On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:09:29 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Aug 29, 12:29*pm, wrote:

*I have no doubt that folks of
all races and colors can be another Chester A. Arthur...

now, wait just a damn minute. i normally eschew participation in
these political ****ing contests, but when the honored name of chester
a. arthur is sullied, even by implication, the **** *will* hit the
fan.
you are talking about a brilliant, clever, immensely effective
champion of the poor, the unwashed, the little people--the salt of the
union. this is a man of whom franklin delano roosevelt once said, "if
chester arthur is for it, how can any be against it!" well, i *think*
it was fdr... maybe that was ulysses grant... anyway, just watch your
mouth about such a great man in the future.

Actually, it wasn't a dig. He was, by most accounts, exactly as you
say, personally honest and effective, often as much by knowing what not
to "fix" as what could actually benefit from a little tinkering, and
most importantly, being objective and realistic about the whole thing.
Even Twain/Clements liked him. And largely forgotten by history - when
is the last time anyone, of any party, running for so much as dog
catcher, suggested they would like to be remembered by a relative few
folks, but for the few that do as the Chester A. Arthur of their
generation? We're ass-deep in would-be Kennedys and re-Reagans. We got
wannabe-Roosevelts and Lincolns out the ying-yang, and even a
pseudo-Truman buck-stopper or two, but, alas, we're fresh the **** out
of Chester A. Arthurs...

yfitons
wayno(a closet whig, if the truth be known)

Um, "closet?" "Whig?" Oh, man, be careful - we got a Sergeant Snedeker
running around on the lookout for just that sort of degenerate
stuff...he'll be easy to spot - he'll be the guy who looks like an old
New York Doll in a Jackie Kennedy suit and tin-foil pillbox hat...

TC,
R
....and amazingly enough, he was even a lawyer...Arthur, I mean, not
Snedeker...