BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here

Subject: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 08:33 PM

So here it is, US midterm election eve. Any contest of most vile politicians will, of course, be an endless list. However, it might just be therapeutic for you to purge yourself of the disgust you feel for the one politician above all others, who sunk to the absolute lowest level inhabitable by slimy invertebrates in that crowded cesspool known as Campaign 2002.

Local and/or national, doesn't matter.

My vote goes to...drumroll, please!

A local Minnesota vote for Sara Janacek, the Cruella de Ville of the Minnesota Republican Party.

And my national vote goes to VP of Undisclosed Locations (yet, we always seem to know exactly where he is coming from...HELL!) Dick Cheney.

Please, don't forget to vote. And as Presselect Shrub says, take everyone you know with you to the polls too.

Vote early and often, and we'll keep counting your votes until the courts intervene.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 08:36 PM

BTW, to be democratic about all this, we should allow everyone to vote on politicians in their own countries.

Any of you posting from Turkey, well...we know why you won't be voting after today. But hey, howse about dem Brazilians?

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 08:56 PM

ummmm...wouldn't this be MUD-slinging .....besides, my list would use up all the bandwidth

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 09:12 PM

JUNIOR, then there are the *also rans*. Here's a guy who wants to blow up a lot of people so that folks will be too entertained to discover that the man is a *crook. And here he is trying to convince folks thats he's eyeball-to-eyeball with the bad guys, al la John Kennedy and is he eyeball-to-eyeball? Hell no, he isn't! He's been too busy the last month (during which his PR folks would have Joe Six Pack think that he is eyeball-to-eyeball when he hasn't spent any time in Washington, D.C. in three months) vacationing, fund raisin' or stumpin' for other folks who would have Joe Six Pack think that they are eyeball-to-eyeball type of folks.

Beam my boney Wes Ginny butt up...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 10:27 PM

Ah, one vote for the Campaigner and Thief, then.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 10:39 PM

Well, GFUEST, I just want to go on record of sayin' how nice it is not to be fightin' with a GUEST. If you wanta come out of the GUEST's closent, it would be nice to have you on board.

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: mg
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 10:43 PM

Hillary Clinton.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 10:47 PM

Mary, Mary, Mary?????

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 10:54 PM

I would like to nominate the last four Presidents of the United States of America. I think that's some kind of record for continuous slime. Not a trustworthy one in the bunch.
I thought Ford and Carter were decent men, but then we had Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Junior.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 12:58 AM

For most vile politician of all time in North America, I nominate Joe McCarthy. For most vile, period, Pol Pot.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: DougR
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 01:08 AM

Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschle, Jim Jeffords, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Barbara Striesand, Ted Kennedy, etc., etc., etc.

Bobert, I would think you would be pleased the president has been on the campaign trail instead of in Washington where he might do more (as you seem to believe)damage. :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Bert
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 01:14 AM

Old Iron Knickers.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 01:18 AM

Hey, Doug, you listed all my heroes!
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 01:25 AM

Aw, hell. I forgot Maggie Thatcher. Thanks for the reminder, Bert.

Doug - You may be disturbed to know that I know next to nothing about both Tom Daschle and Jim Jeffords...so I'm not sure how to react to your mention of them. Do you know anything about Mike Harris or Stockwell Day? If not, we're even.

As for Barbra, I seriously dislike much of her music, but know very little about her politics. I gather she is an enthusiastic Democrat?

Ted Kennedy has been rather a disappointment, but someone had to do it (play his role, I mean).

Hilary? Brace yourself, Doug. That woman may yet be the first female President of the United States of America. Keepa you fingers crossed! :-)

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: The Shambles
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 02:45 AM

Dr Kim Howells

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 03:16 AM

Maggie Thatcher, Bushie-tail Blair, both Prime Monsters of UK disrepute. Allow me to add the Secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Disorganisation "Lord " George ex-CND-protester Robertson; a hypocritical poser of the first order, and a disgrace to Scotland which unfortunately spawned it.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Hrothgar
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:18 AM

John Howard, for his contribution to perverting the processes of government.

(He's Prime Minister of Australia - I think it's a punishment for our sins, but I can't remember doing anything that bad!)

