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Porn-Again Conservatives : /p> p>Very amusing piece -- and one that I can identify with. br> -- Sam Whitaker /p> p> EVERYMAN HIMSELF br> Re: The Washington Prowler's Richardson Blacks Out : /p>

Among the things I don't understand is the mostly favorable prominence of the sometimes blimpish -- he seems to exhale and/or inhale, expanding his girth, as his Vice-Presidential prospects wax and wane -- Hispanic Richardson. (Actually, I have always been unclear concerning his minority status. He may not be Hispanic at all, but rather American Indian, Inca , an Arab, a Turk, an Asian, a eunuch or, perhaps, a fool. As MGM, Paramount and Warner Brothers once beckoned Abraham Sofaer, Dan Seymour and Michael Pate to stand in for these groups in epics such as Elephant Walk, The Naked Jungle and Secret of the Incas, Richardson seems to be the Democrats' everyman.)

As a Congressional Representative, he was noted for his facile elbowing of others out of the way of Crossfire's CNN cameras. Later at the UN, He stepped into the breach, when Clinton needed to bribe Monica with a well-paid sinecure. Then, instead of nailing his ample hide to the barn wall, a Repulican Senate awarded him the equivalent of the Senatorial academy award for his mendacity in office, when he was affirmed as Energy Secretary. After typically incompetent and devious service as Secretary -- he dealt courageously with the leaks at the atomic lab by firing the whistle blower -- he skulked back to New Mexico and was elected governor.

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Bill Clinton, Law, NATO, Energy