Eric Massa ... you tell it, friend! - Democratic Underground

Stinky The Clown

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Mon May-11-09 08:22 PM
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Eric Massa ... you tell it, friend!

On Maddow's show, now.

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bdamomma

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Mon May-11-09 08:24 PM
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1. watching now.

soldiers on the edge is right.

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Tangerine LaBamba

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Mon May-11-09 08:24 PM
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2. A friend of mine, a Marine Lt. Col. in the reserves,

who is working as - yes - a mercenary, supplying our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, keeps saying that we have to get the fuck out of Iraq and Afghanistan and the whole fucking Middle East.

When I point out to him that that will mean the end of his job - he has a wife and three little kids - he says he'll find another job.

We need OUT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon May-11-09 08:26 PM
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4. A-men

I am beyond angry about this crap.

But not as angry as about health care.

Yeah .... I'm a still-angry clown.

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon May-11-09 08:25 PM
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3. "Not seen any intelligence that shows the threat to us from Afghanistan"

Eric is a retired Navy Commander and former top aid to the the head of NATO.

NY-29 and antiwar as they come.

I spent a half hour with him about 3 years before he won his seat.

A remarkable man, indeed.

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elleng

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Mon May-11-09 09:21 PM
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5. 'head of NATO' at the time was General Wesley Clark.

They remain good friends.

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon May-11-09 09:48 PM
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6. Indeed he was

The day I spoke with Eric, I also spoke with The General.

I made a quip that cracked them both up. Somehow we were speaking about marching out of step. The General made a comment and asked who marched like that (the answer, in context, was "repubicans"). I said "Sailors". (I served, like Eric, in the Navy).

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elleng

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Mon May-11-09 09:56 PM
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7. Where were you at the time?

One of Massa's 'parties,' in DC? Me, too!

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon May-11-09 10:12 PM
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8. Yes, exactly right

At a townhouse on Capitol Hill.

It was so hot the polish was melting off shoes as we stood in the back yard. The big donors got to have cocktails and munchies inside while we poor folk waited outside.

Eric was out with us until the time to go back in.

That was the first of a number of donations he's gotten from us.

He always sends personally written thank yous.

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elleng

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Mon May-11-09 10:14 PM
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9. I missed that one; remember seeing pics.

I wrote up some papers for him, i.e., health care.

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elleng

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Mon May-11-09 11:03 PM
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10. Just saw him.

He's looking tan; where's he been?

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pangaia

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Mon May-11-09 11:33 PM
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11. My Guy

Eric is MY Congressman. I was the 'yard sign monster' in his campaigns.. Whoopee!! :>)))

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