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Troll
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:24 AM

Hitlery Clinton and her co-president Bill. Joe McCarthy. Saddam Hussein, Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and everyones favorite weasel, Jim Jeffords.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 08:58 AM

Oh c'mon people--you must have some local reptiles you can tell us about! Thanks for the link Shambles!

BTW DougR, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, and Babs aren't technically politicians.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 09:56 AM

Jim Jeffords? *tsk*...an honest man--even if you disagree with his switch, he doesn't belong in a list like this! ....and neither does Hillary, whether you 'like' her or not.

Does anyone remember Vern Miller, the former attorney-general of Kansas, who raided Amtrack trains passing thru kansas to see if they were selling....*BOOZE**?....he started as a deputy sheriff and became sheriff and had slimy, evil records following him all the way up...and VERY nearly became Governor of Kansas!.....

and who can forget Spiro Agnew? And Strom Thurmond? and Lester Maddox of Georgia? and (mind is blank..Powell?) the democratic congressman from NY/NJ who was on the take for years! and whatsisname from Texas who was thrown out? ....and...Newt!! *grin*...oh, yeah...and Huey Long!...and if you wanta get historical, Boss Tweed, Richard Daley and others....

the list is almost endless

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST,cooky-less maire-aine at work
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 10:16 AM

Adam Clayton Powell, the congressman from NY?

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 10:27 AM

yup...THAT Powell!...used to spend half his time in Florida playing...

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: DougR
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 10:37 AM

GUEST: They're not? You should tell them.

No, L.H., I don't know them so I guess we are even.

Joe: Sorry, my friend, but that's what makes the world go around I guess. :>)

I kinda wish the title of this thread had not been so damning. Vile is a very strong word, and I really don't think those I named are vile, I just don't agree with their politics.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: beadie
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 10:49 AM

A website put up by a group called "Citizens for Legitimate Government" made a claim in one of their recent newsletters that we "have a lying, usurping, weasel for a pResident."

I protest!

As a ferret owner, I feel that this statement is an inexcusable affront to all members of the family Mustelidae (the weasels). Mustelids include weasels, ferrets, otters, mink, sables, fishers, martens,and numerous other species. Some family members have even been elevated to positions of high esteem by institutions of higher learning (Badgers at the University of Wisconsin and Wolverines at the University of Michigan).

It is most unfortunate that the qualities of weaselhood, tenacity, ferocity, cunning and intelligence are sullied every election season by association of their good name with (ugh!) politicians, lawyers, lobbyists, broadcast talking heads and the like.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 10:55 AM

Ooh! Vile, vile SD Governor "Wild Bill" Janklow, the Republican hand picked by the Shrub to run for the US House. The Shrub hand picked both Republican congressional candidates in South Dakota this year you know.

Raped his babysitter while serving as assistant US attorney general, was sent packing into the military as an 18 year old to avoid prosecution for his participation in a gang rape. Don't come any slimier than that guy.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 11:31 AM

Lester Maddox, George Wallace, Frank Rizzo, George Bush Sr., George Bush, Jr., Katherine Harris, Dick Army, John Ashcroft, Trent Lott, Harry Bryd, Richard Nixon, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson make up the bulk of my *A LIST*...

Doug: Yeah, it's nice knowing that Junior is out stumping and not messing with anything around town. Actually he's figured out that unless he gets the Senate that he can't mess things up too badly so he's given up for now. But that could all change and then America's working class are going to really be taken for a ride...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 12:04 PM

Well said, Doug. A lot of the named people cannot fairly be called "vile". I think Joe McCarthy and Pol Pot can, though, at least by most people's standards.

Mike Harris is the former premier of Ontario (a conservative Conservative...), and Stockwell Day is the former leader of the Canadian Alliance Party, formerly the Reform Party (a sort of somewhat radical conservative outfit, with most of their support in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba..."the West"). While I would not characterize either of them as personally "vile", I would say that Mike Harris's governmental policies were extremely destructive and have cause lasting damage to the Province of Ontario. As for Stockwell, well, he never got the chance to do major damage...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 12:19 PM

hmmm...not sure where to put Trent Lott....he is a danger and an anal-retentive bastard...not sure he is vile though....

