[AGL] life is so much fun dept.

[Charles Loving]

Good grief. I actually have talked to Beto three times in real life. He was
in Kerrville and he was in Lakey and I called him on the phone once just to
see if I could.  He is for real and knows his stuff.

I went to HS in El Paso and knew of his father who was a politician way
back then. Not a very effective one but he made waves. My neighbor was an
El Paso County commissioner and my aunt and uncle were into El Paso
politics. His mother owned a huge store in the rich section of town I
think? As usual, when I talked to him it was about Juarez and crowing up on
the border when the bridges were wide open and we could go back and forth
at will. He knew all the old stand by bars I went to with my girlfriends
back then and they are still there. That, of course, isn't a good reason to
vote for someone but a guy who took a date to the Kentucky Club and then
married her gets my vote every time.


In high school, we went as far into Mexico as Casas Grandes a couple of
times. And once all the way to Chihua City with no visa or anything and no
one said boo about it. It was a nicer era to be sure. Our HS rifle team
brought their weapons to class on match days. We brought our shotguns to
school in dove season. There were kids from Zaragoza in our school and no
one questioned them. A couple of them were on the baseball team and one of
them was our kicker on the football team.

I like Beto a lot more than anyone else that is running but that has to do
with my having met him more than once. Like Obama, I ate pizza with him and
Charlie Wrangel at Moorehouse sitting at the same table when they dedicated
the MLK auditorium and had invited me to be there.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 4:41 PM Fontaine Maverick <fontainem at att.net> wrote:

> I think Beto is a fine fellow, but not presidential material. I dearly
> wish he had gone after John Cornballs senate seat.
> As for Elizabeth I beg to differ that she is "as creepy as Hillary". All
> about perception, I suppose. I like that she goes for the heart of the
> problem like no other candidate. Except maybe old Bern.
>
>
>    Fontaine
>
>
> On Friday, March 15, 2019, 1:44:09 PM CDT, Michael Eisenstadt <
> eisenstadt0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I thought you all might enjoy this anecdote from yesterday.
>
> I had just bought 2 real leather belts made in China from a Target store
> located where the MacDonalds used to be on the corner of Guadeloupe and
> 21st in the giant dormitory mall on that corner near the Univ. of Texas
> campus and was taking the elevator to the 2nd story Food Court to award
> myself a slice of pizza when I ran into a female student who was excitedly
> telling a young black employee of the building that Beto O'Rourke had
> announced for president. Feeling my oats as I entered the elevator with her
> and the employee I observed that O'Rourke was about the last man in the
> world I would vote for for president. So she asked why. I further observed
> that O'Rourke was for Open Borders (for her obviously not an issue - she
> seemed to be somewhat Hispanic). She retorted but he is for defending
> minority rights.
>
> Should the situation reprise which it won't I ask myself whether my *esprit
> d'escalier *rejoinder should have beene "Who is attacking minority rights
> these days? What with affirmative action, preferences, set-asides, etc.
> being the law of the land for 60 years? What more gimmes do you want?
>
> Reparations? Let's ask O'Rourke if he is for dollar reparations. Sen.
> Elizabeth Warren was asked that question and in her wisdom replied "We have
> to have that conversation?" *Au fond* she really is as creepy as Hillary.
> She used to be a brunette and identified herself to the Univ of Texas Law
> School way back where she had been hired as a professor as a feather Indian
> signed in blue ink. Now she is a blond after going grey which compliments
> her blue eyes. Now she looks like a Becky, not a bad-white Becky, but a
> Becky who cares.
>
> mike e.
>


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Charlie Loving
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