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Friday, August 19. 2011

Quick heads up

The delightful football hero and Congressman J C Watts is filling in for Sean this afternoon. Great to hear him again. This good guy quit politics to return to his Pastor job.
Posted by The Barrister at 16:08 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Thanks for the tip. Always wondered what happened to Mr. Watts.
#1 grant1863 on 2011-08-19 16:15 (Reply)
Certainly, being a pastor is a higher calling, but I miss him in Congress.
#2 mudbug on 2011-08-19 16:26 (Reply)
YUP! The little that I remember is good....
#3 dorf on 2011-08-19 19:51 (Reply)
Then there was this, a lot of tap dancing but he left the impression he would vote for Obama. This was disappointing to me and changed my impression of Watts. Perhaps race is more important to him than ideology?

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=67247
#4 feeblemind on 2011-08-19 21:13 (Reply)
That is disconcerting - even given the fact that McCain was the pubbie running. On the other hand, I'm a registered Independent for a reason. I will vote for whomever is the smaller government guy. I just so happens that I haven't seen a Demoncrat I could vote for. Zell Miller was the last Demoncrat that I would consider voting for and I never had the chance.
It would be interesting to know who he did vote and what he thinks now.
#4.1 mudbug on 2011-08-19 23:19 (Reply)
I have never voted for any candidate. I always find it necessary to vote against one of the offerings. While there has not yet been a candidate who was better than the rest, there has always been one who was the worst, and I vote to keep that one out of office.

When I no longer have to choose between the lesser of two evils, I will be able to vote for somebody, but it hasn't been that way, and this coming election isn't looking too promising, either.
#5 John on 2011-08-20 03:12 (Reply)
I find his voice reminds me uncannily of Barry Farber who was on the late evening AM radio masheen as I was growing up in the hinterburbs of DC. Does anyone else hear this?
#6 BlogDog on 2011-08-20 20:07 (Reply)

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