(being against their politics is, as Doug says, not enough)

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Peter T.
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 12:43 PM

STROM THURMOND IS GONE!!! THE BEST THING ABOUT THIS AMERICAN ELECTION!!!! Congress now moves gingerly into the 19th century, out of the Jurassic.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: PeteBoom
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 12:48 PM

My TWO votes are for local guys - As the result of term limits, we have a crop of State House and State Senate seats that have no incumbent. There is a pair of folks from the same party that have auto-dialed phone calls going out to "likely voters" in the districts (one house, one senate). These vary from (House race) "Mike abuses his power and threatens old people" to "We don't need corrupt politicians like Mike" to "He's in favor of cutting senior benefits to pay for abortions and health care for illegal immigrants" - (Senate race) to "Steve is a fraud" to "Christians should vote for THIS guy because Steve does not act like a proper Christian should and is in favor of abotion and is soft on crime."

I know BOTH of these guys - their decent fellows who worked hard for what they have - and did not rely on daddy's money to get them where they are. (Heck, Mike helped me cook 500 pounds of spaghetti for a neighborhood fund-raiser a couple of years ago - WHAT A HOOT!)

So - my two are Steve and Mike's opponents (of whom Big Mick is probably the only one who has POSSIBLY heard of these guys, and even then I doubt it...)

Cheers-

Pete

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 01:07 PM

Not vile really, but the guy has balls the size of watermelons.....James Trafficant from Youngstown, Ohio who was found guilty of a boatload of campaigning and ethics problems, thrown out of Congress and is now in jail in Allenwood, Pennsylvania is running to regain his seat! Gotta' admire that determination..........and he's getting votes....not many but...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: wilco
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 01:49 PM

For all of us who casually throw vitrol at politicians, I would challenge each and every one of them to "step up to the plate," and try their hand at governance. It's easy to be a critic. In a society of elected, representative government, good people are needed to become politicians. Be ever mindful of the alternative.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 01:51 PM

Brian Mulroney, Ralph Klein, Mike Harris, John Savage and last but not least , Clyde Wells.

Amen

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: beadie
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 02:20 PM

Wilco:   (sorry for the premature submission)

    Speaking as someone who earns his living from within the government, I would rather approach the ideal of having civic-minded citizens participating as members of the government and then going back to private life rather than having politicians playing musical chairs moving from this office to the next. I have seen both and, unfortunately, there is a distinct, detectable difference in attitude, performance, and, often, in integrity. Not every person in government is a politician, but . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 03:55 PM

In Alaska, I vote for Frank Murkowski. He's the Republican US senator who is running mainly against Democrat Fran Ulmer, and quite likely to win simply because of - well, what? He is a 22-year entrenched senator who is against pork- but hauls it home by the barrel, supposedly knows what Alaskans want and need- but is so out of touch he doesn't even get his 'facts' straight, does everything but pat Fran, the little woman, on the head- Fran Ulmer who has a long history of service in the state from her years as state representative, Juneau mayor and current lieutenant governor, as well as some posts I've probably forgotten; Fran who is knowledgeable, accessible, concerned and efficient-, he employs platitudes and half truths to appear informed but can't offer one actual plan to remedy our fiscal crisis.

I'd like to chuck him out altogether- but I say, keep him in Washington where, unpopular as he is, he still can do some good. The people I know and respect don't want him in Alaska.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:05 PM

Hmmmmmmmm? Now there's an original twist. Vote the guy in to get him out of town. Well, lookin' at the crop we got in Wsahington now, I think you're on to something, Ebbie. But that ain't real nice a thing to do to us poor folks who got live in close proximity to the knuckleheads, is it? Jus funnin'. Heck, they don't venture out into our little patch of hillbilly heaven up here in this Wes Ginny holler...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:13 PM

That's the "kick 'em upstairs" method, right? It can work well sometimes in a large company where you have a really poor supervisor managing a small department and driving the workers crazy. I don't recommend it in government, however.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Cllr
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:14 PM

I'm most upset that no one has included my name in the list so I nominate me. Cllr

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Gareth
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:33 PM

Mmmmm ! A bit dated now but when it come to corrupt, self serving hypocritical politicians David Lloyd-George must come near the top.

