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Clifford Spencer

Published Letters: 10

Sunday, August 24, 2008 05:35 PM

Sniper Fire at Sarajevo Airport

Dear Sir,

In an otherwise scurrilous book, DERELICTION OF DUTY, lt. col. Robert Patterson stated that both Senator Biden and Senator Dole flew to the Sarajevo Airport despite the dangers of sniper fire.

Since Milosevic was not apprehended until 2001, exactly how safe was that airport when Hillary Clinton landed there?

Clifford Spencer

Friday, January 9, 2009 03:16 PM

Al Franken

Dear Sirs,

This gets to be even wackier.

The Republican lawyers have Edwin Meese on their side.

Though he was indicted, he was not found guilty.

When JFK chose his brother as attorney-ganeral, the charge of nepotism filled the air.

Our only tried and convicted attorney-general was Nixon's first, John Mitchell!

They didn't call him Tricky Dick for nothing!

Republicans keep complaining about Richie. After Katherine Harris?

When Senator Robert Kennedy was shot, Governor Nelson Rockefeller named Charles Goodell to replace him.

Spiro Agnew complained that he was not a Republican.

The fact that New Yorkers voted Democrat was irrelevent!

Is this how Meese wants the Minnesota election decided?

Clifford Spencer

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 01:03 PM

Supreme Court

Dear Joan Walsh,

Remember Nixon's picks for the Supreme Court?

Remember Haynesworth and Carswell?

Buchanan used to write for both Nixon and Agnew.

What does he think of his old boss's picks?

Clifford Spencer

Friday, May 29, 2009 02:42 PM

Sotomayer

Dear Sir,

We have had one convicted attorney-general in our history, John Mitchell!

Hopefully, Sotomayer will prove to be better qualified than Haynesworth or Carswell would have been.

Wasn't Sandra Day O'Conner unanimously approved by the Senate? Didn't she make a great judge?

Clifford Spencer

Thursday, June 4, 2009 02:50 PM
Original article: Thank you, Pat Leahy

Sotomayer

Dear Joan Walsh,

Let me follow this.

Sotomayer's verbal gaffes make her unqualified to be a Supreme Court Justice.

By that logic, A Chief Justice, such as Roberts, should be impeached for flubbing his lines during the Presidential Oath!

Clifford Spencer

Monday, June 8, 2009 11:59 AM

Gitmo

Dear Sirs,

Despite all the heated argument that it has caused, Gitmo is only capable of holding a little over 250 inmates.

On page 386 of his book, CRUSADE IN EUROPE, Dwight David Eisenhower asked "why didn't some staff college ever tell us what to do with a quarter of a million prisoners so located at the end of a rickety railroad that it's impossible to move them and where guarding and feeding tham are so difficult?"

We waterboarded Moussai to make him "confess" to the crime of attacking the USS COLE.

Meanwhile, the fiend who masterminded the attack, Al-Badewi, escaped from a Yemen prison, twice, on Bush and Cheney's watch!

Also, two murderers escaped from an Alabama prison.

Since when are they military "experts"?

Clifford Spencer

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 07:58 PM

Canuck Letter

Dear Sirs,

It is significant to remember that the Canuck Letter forgery was timed for the Democrat primaries.

So was the Texas two-step.

Are the Republicans still interfering in Democrat primaries?

Clifford Spencer

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 07:17 PM

Military Leaders

Dear Joan Walsh,

There are books, by other military leaders, that you might find interesting.

For instance, there is CRUSADE IN EUROPE, written by Dwight David Eisenhower.

On page 386, he asked "why didn't some staff college ever tell us what to do with a quarter of a million prisoners so located at the end of a rickety railroad that it's impossible to move them and where guarding and feeding them are so difficult?"

Another book is CLOSING THE RING, by Winston Churchill.

On page 374, he said that "The British Parliament and public will never tolerate mass executions. Even if in war passion they allowed them to begin, they would turn violently against those responsible after the first butchery had taken place. The Soviets must be under no delusion on this point."

Clifford Spencer

Thursday, June 11, 2009 05:25 PM

Follow the money trail

Dear Joan Walsh,

My advice is, like that of Deep Throat, to follow the money trail.

Granted, this can get to be quite ugly and murky, but it is enlightening.

Remember the hush money that Mrs. Hunt was carrying when her plane crashed?

Wasn't Pat Buchanan part of the Nixon administration?

Bill O'Reilly claims to be for fair and balanced reporting.

However, while he hates the New York Times, I never heard him denounce the Chicago Tribune? Remember the headline of DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN? Guess which paper carried that headline.

Further, I never heard him denounce the forgeries of the Diem Cable by Hunt nor the Canuck Letter by Segretti.

The original Boston Tea Party was quite different than the tea parties that Limbaugh claims that he is for.

It included indian disguises, criminal trespass, robbery of the ship's cargo and vandalism by throwing the tea in the harbor.

What happened to respect for private property?

Clifford Spencer

Saturday, June 13, 2009 04:12 PM

Slavery

Dear Joan Walsh,

I am confused.

How can anyone be against a pregnant women deciding to have an abortion when no one seemed to be appalled when a master decided that his pregnant chattel should have one?

In short, why is voluntary abortion obnoxious when mandatory abortion wasn't?

Did THE WORD OF GOD change?

Clifford Spencer

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