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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:43 AM
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Poll question: Who do y'all think has read more Shakespeares?
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:45 AM
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1. Paris Hilton has probably read more Shakespeare.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:48 AM
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2. I'm willing to believe it. She can't be making porn videos ALL the time.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 10:56 AM
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3. Santorum. He may be nuts, but Catholics are generally well educated. NT
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:03 AM
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4. You have a point. Santorum is likely smart enough to have read
Shakespeare but not compassionate enough to weigh the emotional import.

Good post.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:10 AM
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5. As much as I detest hiim, I'd say Jeff Sessions (Hastert 2nd).
Jeff Sessions is actually fairly well-versed academically ... as a "good ol' boy" ... and Hastert was a teacher and wrestling coach.

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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:14 AM
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6. Hastert was a wrestling coach?
must have learned his best moves at the Golden Corral buffet line.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:26 AM
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11. Yup. "16 years of teaching and coaching at Yorkville High School,"
http://www.house.gov/hastert/bio.shtml

"Hastert spent the first 16 years of his career as a government and history teacher at Yorkville High School, and it also was there that he met his wife, Jean, a fellow teacher. In addition to teaching, he coached football and wrestling and led the Yorkville High School Foxes to victory at the 1976 Illinois State Wrestling Championship; later that year, he was named Illinois Coach of the Year. Hastert, a former high school and college wrestler himself, was inducted as an Outstanding American into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma, in 2000. In 2001, the United States Olympic Committee named him Honorary Vice President of the American Olympic movement."


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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:19 AM
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8. Wow, I had no idea about Sessions. He doesn't exactly inspire
awe when he speaks. I guess he's playing to the Republican audience.

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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:22 AM
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10. Yes, Sessions really does talk 'redneck' ...
... since his 'base' is largely a bunch of anti-intellectual reverse-elitists.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:26 AM
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12. Sessions is kind of a reference point for what I think a public servant
should not be.

The guy gives me the creeps.
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:16 AM
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7. Giuliani — because he was a New Yorker. But he read only the violent ones
with the war scenes.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:20 AM
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9. Yep. He probably thrilled to the murky, betray-ridden power plays
in Shakespeare.

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