From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Christopher Dodd:   
   	- He's running for President.  He has something big for him: his   
   hair.  It used to be flaming red hair, then Bush got into office and it   
   went white.   
   	   
   	- The campaign boggles the mind.  It's been going on for fifteen   
   years, and it's still unspeakably many months away.   
   	   
   	- Dodd names Kenny Chesney his vice-presidential candidate.   
   	   
   	- He must end up in parts of the country he never imagined.  For   
   example, Harumph, Nevada.  There's a firehouse, it's a little different   
   from Connecticut.  There's a billboard advertising the Museum of Brothel   
   Art.  He didn't go.   
   	   
   	- He's not leading in the polls, but he likes it.  In December   
   2003 John Kerry was at three percent in the polls; when people pay   
   attention to the race, they make up their mind.  So he's imitating the   
   John Kerry campaign.   
   	   
   	- Last weekend there was the debate for Univision.  Dodd wanted   
   it to be in Spanish.  He does speak the language from his Peace Corps   
   experience.  He wasn't allowed to show off at it, though.   
   	   
   	- Dodd's father was executive lead counsel for the Nuremberg   
   Trials.  These are the letters he wrote to his wife.  Churchill   
   suggested just summary execution; the Soviets were up for that too.   
   Supreme Court justice Robert Jackson, prosecutor, said, ``Four great   
   nations, flush with victory and stung with injury, stayed the hand of   
   vengeance and voluntarily submitted their captive enemies to the   
   judgement of the rule of law, which is the most tribute that power ever   
   paid to reason.''  It was a high point in moral authority for the United   
   States.   
   	   
   	- It's the basis for worldwide institutions, and the   
   significance is relevant.  Should we be associated with Nuremberg or   
   with Guantanamo and Abu Grahib?   
   	   
   	- Conan wonders if it was more morally clear back then.  Facts   
   are different, but we have a false choice -- the notion that if you want   
   to be more secure you have to give up rights.  There's no way to make us   
   less secure.   
   	   
   	- Think where we were six years ago tonight.  We're in tough   
   shape.  We have to stand for justice and principle.   
   	   
   	- There are some very personal moments in his parents' letters.   
   How would his father feel?  Probably he wouldn't have loved the idea of   
   publishing his letters.  But on first reading them Dodd was amazed by   
   ``who is this guy talking to my mother?'' and it was his father ... he's   
   one of six children, so they had something more than just these letters.   
      
      
      
   Kenny Chesney:   
   	- 'Just Who I Am: Poets and Pirates': Never Wanted Nothing More   
      
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