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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Maverick on March 03, 2006, 05:11:39 PM
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060303/ap_on_go_co/congressman_bribery
Nothing much to add to the story from the link.
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Should have given him 20 to make the point to the rest of them.
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I dont think he'll make 8 with his health.
Its too bad he's tried so hard to put on an act, it didnt work, yet he still tries. I hate thinnly vieled contrition.
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For me......
It's not that he's a republican.....
He could be a democrat and I'd still feel this way.....
It's the fact that he WAS somewhat of a HERO to me being an ACE an all. THAT is the MOST disappointing factor to me. It just really sucks when people you look up to turn out to be crooks.
I agree he should have gotten 20 to drive the point home to the rest of them that we expect nay we DEMAND that our elected representatives obay the laws they write.
The judge says it best here:
"You weren't wet. You weren't cold. You weren't hungry and yet you did these things," Burns said. "I think what you've done is you've undermined the opportunity that honest politicians have to do a good job."
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
It's the fact that he WAS somewhat of a HERO to me being an ACE an all. THAT is the MOST disappointing factor to me. It just really sucks when people you look up to turn out to be crooks.
Spot on, Guns.
I wonder if the History Channel will recut all their documentaries featuring him?
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
For me......
It's the fact that he WAS somewhat of a HERO to me being an ACE an all. THAT is the MOST disappointing factor to me. It just really sucks when people you look up to turn out to be crooks.
What was it Boyington was supposed to have said? "Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum."
In this case, he was right.
My regards,
Widewing
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I hope he rots in jail.
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damm.. that was one cool dude too. wtf, arent you entitled to rob stela rape and kill when you become an elected official?
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What you have all said.
Sad.
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The moral of the story is; "Always pay taxes on your graft."
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The only sad thing is that there will be others lining up to take his place alongside his 434 cronies.
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I read an artical last month that was saying basically many of the air force people he had worked with were hoping for the day when he got smacked down, and sure enough...it came today. Guess he has had it coming for some time.
Thanks for the Migs Randy....best luck clearing your six in prison
:cry
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Gotta learn to get bought off before you get elected, and by people with real money like the saudis.
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Who the **** buys a $40,000 rug? From Persia no less!
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LOSER
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Originally posted by Pongo
Gotta learn to get bought off before you get elected, and by people with real money like the saudis.
what ever do you mean?
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Originally posted by storch
what ever do you mean?
He means that if you get bought off by people of great wealth, they can also buy off the people who would be watching you , and so on, and so on, until one day, these people actually controlled the entire govt. and hence, military. That could never happen here, though. We are to sophisticated and honest. Also, we go to church. That makes us immune to material temptations such as.... billions of dollars of untracable cash, unbelievable power influence, playing with peoples lives like a cat with a mouse, looting national treasurys just to tighten ones grip on the peoples testicles, etc., ect., things that happen in dictatorship countries. Not here.:)
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It's the fact that he WAS somewhat of a HERO to me being an ACE an all. THAT is the MOST disappointing factor to me. It just really sucks when people you look up to turn out to be crooks
Exactly...
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all that power corrupts...
All that access to money corrupts...
It would take an exceptional man to not be corrupted.
I don't think any of our politicians are exceptional men.
We need to trim government down to a size that can be watched.
lazs
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i know a man who served with the triple nickle in nam with Cunningham. before this scandal he would speak glowingly of the now discrased man. now it seems as though all his stories have a black cloud over them.
i am not rich nor poor, i do not fear jail nor hell nor death. i obey the laws because it is the right thing to do (except weed and liqure, that dont count tho). every time i get in a car i buckle my seatbelt. every time i see somebody drop money accidentally i pick it up and give it back to them. i do these things because it betters the world we all live in. and though i may not make much of a difference, there is at least 5 people that i can remember who have been able to buy lunch because i got their money back to them instead of taking it for myself. and there are 3 instances where a seatbelt has saved the life of somebody who i reminded to put one on.
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IIRC Cunningham served in the Navy aboard the USS Constellation with VF96. The 555th flew out of Thailand though I don't recall what base, probably Udorn
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smidsy... you are welcome to put on a seatbelt and I will not be offended if you remind me to. But.... I will make up my own mind. My government has no right to tell me to wear one. If that makes me a criminal then so be it.
lazs
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Originally posted by storch
IIRC Cunningham served in the Navy aboard the USS Constellation with VF96. The 555th flew out of Thailand though I don't recall what base, probably Udorn
Yes, Cunningham flew with VF-96. Cunningham later became friends with Richard (Steve) Ritchie (5 kill ace) who flew with the 555th. This may be the guy SMIDSY is referring to.
(http://home.att.net/~c.c.jordan/Showtime-112-2.jpg)
Cunningham's F-4J, a modified skin from Wings Over Vietnam.
My regards,
Widewing
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Lotsa politicans were at one time lawyers, accountants, business CEO's.. Duke just happened to be a pilot.... and from all accounts was a heluva good one.
I kinda doubt Duke saw himself as a crook.. he was just doing what most other politicans do. And, he got caught.
Doesn't make him any less of a hero in the war.. just makes him another dirty politican now.