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   From: steele.david@verizon.net.REMOVE   
      
   On 15 Feb 2004 12:43:56 -0800, tabernacle2002@hotmail.com   
   (Tabernacle) wrote:   
      
   |I mean just today on Meet the Press after days of bragging that he was   
   |going to face down Rep.Charles Rangel the RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie   
   |begged off appearing face to face (man to man, if you can still call   
   |Ed a man after this?) with Rangel at the very last moment!   
   |   
   |Well I think I can understand it, as after all Rangel is a Korean War   
   |Veteran (who won a Bronze Star and got a Purple Heart) while the only   
   |action Ed saw in his life was parking cars in the Capital Parking Lot.   
   |   
   |And as we all know most COWARDS hate to be seen with Real Heros,which   
   |(when they stand next to them) make them look even smaller and more   
   |COWARDLY than they normally do!   
      
   Actually I am disappointed in the lack of democrats who are   
   serving NOW.  In fact the number of democrats younger than 45   
   with military experience is sorely lacking.  Among my age group,   
   we are the last democrats to serve in numbers.  As the '70s   
   moved, fewer and fewer democrats served.  More so in the '80s.   
   In the '90s the Clinton's cutting the military in half forced   
   most the democrats out (it was just easier to go other places and   
   it was not popular among democrats to serve).   
      
   If we look at congress, there are 60 republicans and 40   
   democrats.  What is really depressing is that most of the   
   democrats served in either WW2 or Korea.  There are no democrats   
   who have served (who in congress) in the last 10 years.   
      
   Just a snap shot, California has 54 members of congress.  Only   
   four have been in the military, all republicans.  It does not   
   make us look that good.   
      
   The problem is that we democrats have turned are backs on serve.   
   We "say" nice things but for the most part dislike getting our   
   hands dirty.   
      
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