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:47 PM

Lester Maddox; he may be fool but he's OUR fool.

Lest we forget....Adolf Hitler!!

I'm surprised at the lack of shouts for Saddam, Hussein, in view of the fact that he's the #1 bogeyman stateside.

Anyway to keep the ball rolling, Mugabe, Allende, Papa Doc, Salazar,
& Henrik Verwoerd.

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:58 PM

On the national level, a certain brainless shit-bird from Texas with whom I have the extreeeeeeme displeasure of sharing middle initials.

On the local level, the entire City Council of Pensacola Florida. I don't know whether or not the story made the national news, but the whole damn bunch of 'em (save maybe one or two) got their asses busted for violations of Florida's "Sunshine Law" which provides that the public's business must be transacted in open forum, not in private meetings nor over lunch at the country club nor while playing golf with one's cronies. Fines and jail time for the lot of them! Their defense lawyer has not run for public office yet, but just in case he decides to do so, we'll go ahead and cast a vote now and hold it in reserve for future use. A special breed of slimy turd he is.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Hollowfox
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 05:07 PM

No, 'Spaw, he's vile. Remember, I live in Youngstown. I believe he still has a website, if you want his side of the story; his defense was eerily similar to Slobadon Milosovich's, and they both insisted on defending themselves rather than using a lawyer. The name's spelled Traficant (one "f"), if anybody wants to search for it.
His campaign ads are amusing, though, in a strange sort of way. (He filmed them before he went to prison) Ad #1 said, "No matter what you think of him, he got things done." It said he got $2 billion (that's a thousand thousand here in the USA) into the area, but didn't mention how much more the rest of the state got over the same 18 year period. Ad #2 had Jimbo himself on it, telling us that he could do as good a job from prison as half of Congress could do in freedom. Ad #3 was Traficant's campaign manager, who told us that "Washington Insiders" (Traficant's foes for 18 years) had assured him that accomodations would be made so that Jim could perform his congressional duties from his cell. Yeah, right.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Amergin
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 05:22 PM

lon mabon

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 05:31 PM

I like GUEST's local choice of Sarah Janáèek. Besides being the "Cruella de Ville of the Minnesota Republican Party," she can't even pronounce her own last name. :P

My vote would have to be for Saxby Chambliss, running against Max Cleland in Georgia, who questioned the patriotism of the one-limbed (he lost the other three in Vietnam) Senator and compared him to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in an ad.

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 05:46 PM

Hollowfox: Jimmy would get my vote if I lived in Yunks-town. Hey, with the money grab that Bush just pulled off, Jim Bob looks like a Boy Scout. He got rail-roaded. Sure, he did some dumb stuff but show me anyone of them Congress folks who hasn't and I'll show you one that hasn't been caught. They are all crooks. And I hope he gets re-elected.

And ya' gotta consider another factor. I mean, it *is* Yunks-town, which ain't exactly the by-the-book capital of the world.

BTW, I wrote a song about your town called "Youngstown Night" and if you'd like a poorly recorded tape of it PM me...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 05:57 PM

We had a municipal official in Orillia who used the city's money to play at the local casino (after he had squandered his own savings there first). His defense was that he was "addicted to gambling" (true) and that he was only trying to win BACK the city's money (and his own) which he had already lost...and just got in too deep.

Well...um...WAY too deep. There was no way he could pay back what he had lost by the time he was caught.

I won't mention any names. I figure that in a certain sense he may have suffered enough by now...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: DougR
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 07:50 PM

Ebbie, I agree with Bobert that that has to be the most unique reason I have ever heard for voting for a politician. Best chuckle I've had today, believe me.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: kendall
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 10:02 PM

Remember Bob Packwood? Tom Paxton has him pegged.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: DougR
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 10:41 PM

Bob Packwood ...Bob Packwood. Was he a woodcutter from Oregon, or Washington or somewhere out west, Kendall? I remember the name. :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: leprechaun
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 11:06 PM

Bob Packwood was the Oregon Senator (R) who was excoriated for trying to do with various women what Clinton was so adept at.

