Charlie Brown Campaign Notes: Second Sortie

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Saturday September 08, 2007 · 9:41 AM PDT

2007/09/08 · 09:41

He had a quiet, matter-of-fact, Iowa way of speaking, but from the first, I saw something in Charlie Brown. I saw an Air Force Academy graduate, an effective leader, an honorable man. I saw the future congressman.

I figured that as he got more experience on the campaign trail, the stiff awkwardness would fall away, and now that the braces were off his teeth, he would learn to smile all over again. But the stiffness and the self-conscious, Washingtonian "I'm afraid to smile" manner made it all the more plain that Charlie was quietly determined.

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Thursday August 23, 2007 · 3:13 PM PDT

2007/08/23 · 15:13

All Things Considered, August 22, 2007 · More people are declaring that the system of nominating a U.S. presidential candidate is broken.

Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson talks with Melissa Block about the idea of rotating regional primaries for presidential elections. And Rob Richie of Fairvote talks with Block about an idea known as the American Plan.

http://www.npr.org/...

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Sunday October 22, 2006 · 10:06 AM PDT

2006/10/22 · 10:06

The fundamental problem with the War on Terrorism is that the Bush Administration made it a real war, and it shouldn't have. It is being fought as a war in the classic sense of the word, rather than being used as a stirring metaphor for a different kind of struggle.

There have been metaphorical wars of policy in the past--not shooting wars, but campaigns of mobilized resources and organized effort. Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty; Richard Nixon declared a War on Cancer; Ronald Reagan declared a War on Drugs. Although these metaphorical wars have met with varying degrees of success, the point is that Johnson didn't shoot the poor, Nixon didn't shoot cancer patients, and Reagan didn't shoot drug addicts. In contrast, many of the people that the Bush Administration's War on Terrorism have "collaterally damaged" were already the victims of terror. They may not have hated America before, but they sure do now.
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Charlie Brown Campaign Notes: Letter to the Editor of the Mountain Democrat

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Saturday October 21, 2006 · 7:15 PM PDT

2006/10/21 · 19:15

Dear Sir:

In your editorial of 18 October, you say of LtCol Charles Brown, "Appearances are deceiving." There is nothing about Charlie that is deceiving; rather, it is your editorial that is deceiving. Charlie will always take responsibility for what he says and does. For you to imply that he agrees with everything that Cindy Sheehan, Sean Penn, and Code Pink say and do is a pathetic attempt at guilt by association. If Charlie happened to make a single appearance with these people, to stretch that into saying that he "hangs out with this ilk" is a distortion.
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Charlie Brown Campaign Notes: A Personal Note to Jan Brown

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Saturday October 14, 2006 · 6:52 PM PDT

2006/10/14 · 18:52

Hi Jan,

You have heard the story I like to tell about how you, Charlie, Marilyn, and I met in Grass Valley last year. I explain how we met, and the connection we had through LtCol Bob Undorf and the Koh Tang operation, but I haven't yet--and perhaps the next time I tell the story, I should--explain the basis of the friendship we have developed since then. Yes, of course, we share a history of military service, the same moral values, and the same political convictions, but that is the basis of an alliance, not necessarily of a friendship. No, what draws Marilyn and me to you and Charlie is your character, and the other factors serve to cure that cement of character.
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Charlie Brown Campaign Notes: Thirty Seconds Over Doolittle

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Tuesday October 10, 2006 · 3:40 PM PDT

2006/10/10 · 15:40

With eight-term California Congressman John Doolittle sinking in the polls, key figures in the GOP (Greedy Old Perverts) recently flew into the Sacramento area on a rescue mission. Dozens of high donors turned out for the $2000 a plate event. About a dozen of those, who happened to be hungry and wanted some food on their plate, paid an additional $2000 for a smoked weenie on a toothpick. A cheese cube was 50 cents extra... if you pre-qualified. Read More

A Convenient Untruth

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Wednesday September 13, 2006 · 12:00 PM PDT

2006/09/13 · 12:00

While I was in Washington, DC recently, I stayed with an old flying buddy who is an Air Force Academy graduate, has a strategic planning job as a GS-14, and holds the rank of full-bird colonel in the West Virginia Air National Guard. After an afternoon of walking the Manassas battlefield in the sweltering Virginia summer, we talked about Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and global warming over an Italian dinner.

"It's not greenhouse gasses," Mike said in a matter of fact manner, "It's baseball."
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Charlie Brown Campaign Notes: A Fighting Democrat

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Tuesday September 12, 2006 · 4:03 PM PDT

2006/09/12 · 16:03

A few nights ago at one of her fundraising events, I heard Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA06, Petaluma) say some troubling things. "War is never the answer. War doesn't work. No more, no war, nowhere."

Tell that to the "Greatest Generation." I suppose that on Monday, 8 December 1941, Franklin Roosevelt should have asked Congress for a declaration of peace?

In contrast to Lynn Woolsey, there are the so-called "Fighting Democrats," such as retired Lt Col Charlie Brown of Roseville, California. Charlie is running for Congress in the 4th Congressional District. As former Air Force officers, he and I know that under certain unfortunate circumstances, when diplomacy fails, war is a legitimate tool of the state.

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Why Press "1" for English?

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Sunday September 10, 2006 · 9:29 PM PDT

2006/09/10 · 21:29

Recently, one of my cousins sent me a picture of an American flag with the caption, " Why the hell should I have to press '1' for English?" My initial reaction was flippant:

Non sciro.

Non so.

No se.

Je ne sais pas.

Ich weisz nicht.

Ya ne znayu.

Yo, s'up wiff dat?

But seriously, folks.... With an American flag proudly flying over my 4br/2ba suburban home, why the hell should I have to press "1" for English?
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Charlie Brown Campaign Notes: The Whole Man

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Thursday May 04, 2006 · 12:11 PM PDT

2006/05/04 · 12:11

In the Air Force, we used to joke about its four great myths: "the real Air Force," because wherever you were stationed was somehow unrepresentative of the service as a whole; "the regular crew chief," because anyone you went to for a solution was not in a position to provide it; "the big picture," because no matter the pay grade, no one was ever high enough to see it; and "the whole man," because no one had the requisite breadth and depth of skills and experiences to qualify for this description. It was axiomatic that you could serve an entire career and never come across any of these things. Read More

Charlie Brown Campaign Notes: Neo-Con Agra

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Friday April 14, 2006 · 7:48 PM PDT

2006/04/14 · 19:48

As the congressional race in California's 4th District heats up, rumors are starting to flower. I think it's time some of these innuendos were met head on. Read More

Renewable Energy Source

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Wednesday March 01, 2006 · 11:45 PM PST

2006/03/01 · 23:45

Did I just hear correctly? In his remarks in India tonight, did Bush refer to "nuculer" power as a "renewable energy source?" What, does this guy think plutonium grows on trees? Are the Department of Energy and the United States Forest Service teaming up for a Healthy Plutonium Forests Initiative? Read More

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