons to support.
>
> Empires have to figure out ways to keep huge numbers of men
> employed (and women pregnant) to avoid revolts while they
> squeeze every drop out of the population to fund their
> rapaciousness. Other empires have fought disastrous wars
> which have positive effects on their economies: population
> control and war materials. The SPCA does the same thing for
> other animal species at a lot less expense and grief.
>
> For those who would vote for McCain, it might be important
> to know that as a student of the Naval Academy, McCain
> graduated 894 in a class of 899. Not even in the top half
> of the class. Also he exercises both an ungoverned temper
> (he was called McNasty in high school for it) and an
> ungoverned mouth. Those behaviors take a huge toll on a
> human's health, chronically weakening the physical
> self. When choosing McCain, voters are choosing two
> presidents, McCain AND the next president but one.
>
>
> Wizard Marks
> Central, Mpls.
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