My nominations:

Third Runner-up:   Jesse Ventura

Second Runner-up: Ted Kennedy

First Runner-up: Hillary Clinton

The Champion:   Ralph Nader

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 12:11 AM

Ah, leprechaun...if only you'd been born in a "liberal" family and I in a "conservative" one. We could just switch lists. :-)

Has anyone mentioned Stalin and Mussolini yet? And how about Beria? He was Stalin's secret police chief, I think... Let me also add Josef Goebbels, Abu Nidal, and Ariel Sharon. Now there's a trio to stir controversy....my, my. Then there's Deng Shiao Ping or however it's spelled and Li Pong too.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST,Hombre
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 08:10 AM

Surely Giok you made an error - Allende?, an elected president, as opposed to Pinochet who, with the aid of the good ole US of A overthrew the decision of the Chilean people. A man who promoted his country's culture including it's folk music as opposed to one who had Victor Jara's - a singer songwriter - I'm assuming you are American and therefor thick and probably right wing and need a history lesson - hands smashed by a rifle butt and then had him shot. Try to support democracy, admittedly after your last presidentials it might be a hard concept to comprehend.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 08:32 AM

Thanks for the support Lepus Rex. I'll second ya on Chambliss. But hey--it worked for him. You know, I don't think Republicans hate anything more than a Democrat with distinguished military service records. It really does make them foam at the mouth, and do all manner of vile and despicable things.

John McCain was on Comedy Central last night, and he said that he was saddened by what happened to Cleland at the hands of Chambliss. Just not enough to go against his own party to defend him, apparently.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Greg F.
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 09:15 AM

You want vile? How about good ol' genocidal Henry Kissinger? The only man responsible for mass murder ever to receive the Nobel prize. Now THAT'S vile!

I also have a sneaking suspicion that it was to protect him specifically that the US refused to participate in the World Criminal Court without blanket immunity.

Best, Greg

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 09:55 AM

Jerry Adams......terrorist supreme along with Arafat..two men who have proven that terror works and the rest of us have short memories.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: curmudgeon
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 11:22 AM

A. Mitchell Palmer, J. Edgar Hoover, John Mitchell, Edwin Meese, John Ashcroft, Francisco Franco.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST,Sinn Fein press secretary
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 01:13 PM

Dear Guest, Mr Adams spells his name with a G. Maybe your time would have been better spent in school than intimidating small children from Holy Cross Primary School.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 07:15 PM

Well, might as well add Nero and Caligula to this rogue's gallery...reading about them can be pretty chilling.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Hrothgar
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 12:31 AM

Didn't Cligula appoint his horse as a senator? The horse could not have been worse than a few time servers I know.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 02:29 AM

As a Scotsman I and many millions of Scots and Welsh, I nomate The bitch herself, Maggie Thatcher. The only people who will support her is the Tories in both Countries.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST,Sadmann
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 12:44 PM

the ignorance of some you poor buggers amazes me: "Now the the rovin' gambler he was very bored. He was tryin' to create a next world war. He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor." For rovin' gambler read Dubya and for promoter read Blair. It doesn't scan as well but that's where we are at the moment.
Highway 69 re-revisited.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 10:09 AM

Edi Ahmin is alive and living in exhile there are others too.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 09 Nov 02 - 04:03 AM

Historical U.S. - John C. Calhoun, Andrew Johnson, Joe McCarthy, Theodore Bilbo.

Historical world - L.H.'s choices, plus whoever in Turkey was responsible for ordering the massacre of about one million Armenians in....1905?

Local: In the late 1950s and 1960s, there was a local city councilman, pretty close to Birchite in politics, named John K. DeBonis. Excitable, combative, pugnacious, not too bright, and hostile towards any viewpoint not his own. He was, though, a victim of one of the all-time great doctored billboards .A billboard that said "Re-Elect John K. DeBonis" was doctored to say "Re-Erect John K. DeBoner."

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: Most Vile Politician Contest Vote Here
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Nov 02 - 09:52 AM

Sorry Hombre, I did make a mistake,don't know what went wrong there. Of course I meant Pinochet.
Mea Culpa.....Giok