Democratic Debates

[TheMercenary]

Did anyone watch? Who stood out? And who the hell is that guy from AK??? I read about politics everyday and I have never heard of the guy. Clinton, Obama, and Edwards clearly stood out to me as having better answers, and both Clinton and Obama edged Edwards a little. The others pretty much had a poor showing IMHO.

[piercehawkeye45]

I'm going to try to watch it tonight.

The guy from Alaska is Gravel. He is a bit crazy but he ended the Vietnam War.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

He is a bit crazy but he ended the Vietnam War.

Did he now? Singlehandedly? Is that like when Al Gore invented the internet?

[piercehawkeye45]

In 1971 Gravel played a key role in the release of the Pentagon Papers — a large collection of secret government documents pertaining to the Vietnam War — which were made public by former Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg. Gravel inserted 4,100 pages of the Papers into the Congressional Record of his Senate Subcommittee on Buildings and Grounds. These pages were later issued by the Beacon Press as the "Senator Gravel Edition" — the most complete edition of the Pentagon Papers to be published. The "Gravel Edition" was edited and annotated by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, and included an additional volume of analytical articles on the origins and progress of the war, also edited by Chomsky and Zinn.

Also in 1971, Gravel embarked on a one-man filibuster against legislation renewing the military draft. Using various parliamentary maneuvers, Gravel was able to block the bill for five months before President Richard Nixon and Senate Republicans agreed to allow the draft to expire in 1973.

Six months before United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's secret mission to the People's Republic of China in July 1971, Gravel introduced legislation to recognize and normalize relations with the PRC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gr...foreign_policy

Smartass...